Local Department and Court to Begin Next Monday
In Pleasant Gap, scarlet fever remains active. Bellefonte hosts county superintendent election in the court house on May rd, with notices on the state college presidency and various local business views. Amusements, ads, and community events fill the scene along with warnings on unsafe practices.
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Pleasant Gap
Williamsport
Journal
State College
Farmers’ High School
Suortridge
Court House
Bellefonte
Comical wedding and creekside mishaps in Cil dom tale
In Galloway Pennsylvania on April 15 residents report a quirky wedding where a young man married a widow and found himself father to multiple children including one married grandchild. A drilling well explosion injures two workers and a torpedo mishap adds danger while a snakebite scare ends safely as a horse and wagon wreck but the rider escapes unharmed. Easter observances and local health anecdotes close the item with a cautionary note.
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Galloway
Vennor
Halfi
Free
Baily
Rafting on the river boosts lumber trade and rafting boom
Rain has raised the river enabling large timber flotillas to pass the city. Four new canal boats from Lewisburg floated by as lumber districts report strong demand and good prices at Lock Haven Williamsport Mallette and other boom points.
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Lewisburg
Lock Haven
Williamsport
Malletta
Patriot
Syggignocism and a Fall from Grace in Charleston
A quirky note explains Syggignocism as a defense to kleptomania where one man directs another to steal and escapes punishment. The piece contrasts this with Alonzo J. Ransier’s dramatic decline from wealth and congress to street labor in Charleston. The Philadelphia Record critiques South Carolina’s common schools and urges restoring basic reading writing and arithmetic.
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Alonzo J. Ransier
South Carolina
Ransier
Charleston
Congress
Republican State Committee
Philadelphia Record
Higbee
Horse Runaway After Snake Bite Near Mine Hill Gap
James Coons drove a spring wagon with a frightened horse when a black snake crossing the turnpike near Mine Hill Gap struck the animal above the knee and coiled its body around the leg. The horse bolted at high speed while the driver hung on and kept control despite a rough road and perilous ride.
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Coons
Pottsville Miners’ Journal
James Coons
Mine Hill Gap
Convicted man George Evans kills fellow prisoner in jail
Clearfield Pennsylvania April 9 Geo Evans, under conviction for voluntary manslaughter in a June 1890 murder at Hontzdale, fatally stabbed Edwin Godwin, a larceny suspect, in the jail at Clearfield. Evans, described as a young desperate character, killed Godwin last evening.
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Clearfield
Geo. Evans
Hogansen
Bergstrom
Hontzdale
Edwin Godwin
Evans
Bechtel Aged 23 In Booneville County Incident
In Booneville Clinton county on the 2nd inst Ira P Bechtel aged 23 years and 7 months is noted in the report.
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Booneville
Clinton County
Ira P. Bechtel
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