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Multiple Deaths and Crimes Reported in Various Localities
State Bureau of Visual Statistics reports 10 180 violent deaths last year. George Adams a printer from Palmyra died exhausted under a tree at age 42. C B Nonnemacher shipped 863 muskrats 281 skunks 17 mink and 11 hides from Birc in Hand to an Eastern fur house. Allen Schranze Frank Ruth and Harvey Kulp of Helbertown fined for illegal fishing on Saucon Creek with fish baskets. An 85 year old man near Huntingdon was struck by a train and killed identified as Thomas McMahan. Edward Goldschmidt of Pottstown died by cutting his throat during illness aged 87. Gottlieb Goldschmidt his brother previously hanged himself. In Pottsville Felix Radzius sentenced to hang after murder in Shenandoah.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Bureau of Visual Statistics
George Adams
Palmyra
Nonnemacher
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bircin- Hand
Lancaster County
Allen Schranze
Frank Ruth
Harvey Kulp
Helbertown
Chas. H. Nesbey
Pennsylvania
Schrantz
Ruth
Saucon Creek
Kulp
Huntingdon
Thomas McMahan
Great Lakes
Pottstown
Edward Goldschmidt
Jno
Goldschmidt
Shenandoah
Radzius
Marr