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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1908
Page
1
Advertises Dr Miles Nervine as a cure for weak nerves causing indigestion headaches and sleeplessness. Claims the product restores nerve strength and supports organ function with a money back guarantee through Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
Ill health forces sale of a full livery outfit at 12:30 on Saturday March 21 1908 at Pitt Street Borough of New Oxford. Items include 7 horses various types with pedrigree and speed, 12 seated wagon 1 surrey 1 trap 1 day ton wagon multiple harnesses robes and blankets farming tools and numerous unlisted articles. Cha s AH Haar auctioneer with J B Crist clerk Br Straley note.
Wanted Fifty men or boys to learn automobile operators earning 20 to 40 dollars weekly. Apply to Harrisburg Auto School at Third and Hamilton Streets in care of Harrisburg Automobile Company Harrisburg Pa. 116 Communicated. Also note complaints about women being insulted by rowdies in town evenings. Bucklen's Arnica Salve recommended by D X Walker editor of the Enterprise Louisa Va for wounds burns and skin diseases. 25¢ ator.
Josephus R. Holand aged 79 died suddenly at his York Pike home from apoplexy Tuesday afternoon. He had farmed all his life and was noted as an aged respected citizen of Hamilton township. He walked to his room for medicine before dying at the door. Funeral arrangements are pending with services at the house and interment in Aubelid cemetery.
Pensions listed by location and monthly amounts for Gettysburg and nearby towns. Local Option fundraising by the W C T U includes committees in Gettysburg and New Oxford with named volunteers and payment handling through the County Committee Treasurer. Also notes on wills, notary appointment, illness, auctions, corrections, and local political candidacy.
Washington March 17 Senator Tillman read a warning speech attacking executive encroachment on legislative powers. He blamed Wall Street and corrupt figures for crises and urged reform while criticizing labor and capital deals. A Pennsylvania capitol conspiracy verdict found all defendants guilty after six hours of deliberation.
Abraham Rosenthal, wanted in Reading Pennsylvania for alleged murder, is jailed in Perry Oklahoma after being arrested at Billings last Wednesday. He initially denied then admitted his identity and denies the murder claim saying he will travel to Reading without requisition papers as Noble County sheriff prepares to escort him east.
In Acme, near Greensburg Pennsylvania, David Brown and his two sons were killed when twenty five pounds of dynamite exploded during stump blasting. A large blast opened a deep crater and scattered body parts, with only the father's trunk recovered and small fragments of the sons found.
The bodies of Lydia Carter of Bordentown and William Fleck of Roebling were found in the ruins of a farmhouse between Florence and Roebling near Burlington New Jersey. The English farm building had been unoccupied and burned Sunday night. The couple had been seen together Saturday.
Matthew Kraschefsky, seventeen, deliberately shoots and kills his father Louis Kraschefsky in their Wilmington Delaware home after being urged to find work. The motive linked to parental discipline and his habit of reading dime novels is noted. The teen surrendered to police later.
On his forty second birthday Harry Orchard, confessed murderer of ex governor Frank Steunenberg, will face Judge Fremont Wood in Caldwell for the death sentence. Orchard refused to plead to anything but first degree murder andsaid he is guilty and ready to take his punishment. Public belief holds he expects and desires the extreme penalty.
Ex Judge O W Buchanan of Winnsboro South Carolina, related by marriage to Senator Tillman, was shot through an open train window near Ward s South Carolina while en route to Augusta Georgia to visit a sick niece. The bullet grazed the window edge and hit his right side. his condition is described as critical and authorities suspect deliberate attempt.
Governor Hughes will not intervene in the March 30 execution of Chester Gillette for the 1966 Grace Brown murder at Big Moose Lake. He has reviewed the Court of Appeals ruling and the evidence, and expresses no doubt of Gillette’s guilt. Also, John Maguire, Brooklyn election commissioner, collapsed and died of apoplexy in a county court while addressing the jury.
Napoleon Ohio loses its largest school building valued at 115450 dollars in a major fire. The report also notes deaths and incidents from Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia across March 12 to March 17, including a fire, murders, trials, and political actions with several named individuals and organizations affected.
Baltimore markets show firmer wheat with No 2 spot at 94 1/4 to 97 1/2 cents. Corn steady around 63 53 to 65 1/2 cents. Oats firm with White No 2 at 59 to 57 cents. Butter steady at 20 31 cents for creamery and 31 32 cents for prints. Eggs steady at 20 cents Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia West Virginia and 19 cents for southern.
Cattle steady to prime values around 3.80 to 5.80 with prime at 5.75. Sheep and lambs higher with prime wethers 6.25 to 6.40 and lambs price around 5.27. Calves and eggs show activity with large pigs near 4.40 to 4.50 and egg sizes listed.
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