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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1903
Page
6
An advertisement touts Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for weak lungs and other ailments. It claims cures for consumption risks, cites a testimonial from John M Russell of Brent Indiana, and offers The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser as a bonus, requiring stamps for mailing.
The parochial schools in this place will close Friday and stay closed until Monday January 4. Joseph Clank formerly of Gettysburg died in York of typhoid fever at age 49 years 5 months 16 days and remains were moved to Gettysburg for interment. J Emory Bair resigned as a Gettysburg National Bank director and Dr N C Trout of Fairfield was elected to fill the vacancy. Alexander Little of Littlestown died Wednesday evening of dropsy aged about 73 years, survived by two sons and three daughters. Jury Commissioners and Judge Swope began arranging the county jury wheel with 350 sober intelligent men from across the county to be entered. jurors will be drawn for the January term of Court.
A Norristown dispatch to the Philadelphia Press reports a fresh smallpox case in Gret town, Adams county. The patient is Miss Lelis Barnhart of Bendersville, a student in a local institution, with twelve boarders at the boarding house placed under quarantine. Earlier during Thanksgiving week Miss Earphart stayed with a Philadelphia family linked to a varialoid exposure.
Philadelphia reports mixed grain and flour prices with winter superfine at 8.10 to 9.30 per barrel and rye flour around 3.40. Wheat notes No. 2 Penna red at 8 1/2 to 9 1/2 cents, oats at 4 1/2 to 5 cents, and butter at 27 cents. Baltimore shows wheat spot bids around 86 3/4 to 87 3/4 cents, corn firm around 47 cents, oats at 41 cents, and rye near 60 cents. Union Stock Yards Pittsburgh lists cattle prices rising with prime heavy at 4.85 to 4.90, sheep marshalling higher, and lambs 5.50 to 6.65 per 100 pounds.
A company of Marines from the cruiser Prairie landed at Colon under Captain Smedley Butler and headed by train toward Panama. They may reach Yaviza to monitor Colombian activity near the San Miguel gulf and Tulra river while providing relief from ships.
Washington reports movement of Colombian troops near the Isthmus prompted army officials to ready for joint action with the navy. Brigadier General J Franklin Bell visited the general staff as talks continue and no troop orders are issued.
A U S Steel official says starting January 1, 1904 about 90 percent of the corporation’s employees will face wage reductions ranging from 0 to 20 percent. The move reflects pressure on costs amid continuing industrial trends.
Turkish minister explains to the state department that US consul Davis tried to induce illegal emigration of a Turkish subject and attacked police after the failure, while Turkey awaits further investigation by Minister Leishman. In other items, Joseph Harrie Thibadeau, 61, shot himself in a Virginia hotel. Forrest Cashel, 41, jailed for murder, escapes police barracks with guards held at gunpoint as his execution nears December 15.
Philadelphia reports United States labor commissioner Carroll D. Wright predicts the wage system will disappear and be replaced by a mix of profit sharing and cooperation. He urges worker protections and notes England and Germany already pursue related schemes including social insurance funded by employer and government shares. He warns the current system links wages to employer generosity and calls for broader worker independence through shared investment and improved conditions.
The St Louis Post Dispatch celebrated its 25th anniversary by issuing a special edition weighing two pounds and containing 160 pages. Distribution required ten street cars and over 60 wagons, with 260 008 copies printed and the supply exhausted.
Five lie dead and several injured after two engines and a heavy Baltimore and Ohio freight derailed on the 17 mile grade near Piedmont West Virginia. Engineers Ernest D. Ervin and Emery Ervin die from the wreck along with firemen Walter B. Nine and J. W. Carter and brakeman John Hays. Seriously injured include Engineer Michael J. Gibbon fireman E C Buckler and brakeman B F Bolinger. The derailment sent engines and 24 loaded cars into a deep ravine tearing up tracks for nearly 100 yards.
Colonel H. M. Boies of Scranton died of heart disease on a train returning from a conference with the president in Washington. He collapsed at the Hotel Sterling in Wilkes-Barre after arriving from the capital. Born in 1837 in Lee Massachusetts he lived in Scranton most of his life and was the first colonel of the Thirteenth regiment. He long served as a Pennsylvania commissioner of charities and corrections and wrote works on criminology.
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