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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1906
Page
2
New Oxford term published every Friday by H J Smith. Annual rate $1.00 in advance. $1.40 if not paid within the year. Discontinuance only by publisher after all installments are paid. Advertisements at reasonable rates with yearlong reductions. Job printing offered from labels to posters.
The 1883 John Coyle murder trial and related cases in York and Adams counties are summarized. Stories include Coyle’s Barn murder on Memorial Day 1881, trials, reversals, and executions of Coyle and Heist, plus a manslaughter case concerning William Wagaman.
A Frederick trio in a $3,000 Pope Toledo car fled down Confederate Avenue and collided with three iron guard balls near the tower. Steering locked, the car struck the first ball, tearing it free from the ground, then hit the other two balls and overturned. A front-seat passenger was badly cut and pinned, while two others were thrown clear. The vehicle was totaled.
A roundup of local tales from Dallastown to York county includes a 15 foot two inch black racer killed near Dallastown, a 12 year old boy wounds himself with a loaded revolver, a 95 ton engine crane installed in Reading, and dogs killing 45 sheep for 210 dollars. Also: marriages, suicides, drownings, robberies avoided by blue laws, a railroad accident in Chambersburg, and Kiowa Comanche Apache land policy impacts.
An advertisement extols Dr King’s New Life Pills as the best and gentlest regulators of the stomach and bowels. It claims they prevent alarming constipation by ensuring regular bowel action and a torpid liver issue is avoided. Sold by Ed T Auker druggist for 2 cents.
Richard Robertson age 26 and Miss Hattie Royce age 20 were killed when struck by a westbound passenger train after stepping off the east bound freight near Cumberland last Tuesday evening. The couple, described as sweethearts, died instantly, their bodies cast over the embankment. Bucklen’s Arnica Salve is praised for wounds and sores, with discounts at Ed T Auker’s drug store.
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