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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1908
Page
14
An advertisement for Dr Miles Nervine claims sickness stems from low nervous energy and promotes the product as restoring health. It includes a testimonial from Mrs Rose Otto of Columbus Ohio and notes refunds if the first bottle fails.
Thad Chronister suffered a facial gash while cutting wood. Naomi Simpson and her aunt from Berlin visit N. G. Simpsons. James Simpson and wife joined W. Chronister for a Sunday visit. A Flint Ridge revival has over 200 conversions. May Wisler visits her parents J. Wisler. Cold weather worries ice men. Mamie Border visits Hampton. Avie Kraver has tonsillitis. Kraver’s horse went loose, found beside the chicken house. Mrs. David Fisel is ill again. Local gatherings with the Wisler, Fitzgerald, and Wentz families. Hiram Trimmer and wife visit Allen Crist. David Cashman and wife visit Peter Markel. L. C. Pittenturf busy in wood cutting.
Geiser Manufacturing mails dividend checks totaling 105000 to Waynesboro. Daniel Roth returns from his mother’s funeral in Emaus to find his wife dead after pneumonia improved. James Cummings of Wilkesbarre dies from exposure. 149 is found in his trunk. Edward Skeel dies en route home after Grand Army burial. A Thurmont fire destroys stables and stock at Root and Jet properties. Ora Ode convicted of murder in Emporium. first Cameron County death penalty issued. Spring line now in at G B Nace Son & Co Hanover.
James S. Wilson a railroad conductor narrowly escaped a fatal incident at Monongahela when a wallet in his pocket snagged on a brake rod and held him suspended between two cars until the train halted. The wallet’s protruding edge saved his life.
Prof M W Black of Altouona keeps a hive under his porch roof and gathers 125 pounds of honey. A swarm settled on the porch four years ago and each year provided winter honey supply. Also noted is J P Landis's collie with seven years of perfect school attendance, guarding Landis Valley children to Wercher schoolhouse each day. Muslin underwear on sale at Ace's in Hanover.
Pensions issued at 12 a month to Charles McDaniel, R. I. D., No. 1, Biglerville. At 15 a month to George Inglebrit, Get tysburg, Peter L. Trostle, Gettysburg.
W H Pienaugh of Sheffield Pa was shot and killed while kneeling in prayer before retiring. A party of foreigners nearby fired revolvers in celebration of a wedding and the fatal bullet likely came from that source.
Philadelphia flour markets show weak to steady tones for various flour grades with prices ranging from $4.10 to $6.20 per barrel. Rye flour quiet at $4.70 to $4.75, wheat No. 2 red at $1.00 to $1.034, and oats No. 2 white clipped around 54 to 57 cents. Butter and eggs hold firm with butter at 35 cents and eggs mixed by region, while potatoes and sweet potatoes hold firm. Baltimore market reports steady wheat and mixed corn with varied oat and butter figures.
Cattle steady with top rates $5.75 to $6.50. sheep strong with prime wethers around $6.40 to $6.60 and lambs $5.70 to $7.60. Veal calves at $7.60 to $6.50?. hogs higher with prime heavies $4.65 to $6. but roughs $3.50 to $4.25.
Secretary Taft’s nine year assessment of American rule in the Philippines portrays improved governance, peace, justice, and infrastructure. He foresees broad economic development and urges free entry of Philippine products, mining property access, an agricultural bank, and exemption from coastwise shipping laws. The president lauds McKinley era policy and cautions Filipinos toward eventual self government.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company cuts ten percent from all officers and employees earning over $1686 per month and sets a new floor of 150 for monthly salaries between 150 and 166 dollars. Effective February 1, the action excludes many clerks earning 150 or less, with potential future salary revisions for other staff if economy demands.
Richmond Virginia January 28 by the collapse of Anthony Franklin's Bedford City home a fire followed and the entire family of six including his wife and five children died in the blaze as they sat with a dead child’s corpse when the building fell and trapped them.
Ottawa January 27. The Dominion government will loan about four million dollars to farmers in the new provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan whose crops failed. The advances will cover seed grain and are payable in three years at the standard government rate of interest.
Rochester report says Bert Phenes seventeen living near Corning shot his sister Frances six accidentally. The gun blast severed her head and coins lay near the dead child’s bank. Bert is jailed awaiting inquiry.
On day one of Dauphin county court's capitol prosecutions, the Commonwealth agreed to a separate trial for Architect Joseph M. Huston, prompting rumors he may testify against co-defendants in the furnishings fraud. Jury selection occupied the day as ten other defendants faced trial and motions for separate trials were resolved.
Andrew Jackson Detsch was acquitted after a three day trial for murdering Harry Ferree in a Philadelphia boarding house last November. The jury deliberated nearly three hours and was greeted with an enthusiastic courtroom reaction. Detsch testified he killed Ferree by mistake for a burglar, a claim the jury accepted.
Washington Jan 27 Friends of Henry Gassaway Davis the West Virginia multi millionaire octogenarian are alarmed over his illness which may cause his wedding to Miss Maude Ashford to be postponed He is at his hotel attended by a physician and trained nurse after catching cold in a snowstorm and a reported disagreement with his daughter following the engagement announcement
Holden West Virginia January 25 a mining town near here will open a saloon February 1 with profits to charity. United States Coal and Oil company representatives obtained a license amid protests. Attorneys argued drink is needed to keep miners from leaving and offered to operate the saloon strictly for business and turn profits to court directed charity.
A family of five in Union Hill New Jersey were poisoned by arsenic added to milk and dusted on rolls left overnight. Victims include Mrs Eva Gachwind widow of Coroner John Gachwind her daughter and son in law Louis Forman Jr their baby Eva and domestic Helena Cooper. All are reported out of danger though doctors say they had a narrow escape and investigators probe the incident.
Charles G. Biedinger, an inventor in Troy New York, was found dead in a lodginghouse. He had been in poverty but had learned a Cincinnati court awarded him 93000 dollars plus interest for a paper wrapper making machine patent. His backer had patented the device during a sanitarium stay and refused an accounting after discharge.
Altoona Pennsylvania January 28 5000 workers at the Altoona machine shops were told the shops would suspend operations for the week ending next Monday after months of a thirty two hour week.
Five boys aged nine to thirteen went to slide on a northern Wilkes-Barre pond. Two inches of ice broke, sending them into twelve feet of water. Three boys John Swanneen Philip Jager and John Shallock drowned. Two others were rescued after a tough struggle. A lace mill worker alerted rescuers who saved his own son among the survivors.
South Bethlehem, January 24. John Fetter, 73, said to be dying, confessed to killing his daughter Ella Fetter in November 1894 by hanging her with a rope. He told Justice Haas and the district attorney that Ella hanged herself after he placed the rope.
President W F Havemeyer announced directors would ask the comptroller of the currency to assume charge. Charles A Hanna was appointed receiver. The bank had $2 million capital and deposits fell from $19.79 million in August to about $3 million by late December with cash on hand $381,900.
A multi-event digest lists incidents across states and cities. Notable items include arrests in Chicago tied to a 1907 murder, a Kentucky tobacco barn arson, postmaster Brown of Williamsport’s death, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia tragedies, a Scranton hanging, and political and civic events amid fires, stabbings, robberies, and stock exchange reopenings.
Guilty verdict returned against William Donley of Renovo for the killing of his nine year old niece Mary Donley in Renovo on October 29, 1907.
Mrs. Mary Jane Guy aged eighty one died thirty hours after her husband William Guy county poor director was buried. The couple longtime Corapolis residents were well known. she fell ill after a long brain injury and never learned of her husband’s death.
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