Notable duel wounds General Cantillo in Havana
The article notes General Enrique Cantillo, once a congressman, was seriously wounded in the sword arm after a duel provoked by a sarcastic reference in El Comercio. Wilfredo Fernandez, editor of El Comercio, was sent by Cantillo as a messenger in Havana, with both leaders described as desperate for years.
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Enrique
Wilfredo Fernandez
Commercio
Geniéral
el Commercio
Senor Fernandez
Tougst
Havaha
Miners Escape Sooty Fire Toll at Ellsworth No 2 Mine
Pittsburgh Sept 22 More than four hundred miners narrowly escaped a fire that destroyed the Ellsworth No 2 coal mine tipple of the Lackawanna Steel Co at Ellsworth Pa near Pittsburgh Almost suffocated by smoke they found escape through Mine No 1 to the surface The loss is expected to reach thirty thousand dollars Meanwhile at Atlantic City Sept 22 W Sherman was killed after touching a live third rail on an electric train while attempting to save his hunting dog which lay burned nearby.
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Pittsbore
Ellaworth, No
Lackawanna ‘Steel Company
Ellaworth
Los
Atlantic City
Electric Express
Camden
W. ¥. Sherman
Pleasantville
Berlin to Host Aviation Week with $50,000 in Prizes
The Berlin aviation meet will run from Sept 26 following Rheims success. Entrants include Furman, Bleriot, Latham, Le Blanc, Rougier, Besa, Edwards, Orville Wright and Dufour. Fifty thousand dollars in prizes will be awarded.
Lancaster Honors Fulton with Bronze Tablet at Birthplace
Lancaster County Historical Society unveiled a bronze tablet at Fulton House in Lancaster to honor Robert Fulton, the inventor. Gov. Stuart and Gov. Pennypacker attended with others as schools closed for a county poll day. The tablet, designed by Mary Magee, depicts Clermont and carries inscriptions about Fulton’s birth and early life.
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Clermont Suulder
Lancaster
Lancaster County
Historical Society
Robert, Fulton
Fulton House
a.Hitle
Hamlet Sobie
Gover Bor. Stuart
Pennypacker
Whal
Alles Crary
New York
Fulton
George J. Browne
W. A. Hensol
Lloyd Mifflin
Norwood
John Russel Hayes
West ‘Chester
Mary Magee
Clermont
Robert
Lancaster County Historical Society
Child Bride Dies After Poison The SeventeenYearold Weds at Thirteen
In Ohio, Elizabeth Sigafoos Halwin, age seventeen, died after drinking poison when her arranged marriage to Earl Hatpin at age thirteen proved unhappy. Her father Jeremiah Sigafoos of Alpha tried to summon a physician but she died before help arrived. The case highlights tragic outcomes of forced early marriage.
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Phillipabiore
du- Louis
Elizabeth Sigafoos
Halwin
Jeremiah Sigafoos
Alpha
Maried
Earl
Hatpin
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Pearre’e Modern Pharmacy
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