Grow County apportionment fight dominates Harrisburg
Legislative battles over congressional and senatorial apportionment loom in the house with Governor Hastings pressed to back a general plan. Bills on school funding and county creation face stiff opposition and potential veto, as absenteeism and procedural fights reshape the session.
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Scranton Tribune
House
Hastings
Cameron
Smith
Bedford
Flinn
Senate Education Committee
Inclings
Dambly
Elections Committee
Heller-Law- Hach
Lawhach
Chaneeey
Fire Devastates St. Albans Vermont Business District
A massive fire in St. Albans Vermont on May 19 destroyed about forty businesses and a hundred tenements, with an estimated three quarters of a million dollars in losses. Five hundred residents reportedly homeless as flames swept the town center, aided by Burlington and Swanton crews before containment. Also noted is the sinking of Mary Abigail Doty Gail Hamilton, lingering near death after hours of unconsciousness.
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St. Albans
Vermont
W. 3
Fonda
Burlington
Swanton
Gall Hamilton
Washington
Mary Abigail Doty
Gail Hamilton
Miss Dodge
Norris Town Woolen Co Raises Wages 10 Percent
Norristown May 1 The Norris town Woolen company employing nearly 400 hands has increased wages by 10 percent effective immediately. The mill will operate on double turn to meet orders.
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Norristown
Norristown Woolen Company
State Gleanings: Crime, business openings and accidents news
A potterville paint vein discovery, Bank of Pittsburg burn of old notes, J A Freese of Pitteburg hanged himself. Lancaster and Columbia liquor dealers form a state league branch. Royersford job searcher Albert Hartman killed by a train near Lebanon. Wheat crop prospects praised by Pennsylvania farmers. Eighteen rattlesnakes killed by James O Conner’s lumbermen in Lycoming county. Henry Dally fatally burned in a tannery vat near Williamsport.
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Potteville
Bank of
Pittsburg
J. A. Freese
Pitteburg
Lancaster
Columbia
State League
Royersford
Albert Hartman
Lebanon
Pennsylvania
James O'Conner
Hinckwell's
Lycoming County
Trout Hunl
Williamsport
Henry Dally
Florentines Ravaged by Violent Earthquakes and Panic
A Florence earthquake series caused houses to sway and roofs to fall. In Grassina and Grassina area forty houses wrecked, twelve residents hurt, four killed locally. The Prince of Naples inspected damage. 3,000 Florence homes damaged. cathedral and observatory affected. widespread fear and exodus as night fell.
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Florence
Gragsina
Grassina
Laucea
Pontedera
Tuscany
Naples
Lappagal
Europe
Morence
Noral
Strike Breaks as West Virginia Mines To Reopen
It is reported that four large West Virginia mines in the Elkhorn district will resume operations Tuesday, though Governor McCorkle blocks movement until strikers act. Gunfire was directed at Virginia soldiers at Pocahontas, with projectiles narrowly missing a house and a soldier. The attackers remain hidden in nearby brush and timber.
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Bluefield
W. Va
West Virginia
Elkhorn
Milkin
McCorkle
Virginia
Pocahontas
Murder and intrigue touch leaders and locals across towns
The report details a broad set of rumors and cases including a murder suspicion against Colonel John Hradbury of Los Angeles in Brockton Massachusetts. a Pine Bluff Arkansas mother Mia Reeves accused of killing her child. dynamite found after arson attempts in Phillipsburg North Carolina. a jury hung in Cleveland Tennessee for an unidentified murder. a doctor N P Griffith case linked to W L Steakly in a political row. and a Richmond family will dispute involving a granddaughter of Dean Richmond.
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Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association
Seasion
Washington
Warera
John Hradbury
Los Angeles
Cal
Nils Paulson
Brockton
Mase
Peter Wingate
Phillipsburg
Cleveland
Income tax decision expected by Supreme Court
The May day report states the Supreme Court will reconvene and is expected to announce a ruling on the income tax causes tomorrow. Justice Jackson has voiced his views and cast a vote, indicating the tax law's fate is settled one way or another, with the exact time possibly after the court convenes at noon.
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Washington
Supreme Court of the United States
Jackson
Court Adjournment Delayed by Business Conditions
Cases of considerable importance have been under consideration for months. The court would adjourn tomorrow for the summer recess under ordinary circumstances, but business conditions make it probable the term tournament will not take place before June 30.
Attack on Survey Party Triggers Mexican Revolt
A bloody local revolt erupts near Guadue Joupe Calvo and Varvara in Chihuahua after American surveyor C. P. Morrison is hired to survey government land. A party of twenty Americans is killed by native farmers as Mexican troops respond with reinforcements. Morrison escapes.
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el Paso
Tex
Guadue Joupe Calvo
Varvara
Chihuahua
Mexico
Dimtlet
C. P. Morrlilion
Prrrol
Morrison
Odd Fellows gathering and temple dedication in Pennsylvania
The coming week will mark a major Odd Fellows event with the annual grand lodge session and ground encampment in Pennsylvania held locally for the first time in twenty years. The dedication of a new temple, the county’s largest of its kind, will draw visitors nationwide, with anticipated crowds near 100000.
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Philadelphia
Odd Fellows
Pennsylvania
Iself
Hols
Grand Lodge
Order
Tabernacle Baptist Church
George Theese
President may place 1 depury collectors under civil service rules
The text notes a belief the president will soon place the 1 depuy Internal revenue collectors under civil service rules. A post office fraud order against D. F P. Beatty of Washington New Jersey was revoked on a hearing. The supreme court may decide if a letter carrier who sent a decoy letter is guilty of mill robbery.
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Ttla
Internal Revenue
Civil Service
Post Office Department
D. F
C. C. Safffen
United
Army
White House
Grant
Texas
New York City
Circulars Target Page-Briggs Faction in Presbyterian Debate
In Pittsburg on May 19 copies of a type written circular circulated by Presbyterian factions reveal plans to affect the upcoming general assembly. The document advocates backing Dr William N Paige of Kansas over Dr Booth, aiming to influence board leadership and missionary appointments. Church conservatives push to drop Brissmen from boards and steer election outcomes.
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Pittsburg
General Assembly
New York
Dr. Belge
Washington
Union
Lane
William N. Pare
Kansis
Booth
Paige
Presbyterian League
League
Ithe
Tie Home
Thb Fe
John Crosby Brown
Home Board
Thomas Hastings
Union Seminary
la Nice
Mat
Ezra Kingsley
John Halcemshaw
Dlryetom Im Union Seminary
Foreign Mission
Charles L.thompson Je Nleo
Home Missionary
Dr Booth Delivers Eloquence at Presbyterian Assembly
In Pittsburg on May 12 the Presbyterian General Assembly drew a vast crowd of grey haired ministers as Dr Booth, the moderator, preached a gospel sermon titled Christ Lifted up to Draw the World Unto Him. Past moderators faced theological disputes, but Booth avoided contention and focused on a universal message.
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Pittsburg
Presbyterian General Assembly
Moderator Booth
Tooth
Booth
Christ
Sim
Passengers Injured in Brooklyn Trolley Collision
A trolley crash at Twenty second avenue and Righty elath Street in Brooklyn injured several passengers, with some seriously hurt. A Second Avenue line car collided with a game line car, crowding the cars and causing fainting among women. Conductor Albert Burke and motorman Pooh W. Smith were arrested for criminal negligence.
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Brooklyn
N. Y
Twenty-second Avenue
Pooh W. Smith
Albert Burke
Investigation into Grand Secretary Daniel Accounts
Sensation spreads in Atlanta as orders conductors discuss an inquiry into the financial records and actions of Grand Secretary Daniel. A circular accusing him of using office for private ends circulates, prompting a committee to convene tomorrow for the investigation.
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Daniel
Atlanta
Order of Railway Conductora
Dantela
Sey
Defeat Nears for Local Competitor in Kent Match
Enteen years prior, the subject was defeated two days ago by Martin Clancy of Kent Ohly, marking a notable upset in the regional contest.
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Martin Clancy
Kent, Ohly
Elopement Ends in Tragedy Near Middlesborn
Henry Cooley and Sallie Dains eloped from Middlesborn Kentucky and wed in West Virginia. Miss Dains brothers attacked the couple near Pond Gap five miles away. In the ensuing fight Marshall Goodsey and Goores Dana were killed. Henry Cooley and Sallie Dains escaped unharmed.
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Hride
Nitled Im
Pond Gan
Lie
Upi
Marshall Goodsey
Goores Dana
Henry
Hin Bride
Cuba's New Ally: Ex-Venezuelan War Secretary Arrives
General Ricardo De Queteda, once Venezuela's war secretary and brother to the republic's president, arrives in New York to offer his services to Cuban forces. He claims to mobilize large troops and expects to command insurgent forces in Cuba, drawing eager Cuban and South American offers of money and aid.
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Venezuela
Flor Porces
New York
Ceneral
Ricardo de Queteda
Wif
Hia
Cuba
Hours Without Food Mise Nutting Vanishes Then Found
Mise Belle Nutting of Des Moines a teacher in East Alde schools vanished from home Tuesday night and was found in a hotel room Wednesday morning. She said a fanatine spell prompted her to go to the hotel to recover and she planned to return home, noting she did not notify family. She ate no meals during the period and paid for lodging.
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Mise Helle Nutting
Des Moines
Mise Belle Nutting
Reading
Faith in Fortune Teller Prompts Search for Missing Men
Rochester clergyman Rev. J H Davis orders a Sodus Bay search for his son Jay Davis and Fred Fisher who vanished after a late Saturday outing. An aged fortune teller advised murder evidence and the bay was dragged without success amid belief a man who disappeared could be found near Tay Bridge.
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Rochester
Wil Son
Hurter
J. H. Davis
Methodist
Sodus
Wayne County
Sodus Bay
Jay Davis
Fred Fisher
Pastor Davis
Tay Bridge
Theody
Rescue by Life-Savers as Barkentine Goes Ashore
A four masted barkentine Josephine from Baltimore ran ashore near Nittie Island North Carolina on May 19. The North Carolina Life Saving Station crew battled two hours against wind and waves to land 13 men from the ill fated vessel. The ship lies in a bad position and is likely a total loss.
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North Carolina
Norfolk
Josephine
Baltimore
Nittie Island
Murdered child found in garden in Oxford Pennsylvania May
Workmen spading a garden in Oxford Pennsylvania unearthed the body of a girl child, believed buried three months ago. The coroner conducted an inquest and authorities suspect murder by night burial. A separate report from Philadelphia details the suicide of Charles P. Simpson at the Keyston hotel by gas inhalation, linked to financial ruin and ill health.
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Oxford
Washington Taylor
Philadelphia
Charlee PF. Simpson
Coda
Keyston Hotel
Mr. Simpson
Thix
Manchester offers to forego interest on loan to canal
Manchester proposes to waive interest on the 25 million loan for the ship canal until trade improves. In the Prussian diet lower house, members will push a motion echoing the Upper house. The debate started in the German ropchytag over proposed sugar nationalization changes to aid bootprowers.
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Manchester
Weather Update for Far Eastern Pennsylvania
A forecast shows cooler conditions across far eastern Pennsylvania with variable winds that shift to northerly later. Expect cooler nights and generally unsettled air, with the pattern turning more northerly as a high-pressure system moves in.
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Pennsylvania
Special gown bargains stir shopper interest in GOWNS sale
Special numbers in GOWNS are highlighted with prices like 69c for a Tucked Yoke Muslin Ruffle Gown and 98c for Embroidered Yoke Cambric Gowns Former price 1.28. Empire Square Neck Embroidered Ruffle Gown 1.15 Recent price 2.50. The Fedora Cambric Gown Square Neck trimmed 1.19 Recent price 1.65. Also offered are children gowns drawers undergarments and gingham dresser items plus boys kilts and pique. Examine the goods to appreciate value.
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Empire
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