Obituaries Stated For Harrisburg Man and Mount Joy Woman
Mr. Harry Grant of Harrisburg died at his former home in Aspers on Sunday morning aged about 38 after illness. He leaves a wife and one child. Mrs. Anna Hartman wife of John Hartman died at her Mount Joy Township home near Yost's Store Monday morning of heart disease aged 70 years 3 months 5 days. She is survived by J Howard Hartman and Mrs Reuben Fissel of Gettysburg, Mrs Emory Weikert of Redland, and Mrs Addison Newman at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Grant
Harrisburg
Aapera
Anna Hartman
John Hartman
Mount Joy Township
Yost
J. Howard Hartman
Reuben Fissel
Gettysburg
Emory Weickert
Redland
Addison Newman
Peter Nist
Wilkes Barre
Samuel E. Ilgenfritz
York
Mr. Ilgenfritz
John Randolph
New Cumberland
Burlington Railroad
Breckenridge
Herman Buick
Uzral
Chicago
George B. Lockwood
Marion
Ind
Chronicle
Fairbanks
Edgar Thomason Steel Works
Braddock
Stanislaus Curmas
Camden
N. J
Cooper's Creek
Sarah J. Crawford
South
Harlem
Mary Bartel
Philadelphia
Maysville
Lhredericton
N. M
Fleishman Company
Baltimore
Booker T. Washington
Harvard
George Whiteside
Omaha
Adams Express Company
Lewistown
Cleveland
Herman R. Rausch
Lebanon
James Rock
John J. Hall
West Chester
John H. Lozier
Mount Vernon
Thomas Myler
Santiago de Cuba
Acklow
Ireland
Pensions Issued in Local Towns
Pensions issued at varying monthly rates. John Rickrode of Irish town H. H. Diehl of New Oxford and others receive twelve dollars monthly. George Kimmel E Berlizu Isaac Kennedy York Springs Daniel Woolring Fairfield Lewis Snyder and Peter Miller New Oxford receive fifteen dollars. Jesse Asper York Springs receives twenty dollars per month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Rickrode
Irishtown
H. H. Diehl
New Oxford
Geo. W. Phillips
Hampton
J. F. Waybright
Gettysburg
George Kimmel
E. Berlizu
Issaac Kennedy
York Springs
Daniel Woolring
Fairfield
Lewis Snyder
Peter Miller
Jesse Asper
Woman Kills Husband With Pitchfork in Blooming Grove
In Pike County a 74 year old woman killed her 75 year old husband John Newman after a quarrel at their home. He attacked her with a butcher knife during the dispute and she fought back using a hammer before fatally stabbing him with a pitchfork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Newman
Pike County
Blooming Grove
Trust busting step in Sugar Refining case reaches Trenton
In New Jersey on August 3 a suit filed before Chancellor Magic seeks an accounting from the American Sugar Refining company for four years of profits since December 13, 1903 when it acquired control of the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining company. George H. Earle Jr. acts as receiver and argues the American Sugar Refining company became a trustee and must render profits and funds as accounting. The action supplements a separate $30,000,000 damages suit filed in New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trenton
N. J
American Sugar Refining Company
Chancellor Magic
George H. Earle, Jr
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Company
Earle
New York
New Jersey
American Company
Notable Fatalities and Crimes Cross Pennsylvania in One Report
The article lists multiple deaths across Pennsylvania involving shootings, trolley injuries, railway accidents, suicides, and a severe barn accident. Notable incidents include Charles D. Shoemaker shot by his uncle Henry Moll near Mifflinburg, a three pound stone found in a stallion post-mortem, and several railway and accident fatalities among workers and residents from Wilkes Barre to York. A coroner's inquiry questions a Warren state inmate's pneumonia diagnosis after twelve broken ribs are found.
Boy as Train Wrecker Detected Before Collision
Norman Farra, a young colored boy, was arrested in Doylestown Pennsylvania on charges of attempting to wreck a passenger train. John Large and Peter Cosner noticed Farra hammering a piece of iron between rails near the fishplates and alerted authorities. The men stopped the train before the obstacle and Farra was captured hiding in underbrush nearby.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Doylestown
Norman Farra
Kolbe
John Large
Peter Cosner
Farra
Two Beverly Men Drowned in Delaware River
A Edward Russ Jr and Thomas Swift prominent Beverly New Jersey businessmen drowned in the Delaware River while returning from a day on the water. They left in an 18 foot ducker to fish and visit Pennsylvania friends. Russ body found below Dunk’s Ferry. Swift and boat remain missing as searches continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. E. Russ, Jr
Thomas Swift
Beverly
N. J
A. Edward Russ, Jr
Delaware River
Pennsylvania
Dunk’s Ferry
Russ
Frederick Douglass
Swift
Delaware
Three Years For Breach of Promise in Army Court martial
Private James M. Pyne of the 16th battery siege artillery faces three years in the military prison at Fort Leavenworth for breaking a promise of marriage and defrauding a nurse of $500. He concealed his fake promotion plans after an engagement in Cuba and used the loan to equip himself for advancement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leavenworth
Kan
James M. Pyne
16Th Battery
Siege Artillery
Payne
Cuba
Fort Leavenworth
Pyne
Fifth Wededding For Oldest Pleasantville Couple
In Pleasantville New Jersey on August 65 Daniel Babcock and Elizabeth Brown wed for the fifth time in their lives. Each has lost spouses previously and Justice of the Peace Brown presided urging the couple to keep the knot tied this time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pleasantville
N. J
Daniel Babcock
Elizabeth Brown
Brown
Babcock
Justice of the Peace
Giant Standard Oil fine lands record penalty in Illinois
United States District Judge Landis imposes a 29 million two hundred forty thousand dollar fine on the Standard Oil company of Indiana for rebating in interstate shipments. The verdict covers 1462 counts, linked to six cent freight rates, with possible further indictments looming and discussions of total company profits and assets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Standard Oil
Landis
New Jersey
Onige Landis
Whiting
Ind
St. Louis
Chicago & Alton Railroad
Standard Oil Company
Interstate Commerce Commission
Elkins
Standard Oil profits revealed in Smith report
Washington Aug 5 Significant revelations in a report to President Roosevelt by Herbert Knox Smith commissioner of corporations on Standard Oil operations. The document links oil price increases over 25 years to company power and notes profits rose sharply from 1896 to 1904, with total dividends totaling 551,922,904 between 1882 and 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D C
Roosevelt
Herbert Knox Smith
Standard Oil Company
Standard
Smith
Foreigner Narrowly Escapes Lynching After Blair Station Murder
Adam Lacach, a foreigner, shot Joseph Warech twice in Blair Station over a police complaint, then threatened with a hatchet. A mob mobbed him, he was surrounded near a brush pile, police from Clairton later removed him to jail as tensions eased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blair Station
Pittsburg
Adam Lacach
Clairton
Blair
Joseph Warech
Lacach
Warech
A. L. Critchfield
Blair Ironworks
Baltimore Woman Kills Two Children in Insanity Episode
In Baltimore on August 6 Christine Nenadal, 26, wife of Joseph Nenadal, strangled her two young children Mary age 2 and Yarosalov age 1 year 3 months during a relapse of insanity. Neighbors heard cries after she said she would dress the children and take them out. Police broke into the locked home to find the victims dead and Nenadal under arrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Christine Nenadal
Joseph Nenadal
Mary
Yarosalov
Nenadal
Train Plunge into Loire River Tragedy Angers
A local train near Angers France plunged from a bridge into the Loire River killing all aboard. Forty passengers in the third class car and the engineer drowned as the locomotive, tender, and baggage car fell 56 feet into the river after the railing gave way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angers
France
Loire
Fisherman grazed by man eater in Delaware Bay
Bridgeton New Jersey August 5 George Kell of this city waded in the lower Delaware bay for oysters when a large man eating shark lunged at him grazing his chest and leaving a deep abrasion Kell and a companion fought off the shark as he scrambled back to the boat the creature swam away into deep water
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeton
N. J
George Kell
Delaware Bay
Kell
Black Hand Quarters Raided in Pennsylvania
State police raided Italian quarters in Marion Heights and Shamchin at the request of Northumberland authorities fearing a Black Hand outbreak. Fourteen Italians suspected of Black Hand ties were arrested. Citizens sign a petition to Governor Stuart for a permanent state constabulary patrol between here and Mount Carmel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shamchin
Marion Heights
Northumberland County
Stuart
Here
Mount Carmel
Auto Crash Kills and Injures Three Young Men in New York
Three well known young men were severely injured when their automobile was struck by a surface car. The vehicle was shoved for about 30 feet and smashed into a pillar. Victims include Swift Tarbell son of Gage Tarbell Edward L Woodeson and William Cutching Tarbell suffers a broken leg a dislocated shoulder burns and extensive bruising. Cutching also has a possible skull fracture. Woodeson survived but was shocked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percene
New York
Swift Tarbell
Gage BE. Tarbell
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Edward L. Woodeson
William Cutching
Tarbell
Cutching
Woodeson
Man Killed in High Speed Southport Car Race
In Bridgeport on August 5, Peter Henderer was killed and William Mallory badly bruised when a tire burst in a speed race through Southport. The car hit a trolley pole near the Southport post office as it turned a corner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bridgeport
Conn
Southport
Peter Henderer
William Mallory
Southport Post Office
Henderer
Trolley Hits Auto Woman Killed in Chelsea Collision
Mrs. Charles H. Law of Philadelphia was killed when an automobile collided with a trolley car at Chelsea Atlantic City New Jersey. Her husband and chauffeur A B Streeter were painfully injured as the trolley struck the car and it went into a ditch. Mrs Law’s skull was fractured by striking a steel rail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
N. J
Charles H. Law
Philadelphia
Chelsea
A. B. Streeter
Atlantic Avenue
Brutal Assaults Against Children Rattle New York Area
In New Brighton Staten Island Lucca Fontza holding on bail for assaulting 2 year old Antoinette Taluci. The child seriously injured. In Linoleumville Staten Island Angeline Condarti 6 found bruised after a brutal attack. Police search for a man. Brooklyn man John Ambrato arrested for attempted assault on Grace Winters 8 and Amanda Barber 9. Essex Market Lena Weinstock 12 accuses Daniel Lalor of assault. Barber Frank P Iedy faces charges for attempting to assault 9 year old Emma Diamond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Lucca Fontza
New Brighton
Staten
Antoinette Taluci
Pas- Fasjuale Taluci
Fontza
Taluci
S. Fontza
John Ambrato
Brooklyn
Grace Winters
Amanda Barpier
Daniel Lalor
Essex Market
Lena Weinstock
Frank P. Iedy
Emma Diamond
Orphaned by Tragic Accident At Valley Forge Station
An 18-year-old, Ralph E. Heim of Reading, son of deputy coroner Oscar B. Heim, fell through a trap door at the Norristown Valley Forge vestibule and died in Norristown hospital after being found injured beside the tracks. The incident occurred as he was missed before the Reading Railway express reached Phoenixville and an engine sped back with his father aboard. The youth sustained a head wound and broken legs, dying without regaining consciousness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
Ralph E. Heim
Oscar B. Heim
Reading
Valley Forge
Phoenixville
Vailey Forge
Christianity Needs Reorganization in Northfield
Dr. F. B. Meyer, English preacher and writer, opened the 25th annual general conference for Christian workers founded by D. L. Moody in Northfield Mass. before over 1000 people, urging reorganization of the Christian church to restore awareness of sin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northfield
Mass
F. B. Meyer
General Conference For Christian Workers
PD. Js. Moody
Week's News Condensed Highlights and Tragedies
A digest of deaths, fires, drownings, crimes, and notable events from July 31 to August 6 including a farmer near Wilmington Delaware dying suddenly, Moravia New York fire losses, a drowned yachtsman in Newburgh, a Detroit murder of Tony Leto, and other incidents across the nation. Notable remarries, deaths of prominent figures, and several industrial accidents are noted with locations and dates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis Sutton
Wilmington
Del
Moravia
Auburn
N. Y
Julius Hallcock
Hudson River
Newburgh
Tony Leto
Detroit
Atlantic City
Quotations Baltimore Wheat and Corn Market Summary
Market notes show dull activity for Baltimore wheat with No 2 and spot prices around 94 cents and 314483 cents for steamer No 2. Corn remains steady with mixed spot at 60 to 60 1/2 cents and steamer 55 to 56 1/4 cents. Oats steady with white No 2 at 2 cents and various No 3 and No 4 grades around 47 to 50 cents. Butter ranges for creamery and prints up to 27 cents, with Maryland and Pennsylvania prints around 18 to 19 cents. Eggs firm with Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia at 17 to 174 cents per dozen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Southern
New
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Dozek
Live Stock Market Report from Pittsburg Yard
At the Pittsburg Union Stock Yards cattle steady with prime at about 6.60 to 6.40 per hundredweight and choice around 6.20 to 6.40. Sheep steady with prime western at 6.50 to 6.60, lambs 5.90 to 7.60, veal calves 8.50. Hogs and porkers steady to higher, roughs 4.60 to 5.35.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
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Husband
Charles D. Shoemaker
Coatesville
Mifflinburg
Henry Moll
J. K. Sjarrett
Skippack
New Castle
Dominick Tustino
David Jones
St Clair Coal Company
Frank Miller
Allentown
Lehigh
Miller
George Wright
Michal Ahern
Pittston
Wright
Ahern
Daniel Wright
Erie County
Warren
Mt. Royal
York County
Phares Gocbenour
Boy AS
OIL Trust
Shark
Frank Storey
Batavia
Storey
Kilbuck
Coshocton
Henry E. S. Kellogg
Elizabeth R. Kellogg
Ithaca
Francis M. Finch
New York State Bar Association
Ithaca, N. Y
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