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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1908
Page
7
Harry Spiegle demanded funds from his brother George Spiegle, a lumber merchant. After a struggle for a revolver, George fired wounding Harry in the back as he stood on a stairway. Harry died hours later in a hospital.
James M. Shumaker, former superintendent of grounds and buildings at Harrisburg, was taken seriously ill at the Carrolltown fair in this county. He was brought home and is reported to have improved somewhat after the incident.
The Augusta flood receded leaving a $2.5 million property loss with mills, warehouses, a grocery building and schools badly damaged. Twenty two bodies recovered and more drowned in the lower valley. river steamer Swan captain reports seeing twenty five corpses, all but one of them negro.
Authorities arrest twenty two former Chester Traction employees amid a trolley strike. Patrick J. Shea a labor organizer and William V. Lockhard are among those held on bail for a hearing. Also reported a woman on a Pennsylvania farm was killed when a shotgun discharged through a stovepipe hole during a chicken hawk incident.
Twenty buildings burned in Shiremanstown Borough seven miles from Harrisburg Pennsylvania. The town lacked a fire department and water supply, but chemical engines from Harrisburg and Mechanicsburg aided the blaze. Loss estimated over 40000 dollars, with 9000 dollars imposed on St. John’s Lutheran Church as its brick church was destroyed.
Five men died instantly and another was expected to die after a runaway car crashed into mine cars at the Warrior Run colliery of the Lehigh Valley Coal Co. near Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. Twenty men were aboard the cars, six escaped uninjured.
General Alexander P. Stewart, one of the last Confederate lieutenant generals, died at his Biloxi home in his late eighties after aging infirmities. The death surprised family and friends.
Fragmentary notes describe eight stalled trolley cars on Lazy Lane near Bristol. Excursionists bound to Lake Compounce faced tracks held by insects amid chaotic delays and a reported slaughter of the bugs.
This unit reviews David fleeing to Achish at Gath then returning to Israel after Ziklag burning and his men's mutiny. It contrasts David’s faith with Saul’s downfall, notes God’s forgiveness, and urges mercy toward enemies while trusting in divine strength.
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