Advertising rates and public notices amid diphtheria closures
Rates for publications are announced while Bedford and Huntingdon counties close schools due to diphtheria. The Special Delivery stamp speeds mail. In Dauphin county court, Judge Simonton assigns John H. Weiss to take testimony in rail injunctions, with a hearing date set for the 20th.
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Bedford
Huntingdon Counties
Dauphin County
South Penn and Beech Creek Railroad
Simonton
John H. Weiss
Philadelphia
Portrait of Curtin McClain in dubious murder case at Newton Hamilton
Harrisburg Telegram outlines Curtin McClain as a young man wrongly charged with the murder of William Smearman at the Newton Hamilton camp meeting on August 21 1884. The account sketches his poverty heavy labor mining early loss of father and supportive mother and argues evidence points to Parton Walker as the killer.
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Harrisburg Telegram
Curtin McClain
William Smearman
Newton—Hamilton
Newton Hamilton
Orbisonia
Huntingdon Co
Curtin
MacClain
Chisd
McClain
Smearman
Screarman
Parton Walker
James Place
Marriage of Rev W E Taylor linked to Garfield rumor
Dispatch from New Castle Ohio reports Rev W E Taylor pastor at Presbyterian Church near Mt Jackson has married Mary Loring eight years after first meeting her at a Beranton convention. Rumors tied him to Mrs Garfield, prompting calls for an authoritative denial as details of the courtship emerge. Ice machine manufacturing expands in Chicago with costly units reaching $55000 and southern distribution. The Postmaster General bars Sunday deliveries under special delivery. Erie collector N Walther retired. Schuidecker named in his stead.
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New Castle
Ohio
WE Taylor
Taylor
Beranton
Africa
Mary Loring
Scranton
Mr. Taylor
Garfield
Folly of European Tours and Nilsson Tragedy
A Pittsburg man derides European travel as wasted while praising American opportunity and enterprise. A Stockholm crowd for Christine Nilsson’s concert swelled to thousands, then 17 people were crushed to death amid the surging mass at the Grand Hotel.
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Pittsburg
Europe
London
Paris
Berlin
United States
Stockholm
Christie Nilsson
Christine Nilsson
Opera House
Taine Ing
Nilsson
Phose
Pretsons
Robbers Run Riot In St. Petersburg Home Invasion
In St. Petersburg Pa on an October night six masked men forced entry to the Milas Ritts Sr residence. They tied the occupants and ransacked the house, beating Cal McGee who arrived home. The thieves escaped with over $1,000 in cash and pantry goods, leaving no clues.
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St. Petersburg
Milas Ritts, Sr
Foumdl
Tts Actogensarians
Cal McGee
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Penna
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Latissa
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Lanaris
Phelps
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Chicago
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Tis Place
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Fraley Street
Kane, DA
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Elisha K. Kane
Mrs. I. Dann
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Miyerats
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Jeexe Rose Cogpace
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J.C. Myrns
Jas. Campbell
Courtland Rugeia
A.D. Clapp
Misses O'Day
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J. A. Vollmer
Fraley St. Wane, Pa
Court of Common Pleas
County of McKean
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J.T . W. Griffith
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Mine Eccopile’s
O. B. Lay
J. L. Cousins & CO
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P. A. Egeliy
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Hyde
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Jas. Hyde
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