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Newspaper
New Oxford Item
Location
New Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1908
Page
6
A voter commends Jacob A. Appler as a fit Democratic candidate for Register and Recorder. The middle aged educator has 25 years teaching in Adams county schools, 17 years as Justice of the Peace, and strong penmanship for deeds and records.
At about 4 30 am Tuesday T O Neill and four Hanover residents in his large car struck a standing W M freight train at the Abbottstown Hanover street crossing. The auto was badly wrecked but no one in the party was injured.
In Waycross Georgia on October 27 L C Edenfield a young man of means abducted Effie Carter fifteen daughter of Coffee county's wealthiest man. After a gunfight during the attempted kidnapping D A Wilson was killed and A J Little died from injuries. Edenfield married Effie Carter at a magistrate and both face murder charges with her brother John W Carter involved.
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court permanently enjoined the Bricklayers' and Stone Masons' Benevolent unions from imposing $100 fines on members who refuse to strike, ruling unions cannot compel participation by fines. The injunction followed a case brought by L. D. Willcutt Sons & Company after disputes over contract rules and a union-led work stoppage.
William J. Bryan, Democratic presidential candidate, visited James Kerr in New Rochelle after a speech in Tuckahoe New York. Kerr, a Pennsylvania national committeeman, has been seriously ill at home for two weeks and was pleased by the political visit.
Lincoln Nebraska October 27 John T Kent a prominent local Democrat was fined 25 dollars and costs for disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct After six G A R Drum Corps members testified he cheered for Bryan during an open air concert causing the disturbance in police court
Elizabeth Freeman of Red Bank near Oil City died at 115 years old claim as one of the oldest women in Pennsylvania. She reportedly became David from age three years ago, leaving a long life in the region.
Elmer Lusky a 427 Thelma street blacksmith bought six oysters for 15 cents at Market Street and Liberty Market. He found a nearly perfect pearl about half an inch in diameter in the second oyster he tasted. An appraiser valued the gem at 1000 dollars but Lusky refused the offer.
A Grove street car on the Wyoming Valley Traction line ran away when its brake failed. It dashed down a steep hill and struck a telegraph pole at the bottom, smashing the front. Eleven of twelve passengers were injured including Joseph Evans with arm and nose broken and Mrs. Tally Jones with a fractured skull.
Peter Snarais, an elderly Shenandoah resident, was bound and robbed by masked attackers on the way home from Gilberton. The felons found only 25 dollars and a gold watch, then beat and stabbed him before fleeing. He freed himself hours later and named two suspects, with his condition described as serious.
William Montgomery former cashier of the Allegheny National Bank conv icted by a U S district court jury on two indictments for embezzlement and abstraction totaling 469000 and a third indictment for misappropriation of 144000 in bonds. The case proceeds to a second trial expected to conclude quickly.
In Allentown Pennsylvania on October 27 Edward Reppert of Coplay warned his children not to play with a gun found in a wardrobe. The six year old Harold was struck by lead pellets in the skull and lies in critical condition at Allentown Hospital while his brother Henry, aged eight, watched.
Duluth reports the death of ex Governor John Miller of North Dakota recalls his fight against the Louisiana lottery. A lottery agent allegedly offered $200000 in a suitcase to him, but Miller refused, saying his price was higher, and escorted the man out.
Charles Joseph Magnus, who says he married Ada Gorman in Louisville on September 5, is jailed in Louisville for desertion from the navy. Police found $6000 cash and eighteen $1000 government bonds on him. Magnus, known as Hartlove, was a first class musician aboard the Dolphin. He will be transferred to Philadelphia for desertion trial. funds will go to his wife.
The industry shows a strong push for expansion with the St Paul ordering 7500 freight cars and fifty locomotives. American Locomotive and Baldwin plants secure engine contracts, totaling about 8 million dollars, while Morgan Lines for Louisiana and Texas Railway place 2 million in new car equipment including eighteen freight and ten passenger cars.
A simple service at Atlantic City New Jersey’s Methodist Protestant church ordained five candidates. The highlight was Emma Nutter becoming a full member of the conference, the first woman in New Jersey to receive orders. Other women ordained exist in New York and the western states.
A severe snowstorm in the Cumbers mountain range Rio Arriba county New Mexico leaves 20000 sheep perished and six herders missing. The blizzard has raged three days with five to ten feet of snow. Authorities fear several may have frozen to death.
Frank C. Marrin once a Brooklyn lawyer and politician was sentenced by Judge Dike in Brooklyn County Court to not less than fifteen nor more than twenty years for perjury. He swindled clients with worthless mortgages, including a $70,000 claim from Mrs. Barry, fled the country, was traced to Honduras, then Philadelphia where he ran cotton schemes and promoted the Storey Cotton Company under the name Judge Franklin Stone.
A physician intervened in Ellis Kansas preventing a burial after Mrs. Thomas Chapman who seemed dead of heart disease was found to be in suspended animation. She was revived and aided by bedside care though her heart remains weak with expectation of recovery. Ate Green Apples Gets Six Months
Dora Smith, a 17 year old of Luray Virginia, was found guilty of burglary and forgery and sentenced to four years in the penitentiary two years on each count. She forged her father's name on an order shown at a Luray store. Upon entering the term she will be the valley's youngest white woman ever sentenced to prison.
Harry Melson of Millsboro Delaware found an old English gold guinea dated 1620 along the Indian river. Local numismatists estimate its value between 800 and 1200 dollars. The site is linked to early colonial travel before Baltimore, suggesting the coin was misplaced centuries ago.
The case against Miss Edith Wirth of Kansas City Kansas, accused of cruelty for sealing a pupil’s lips with court plaster, was dismissed by Prosecuting Attorney Taggart. Harvey Galloway, nine, was removed from the school by his parents after the episode.
A forty foot long forty two foot high prehistoric skeleton was unearthed in the Bad Lands south of Glasgow. The discovery adds to paleontological interest in the region and may prompt further excavation.
Market quotes show firmer prices across grains and dairy. Corn steady around 67 67 percent. oats dull with multiple grades ranging 50 to 53 cents. Butter values firm with various grades from 21 to 29 cents. eggs steady in Maryland Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia markets around 26 to 27 cents.
Cattle steady to prime prices range from 535 to 575 with prime cattle listed at 535 to 575. Sheep steady with prime wethers around 410 to 425 and various grades down to 50, calves 3 to 5. Hogs lower with prime heavies 590 to 610, mediums 560 to 573, light workers around 476 to 510, pigs near 4.00 to 4.06.
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