Christmas notices and local family visits in Round Hill
Round Hill residents share holiday notices and social visits as Christmas nears. Mr Esxamert Sisipsen returns from Harrisburg. John Sizelman family guests of Frank Naylor. Empert Simpson and others visit East Berlin friends. A Gettysburg Division rail project at Highfield is planned. D D Bryan of York dies. a starving Shetland pony linked to a fatality. M A Garvin and wife assign estate for creditors.
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Round Hill
Santa Claus
Esxamert Sisipsen
Harrisburg
John Sizelman
Ror
Peter Markie
Dangbter
Frank Naylor
Futzre
Empert Simpson
East Berlin
Larman
Bowlder
John Evans
Cline
Hampton
W. M- Railroad Company
Wantz Bros
Highfield
Frederick County
HighGeld
Gettysburg
Expenses Of York County Campaigns Totals 825000
York Dec 11 The final expense sheets filed show campaign costs for the last election in York County totaling about 825,000 across parties. Democratic treasurer G T Kraft notes per voter cost near 21 cents with office values under 229,000 and congressional pay included.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York
G T. Kraft
Aisar
York Counry
Cowes
Adams County
Lincoln
Bedlam at Bittinger Hanover Serenade
A loud, premature serenade targets Hon. John R. Bittinger at his home near the Pigeon Hills. A noisy mob with unusual instruments gathered last night to urge disclosure of a marital secret, prompted by the repeated Sundays absence of the ex Assemblyman.
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Hanover
Dinger
Peter Harrett Strubinger
Bittinger
John R. Bittinger
Pigeon Hills
John B
Overcrowded Schools Prompt Building Plan in Conewago Township
Conewago Township Adams County faces crowded classrooms with Locust Grove Brushtown and Sand Hill schools overflowing. At Locust Grove Miss Mary Waltman reports 74 pupils and temporary desks on the platform.
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Chonges
Conewago Township
Adams County
Locust Grove
Brushtown
Mary Waltman
Sand Hill
Gillette Sentenced to Die for Grace Brown Murder
Chester E. Gillette was sentenced to die in the electric chair at Auburn prison during the week beginning January 28 for the murder of his discarded sweetheart Grace Brown. He was taken to Auburn and showed no emotion as Justice Devendorf pronounced sentence.
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Grace Brown
Herkimer
Chester E. Gillette
Auburn Prison
Auburn
Quotations Baltimore Wheat and Corn Steady and Firm
Market notes show Baltimore wheat steady with No 2 at 77 1/2 to 78 1/2 cents and steamer No 2 around 63 8 to 64 1/2. Corn is firm with mixed spot around 51 4 to 51 46 cents and steamer 46 4 to 46 8 cents, oats steady with No 2 white about 29 1/2 to 30 cents. Butter firm at 31 cents for creamery extras, eggs steady with Maryland to Virginia at 31 cents and southern at 28 to 29 cents.
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Baltimore
Southern
Maryland
Penna
Virginia
West Virginia
Live Stock Market Report From Pittsburg
Cattle steady with choice at 5.75 to 6.40 and prime 6.40. Sheep and lambs steady with prime wethers 5.60 to 5.75, culls and common to 2 33, calves around 145.50. Hogs higher with prime heavies 6.70 to 6.75. Miscellaneous tool and roughage prices noted.
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Pittsburg
Union Stock Yaris
Amir
TOOL
Roosevelt Wins Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
In Oslo on December 11 President Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. American Minister Mir Peirce read the president’s message thanking the laureate and outlining plans to use the prize to establish a permanent industrial peace committee in Washington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christiania
Norway
Norwesies Stent
Roosevelt
Mir Peirce
Parment
Peirce
Nobel Peace Prize Funds To Foster Industrial Peace
President Roosevelt received notice that Norway’s Nobel prize winner has designated 37 127.65 dollars for a trust to promote industrial peace. Trustees include the U S chief justice and cabinet members with labor and capital representatives to fund annual conferences and address crises.
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Washington
Hague
Norway
White House
Roosevelt
Asme
Br. Leevland
Nobel Committee
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Labor
Committee of
Siz
Industrial Peace Committee
Hair Slasher Nearly Lynched Over Hair Cutting Mob Pursuit
Pittsburg Pa Dec 10 Michael Kurovik a foreigner of Homestead Pa attacked Edna Story 17 at her home and cut off much of her hair with a razor. A large mob captured him as he fled and police relieved the scene. Officers guarded the jail as the crowd dispersed and the suspect was described as insane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Michael Kurovik
Homestead
Edna Story
Misa Story
Kurnvik
Fatally Wounded Father in Domestic Shooting
Rev. John Guiney McAtee was shot at home by his daughter who fired three bullets into his head after a quarrel with her mother and a servant present. The family, well known in the Lutheran community, faces arrest as investigators note past abuse claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary McAntee
J. Q. MecAntee
Gettysburg College
Philadelphia
Panny
McAtee
Lutheran Synod
Lutheran Church of the Holy Communion
Nova Scotia
Palestine
Holy Land
New York Stock Exchange
Calumet
Mich
Charles H. Bradford
Dominick Bartett
John H. Rhodes
Greenwich Savings Bank
New York
Mercury
St Paul
Minn
International Port Iand Cement Company
Elizabeth
Adeline Thomson
William Hickle
Anthony Brose
Oriental Powder Company
Fairdhance
Jacob B. Brown
Media
Reading Men Stand Pat Over Unions Recognition
Reading Pa December report on a potential strike as Philadelphia and Reading Railway refuses to recognize unions that cover nearly 5000 employees. International union officers meet with local committees and General Superintendent Dice to seek recognition. Threats of serious trouble loom as workers allege dismissals for union membership and grievance committee service.
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Reading
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Dice
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Order of
Order of Locomotive Fire
Bren
Pittsburg Woman Shoots Self to Avoid Arrest for Forgery
Ethel G Ferrer, 25, a cashier for Dr Span in Pittsburgh, shot herself at her mother’s apartments to escape police detainment after allegedly forging a $1600 check. She had come from Ohio and was described as one of the city’s handsomest women. Span, who accused her, notified a detective and she fired a pistol as the detective arrived.
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Pittsburg
Ethel G. Ferver
Miss Ferrer
Ohio
Dr. Span
Teom
Span
Alfred Dupont Granted a Divorce in Sioux Falls
Sioux Falls South Dakota December 10 Alfred Dupont millionaire powder manufacturer formerly of Wilmington Delaware now a resident of Sioux Falls since last spring was granted a divorce from Bessie D Dupont on grounds of extreme cruelty and inhuman treatment Custody of four children and alimony were settled out of court Dupont is a cousin of Senator Dupont the new United States senator from Delaware.
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Alfred Dupont
Sioux Falls, & D
Milionaire Powder Mannufacturer
Wilmington
Del
Sioux Falls
Bessie D. Dupont
Dupont
Senator Dupont
United States
Delaware
F. H. Roseberry
Hollidaysburg Pa
American Publi Health Association
Mexico City
Atlantic City
Allentown
New Park
William E. Thomas
New York
Nancy Boyd
Allegheny
Senator Arthur Brown shot by estranged wife in hotel
Washington reports Senator Arthur Brown was shot by Mrs. Bradley in his Raleigh hotel apartment. He remains gravely ill. Mrs. Bradley held without bail for assault with intent to kill. Police note prior scandals and rumors surround the couple and a former marriage. Other items include a Pennsylvania mother killing her dying child, and a mine blast accident in Hazleton causing multiple deaths.
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Washington
Arthur
Evergency Hospital
W. P. Carr
Brown
Bradley
Salt Lake City
Chile
Scranton
Sntending
Giphtreriz
Maz Backer
Heraclt
Chicaso
Fire destroys Chi Psi house. students among dead in Ithaca
In Ithaca Cornell University the Chi Psi fraternity building burned with at least seven dead and several injured. Four students perished along with town residents including Attorney Alfred Robinson and hardware merchant John Rumsey as the blaze forced 27 upstairs residents to jump to escape the flames.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithaca
Chi Psi
Cornell University
C. J. Popa
East Granse
N. J
Alfred 5. Robinson
John C.rumsey
E. J. Landen
F. W. Grelle
East Orange
N.J
QO. L. Schmuck
Hanover
H. Nichols
Chicago
James LicCutcheen, Jr
Pittshurst
Fie
Sewed towel found in woman after five weeks
Miss Lulu Summers sister of United States District Attorney Summers had a towel sewn inside her abdomen for five weeks after an appendicitis operation in Lincoln Nebraska. Surgeons removed the towel in a second operation after the first wound healed but she did not recover.
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Creth
Lincoln
Neb
Lulu Summers
United States
Summers
Miss Summers
Week's News Condensed From December Dates
A digest of incidents includes a killing by Lorenzo DBD in Procter ville O, wage hikes for Reading traction workers, a Bluefield powder explosion wounding Hungarians, and burns to Mrs. Coons of Albany. Other items cover railway leadership change, gas asphyxiation deaths in Allegheny, a shell blast at Iona Island, and Roosevelt appointing W Morgan Shuster to the Philippine commission.
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Lorenzo Dbd
M. M. Singer
Procterville O
United Traction Company
Reading
Pocahontas Saines
Bluefield
W. Va
Harry Coons
Albany
W. W. Finley
Southern Railway Company
Samuel Spencer
George Miller
Allegheny
Government Naval Station
Iona Island
Highland Falls
Tne
Roosevelt
W. Morgan Shuster
Washington
Philippine Commission
Indianapolis
Ind
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D.D Bryan
John Raring
Pottsville
John Raring, Jr
M. A. Garvin
J. L. Williams Fey
Sarbaugh’s
WSPAY
J. R. Hartman
New Oxford Flouring Mills
Xford
Tives
Royal Fowler
Carroll County
Darton
Mamie Hagerty
Fowler
Joseph Fowler
Westminster
Gillette
Segot Ein
Crapsey
Providence
R. L
Joseph Hutcheson
St. Mark's Episcopal Church
Warren
William Lauster
Matthew Moss
George Brayton
C.S
Hill
Kia Pa
J. S. Wentz & Co
Vbreck
Teney Gregoria
John Juros
Sinvanizes
Hazleton
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