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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1881
Page
3
Local notices touch on the State Fair at Pittsburg starting September 5. Other items report Lutheran Hymn Book sale, temperance pledges in Franklin County, and varied community notices from Dauphin to Bellefonte.
A shocking accident at the Brush Electric Light Company generating room on Ganson street ends in the death of George Leonard Smith after grabbing live brushes. Henry Kimball and others witnessed the fatal event as the engine stopped and Smith expired with a bluish face and burned hands. The scene followed warnings about the deadly brushes and a manager’s intervention.
A chaotic show day in Lock Haven featured heavy drunkenness and fights with police strained to control crowds. A late night clash near Clinton avenue led to pistol fire and injuries, including a possible shot to a penitentiary inmate, as wagons loaded for departure.
Reading Times reports the death of E Jonathan Deininger at his North Sixth Street home aged nearly 80 after a long illness. Born September 10, 1801 in Württemberg, he was one of several sons of Christian Deininger who settled in Germantown then Reading. The family included clergymen and teachers with pensions from German government. several siblings died abroad or in the United States.
On the isth inst in Millheim Thomas Ben top son of A C and Maggie C Musser aged 1 year 4 months and 18 days.
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