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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1908
Page
11
A testimonial from Mrs Mary C Harter of Sullivan Missouri describes severe heart symptoms and relief after using Dr Miles Heart Cure. The ad notes the medicine strengthens heart nerves and muscles and is sold by druggists with a money back guarantee. Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
The co partnership in the grocery and store business at New Oxford Pennsylvania under the name Fair and Cashman is dissolved by mutual consent on January 6 1908. Hayes B. Fair and J A Cashman sign the notice.
On the Jesse Broadbeck farm near Hampton, a public sale offers oak boards planks and scantling, 2x4 and 4x4 lumber, 90 cords of oak and hickory slab wood, standing timber, posts and cord wood. Sale starts 1 PM Saturday February s1 1908 with 3 month credit on notes and cash for sums under cash. Musselman presiding. Miller clerk. Caldwell auctioneers.
WM Snyder operates from Carlisle Street offering near New Oxford in Pennsylvania with all work completed and guaranteed.
Having purchased the Brick Warehouse on Hanover Street New Oxford PA from Mr Z H Cashman, the firm announces it will operate on the same principle as before and will buy and sell all kinds of grain and produce.
Court orders a February 18 1908 special election on road taxation and abolishing the work tax. Real estate sale confirmed for Catharine Baker late of Mt Joy Township. Daisy McGrail now Daisy Conley of Topeka Kansas to draw share in Belfora Heller estate. Guardian J L Butt pays $25 for maintenance of Clinton Crouse. Widows list of Alice S Frock approved. Inquisition on Clarence V Border Reading Township approved with costs payable if exceptions filed. Petition to open Springs Hotel Company case and let defense enter. order granted. Norman Swope Heindel admitted to practice law in Adams county. Helman Kimple trust for creditors filed. Appraisement of Alice J Schlosser property confirmed. Vincent Weaver constable bond approved. Dr Wm Biggs lot valuation $1500 confirmed. Hebron Lodge 465 F and A M annual St Johns Day banquet at Hotel Oxford. Andrew Jackson McWilliams dies in Reading aged about 50. Site for Arendtsville National Bank building purchased at East Main and Gettysburg streets.
James Toomey aged 10 fired a revolver during a prank at Shenandoah hitting his sister Hat Toomey age 12 in the chest. Doctors located the bullet and she remains in precarious condition as the boy expresses heartbreak and claims no blame.
Four children drowned at Coral near Indiana Pennsylvania when ice broke under skaters on the Wharton Coal and Coke Company reservoir. They and five companions ventured onto a dam where the ice was about one inch thick and fifteen square feet collapsed, sending the youngsters into freezing water. all bodies were recovered about an hour later.
A man engaged in felling a tree on Emanuel Klinedinst’s farm near Gladfelter’s Station, York County, collapsed and died on Monday afternoon. In a separate incident, Harry C. Kepner of Hagerstown, a Western Maryland track walker, was struck and killed by a train near Antietam Paper Mills between 5 and 6 am Saturday, age 42, survived by a wife and three children.
Auction to reduce stock at the farm on the Gettysburg road midway between New Chester and Hunterstown near Pines Church. 5 horses including a 5 year old black horse and several mares. 14 cattle with 6 milch cows and 4 yearling heifers. 26 hogs and two Berkshire boars. equipment includes plows, grain drill, sleigh, and more. 11 months credit on amounts of $5 and up or 4 percent discount for cash. Sale begins at noon. announcements by James Millhimes with J B Crist auditor and R M Stratey clerk.
Rio de Janeiro authorities disclosed an anarchist conspiracy centered in Rio and Petropolis with branches in Sao Paulo and Minas Gerais aiming to damage ships of the American fleet. Jean Fedher, named chief conspirator, fled toward Sao Paulo while police coordinate efforts across states to arrest him.
In Baltimore County the body of John C. McKeown a Philadelphia grassblower was found on a B and O track near Rossville. He had two upper body wounds and a clean throat cut with skull fracture while the lower body showed mutilation. Police suspect robbery and murder though a coroner’s jury deemed it accidental. A separate New York report notes a Gulf dust shower seen by the Monterey near Progreso on January 11.
In Boyertown 173 people died in the Rhoads Opera House fire. More than 25 funerals Friday and 60 Saturday filled Fairview and Union cemeteries as carriages lined the streets. A huge crowd attended, graves were hurried, and a circular mound marked the single mass grave.
Four girls were killed and ten seriously injured when a fire swept through a Scranton knitting mill. The blaze caused panic among workers and left several others lightly hurt as authorities battled the flames.
Three miners A. D. Bailey P. J. Brown and Fred McDonald were rescued after forty six days trapped in the Giroux mine Alpha shaft Ely Nevada. They were able to signal the surface by tapping a pipe and communicate via a portable telephone as food and drink were lowered to them.
Six boys died after venturing onto thin ice in New Jersey. At Newark Gustav Hartman ten his brother Loulis nine and Leo Smith ten fell through at Kirchgessner pond. At Tenafly twins Arthur and Harry Morgan fifteen and Horace Weeks twelve perished after breaking through a pond ice. Two collie dogs on the bank and a water stretch with floating hats drew onlookers to the scene. The dogs belonged to the Morgan boys.
The pump house of the Fernwood colliery in Wilkes Barre area was blown up with dynamite. Owned by Hillside Coal and Iron, the building stood a half mile from the washery and was unmanned. Officials and state constabulary suspect Black Hand involvement. the washery will be idle for several days.
Sheriff Harris received word of a quintuple murder at a Mosby ranch. A woman named Slater and her four children, the oldest a girl of eighteen, were slain in their home. An attempt was made to destroy evidence by burning the building. neighbors found the bodies in the ruins.
A summary of crimes and incidents: Wl Crogers sentenced to be hanged in Savannah for wife’s murder. Dupont soda plant fire in Wapwallopa loss $40,000. Henry A. Schuler dies in Allentown at 57. John H. Chapman named receiver in Parkersburg with $600,000 assets.
Baltimore wheat and corn show mixed signals with No 2 spot wheat at 1.064% to 1.0544 and corn steady around 65% to 67% per bushel. Oats remain steady across grades with No 2 white at 57 to 57%4c. Butter firm on creamery extras near 30 3sc, eggs decline with Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia nos and Southern at 2 near 22c per dozen.
Cattle higher at Pittsburg Union Stock Yards with prime cattle around 55 76, sheep and lambs mixed with prime wethers near 54 5.60 and lambs at 57.40, veal calves about 7.50. Hogs rise with prime heavies 4.50 to 4.55 and middles around 4.66 to 4.60. roughs noted.
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