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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1882
Page
3
Authorized notice announces B. F. Hunter of Benner township as a Democratic candidate for the legislature and John A. Woopwakp of Howard township as a candidate. The release lists local townships and party affiliation for the nominations.
Readable items include a Madisonburg picnic next Saturday and West Branch camp meeting at Wayne station starting August 15 for ten days. Centre County Pomona Grange meets August 9 at Centre Hall, and Mussét Smith’s display highlights a coming menagerie and circus.
HEREFORDVILLE July 27 The mob around Manno B. Clemmer's residence did not appear last night and is quiet tonight. No clue has been obtained.
In Berks County near Claytonville a dozen armed thieves attacked Menno D. Clemmer’s rural home. Farmers including Jacob Moyer and N. G. Clemmer fired from the ground floor as intruders halted outside, then fled after a volley. No fatalities are recorded in the report.
Reverend W Dolman of Greene township Erie County faces charges of attempting to poison his wife and family and using a knife. A Reading woman accepts a European suitor's marriage proposal by wiring Yes costing 315 cents. William Hufnagle is killed by Henry Myers in Nescopeck township over cherries after a pistol threat. Myers fled to Wilkes Barre and was later captured.
Died. On the 28th alt. in Penn township Mr. Christopher Kern aged 78 years 11 months 4 days. On the 20th alt. at Spring Mills infant son of John B. and Kate Leitzell aged a few days.
The toll up to noon today for twenty four hours reached 184 deaths. One hundred twenty were children under five, with eighty killed by cholera infantum linked to heat. Five more sunstroke cases were reported this afternoon, two proving fatal.
Train notices list departures from Montandon for Sea Shore and Western routes. Morning through trains stop at Harrisburg Philadelphia and New York with through sleepers to Philadelphia and New York. Westward services include Erie Mail to Erie, Niagara Express to Kane, and Fast Line to Lock Haven with intermediate stops.
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