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Newspaper
Millheim Journal
Location
Millheim, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1885
Page
2
Ex Governor Gilbert Co. Walker of Virginia dies in New York on Monday morning May 11 in his fifty second year. The item notes General Grant's health is worsening with throat cancer and prognosis is grave.
Prominent Evangelical Association clergyman Rev Solomon Neitz died at his Reading home Monday morning aged 74. He preached 45 years and traveled 30 years, serving as presiding elder 18 years in Philadelphia Pottsville Pine Grove Allentown Lebanon and other churches. He long represented the East Pennsylvania conference in the U S general conference.
Governor Parrison vetoes a bill that would force county commissioners to appoint ward or township burial officials to honorably bury veterans and draw county funds for tombstones and expenses. He argues the measure imposes high costs, creates many salaried officials, and would invite neighboring states to offload soldiers to Pennsylvania.
Washington May 12 1885 Regular correspondence outlines a plan to form a Democratic club in every township to boost county and state committees and ensure only Democrats hold office. It notes friction with Republicans and cites the sprawling new Pension Office building as a symbol of federal expansion.
General Meigs and General Black inspected the new lower floor project with watchmen on duty to guard materials. The Interior Department will decide on the Indian Territory cattle kings leases amid Republican rule. President Cleveland and a select party visited Gettysburg on the 4th, quietly observing without much conversation.
Reports from St Paul Detroit and Iowa describe considerable snow and a sharp freeze. Temperatures fell four degrees below freezing after sunrise and ice formed up to a half inch in parts of Iowa. Fruits suffered some damage but field crops appear largely unharmed amid widespread cold and snow.
Reports from Lebanon describe a deadly dynamite explosion on the Cornwall ore hills near Miners Valley where six men were hurled from an embankment by a blast after tunneling and loading torpedoes. Superintendent Patrick Cunningham had warned workers to flee but not all escaped. Indignation rose over the incident.
Pittsburgh story recounts William Lincoln Curtis's collapse from chronic rheumatism with facial deformity and paralysis, then rapid recovery after taking Prima and Peruna. Mother and pastor attest to dramatic improvement, returning him to work after weeks of treatment. Fire and labor news follow in brief notices.
The Commissioners Office in Bellefonte lists appeals days for multiple townships and boroughs from June 1 to June 4. Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Assessors must bring the transcript. four mills allocated for county purposes.
A 1885 notice invites Centre county farmers to purchase farming implements and machinery, including mowers reapers binders and plows, with parts, engines, threshers, saw mills, and a foundry. The firm promises low prices and first class quality, and offers spring exchanges of old corn planters for a new fertilizer planter and drill.
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