Drugs and political notices dominate town in brief
An advertisement offers a reward for any trace of opium or related drugs in Dr Miles Remedies. The issue also carries numerous political candidate announcements for the Democratic and Republican nominations, plus local obituaries and a catastrophic steel furnace accident at National Tube in McKeesport with workers injured or killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Monongahela
National Tube Company
McKeesport
Notice of Conewago Alley damages in McSherrystown
Report of view ers to assess damages and benefits from opening Conewago Alley in McSherrystown filed January 7 1908 with a list of property owners affected and a 16 foot wide alley with eight feet on each side of center. The court will confirm the report in 30 days from January 27 1908 unless exceptions are filed. The schedule shows a total benefit of $1000 awarded to Paul Overbaugh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Eltz
John Keefer
John A. Kline
Adam Leonard
Frank Krichten
Joseph Fink
John L. Daugherty
Joseph Keefer
I. X. Little
Annie Leonard
Sebastian Weaver
Isabella Noel
C. J. Delone
Lewis Krichten
Jennie
Mary Golden
Ignatius Lawrence
Pius Neider
Joannah Overbaugh
Paul Overbaugh
Harrisburg Auto School Seeks 50 Students For Training
Wanted fifty men or boys to learn to become automobile operators and earn from twenty to forty dollars a week. Apply to Harrisburg Auto School at Third and Hamilton Streets, care Harrisburg Automobile Company, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. January 16.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harrisburg Auto School
Third & Hamilton Sts
Harrisburg Automobile, Company
Harrisburg
Printing of Every Description Executed at the Jrem Office
An item notes that printing of all descriptions is carried out at the Jrem office with guaranteed satisfaction to customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jrem
Social Visits and Local Notices From Round Hill
Miss Charlot and Laura Miller of Hampton visited Mrs. Joseph Fitzgerald on Sunday. John Wolf and wife called on James Simpson Thursday. Ehrhart family members and Curtis Bricker enjoyed an evening with Al Kraber. Curtis Bricker of York stayed with the Ehrhart family. Morrel Delp and wife of Idaville visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Naylor. Paul Chronister is bedridden with pneumonia. Peter Markle bought a piano for his daughter. Mrs David Cashman and Hattie Myers with Vinnie and Edith Wolf spent an evening with Peter Markle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlot
Laura Miller
Hampton
Joseph Fitzgerald
John Wolf
James Simpson
Mable
Grace
Bessie Ehrhart
John
Paul Ehrhart
Curtis Bricker
al. Krabers
York
Thomas Ehrhart
Morrel Delp
Idaville
Frank Naylor
Paul Chronister
Peter Markle
David Cashman
Hattie Myers
Vinnie
Edith Wolf
College of Music Tuition Offered in Reedsburg Pa
Six weeks tuition for any instrument singing and board at the College of Music in Reedsburg Pa costs 37 dollars. Terms begin May 4 June 15 and July 27. Catalog requests addressed to Henry B Moyer. Also notices for repair of watches clocks and jewelry at Aucker's Drug Store via J H Witpasin Hanover Pa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
College of Music
S*reeburg
Henry B. Moyer
Auker’s
J. H. Witpasin
Hanover
Bank Robbery At Granite Falls Strikes Cash $2700
In Granite Falls North Carolina robbers locked cashier G W Whisnant in the bank vault after looting the till and escaping with $2700. The robbery occurred Saturday and was not discovered until Sunday morning when Whisnant emerged after fifteen hours confinement.
Miners Entombed in Mt. Carmel Drift Rescue Efforts Underway
In Pottsville on February 18, twenty eight miners are trapped after a dam burst in the Midvalley colliery near Mt. Carmel. Rescue teams work through a 850 foot mud barrier seeking to reach and feed the entombed workers. Seven are Americans, others are foreigners, with air and diggings described as favorable but uncertain. A separate crime scene involves Clawson’s death and Miss Blanche Harrison’s disappearance linked to the factory incident.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Robert
Mt. Carmel
George Smith
William Farley
Connersville
James McGovern
Midvalley
Albert Ford
Charles Becker
Bernard Shannon
Sangway
Murder Suspect Arrested in Bodish Killing Near Brookes Crossing
The body of Mike Bodish was found by two Pottstown fishermen in the Schuylkill River near Brookes crossing with head wound. Stief Sabo was arrested and committed to Montgomery County jail in Norristown on murder charges. Bodish and Sabo were last seen together Saturday afternoon. Bodish’s watch was recovered.
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Pottstown
Mike Bodish
Schuylkill River
Brookes Crossing
Stief Sabo
Sabo
Montgomery County
Norristown
Bodish
Priests Killed and Injured When Cutter Is Struck by Electric Car
In Niles and South Bend two priests from Notre Dame college were involved in a fatal and a serious crash after their cutter was struck by an electric car. Father Andrew Salmon was killed and Father Murphy suffered multiple fractures as they could not avoid the vehicle due to a snow drift and sand bank. In Philadelphia a woman had her jaw dislocated for the nineteenth time in five weeks after yawning at a theatre and requiring surgery to reset the jaw.
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Philadelphia
Seventh and Vine Streets
Annie Smith
Marie Ross
City Hall
Clay
Camden
Niles
Mich
Andrew Salmon
Father Murphy
South Bend
Ind
Father Salmon
Notre Dame College
Mary Schmitz
City Hospital
Father Kills Son With Shotgun at Locust Gap Home
In Shamokin Pennsylvania on February 18 Conrad Whine of Shamokin took a double barred shotgun to his son John's Locust Gap house and after a quarrel shot him dead. The son's head was nearly blown off by buckshot. The father was arrested and sent to jail. The two men had long been at odds.
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Shamokin
Conrad Whine
John
Locust Gap
Wheeling
W. Va
Cincinnati (O
Andrew Wendell
J. Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
Chicago
Andrew Carnegie
Morgan College
Baltimor
W. F. C Hasson
Naval Academy
Annapolis
Wes Summerlin
Charley Negroes
Carrollton Ga
Pethro Jones
Della Taylor
Creston
Stuart
B. H Netweller
Williamsport
Wff Shay
Watsontown
Danville State Insane Hospital
Limestone
N. Y
Bradford
William Sells
Sells Brothers
New York
John C. Shaub
Pennsylvania
Lancaster
Michigan Central
New York Central Yard
Buffalo
Choked by Collar Button Causes Philadelphia Tragedy
In Philadelphia on February 17 ten year old William D Brown of 2731 Oxford Street choked to death after a collar button was swallowed during a sneezing spell. He died in his mother's arms before a doctor could assist.
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Miles
A. A. Ilnig
Philadelphia
Tacoma Street
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Wiliam D. Brown
Oxford Street
William
Brother of Clawson’s Wife Is Suspect In Slaying
Reading Pa February 18 The disappearance of Abraham Rosenthal brother in law of Lewis B Clawson shirt manufacturer killed in his office Saturday afternoon raises police confidence the slayer will be captured soon Rosenthal twenty seven left town with a man seen running from the building matching his description
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Lewis Clawson
Reading
Lewis B. Clawson
Abraham Rosenthal
Clawson
Rosenthal
Traitors' Mark on Face Leads to Trial
New York reports Carlo Pianinum, charged with slashing a man over blackmail demand by the Black Hand, was held for trial by Magistrate Butts. In Harrisburg the defense in the state capitol conspiracy suit argued about furniture measurements and charges in the Senate and House, claiming Sanderson overbilled the state and understates in some items, with expert testimony planned for cross examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
George la Bresta
Carlo Pianinum
Butts
Harrisburg
Sanderson
Snyder Mathues
Shumaker
Dauphin County
Senate
House
John Kauffman
Philadelphia
Kauffman
M. Kauffman
Defense
Commonwealth
Charles H. Bergner
Huston
Bergner
Stanford B. Lewis
Snyder
Mathues
Bank loot in Willard and other midweek events
A condensed week in news reports bank robbery in Willard Missouri where $1000 was taken after nitro was used to blow the safe. Senate passage of a $3500000 appropriation for a 1912 Tokio exposition. Death of Milton Heidelbaugh Lancaster Pa state senator. Jewel theft in Memphis Tennessee during a dinner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bank of
Willard
United States
Tokio
Japan
Senate
Milton Heidelbaugh
Lancaster
Frank G. Jons
Memphis
Tenn
Joseph Monaco
Tony
South Sharon
Louis A. Coolidge
Massachusetts
Treasury
Quotations: Closing prices in principal markets
The latest closing prices show steady wheat with No 2 spot at 95 95 c Steamer No 2 spot 87 95 c and southern 89 4% 93 u Corn steady mixed spot 60 2 bu steamer mixed 56 66 c Oats firm white No 2 5 67 c No 3 56 56 7 c No 4 52 9 63 c mixed No 2 54 54 2 c No 3 8 36 34 e Butter firm creamery extras 34 35 c prints 35 8 e held 28 24 c Maryland and Pennsylvania dairy prints 18 19 c Eggs steady fancy Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia 23 c West Virginia 22 44 c southern 2 u 21 c
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Baltimore
Southern
Maryland
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Live Stock Markets at Pittsburg Stock Yards
CATTLE higher with choice bids around 5.50 to 5.70. SHEEP steady with prime wethers at 5.75 to 6.00 and lambs at 5.75. HOGS active and higher with prime heavies near 4.65 and various hog classes around 4.50 to 4.50. Veal calves quoted at 3.50 to 3.85.
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Pittsburg
Union Stock Yards
Also Mentioned on This Page
James C. Cole
Francis Cole
Menallen Township
Assembly
M. A. Garvin
Gettysburg
Garvin
General Assembly
Isaac Pecher
Liberty Township
Calvin T. Lower
Franklin Township
Edw. E. Trostle
W. A. Wagner
Philadelphia Street
J. C. Myers
Wm. Wolf
Abbottstown
W. F. Hollinger
Paul Wolf
Hamilton Township
Ernest Wolf
Isaac Harrington
N. C. Railway
Maude McLaurin
Lerman Biddle
Biddle
Carlisle
Ida E. Hoban
Hoban
Thomas Hoban
David Hefflefinger
Sunbury
Edward O’brien
Heckscherville
Felix
Felix Smith
Irishtown
Elmer Norman Hook
White Hall
St. Luke’s
W.A. Taughinbaugh, Prothonotary
Awarrded
J. P. Krepps
Gene Mene
Frank Kriehten
A. Leonard
Peers Hee
John Kline
Ather Farm
Hunterstown
Getysburo
Farmer
Latter Place
Felty Farm
Gaibaldi
Berkshire
Tale
Dayton
la Euch & Drumgold
York & Penna
McCormick
Deering
Syracuse
Busseraka
Vail
Sreast
Eis
Ac Mis Mella Zinn
G.R Thompson
W. A. Tate
H. G, Deatrick
Round Hill
George W. Overholtzer
Blanche Harrison
Wyomissing
Edson van de Water
Frederick Hollbrook
Vermont
Hughes
B. P. Mann
Troy N. Y. Illscoat
Joseph Crego
Gimlet
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