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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1908
Page
5
A testimonial on Dr Miles Heart Cure warns against neglecting heart weakness and touts quick strengthening effects. The endorsement from H Dunnam of Livingston Texas claims dramatic personal benefit and urges readers to buy via their local druggist with a money back guarantee from Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
Letters testamentary granted to L H W Miller executor of Margaret F Miller late of Tyrone township Adams County Pa. Mountpleasant Township resident. Debtors warned to pay immediately and creditors to present properly authenticated claims for settlement. New Oxford Pa 35 Pa.
Wanted fifty men or boys to learn to become automobile operators and earn from $20 to $40 a week. Apply to Harrisburg Auto School, Third and Hamilton Streets, care Harrisburg Automobile Company, Harrisburg PA.
The council met in a special session with all members present to receive the Treasurer and Secretary bonds and consider bids from notices on March 12 and 19. M. G. Colestock was named lamp lighter at $14 monthly starting April 1. J. B. Weaver’s main tapping bid was accepted. Jong taps $6, short taps $4, borough to supply materials. A J Gulden’s gasoline pumping bid at $10 monthly with delivery to power house free was accepted. Gulden’s street work at 15c per hour and horse use at 10c per hour were approved. T. E. Bower, Sec’y.
Born March 381 to Mr and Mrs John L Hockensmith of Berlin Junction a son. Lewis Vincent Orndorff infant son of Mr and Mrs Vincent Orndorff of Bonneanville died March 30 from heart trouble aged 17 days. Contractor John H Dobbling of York received the contract to grade the extension of the Hanover and McSherrystown Street Railway Co between McSherrystown and Littlestown a six mile line. Counterfeit silver dollars totaling 180 found among farm refuse of Dr J L Jamison near Wrightsville dating back to 1888 with many dated 1894. Mrs Richard J Evans over sixty died Sunday night of heart failure at Delta York County while enroute to church.
A group including Homer L. Castle and others from Chicago and New Jersey were held in 2500 bail each for trial in Philadelphia on charges of conspiracy to defraud connected with the Standard Title & Trust company. Witnesses testified about secret stock pooling and unrecorded shares amid claims of $25,000 paid and nonopening doors after an investigation.
The battleship fleet will visit China as well as Australia and Japan and return to Washington for President Roosevelts birthday observance ten days after retirement. Cabinet decided to accept the Chinese invitation and decline further social calls with regret. An earlier departure than July 6 from San Francisco is under consideration subject to port repairs.
In a broad labor action almost 250000 miners in Ohio, western Pennsylvania, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and likely Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, West Virginia and Kentucky stop work as contracts expire. Indiana and Illinois districts continue talks while others resume or dismiss negotiations.
Mrs Frances Kabe was found dead at her Fallsington home with two stab wounds and a fractured skull. Officials say she was murdered, likely during an assault attempt, and the body had been in death at least 24 hours. A broken chair indicated a struggle. husband Anthony Kabe is jailed for larceny, and a farm hand is suspected though no arrests have been made.
John Mitchell retires as head of the United Mine Workers of America after a decade in office. Thomas L. Lewis of Ohio succeeds him. Mitchell plans to focus on health, turning down offers from Roosevelt for a Panama mission and a Civic Federation trade agreement bureau until he recovers.
Former county commissioner Leroy Robinson and farmer Philip Farenbach were drowned within an hour at distant points near Williamsport Pennsylvania as swollen streams rose. Farenbach tried to ford Muncy Creek with his horse and buggy and was swept away. Robinson was carried into Lycoming Creek by the horse he drove. Both horses drowned.
In Chapinville Connecticut D Curtis fell and his head shattered a window artery in the nose. With his wife ill and children unable to help five year old daughter climbed to a chair and reached the telephone to call a doctor. The doctor said the girl saved her father from dying.
W B Ridgely resigns as comptroller of the currency and will become president of the National Bank of Commerce in Kansas City. Lawrence O Murray will succeed him, moving from assistant secretary of commerce and labor and former deputy comptroller.
An eighteen month old girl, child of Archibald Miller, superintendent of the Loyal Hanna mines, Greensburg Pa, fell into a three foot underground cavity where a steampipe leak had created boiling mud. The thin crust broke and the child was scalded to death in eighteen inches of boiling mud and water.
The husband of Mrs. Jeremiah Werner accuses Rev. M. H. Stettler of making libelous remarks at the Mohnton Lutheran church funeral. Stettler posted bail of $500 for a hearing after allegedly claiming the husband abused his wife and that the deceased lacked proper shoes and clothing. He also reportedly said the dead woman did not attend church as regularly as others in the congregation.
The Virginia general assembly passed a resolution removing Judge J W G Blackstone of the Eleventh circuit from office for immorality and gross neglect of duty. Each legislative chamber had one dissenting vote after a long sensational investigation.
Henry Gilbert of Columbus New Jersey, age seventy eight, who was bald for thirty years after a fever, has suddenly grown a full head of hair this spring. Neighbors and local physicians are puzzled by the unexpected regrowth with no clear cause or explanation.
The torpedo boat Blakeley suffered a jagged hole below the water line after a Whitehead torpedo fired from one of her tubes swerved and struck her during target practice near Pensacola. The ship is in drydock as a board of inquiry investigates the accident.
Chester Gillette was executed in the electric chair at Auburn prison for killing his sweetheart Grace Brown in Big Moose Lake in 1906. Governor Hughes allowed the sentence to proceed as spiritual advisers described his confession and reconciliation with fate.
John O. Newell, a society man, presented his terrier with a glass eye after a car strike knocked out the eye. Dr. Frederick C. Artopeous successfully inserted the glass eye in the dog’s socket.
In Altoona on March 31 about forty Italian laborers faced by American and Black applicants at a street paving job sparked a brief civil confrontation. Police intervened and contractors agreed to hire Americans when extra help is needed, retaining the Italian workers already employed.
Elwood Indiana March 31 Red Hornshall, on his way home, was knocked to the ground by a twelve pound wild goose driven by a windstorm and attracted by electric lights. The bird was pinned beneath him and later placed in a wire cage to be fattened for Hornshall’s upcoming wedding feast.
Thirteen year old John Cook Jr. was shot and killed while seated in Sergeant Lacey's cigar store near Fort Dupont in Wilmington. The bullet, fired from the street, was said to be aimed at Sergeant Blackburn after alleged trouble with soldiers. Soldiers were rounded up but no arrests reported.
In Chambersburg, Harvey Davis of Shippenburg was shot twice by his 16 year old stepdaughter Edna Hale at his residence. Authorities report one bullet hit his face and the other his abdomen after he slapped her mother.
Calvin Lyons of Lake City Iowa aged twenty eight recovered from typhoid fever and now sports vivid red hair where his former raven locks grew physicians are perplexed by the sudden color change and seek explanations.
A capture in a Wick bank building elevator in Youngstown Ohio killed Dr. Charles A. Baird and injured twenty others. A Lexington Kentucky collision left three dead and others injured. Lafayette College received an $11,000 bequest for a Lyman Coleman lectureship. Harrisburgs Lochiel rolling mill resumed with over 100 workers. Brigadier General Elisha S. Bailey US Army died in San Francisco. A delirious fever patient in St Louis hanged herself in a home cellar. Congressman Landis introduced a Civil War and Mexican War veterans pension bill. John Brill of the J G Brill company died in Philadelphia. Dr G W Dunlap died after a runaway accident. Central Pennsylvania miners accepted a one-year wage scale. San Francisco fleet delay due to election day. PA postmasters to form state association. Walter Rippey hanged in Virginia for assault. Wells Fargo Express wreck near Hornell killed and injured several. Layton & Owens factory burned in Bridgeville. Beulah Hawkins of Los Angeles in a 52-day trance. Barton Miller burned to death in Lancaster. William Battell committed suicide in Minnesota. Robbery of lodge money in Altoona. Ex-Tax Collector Cannell sentenced. Judge Rhone dies in Luzerne County. John W. Stewart sworn into US Senate. Two young workers killed in Swansea dynamite blast.
Closing quotations show mixed results across internal markets with spot prices for corn and oats steady to slight gains. Butter prices remain steady with creamery and dairy prints noted in Maryland Pennsylvania and Virginia markets.
Cattle higher with prime bids at $65 and ranges around $65u 6.75. Sheep steady with prime wethers reported $6.35 to $6.50 and lambs at $5 to $7.75. Veal calves quoted $1 to $7.25. Hogs higher with prime heavies $6.30 to $6.35 and Yorker varieties $6.40 to $6.45, light Yorkers and pigs around $6.65 to $6.75.
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