10 Jun 1899
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Newspaper
Middletown Daily Argus
Location
Middletown, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1899
Page
1
Skeptics doubted wearing qualities of Pur' Vabigies but tests show they last as long as steel tires. Wagon life extends and driving becomes easier. Bring old wheels to fit with the best Rubber Tires on the market and inspect our stock.
Advert says Wagons Harness Blankets and Middledown Wagon £9. The page promotes Rogers Ivory Dental Paste claiming dental benefits and fresh breath. MecMonagle & Rogers, druggists, advertise new paste in a 25 cent tube.
WEARY WALKERS would find relief for tired perspiring feet by using our Talcum Toilet Powder as a Foot Powder. Prepared from finest materials a little dusted in shoes or stockings works wonders. Corns and bunions lose half their terror. McMonagle & Rogers 30 North St and 155 North St North side Pharmacy.
News of the Jeffries versus Fitzsimmons bout electrified New York crowds. Reporters in the Veneer Cajon office and at several private hubs tracked the ten round match, noting Jeffries landing cleanly while Fitzsimmons faded. Delays in newspaper trains sparked anxious chatter, but the victory news reached the depot by 10:05 as crowds dispersed amid excitement and mixed reactions.
A Port Jervis man orders whiskey while remarking on local drinks as Port Jervis scenes mix with several brief items. Stephen Wands pleads guilty to burglary in Puy County and receives four months probation and restitution. The Franklin Furnace Plant may reopen after repairs estimated at 16000 dollars. A Port Jervis jeweler suffers eye injuries from a swarm of insects while a large roadkill incident is reported near Cold Spring to Garrison. An O and W worker sustains a work injury and is treated at Thrall Hospital.
A jury verdict awards $35000 to a plaintiff against the Erie railroad after a Monroe accident. Testimony tied to locomotive speed and warning signals. Defense argued the locomotive, signals, and driver responsibility. court instructed that ordinary warning signals are required and pedestrians and drivers must exercise caution. Additional calendar entries follow for November sessions.
The Ransze County Baseball Tossers lost to the Amylin team 16 to 13 at the hospital grounds Friday morning. Orange County tied in the ninth, then yielded three runs in the tenth. Batteries: Orange County Adulmap and Jacobo. Amylin Shafer and Putts. A return game is planned soon. M A Askew's Fair Oak hotel was broken into Friday night via a broken window in the sitting room bar. One bottle missing. a dropped whip found outside. Two men were seen in a wagon. Blue Stone Quarry sale: Daniel Pinu Charles J Heernen Monticello and J F Roosa sold 400 acres at Oakland Valley to John M Richie of New York, a blue stone dealer syndicate. The new owners plan extensive quarrying.
Thomas Fallon, who moved from Ila City to Monticello to run a hotel, has leased the Monticello House of Joseph Covart and assumed possession on June 5, paying $1,200 for a four year term. Matting thieves sentenced. two men jailed four months each, with others discharged for lack of evidence. Appellate Court reversed verdict against Lena Legh over 1,500 injury claim on a railroad journey to Walden. retrial ordered.
Frank McGar 22, of Emmonaville Sullivan County, was shot while poaching at the Orchard Lake preserve near Livingston Manor. Three bullets hit him in the leg, shattering the femur. He was taken to Thrall Hospital where surgeons excised bone. Watchman Tompkins is alleged to have fired. The incident aroused great excitement in the town.
A morning attack by 4500 troops led by Generals Lawton Wheaton and Evanshine advances from San Pedro Macaulay toward Manila. By noon the advance clears territory to Parañaque while the Americans lose two officers and twenty one soldiers. Rebels resist fiercely, losing about forty dead with many wounded and attempting to retreat leaving casualties and exhaustion among U S troops.
Proceedings continued on the writ of habeas corpus for Molineux with a show cause order issued to District Attorney Gardiner. Public testimony from the May grand jury and handwriting experts was disclosed, while unrelated notices report a New York death, streetcar strikes, and a coroner call to Sterling ton.
A revolt was reported in Burneo five virulent smallpox cases in Brooklyn and twenty one plague cases with seven deaths at Alexandria. A monument to Frederick Douglass was unveiled in Rochester. Piequart released in Paris Cassatt chosen president of the Pennsylvania Railroad to succeed Frank Thompson. In New York City bail set for Round B Molineux in a Cornish assault case. rearrested on new murder charges. Camp Meade arrests tested Attorney General Griggs decision. Bail set for Joyce Moore and Anderson in Dauphin County cases.
Tomorrow is Children’s Day observed in most Biddleton churches including First Baptist Firet Presbyterian Second Presbyterian St Paul’s and Christ Church with an “Open Doors” program. Music recitations and solo numbers feature a diverse local roster, with a Ladies Guild event at Ogden Farm and a June 15 Rice’s excursion to New York offering round trips from Middletown.
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