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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1908
Page
1
Fragmentary notice shows a series of names and prices tied to a Straban area sale. Readable items include Mt Joy, Snyder, and Hersh. The readable bits suggest a community sale listing multiple sellers and items.
A large bank barn on the Bower farm near Belmont school house Tyrone township was destroyed by fire about 7 o clock Tuesday evening. Grant Deatrick living nearby lost farm implements and crops stored in the barn but freed all livestock. Loss estimated at $2000 with unclear insurance status. Origin of the blaze unknown.
Four Idaville men Charles E Orner Harry Tate William Heller and Andrew Heller were arrested on cruelty to animals charges after Dr. R J Ressel of Hanover reported the case to Squire R M Straley in New Oxford. Maurice Richwine is at large. Bail was set at 200 dollars for Orner and 100 or 200 dollars for the others. A hearing is planned in New Oxford next Saturday.
Miss Helen Hersh daughter of Grier Hersh was riding home when her horse balked and jerked throwing her to the pavement. She suffered several head cuts and broad body bruises, and was carried away for treatment.
From Round Hill Mrs Joseph Fitzgerald and two daughters Mable and Helen spent Christmas with friends in New Oxford. The Bowlder school gave a creditable Christmas entertainment the afternoon before Christmas. Emmett Simpson and family spent Xmas with East Berlin friends. Evelyn Myers received an organ from her father as a Christmas gift. A group including Misses Nellie and Bessie Simpson and others were guests of Frank Naylor and family on Sunday.
J Edward Pentz and Carvin Simpson pleaded guilty to larceny of several turkeys from the Central Hotel Hanover and were sentenced to six months in jail. Franklin Harlacher sustained eye injury from wood. an operation saved the eye. Mrs Hannah Watson dies at 87. Survived by three sons and one daughter. Strife drama at Miller's Hall by St Mary Dramatic Club earns praise. gross receipts total $52.00.
Landlord C. T. Hersh of the Eagle is confined to bed for several days due to illness. Amos Ditzler from Lancaster county spent the week at his mother Mrs. Sarah Ditzler's Berlin Avenue home. Rev. Geo. F. Baker, elected pastor of Great Conewago Church at Hunterstown, declined the call. Miss Anna M. Rinehart of Chambersburg spent holidays with her parents near town.
Qualityville reports a 6123 pound dressed hog killed this season by Jacob Menges. Invitations issued for the January 16 marriage of Zoe Emma Neely of Huntington township to Levi Spencer Snyder. John Shank sells 12 acre Berwick township woodland at public sale. Solomon Rudisill buys at 48 per acre. Clara Deardorff and Charles Hartman wed Christmas morning at Mummasburg with Rev Hesgon officiating. First Lutheran Church Ladies Aid holds February 14 and 15 supper at Miller's Hall. Com. Charles H. Warner and Norah Meckley marry at Littlestown on Christmas morning.
A mill and cider press owned by H. J. Gulden, once housing Edward Gulden, were destroyed by a blaze near Bendersville around 9 PM Tuesday. Origin unknown, with speculation of arson tied to smallpox contagion fears.
In Philadelphia the Walnut Lane bridge project suffers a fatal fall of false work. Martin Simpson 30 was crushed and killed. Bernard Mears and Joseph Layton sustained serious injuries as seven other workers were bruised. The bridge, a $300000 concrete structure, collapsed during removal of false work, dropping 140 feet.
Miss Letitia Tyler, sixty five year old granddaughter of President Tyler and Navy Department clerk, was assaulted and robbed of her purse while returning from a visit to Louise’s home to call on a dying aunt, Mrs Letitia Sample who died Sunday. The attacker was not captured. Mrs Sempie served as White House mistress during President Tyler’s tenure.
Adolf Delama a 34 year old worker at Rockland Paper Mills in Wilmington Delaware was seized by spasms while on the riverbank and fell into the Brandywine dying before aid arrived. He had long suffered from the spasmeg that led to his death.
Newark officials confirm Mrs Agnes Young as the nude drowned victim found in a Harrison pond after being struck on the head. Mrs Frank Hull of New York testified she traveled with Young on Christmas Day and identified the body at the Newark morgue. The killer severed clothes and disposed of the body to mislead investigators while seeking compromising papers.
A Pemberton accommodation train crashed into the rear of an Atlantic City express in dense fog on the Pennsylvanian elevated line near Camden New Jersey. Three men, Thomas L Webster C T Sontgen and James J Catharino, all from New Jersey towns, died in the smoking car as passengers evacuated.
In Highgate cemetery the 1864 coffin of Thomas Charles Cruce was opened and its remains identified, disproving claims of a lead roll hidden inside. Police guarded the site as George Hyllamby Cruce, alleging rightful heir, was barred from entry.
A weekly digest records a Chicago saloon hold up for 400 dollars and eight watches, a Philadelphia man dying in Wilkes-Barre, a fatal store fire at North Dover, and tobacco crop prospects in Lancaster. It notes a Utah will dispute by Senator Brown's heirs, a piano accident in New York, a railroad murder in Susquehanna, and multiple fires and drownings across several states. It closes with a Wisconsin judge, bank burglary, suicides, and other incidents from December 26 to 31.
In West Philadelphia a 16 year old, Joseph Casartano, says an unknown Italian attacked him and Joseph Benone with a razor on an open lot. Casartano fired a revolver, killing the Italian. the youths were chased by a nearby political club group and captured after fleeing toward the river.
In Baltimore on December 31, Sanders Pearlman twenty four and his wife Cecilia twenty were found in their bedroom after gas from a difficult to operate bracket caused their near fatal and fatal exposure. Sanders was dead and Cecilia hospitalized unconscious. No motive is found for the couple whose married life was described as happy.
Civil War veteran James Worrell died after his trouser leg caught on a picket top while he climbed a fence to reach his locked gate. He hung head downward and was found unconscious, never regaining consciousness.
In Mifflintown Pennsylvania on December 27 John Tab b and Milton Tab b both seventeen and fifteen respectively drowned after breaking through ice on a dam while skating. Their brother James aged twenty attempted a rescue and also fell through. Rescuers saved James but both younger boys drowned. bodies recovered.
John Andrews, former chief clerk in the Atlantic City comptroller’s office, was found guilty on charges of forgery and embezzlement totaling about $24,000. The jury deliberated for ten minutes.
Commodities reported including Baltimore and steamer wheat prices around 1.05 to 1.06 dollars, corn mixed at 6 3 8 to 68 percent, oats firm with various grades, butter firm at 29 46 to 30 cents, prints 17 to 19 cents, eggs nationwide around 28 cents for fancy Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia across several regional classifications.
CATTLE market lively with strong to choice goods at 5.60 to 6.50. hogs rise with primes up to 6.00 and heavier Yorks around 4.60 to 4.90. sheep firm with prime wethers near 1.80 to 1.95 and lambs about 5 to 7.25. veal figures incomplete.
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