11 Jul 1884
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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1884
Page
1
Special notices describe pricing for four lines or less and pro rata rates. Shiloh's Vitalizer is advertised as treating constipation loss of appetite and symptoms of ts iv with a forty cent per bottle claim. The ad promotes Shiloh’s California remedy for canker mouth and mis art.
A fragmentary letter and clippings recount Mexican bandits like Churcho el Poto, famed for daring escapes, and a tale of a female bandit posing as a gunfighter. The piece mixes romance with crime lore, noting pursuits, captives, and sensational exploits across Brussels and Missouri.
James Street of Scranton, a famed Reading Railroad engineer, steamed a passenger train at sixty miles an hour past Mauch Chunk after a mental breakdown, endangering passengers on the car and platform. He was detained at the police station and later confined in a private insane asylum for safety.
The National Colored Press association held its annual session in Richmond and adopted an address congratulating colored people on advancement. It urged youth to pursue industrial work and to buy homes on their chosen domains. The next annual meeting will be in Philadelphia.
General Butler’s tariff plank calls for customs duties to fund government expenses and shield American industry and labor. Raw materials and necessaries for the poor man’s table should be free, including tea and coffee, while luxury tariffs should be set at the highest rate.
A young farmer named Barnes died instantly near Porter's post office in Carroll County Maryland after a wagon move caused him to fall. While aiding his brother-in-law Wim. Wilson to shelter harvested wheat, Barnes stood on a load and dropped a pitch fork that pierced his heart.
The Philadelphia Item notes verdicts denying insanity in New York and Wilkes-Barre murder trials. Experts and appeals fail to sway juries, reducing the plea’s power. It argues jurors increasingly convict in cold blood cases, predicting lynchings may decline as certainty of conviction rises and determent grows.
Teething syrup for babies promotes teething relief with no opium or morphine. Safe for infants, claims to ease griping and colic. Prepared by Pm D Fahrney & Son of Hagerstown Maryland. sold by druggists for 25 cents.
Gertie Phillips, 17, vanished after being seen with George Hunter near Farmer's woods on June last. Her body, found July 10, bore a bullet wound and gruesome decomposition. Hunter, once her suitor, was arrested then released. Mahoney and Farrish were freed, Hunter bound over to jail.
The latest arrivals at the principal hotel include A. Miller, M. S. Hess, James E. Martin, D. H. Long, A. M. Belt, H. TaPorte Jr, J. E. Trippe, L. B. Bird and many others from Baltimore Philadelphia Indianapolis New York and Virginia with about 30 guests from the county. A health ad follows touting Croft's Senna Figs and Dr Fahrney's health remedies as vegetable laxatives and liver tonics.
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