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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1908
Page
5
A testimonial promotes Dr Miles Nervine as a nerve tonic to treat epilepsy and nervous diseases. It claims cures and urges readers to seek advice, noting a boy improved after using Nervine and that a refund is available if the first bottle fails, from Miles Medical Co.
The State Live Stock Sanitary Board warned farmers that impostors posing as state agents are charging for cattle examinations claiming to search for foot and mouth disease. No state price reductions are sanctioned for calves due to the disease. In York County, farmers were reportedly victimized by sharpers who claimed an official recommendation cut $4 from calf prices because of the disease.
Mrs. Sarah Shellenberger widow of Adam Shellenberger died suddenly at 6 o'clock Sunday evening at her son Andrew's home two miles west of Dover York County age 77. Death was due to apoplexy while she sat at the supper table talking with family. Elwood Jackson, an old hermit between Quakertown and Pennsburg, fell and broke several ribs with internal injuries. He is 70, refused medicine after one dose 40 years ago and is in a precarious condition.
Pittsburg December 15 A phonograph record will serve as a witness in the trial of C A Rumstay an agent for a talking machine company accused of assaulting Mrs Ella Hinds the wife of John Hinds Rumstay went to the house to retrieve a phonograph Mrs Hinds refused to surrender the property and he is charged with striking her The screams were captured on a blank record placed in the machine during a piano solo by Ella Rittenhouse and the cries were recorded as the music played
New York December 15 An artist Martin Nathan forty three was jailed on perjury charges after he swore in surrogate court that his eight year old daughter Dora was dead to seize a $15 000 bequest left by his wife. He was arraigned in the Tombs court before Magistrate Steinert and held for trial. He took Dora to Germany and back seeking the money claiming funeral expenses.
A U.S. Labor Department bulletin cites 30 000 to 85 000 work related deaths and about two million injuries in the past year. Factory workers face high risk with iron and steel trades most exposed. electricians linemen and coal miners see excessive fatalities. railway workers die at 7.46 per thousand.
In Macomb Illinois on December 15 police protected the self styled Divine Healer Schlatter from a threatening mob after he declared at a meeting that McKinley was an anarchist and that the assassination was justified, except it should have happened sooner. Officers escorted him to a hotel and the first train out, with Schlatter later proceeding to Quincy Illinois.
A massive dynamite blast at Bas Obispo during Panama canal construction killed fourteen, with many bodies still buried under rock and earth. A 500 laborer train passed moments before the explosion, more than 800 by 400 feet of hillside wreckage, and a ninety-ton steam shovel crushed by debris. The blast involved fifty one holes sixty feet deep. powderman John J Reidy was killed. Four children burned to death in Ottawa near Hamthorne, Ontario, while parents failed to save them.
Dutch cruiser Gelderland captured the Venezuelan coast guardship Alix near Puerto Cabello, hoisting the Dutch flag before towing her to Willemstad. The Alix crew were ashore as a Dutch officer and marines secured the vessel. Forts at Puerto Cabello did not fire. Jacob Van Heemskerk and Frieslach observed off La Guayra with possible further captures.
A Philadelphia session of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America reports a joint committee from the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America the Reformed Church in the United States and the Welsh Presbyterian church recommending consolidation of the three bodies. Dr William H Roberts former moderator chaired the Presbyterian committee Rev J Spangler Kelffer of Hagerstown Md chaired the Reformed committee and Rev R T Roberts of Wilkes Barre Pa led the Welsh church committee.
A. H. Crawford, sought by federal officers for alleged fraudulent use of the mails, killed himself with a gunshot at Mrs. Elizabeth Spellhouse’s home near Ellicott City Maryland to evade capture. He claimed to represent a Russian revolutionary real estate company.
A sermon Sunday afternoon witnessed Rev. Louis Lops of St. Rochus Roman Catholic Church in Youngstown allegedly targeted by a poisoning attempt. Strychnine was suspected in the communion cup and church officials delayed informing parishioners until Thursday. A chemical analysis is underway amid reports of defamatory letters from outsiders.
Trading stamps usable for a complete funeral and monument are being offered by Richard Respass, founder of a colony near Baltimore, who has purchased 160.
John H. Sanderson contractor for the Harrisburg capi tol project and former state officials William P. Snyder William L. Mathues and James M. Shumaker were denied a new trial by President Judge George Kunkel. A motion to set aside the verdict of guilty of conspiracy was refused.
Andrew Carnegie was subpoenaed to appear before the house ways and means committee to testify in tariff revision hearings. Future sessions are expected to feature several prominent witnesses. Refusal to respond could lead to contempt citations in court, as occurred during a Wilson bill hearing.
The annual Adirondack Christmas tree harvest near Utica New York is in full swing with carloads shipped nationwide. Some thirty thousand trees, five to ten feet tall, have left the forest in the last two days, with an average price of 10 cents per tree including freight charges.
Michael Bolley of Steelton Pennsylvania hanged himself at home after a dispute with his family. He prepared his death by attaching a rope to a beam after tearing a strip from the stairs, stood on a chair, kicked it away, and strangled himself.
Mrs Bettie I Shelton aged fifty four wife of Charles H Shelton agent for Leroy Steamboat Company died at her home in Norfolk Virginia after an overdose of nervine tablets taken to treat a headache.
Farmers near Harrisonville New Jersey are felling apple trees to clear ground for small vegetables and truck farming as demand rises for apple tree butts used in saw and tool handle manufacture.
Republican senators met in a brief caucus and unanimously chose Senator Eugene Hale of Maine as chairman to fill the vacancy left by the late Senator W. B. Allison of Iowa. The move makes Mr. Hale the Leader of the majority in the Senate.
Peter Snyder, a farmer near Logansport Indiana, died after being asleep for a full week. The man worked all day husking corn the prior day and, after retiring, could not be awakened despite repeated efforts. He passed away in his home with no clear cause given. The event is reported from Logansport, Indiana.
Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose E. Calhoun of Columbus Georgia welcomed triplets, bringing their total number of children to twenty five. The father is eighty two years old.
Bellefontaine Ohio December 15 Mrs Peter Swan was found exhausted at Huntsville after walking in bare feet from this city a distance of 51 miles while relatives searched all night for her She was sent to the Dayton asylum.
Greensboro Dec 15 Dr J M Dansier of Hendersonville a Nye friend has placed a large rough granite lock as a grave monument at Nye's Buck Shoals burial site.
President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress on the 1905 Brownsville shooting. He urges reinstating colored troopers found innocent after a war department investigation led by Herbert J. Browne and Captain W. G. Baldwin. The plan hinges on truthfully identifying the real culprits and allowing the secretary of war to reinstate those who aided justice within a year.
A French chamber vote of 330 to 201 preserves the death penalty. Other items note James J. Corbett to referee a December 15 boxing match in Los Angeles between Hugo Kelly and Billy Papke, a Western Union warehouse fire in New York causing $150,000 loss, and Roosevelt urging negro regiments be allowed negro band masters when feasible.
Captain Henry Wagner of Philadelphia drowned in Delaware bay when his yawl capsized en route ashore near Fortescue Bridgeton N J on December 15.
Virginia town Suffolk goes dry with 619 total votes and a 257 majority. The result, while expected, shows a larger margin than anticipated, reflecting community preference on alcohol sales.
In York Pennsylvania on December 15 Mrs. Margaret M. Tracey remains in critical condition from lockjaw following a tooth extraction. The molar had been removed about a week earlier.
Quoted Philadelphia flour extras and grain prices show steady Wheat No. 2 red western at around 1.01 to 1.04 dollars per bushel with no drastic changes. Corn No. 2 yellow locally around 6 3/32 dollars, oats No. 2 white steady near 6 1/4 cents. Poultry and eggs steady with varied quotes for hens and eggs. Butter and potatoes firm with creameries at 35 cents and potatoes at 85 to 87 cents per washel.
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