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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1908
Page
12
An advertisement touts Dr Miles Heart Cure for weak hearts with symptoms like difficult breathing and palpitations. It features a testimonial by Mrs Mary C Hahl er of Sullivan Missouri and notes the product is sold by local druggists with a money back guarantee from Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
By order of Adams County Orphans Court the undersigned will sell at public sale on Saturday July 25 1908 at 1 pm a tract of union proved timberland in Tyrone Township Adams County Pa adjoining John Kime Frank Eicholtz and heirs of Henry Hoover deceased containing five acres more or less. Twenty five percent of purchase price cash at sale with balance due November 1 1908 when deed is delivered. Corae Slothogor Trustee John D Keith Attorney.
Public sale to quit housekeeping in New Oxford on Hanover Street features a cook stove range lounges beds sewing machine chairs tables curtains copper kettles rag carpet and many more items. Sale begins at 4 o clock p m with terms announced by the undersigned.
A five year old boy in West Schuylkill choked to death after a peanut lodged in his throat. In Scranton Joseph Alexander shot himself with a revolver he ordered by phone, saying he had long been melancholy. In Chester Edward Hill, two, turned on gas and lit with a match. his clothing burned and he is in critical condition.
Philadelphia police pursue Frederick Gies Jr in a tangled poisoning murder plot. New details dispute his involvement and place a wife and infant death in June 1908 amid a broader national Democratic convention backdrop.
Robert Jardine ten years old is jailed at Lesueur Michigan from Casota charged with shooting and killing Russell St John a boy about the same age. Jardine is said to have lain in wait for his victim.
A mint director's statement shows fiscal year coinage amounts: gold 197,238,377 dollars. silver 16,530,477 dollars. minor coins 1,946,008 dollars. Total 215,714,862 dollars.
The Citizens Band to provide music for a Red Men festival in Hampton on Saturday evening. Visitors to the home of Mr. F. J. Wolf on Saturday and Sunday included Daniel Long and wife of Pennyville, L. J. Minter and family near New Chester, Clarence E. Wolf and family, Calvin D. Fidcel and wife near Gettysburg, and Misses Unn Garber, Buma Taughinbaugh, and Mary Beamer.
Commonwealth in McSherrystown charged George Little with larceny of a razor. Hearing before Justice I R Witmer July 3. Squire Witmire withheld decision until Monday and discharged the case for want of sufficient evidence.
In Lincoln on July 7 William Jennings Bryan broke his pledge against intraparty meddling and blasted James M. Guffey. He read Guffey out of the Democratic party, accusing him of conspiring to defeat Pennsylvania Democrats' wishes and warning against a bushwacker on his national committee.
Colonel J M Guffey of Pennsylvania answered William Jennings Bryan after a Lincoln speech by denying Bryan's charge that the Pennsylvania delegation was chosen by conspiracy. He said the state convention rejected endorsing Bryan by a substantial majority and the delegates accurately represented Democratic voters.
In New York's crowded tenements the heat drove residents outdoors as a heat wave logistically overwhelmed the city. Officials reported about four score people affected and twelve deaths linked to the scorching conditions. Evacuations to roofs, fire escapes, parks, and recreation piers became common as temperatures climbed from 92 to 100 degrees.
Isaac Taylor aged sixteen was instantly killed at his Barnesboro New Jersey home when a load of hay on a pitchfork toppled into the barn door frame. While driving the hay into the barn he fell from the wagon, struck his head, and was impaled on the fork tines. He died at once.
Architects for the Equitable Life Assurance Society filed plans for a 62 story, 909 foot high building that would top New York and rise above the Eiffel Tower. A 150 foot flagpole atop the tower would place the ball 74 feet higher than Paris's 985 foot Eiffel Tower.
A roundup of brief events across the United States from July 1 to July 7 includes Admiral Dewey wintering at Buena Vista Pennsylvania, a pianist losing both hands to a cannon blast in New York, a mutiny leading to a fatal wounding near Atlanta, and the death of a 16-year-old boy shot near Chester. Heat death in Norristown and a Chatham apoplexy claim follow.
Philadelphia hospitals report three deaths and many prostrations after an unprecedented spell of heat and humidity. Street thermometers top 100 while the high humidity worsens conditions. over twenty people were overcome.
Henry Derrick, a young farmer from near Hogstown Cumberland County, died from blood poisoning after a scratch from a chicken spur. The injury occurred June 27 and led to his death in early July at Harrisburg.
Bishop Potter has continued to improve despite extreme heat and confidence in his recovery grows. His son Alonzo Potter and his son-in-law Charles Russell left for New York.
Elmer Cole of the Berwick Base Ball club died at City hospital Wilkes-Barre after being struck by a pitched ball during a game in Bloomsburg last Saturday.
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