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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
17
An Adams county voter endorses Jacob A Appler as Democratic candidate for Register and Recorder. The middle aged educator and former Justice of the Peace lists twenty five years teaching in Adams schools and seventeen years in local judiciary, claiming honesty impartiality and readiness to serve.
About 4 30 a m Tuesday T. J. O Neill and four Hanover residents returning from Abbottstown struck a standing W M freight train at the Abbottstown street crossing in Hanover. The big auto was badly wrecked but no one was hurt.
Newspaper ad promotes Dr Miles Nervine as a cure for nervous weakness and illness. A farmer named John James of Riverton Nebraska testifies he recovered after using the product, asserting it revived his vigor and work ability. The pitch urges readers to buy via local druggists and cites Miles Medical Co. from Elkhart Indiana.
In Waycross Georgia on October 27 L C Edenfield abducted Miss Effie Carter after a gunfight that killed D A Wilson and A J Little. Edenfield and Miss Carter were married by a justice of the peace. Edenfield and his brother in law face murder charges.
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court makes permanent an injunction against Bricklayers and Stone Masons unions prohibiting fines to coerce members into strikes. The case arose after L. D. Willcutt Sons & Company blamed unions for disrupting work under new rules and sought to stop $100 fines on two nonstriking members.
Democratic candidate William J. Bryan learned that National Committeeman James Kerr of Pennsylvania was seriously ill at his New Rochelle home, then continued his automobile tour and visited Kerr at his summer residence where Kerr recognized Bryan and seemed pleased by the gesture.
Lincoln Nebraska October 27 John T Kent prominent local Democrat was fined 25 dollars and costs for disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct after he cheered for Bryan during an open air concert by six G A R Drum corps members who testified to the disturbance.
Oil City Pennsylvania October 27 Mrs Elizabeth Freeman aged 115 a lifelong resident of Red Bank near here died at her home. She had become blind three years ago and was one of the oldest women in the state.
Elmer Lusky of 427 Thelma Street in Pittsburg bought six blue point oysters for 15 cents at Liberty market. One oyster yielded a half inch pearl valued at about 1000 pounds. A local jeweler offered the sum but Lusky refused. An expert calls the gem nearly perfect and unusually large.
In Wik Lorre Pa on October 27 a Grove street car of the Wyoming Valley Traction company ran away due to brake failure. The car struck a telegraph pole at the hill’s foot, denting the front. Of twelve passengers eleven were injured including Joseph Evans with arm and nose broken and Mrs Tally Jones with a fractured skull.
Peter Snarlais, an elderly Shenandoah resident, was bound and robbed by several men on the Gilberton road. Disappointed by only $25 and a gold watch, the assailants beat him and stabbed him in the face before fleeing. He freed himself hours later and sought help. police captured two suspects as his condition remained serious.
William Montgomery former cashier of the Allegheny National bank, which failed for over 1 million dollars, was found guilty by a United States district court jury on two indictments for embezzlement and abstraction of 469 000 dollars. He faces a third indictment for misappropriation of 144 000 in bonds and awaits trial. In a separate incident, John F Taylor an accountant died after falling sixteen stories in the Atlantic building at 49 Wall Street. Two others were injured as the elevator car shot upward and Taylor was pulled back into the shaft. The operator fled.
In Allentown Pennsylvania on October 27 Edward Reppert of Coplay kept a loaded gun within reach. His six year old son Harold and his older brother Henry found the weapon and played with it. Lead pellets penetrated Harold skull and doctors at Allentown Hospital fear for his life.
In Duluth Minnesota on October 27 the death of ex Governor John Miller of North Dakota brings back the tale of his fight against the Louisiana lottery. A lottery representative is said to have offered a suitcase containing 200000 dollars to buy entry into North Dakota. Miller reportedly replied that his price was higher and expelled the man from his office.
John Denny Jr. aged twenty three was found murdered in woods near Upper Providence Chester County Pa. He had a shot torn through his lower face. his gun and ammunition were missing. Three negroes were arrested though they deny involvement. The broader tale includes a bridal train shooting in Louisiana with Fred Van Ingen killed and F S Beauvre arrested. details link a Louisiana family circle to the tragedy.
A man calling himself Charles Joseph Magnus says he married Ada Gorman in Louisville on Sept. 5 and is jailed in Louisville on a U S Navy desertion charge. He admits desertion and reveals eighteen $1000 government bonds and about $6000 in cash, with his wife present but vanished. The Navy orders transfer to Philadelphia for trial. funds will go to Mrs Magnus.
The American and Morgan lines reveal large orders for locomotives freight cars and passenger cars totaling about 17 million dollars. The St Paul and Pennsylvania lines announce multi million spendings on general improvements. In all, orders include 7500 freight cars 50 locomotives 38 engines from ALCO 12 from Baldwin and 2 million in new car equipment for the Louisiana Texas line.
In Atlantic City New Jersey a simple Methodist Protestant service ordained five candidates and elevated Emma Nutter to full conference membership, the first woman in New Jersey to receive orders. The practice already exists in New York and several western states.
In Rio Arriba county New Mexico about 140 miles north of Santa Fe twenty thousand sheep grazing on the Cumbers range perished in a blizzard that has raged three days. Snow is five to ten feet deep and six herders are missing likely frozen to death.
Frank C. Marrin a Brooklyn lawyer and former politician was sentenced by Judge Dike in Brooklyn N Y to not less than fifteen and not more than twenty years for perjury. Once a swindler who fooled clients with worthless mortgages he fled the country after a $70000 scheme against Mrs Barry and later was tracked to Honduras then Philadelphia where he operated in cotton and promoted the Storey Colleen company swindle under the alias Judge Franklin Stone.
In Ellis Kansas a woman declared dead was nearly buried when a physician, doubtful of the death, opened the casket and found signs of suspended animation. The body was revived and placed in bed. recovery is hoped as heart activity remains weak but alive.
Dora Smith a seventeen year old of Luray Va is sentenced to four years in the state penitentiary two years on each count for burglary and forgery. She forged her father's signature on an order to a local store. Upon entering the penitentiary she will be the youngest white female inmate from the valley of Virginia.
Harry Mel son of Millsboro discovers a 1620 English gold guinea on the Indian River bank. Local numismatists value the coin between 800 and 1200 dollars. The find is linked to early colonists who traveled toward Baltimore.
The case against Miss Edith Wirth of Kansas City Kansas was dismissed by Prosecuting Attorney Taggart. Nine year old Harvey Galloway, punished for talking, has been removed from the school by his parents.
Market quotes show firmer tones for wheat and corn with No 2 spot at 1.04 to 1.05 and steamer No 2 at 99 to 99 1/2. Corn steady to firmer at 61 to 67 1/2 cents, oats dull with varying No 2 to No 4 prices, butter firm with creamery and dairy prints listed across Maryland and Pennsylvania, eggs steady with regional Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia exports at 37 cents and southern at 26 cents.
At Pittsburg Union Stock Yards cattle steady to high with prime bulls near 575. Sheep and lambs mixed values with wethers around 4.10 4.25 and lambs 3.50 5.75. Hogs declined with prime heavies 5.90 6.10 and lighter lots 4.60 4.10, hogs and pigs showing broader ranges.
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