Snake Story From Park Mills Describes Multiple Copper Snakes
Ms. G. J. Michael of Park Mills recounts crossing a farm when a copper snake was killed, then discovering a log hollow with more copper snakes and a large black snake. He killed six copper snakes over two feet long, plus a 73 foot black snake, and found many snake eyes. Estate of the late Richard Hatch sold in Howard County near Woodbine for 3325 per acre. 282 acres for farming with usual improvements.
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G. J. Michael
Park Mills
Ichael
Wm. Fank
Michael
Richard Hatch
Howard County
Woodbine
Messrs
Henry and
Ol“ns. Hutchins
Ohio's Democracy Faces Campbell Opposition at Conventions
Democratic delegates arrive by special trains as Ohio's party fights over Governor Campbell's renomination. Leaders warn farmers will back Mayor McKinley. Johnson and Kline back tariff reform, while Campbell supporters tout a strong platform on tariff, silver, and party unity ahead of the September nomination.
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Cleven
Ohio
J. S. Norton
Weigel
Campbeil
Petrone
Mr. Neill
Campbell
Michael Ryan
Cincinnati
Kime
Blandin
Committee On Resolutions
W Thurman
Columbus
Pleasant Personal Notes From The City
Purely personal items list visitors and residents: Gertie Anderson and Anse Lerch on West South street visit friends near Araby while Laura Lee of Sykesville spends a day in the city. Multiple locals and visitors from Baltimore, Middletown, Virginia, and nearby towns travel for visits, summer sojourns, and social engagements across Carroll County. mentions of hotel guests and planned excursions in Ocean City, New Starket, Urbena, Adams Town, and Israel Creek.
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Gertie Anderson
Anse Lerch
South Street
Robert Thomas
Virginia
Delia Bar
James G. Blaine
Adams
Bill
Central Hotel
T. Hersperger
Montgomery County
Kate Ranneberger
Darnestown
Mesere
M. Webb
Charles Schulz
New London
Spencer C. Jones
Ocean City
D. S. Norris
Baltimore
New Starket
Col
T. F. Lang
Comptroller of the Treasury
Eugene Dukehart
L. Strawsberger
Mary M. Stottlemyer
Attersyile
Ella Sensenbaugh
Wastington County
Cliss Sensenbaugh
WH. Stottlemyer
Coates Nicodemus
Fremont
Nebraska
Alice Cramer
Maud Eckstein
Urbena
Adamstown
Mollie Bartgis
Alarket Street
Mt. Airy
Wm. Ritchie
Mary Ritchie
Chicago
John Ritche
West Church Street
George FE. Hobbs
Evan Hobbs
Geo Cann
BE. C. McSherry
N. O. Cline
Pittsburg
King
John Macgill
Pennsylvania Railroad
Atlantic City
Outerbridge Horsey
Burkittsville
Wm. Harman
West South Street
Edgar McCardell
Leslie Cramer
White Rock
Misses Jerks
Buckeystown
J. L. Lembright
Eelly
Israel Creek
Pleasant Hill Church elects elders and deacons at Sunday meeting
At a Sunday afternoon gathering Pleasant Hill Lutheran church elected elders Wm Harris Christian Koehne and George Angleberger and deacons George Twenty Howard Angleberger and Wm Angleberger. The Young Peoples Society admitted three new members and plans a July 22 picnic in Cronise's woods if secured.
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U. B-Church Mite Society
Airs
Jacobs
North Market Street
Charles Wachter
Louisa .Jacobs
Young Men’s Christian Association
Baltimore
Washington
Harper's Ferry
Thomas Lowe
William Street S. 3
Todd Hall
A .B. Zimmerman
Cecil County
Oxford
Lisbon
Mount Airy
Caroline County
Howard County
Albert
H. H. Donty
Writiec
Molinis
Basa W. Bowman
Resignation of Rockville Mayor Boult Cited Poor Health
Former Rockville mayor W Viers Boult resigns after months in office due to ill health. The council has not yet appointed a successor, leaving the mayoralty vacant.
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W. Viers Boult
Rockville
Haseen
Local Dogs Put Down After Running On Street
Officer George Breagle cremated two dogs found running at large without muzzles today at a tan yard. Neighbors reported the animals had been roaming the streets, prompting the action by authorities.
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George Breagle
Gladstone to Lead Next Liberal Campaign in Commons
July 14 reports assert Sir William E. Gladstone will retain leadership and mount a vigorous push for party supremacy in the House of Commons. Royal notices announce Lord Mayor Joseph Savory and theater manager Augustus Harris are to be knighted. Kaiser Wilhelm's visit to England ends with a Windsor farewell, while Duncan of Bettws-y-Coed and a Bern tragedy headline a day of sensational cases.
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Gladstone
Joseph Savory
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Augustus Harris
Covent Garden Theater
Harris
William
Victoria
Hatfield House
Windsor
Felixtown
Hathouse
Atte
Lady Dudley
Duncan
Cannarvon
Wales
Carnarvon
Bettws-y-Coed
Tragedy at a Circus Ends in Accidental Death
A performer fell from the Adam Forepaugh show while on the horizontal bar near the dome. He was 31, a London native, and left a widow with no children. A coroner’s jury ruled accidental death and exonerated the manager. Other items mention a duchess and a duke in a separate police case, and the funeral of Miss Issbele Wonderly in St Louis with a sermon by Rev Henry Brousgeest.
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Witham Hanton
Grupa
Custox
Adam Forepaugh
Willan Hanton
Hanten Tiness
Wes
London
Academy of Music
New York
Robert
Datirs Hanks
James
William
Corquer Meyers
Cooper
Jenee Watt
Duchess D'Auxy
Duke D'Ausy
Duches
Asheville
N. C
Henry Brousgeest
S. J
Calvary Cemetery
St. Louis
Biss Wonderly
S. F. Thomas
Frederick
Picnics and Festivals In Local Churches And Groups
The United Brethren Sunday schools of the First churches in Hagerstown and Chambersburg will picnic at Mt Aito Park tomorrow. The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen holds its lat annual picnic at Island Park tomorrow. The Walkersville Corner Band hosts an ice cream festival in Stouffer's Hall this evening and every evening this week. Mt Vernon UB Dayeville plans an ice cream festival and fair at the church to benefit the Sunday school, starting tomorrow and nightly through the week. The ann Sunday school picnic is set for Saturday August 9 with an evening exhibition. A great Lutheran reunion at York, previously covered in Taz News, will take place tomorrow.
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United Brethren Sunday Schools
Hagerstown
Chambersburg
Mt. Aito Park
Brotherhood of Railroad
Island Park
Walkersville Corner
Stouffer's Hall
Mt. Vernon
Ann
York
Taz
Notes of Camp Douglas Report on Frederick Riflemen Camp
Notes describe Frederick boys thriving at Camp Douglas with good quarters. Fur News visits tents of Frederick Riflemen and Louis Adame of Frederick cheers the Rifemen. Camp Douglas polled on gubernatorial nomination favoring Brown over Hodges. Gen. McSherry to visit tomorrow. Chaplain Dame plays chess and sends greetings to Chaplain Page of Adamstown.
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Frederick
Frederick Riflemen
Fifth Regiment
Hay-Seeds
Vate Louis Adame
William Bi. Dame
C. Randolph Page
Adamstown
Baseball Roundup From Local Grounds Scores and Teams
Base Ball News reports several local games: Strawsberger nine beat Acme 7 to 6 at Development Company ground. Saturday at McDevitt field tztown yards lost 17 to 13 to a picked vine. Red Fronts meet Brests Fountain on Der's lot West Patrick street. Bentztown Bards defeated Big Potato chabs 10 to 5 on Derr's lot with Cramer and Fraley cited as winning datters.
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Strawsberger
Acme
Strawsbergers
McDevitt
Tztown
Brest
Der
West Patrick Street
Derr
Cramer and
Fraley
Remodelled Store Gives More Room and Light
Remodelled furniture store door removed. The partition between two rooms torn out to create one large open space. A private office added in the back. The entire room is being papered by G. W. Good.
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W. . B Etchison
G. W. Good
Juniors Test Engine After Repairs From Fire Incident
The Juniors will test their engine this evening at 6 o'clock. The engine, repaired since the Wilcox on Markey fire, will be taken out for the test at the corner of West Second and Bentz streets.
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Wilcoxon & Markey
West Second
Bentz Streets
Two youth killers confront deadly crime in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia two youths, Joseph Fitzmaurice aged 11 and James Crossett aged 16, face charges after separate incidents. Fitzmaurice stabbed a Polish man near Front and Mead streets, while Crossett’s pistol wound caused the death of Thomas Crooks Jr. at Ep t e Soul hospital. The scenes included dramatic coroner procedures and witnesses recounting the distress of families, with Crossett showing unusual composure at the stand and later collapsing. A later incident in West Conshohocken reports jewelry theft valued at $23,500 from Fitzsimmons’ store. Additional Camden County notes mention the Law and Order Society gathering evidence ahead of the next grand jury.
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Mead Streets
Pennsylvania Hospital
Fitzmaurice
Moyaltenally
Atlas
Sobieski
Mead
Harrison
Sogwesch
Fitemounte
Afra
Thomas Crooks, Jr
Epte- Soul Hospital
James Crossett
Leithgow Street
Theodore Grave
Thomas Mawson
George Lilcott
Wairhill Square
Crovatt
Crooks
Crousett
Episcopal Hospital
Crossett
Inquisition
Powderly Declines World’s Fair Commissioner Post
Scranton Pa July 14 General Master Workman Powderly declines Governor Pattsor's offer to name him a Pennsylvania commissioner of the World's fair. He says the post would interfere with his other duties and he opposes entangling alliances with any political party while preparing for ballot reform at the constitutional convention.
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Powderly
Scrastox
Workman
Pattsor
Pennsylvania
Waterway mishap sinks launch crew at sea coast
A launch with four men from Brooklyn and nearby areas capsizes near the Cape, tossing the occupants into rough waters. One survivor clung to a boat while others, including Alexander Kuntz and James Breterson of Jersey City, perished. rescue efforts continued as the boat sank. Local racing notes and public notices follow.
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Camerer
East Rocaauzy
Real B. Dems
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George Norrood
Flabish Camerer
Th. Lou
Lous Beach
Louten
Winte
Met
Capeteen
Tree Young Mne
Jersey
Coty
Alexander Kunton
John Tusyher
James Breterson
Ho Boken
Oil found in old Hygen factory well on West Side
Abram Fisher and two companions began cleaning the historical well near Hygen's ice factory yesterday. They exposed oil and gas fumes from the old gas house, causing Fisher to be overcome by gas around 3 pm. He was hauled home and is very ill, with work halted for now.
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Abram Fisher
Hygen
Fisher
Wallace Committed
Harry Wallace, colored, arrested by Baltimore and Chicago Detective Hutchinson for aiding Edward Taylor in exexting a B and O freight car, was brought to the city yesterday and committed to jail by Magistrate Turner for grand jury action.
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Harry Wallace
Baltimore
Chio Rayirold
Hutchinson
Edward Taylor
Turner
Hood and Yates to Wed in Coats Church
Miss Addie Laura Hood daughter of Br and Mrs James D Hood will marry Mr Frank T Yates tomorrow at 3 p m in the B M E church at Coats this county.
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Addie Laura
James D. Hood
Frank T. Yates
Coats
County
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