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Newspaper
Indiana Progress
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1899
Page
4
James McGregor withdraws from the sheriff race due to ill health and family illness, ending his candidacy after a strong but unable to canvass. The note clarifies no slate plans and urges voters’ attention to primary timing and local tax collection duties.
Long list of social notes: Plumville residents and neighbors in Indiana, Pittsburg, Blairsville, Saltsburg, Scottdale, and Philadelphia streets travel for visits, business, funerals, and church. Names include Lukehart, Graff, Taylor, Marshall, Brilhart, Stewart, Bernie, Mabon, Wagle, Xurshaw, Mack, Detwiler, Smith, Wilson, Taylor, Moorhead, Laughlin, Hay, Smith, Davis, Lee, and others. Notable trips to Harrisburg, Pittsburg, Washington DC, Titusville, Denver, and Philadelphia.
In 1845 Anthony Hollingsworth, a fugitive slave, was seized by Anthony Van Meteer and others near Phillips Mills. Sheriff David Ralston faced a hostile crowd in Indiana, while Dr Robert Mitchell and editor James Moorhead brokered a nightlong peace. A habeas corpus petition, supported by William Banks, led Judge Thomas White to order Hollingsworth’s release, celebrated by abolitionists and local youths.
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