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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1906
Page
4
Ad for Dr Miles Nervine extols nerve energy as foundation of health and promotes Heart Cure. A local court session updates include guardian allowances, estate sales, assignee appraisals, certiorari reversal, and committee appointment for Rules of Court.
Proclamation summons Coroner Justices of the Peace and constables of Adams Fulton counties to appear at Gettysburg for the Court of Oyer and Terminer General Jail Delivery and Quarter Sessions on the 4th Monday of January at 10 a.m. in the year 1906. Officials must bring records recognizances and memoranda. The document bears the date December 21.
IST of Grand Jurors drawn Dec 21 1906 for the Court of Quarter Sessions and Court of Oyer and Terminer to be held at Gettysburg Adams County. Names include Arthur Win farmer Tyrone Twp Barver Joseph laborer New Oxford bor Brough M A farmer Latimore Bucher Edward J clerk Franklin Cleaver Charles farmer Cumberland Barbaugh Irwin laborer Mount Pleasant two Eckenrude VI M E dentist Gettysburg bor 3d w Frecx Joan E farmer Butler Twp Quarretson Frank farmer Menallen Twp Hoover John I laborer East Berlin bor Lott Wm U gent Gettysburg bor 3rd ward Linn Dunn M miller Franklin Twp Miller co W gent Berwick Bor Noel Wn A Blacksmith Mount Pleasant two Nell Win farmer Mount Pleasant Twp Neldich M D farmer Reading Twp Ridinger S D mason Gettysburg Bor Sdwd Buntn Wm H farmer Huntington Twp Suull Joan A farmer Franklin Twp Smith Amos farmer Reading Twp AYRARvEN Chas inn keeper Gettysburg Bor 2nd wd Timmins George W merchant McSherrystown inp WG Trowell U W of D Gettysburg 2nd wd
Raw data lists jurors for the Court of Quarter Sessions and Oyer and Terminer and General Jail Delivery to convene January 1907 at Gettysburg Adams County. Names include Bucher L J farmer Cumberland Twp Brown David Fairfeild borough Busuman Sumel F farmer Franklin Twp and many others with occupations and towns such as Littlestown Conewago Berwick Mount Pleasant and Hamilton Twp.
OCR fragment mentions printing every description performed at the ITen office with Matis function guaranteed.
In a desertion case Mrs. George H Smith of Carnegie near Pittsburg won support from Judge Evans who ruled a wife cannot be forced to live with her mother-in-law. He noted she may leave even if she agreed before marriage. Mrs. Smith testified she was compelled to live with her husband's mother since marriage. Smith was ordered to pay $4 weekly to his wife.
Albert T. Patrick, convicted of murder in the Rice case, is commuted and moved from Sing Sing death house to the main prison. He will work in carpentry and face standard rules, with reduced privileges, limited library access, fewer wife visits, and regular prison meals replacing former luxury fare.
In Minotola New Jersey 35 year old John Buglio was murdered after being lured from his home while Constable Joseph Laboria was shot in the leg and arm while en route to his house. Authorities blame the Black Hand but offer no solid clues.
New York December 22 J Pierpont Morgan presented his son J Pierpont Morgan Jr with the Isaac Mr Phelps mansion at Madison Avenue and 37th Street for 600000. Morgan bought the property December 24 1904 and both deeds named him John P rather than J Pierpont.
Seattle judge grants Mary Fredricksen a divorce to Christian Fredericksen after ruling lack of bathing for three years constitutes sufficient grounds.
A mob of 60 to 80 men attacked the Annapolis jail, seized Henry Davis also known as Chambers, and strung him up on a College Creek tree after he confessed to assaulting Mrs. Reid of Iglehart Station. The body was left hanging as witnesses watched.
Charles Mason charged with the May murder of contractor William Duffy at Dorsey’s Run Maryland was sent to Ellicott City after arrest at Otisyville where he worked in the Erie railroad tunnel.
Ten people are dead and at least 25 more injured after a head-on collision between an eastbound passenger train and a switch engine at Enderlin North Dakota. Six of the injured are fatally hurt. Rescuers battled flames as they freed passengers trapped beneath wreckage and overturned coaches. The crash occurred as the engineer sought to make up lost time and the engines and cars went into a fiery pile.
The crop reporting board of the Agriculture Department estimates 1906 production at nearly 3,000,000,000 bushels of corn and 735,000,000 bushels of wheat with corresponding farm values, based on a year end release from Washington dated December 21.
In Chicago nec, William Woodrich killed his wife over four cents she offered to him for a nickel to buy beer. He then killed himself. The murder occurred in a bathroom near the kitchen as Mrs. Woodrich’s two daughters sat nearby. The dead woman had four pennies when he demanded a nickel and struck them from her hand.
Mrs. Kate Obenchain wife of J. Obenchain a Norfolk & Western engineer died in Roanoke Va on December 24 from convulsions after unknowingly drinking antiseptic pills placed in her glass by her 3 year old son. The mother had dissolved medicine in water when the child added tablets unseen.
In Washington Pa near Pittsburg four persons were burned when gas escaped from a detached rubber hose and a match struck by the father caused a flash. John Carvel and his sons Frank and John were fatally burned while a fourth son Joseph was severely injured and all were hospitalized. In Philadelphia a 16 year old, Charles Prigge, was killed by a highwayman during a hold up as he walked home from work after protesting a search. The robbers fled.
Salvation Army barracks on Price street was broken into and looted of flour groceries quilts toys candies and more intended for the city’s poor. A large wagon was used to carry the plunder away.
Lindsay B. Hicks survived a fifteen day cave in near Bakersfield, aided by a Ford Edison Power Company tunnel crew. He communicated through a pipe and received milk and tobacco until rescue, while five fellow workers perished nearby. Hicks recovered with ne arly two weeks of confinement ending in a dramatic exhumation scene.
The Senate confirmed Alford W. Cooley as assistant attorney general while Louis Dabner pleaded guilty to murder in San Francisco. A freight collision near Canton left engineer and fireman dead. Roosevelt scheduled a speech in Washington on January 16. A Lancaster woman suffered severe burns pouring fat on a stove. Nashville banker Thomas Plater died aged 77. A mine collapse near Wheel-ing killed one and injured several. James Thomas, head of De vies & Thomas and Wahnetah Silk, died of cancer in Catasauqua. Jewelry thefts near New York and a $500 reward issued. Extreme cold in Altoona. Middletown arson arrest for a hotel fire. Olyphant blocks burned worth $50,000. U.S. Treasury official George A. Marden died in Boston. National Wire Corporation placed in receivership with $2 million debts. Executions and strikes noted, including a 106th birthday wish to Mrs. Elizabeth Stalker, with a Roosevelt telegram. A 4-year murder sentence in Kentucky. GE workers’ strike near Schenectady ended. A 106-year-old Mich. resident and multiple accidents reported. A Bay City hotel fire caused one death by suffocation. A Yorkton divorce granted for grounds of spousal desertion.
Salt Lake City December 22 The will of former United States Senator Arthur Brown denies any relation to Mrs Bradley who shot him in Washington and describes a planned retaliation continuing in the will.
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