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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1882
Page
3
Court week at Lewisburg. M. E. Church meeting at Lock Haven. property sale by John Parker to Catharine Dinges with westward plans. B & L Association premium sale. borough finances and Spring Mills Academy dates. many local items including a fatal fall in Madisonburg, golden wedding in Mifflinburg, burglary at Rev Cranmer's parsonage, and community notices from Centre Hall to Bellefonte with church and school updates.
A house at the foot of a high riverbank slid into the Russian River near Duffy’s Cove Cal while Mrs Johnson, a boy, and a cook were inside. The house filled with water and the trio drowned. Mrs Johnson, 26, had been married two years. The report also notes a Chinese New Year Pow Wow in Virginia City with ritual prayers and music, and a scarlet fever outbreak in Wernersville causing four related deaths.
Reading reports a surge of suits against policy holders of defunct mutual aid graveyard insurance firms in eastern Pennsylvania. Receiver McCarroll of Lebanon plans to sue holders who did not pay past deaths, aiming to collect assessments via the contract with the assured. More receivers are expected to follow, promising a statewide scramble.
In Carrol Iowa on the 25th alt Miss Ida J Alter daughter of Mr Abraham Alter formerly of Millheim aged 17 years.
The fat boy David Navarro died at Municipal Hospital after his parents refused vaccination on February 26 and he contracted smallpox from a museum attendant. Navarro born in Rochelle Illinois in 1861 weighed 730 pounds at death and toured the country on exhibition. He was to be married to Lizzie Glendening of Allegheny. Navarro’s coffin measured six feet eight inches long.
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