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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1905
Page
23
Tuesday actions close J H Plymire's Center Square restaurant. Pension rise to Cornelius Fitzgerald. George Smith buys York Springs horse for 3400 and takes over April 1. Pastor Lauffer receives gifts and council raise. Two Ludwig horses killed by Western Maryland train. driver Harvey Worley escape unharmed.
An elderly man advises that despite thin, spare diets a middle aged man may overindulge and need Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets to cleanse and regulate digestion. Sold by Ed. T. Auker druggist.
Phoenixville Pa December 23 A serious wreck on the Reading line at Perkiomen Junction leaves two milk train workers dead and two injured The deceased are Harry Hartman Reading fireman and W S Ellsrode Harrisburg front brakeman The injured include Albert S Hartman Reading locomotive engineer and Express Messenger Harry McCauley Lebanon The milk train ignored signals and struck a freight across the main track wrecking the engine and six cars delaying traffic for hours
Coroner Mix rules Minnie Evelyn Killingbeck died after her sweetheart Frank Tucker a drug clerk sent a box labeled headache tablets containing bichloride of mercury. She took one pill and died within hours in Anson or nearby area.
Miss Alice Roosevelt told close friends the wedding date is set for Saturday February 17 with the time to be announced. Several dates had been considered and February 23 was dropped due to White House engagements.
Inmates at the Jeffersonville reformatory received interest on extra work wages for the first time in the institution's history. The payments came from a special fund.
London dispatch reports Moscow battles as artillery and machine guns rain on barricades. Insurgents and Cossacks clash amid thousands killed or wounded and civilians driven from homes as Red Square and Kremlin defenses brace for a protracted struggle.
Mrs. Sarah Whitmire a 53 year old widow was found murdered in her home near Muncy Valley Sullivan county Robbery is suspected as the motive The crime was discovered by Charles Flick who sought shelter from a storm and found her unconscious in a bloodstained sitting room after a struggle.
Joseph Pollock 22 of 138 West Cumberland street killed his father William Pollock after intervening when the drunken husband raised a backhand to his wife at Christmas dinner. The elder Pollock struck the son, who retaliated, fracturing the skull and dying en route to a hospital. The son is jailed for murder. the mother is held as a witness.
A horse-drawn buggy collided with the Pennsylvania Flyer at Delphos, Ohio. Henry Henhorst and his daughter Rose were killed instantly while Trainey Wabomhok and another Henhorst daughter were severely injured. The buggy curtain in the baggage car doors sparked the inquiry as inspectors traced the incident.
A southbound Lehigh Valley freight between Van Etten and Sayre exploded at Swamp Siding near Van Kitten New York killing fireman Frank Morris and Leon Dennison and fatally injuring engineer Fred Swarthout brakeman Henry McMann and conductor Martin Gallagher all from Sayre Pennsylvania. The boiler flew over 100 feet then rolled end over end across tracks injuring motorists and spectators as rescue teams reached the scene.
May Freund and Cecelia Koeffer, both 18 from Arnold, were drowned when skating on Puckety creek near Parnassus Pennsylvania. Companions Edward Southworth and William Coughey were rescued but exhausted. The party, all Arnold high school students, had opted to return to shore when the ice failed. Freund's body surfaced four hours later. Koeffer was pulled from the water after breaking ice, but could not be saved.
Philadelphia reports Charles H Hansen and his eight year old daughter Edna killed when struck by a Reading express train at Camp Hill while crossing tracks in a runabout. View obstructed by an embankment. accident occurred near their home.
A condensed weekly roundup notes gas suffocations at Youngstown and a fire destroying the Boys' Reform School near Washington with $100000 loss. Other items include fatal wrecks near Reading Kansas and Decatur NL, suicides in New York, Boston school head George H Conley’s death, and various crimes and trials across states.
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