Pennsylvania House Debates Capitol Contracts Inquiry
The Pennsylvania House debated funding for Capitol contracts with a proposed commission of five representatives and three senators to probe the contracts. A $20 000 expense allowance for experts was approved, and a separate commission to investigate railroad management and supplier interests was referred to the appropriate committees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ission
David‘ Wiburg
Otter
Blewitt
Lackawanna
Judiciary
General ‘Committee
Berry
House
Vy. A. Party
Earthquake Rumors Stir Pennsylvania Towns
Jan 11 reports from Harrisburg York Lock Haven Sunbury and many places indicate a severe tremor felt across Lycoming Clinton Center Union and parts of Bradford and Northumberland counties. Shocks lasted several minutes with vibrating buildings rattled dishes and frightened residents. A powder works blast near Hollidaysburg may explain the quake as no seismograph record exists in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania Railroad
Sunbury
Renova
Reading
Ashland
Lycoming
Clinton
Center
Union
Bradford
Northumberland
Philadelphia
Harrisburg
York
Lock Haven
Lewistown
Huntingdon
Capitol inauguration ceremony honors state officials
A disrupted OCR fragment describes a capitol inauguration with military bands and decorations. It mentions staff, cadets, soldiers orphans reception, and remarks by General Varson and Lieutenant Gavelock Robert A. Murphy among attendees from Johnstown and richer officials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Capitol Park
Varson
Gavelock
Robert A
Murphy
Johns
Mra
Grothorg
Raward
Richand
Cuban Leaders Arrested For Attending Chicken Fight
Havana on January 15 reports that a chicken fight in Marianao hosted by prominent Liberals drew about 400 attendees. Rural guardsmen under Captain Pardollo arrested twenty participants, including Gen. Pino Guerra and political candidates Jose Miguel Gomez J Monteagudo and Carlos Mendieta. All were taken to the station and released on ball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tor
Havana
Marianao
Pardollo
Pino, Guerra
Jose" Miguel Gomez
J. Monteagudo
Carlos Mendieta
Santa Clara
Ball
Powder Plant Destroyed Near Hollidaysburg
The Standard Powder Co plant at Horrell station near Hollidaysburg was destroyed by an explosion caused by a fire. No lives were lost, but damage will exceed $100,000. The blast shattered ten buildings at the plant and damaged 36 farmhouses in the Franketown valley. The noise was heard up to 25 miles away. nearby houses including those of John Walls and August Cooper were demolished by the concussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hollidaysburg
Standard Powder’ Co
Horrell Station
John Walls
Cooper
Franketown Valley
Tobacco trust trial verdict in New York court
A jury in the United States circuit court acquitted Karl Jungbluth and Howard B. Young on all conspiracy in restraint of trade counts. The McAndrews & Forbes Co and the J. F. Young Co were found guilty on two counts including forming an illegal combination and monopoly involvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AS Corporation
New York
United ‘States
Tobacco Trust
Karl Jungbluth
Howard B. Young
McAndrews ‘& Forbes ‘Co
J. 5. Young Co
First National Bank of Indiana Offers 4 Percent Time Deposits
The First National Bank of Indiana announces capital and surplus at three hundred seventy thousand and pays four percent on time deposits. All time deposits are payable on demand without notice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First’ National Bank
Indiana
Golf ball decapitates bird at Brookline club match
At Brookline Massachusetts the golf match between Rt A Leeson and I C Hood ended with a bird being beheaded by a ball at the fourth tee and the ball traveling over 100 yards. Also noted is Theodore Lawrence of Philadelphia surviving the Atlantic City wreck due to his cork leg while his wife perished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookline
Mass
Rt. A. Leeson
I. C. Hood
Leeson
Atlantic City
Theodore Lawrence
Brandywine Street
Philadelphia
Wills Of Local Residents Reported In Last Week
Four estates reveal bequests in wills filed recently. Hilen M Leard of Saltsburg directs debts and funeral expenses be paid, funds for Leard Cemetery upkeep, and a $200 perpetual Leard Memorial Hand for mission work via Saltsburg Presbyterian Church. Real estate and stock sales fund these allocations. Hannah Kunkle of Center township divides debts, funeral costs, and legacies among relatives, with an executor named. D. M. Allison of White township bequeaths all to his wife Lizzie N Allison, named executrix. S. N Moorhead of town leaves personal property to wife for life with conditions, then to daughter Catherine and sons Harvey, Lavigne, plus executrix duties for Mary Moorhead, dated 1906.
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Hilen M. Leard
Salisburg
Edgewood
Saltsburg
Leard
Saltsburg Presbyterian Church
Saltsburg ‘National Bank
Bank of Pittsburg
Ximena Fundenberg
Jannie BE. Haller
First National Bank
Indiana
Israel Kunkle
Charles B. Coleman
Blairsville
Roy
J. W. Shatter
Grant M. Kunkle
Annie M. Kunkle
Lona Kunkle
Ti. J. Miller
Homer City
D. M. Allison
White Township
Lizzie N. Alliaon
Execurix
Mary M. Evans
Wider Peoler
N. Moorhead
Town
Mary A. Moorhead
Huth Street
Cathrine
Seven Perlah Underground disaster in Giluton Ind
Seven miners were killed and three injured in an explosion at Mine No. 7 in Giluton Indiana. Investigators believe a spark from a match or pipe ignited a keg of powder, triggering the blast.
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Perlah
Giluton
Ind
Ming No
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Hardeon
Hiselty
of Cadets Scotland
Horrell
Stlon
Grandmother
Bonnet
THE
L. Pattison Company
Brussels
Pattison Company
Thompson
America
Review of Reviews
United States
Indiana County
Pittsburg
Indiana Foundry Company
Indiana Foundry Co., Ltd
Greenville
CREEN
Penn Run
Ira A. Myers
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