Mennonites protest Smith religious garb bill in Pennsylvania Senate
A Lancaster county Mennonite delegation attended the Harrisburg Senate session to oppose the Smith religious garb bill. Bishops Brubaker and Eby urged the governor to consider religious impact, while supporters urged passage, citing tradition and law. The debate featured Senators Kauffman Green Flinn Vaughan and others with mixed votes and broad interest from civic groups.
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Scranton Tribune
Harrisburg
Senate
Lancaster County
Executive Department
Hastings
Brubaker
Eby
Hastings Aaid
Smith and
Spanger
House
Buser
Raymond
Order of United American Mechanics
Order
John W. German
Patriotic Order Sons of America
Patriotic Societies
Kauffman
Lancaster
Christian Endeavor Sooiety
Epworth League
Brotherhood of Andrew and Phillip
Society and Brotherhood of St. Andrew
Mennonites
Elder Nichol Admonished Over Perfectionism Doctrine
A presbytery commission in Carbondale on May 25 adjourned after examining elder James M. Nichol of the Second Presbyterian Church. They admonished him to revise his teaching on sanctification and to refrain from public promotion of perfectionism at church services and in literature.
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Carbondale
Presbytery
Scranton
James M. Nichol
Second Presbyterian Church
Thin City
W. H. Smith
Honesdale
George B. Guild
T. A. Mills
Wilkes-Barre
N. I. Stahl
Messrs
Thomas Atherton
W. B. Holmes
Mr. Atherton
Nichol
Nicol
Presbyterian Church
State Gleanings and Local Incidents From Pottstown Area
Pottstown registration shows 4377 voters. A young boar attacked Kisler’s pig pen near Wilkert Harr e and was shot. Reading councils block fire companies from attending a Potts Town picnic. A cold storage house in Pottstown holds 435200 dozen caps chipped from the west. The Witch, son of Levi E. Lefever, at Boyertown, fell into boiling soap and was badly burned. A Gettysburg freight conductor Frank Wolf of Chambersburg died in a crash. Wilson Female College at Chambersburg held a jubilee for its new pipe organ. Dupont Powder of Wilmington may withdraw to retake a 9.25 million bond issue by Pitts.
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Pottstown
Charles Kisler
Wilkert-Harre
Reading
Levi EB. Lefever
Boyertown
Funeral Arrangements for Walter Quin Gresham Detailed
Washington May 28 Walter Quin ton Gresham will receive a soldier burial. The remains will lie in a vault at Oakwood Cemetery on Chicago's South Side with a military escort. The east room at the White House will host preliminary services conducted by Bishop Thurat.
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Oakwood Cemetery
Chicago
Washington
Walter Quinton Greeham
John A. Logan
Illinois
United States
White House
Harrison
Gresham
Thurat
Methodist Episcopal Church
Carlisle
Hoke Smith
Julian Panincefote
Diplomatic Corps
Supreme Court
Arlington Annex
Cleveland
Lamont
Olney
Smith
Wilson
Herbert
Morton
Uhl
State Department
Hamlin
Carisle
Department
Messrs
Tenick
Chilton, Haywood
H. T. Smith
Senate
House of Representatives
Mr. Gresham
Oakwoods
Baltimore and Ohio
Illinois Central
Oakwoods Station
Fort Sheridan
Dr. McPherson
Mre. Gresham
Arlington
Chilton
Smith S
Liton
Biddle
State Department Remains Beside the Casket All Night
A government delegation stood vigil beside the casket throughout the night. Officials fielded condolences as the somber ceremony continued, reflecting on the late figure's service to the nation and the impact of their legacy.
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Atate Department
Laundry Fiend Jailed for Shocking Crimes in Williamsport
A 14 year old girl, Mabel Shaffer, testified before Alderman Finley accusing Sing Lew, a Chinese laundry worker, of enticing and assaulting her and several other young girls in his laundry. The suspect was removed to jail for protection amid public anger.
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Williamsport
Sing Lew
Mabel Shaffer
Finley
Sing Lee
Shaffer
Mabel Shiaffer
Florist Fehsal Charged with Assault and Murder Attempt
John Fehsal a florist of Nanuet is jailed on $1500 bail for assaulting Miss Fanny Kee of Philadelphia and attempting to murder her after she disclosed the incident to her sister Miss Kee in Spring Valley New York Fehsal lured the woman with a carriage ride then drove into a stream and strangled the escape plan failed deputies captured him Fehsal 35 a widower with three children his wife had died six weeks earlier in mysterious circumstances
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Spring Valley
John Fehsal
Nanuet
New City
Fanny Kee
Philadelphia
Misa Kee
Frederick Denner
Fehsal
Ramapo
Miss Kee
Ferisal
Denner
Miss Keeshricken
Stammers
Effects of the frost on crops across states report
The weekly crop bulletin notes cotton damage in the Carolinas, Georgia, Mississippi, and Arkansas with injuries in Louisiana and Mississippi. Florida reports late but healthy cotton. Corn replanting is widespread due to frost. Indiana corn replanted. Kansas corn good. Nebraska early corn fair. Winter wheat good in northern Illinois but poor in central and southern areas. Missouri wheat declined from drought and pests. New Jersey seeds rot with replanting. grain and grass promising. Pennsylvania fruit largely unhurt with improving grain and grass. cutworms damaging.
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Agricultural Bureau
Washington
Cotten
Carolinas
Georgia
Missielppi
Arkansas
Hee
Louisiana
Mississippi
Florida
Indiana
Kansas
Nebraska
Illinois
Missouri
Ohio
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Mudgetts Pleads Guilty in Fidelity Fraud Case
Herman Mudgetts alias M H Holmes and two associates faced trial in Philadelphia for conspiring to defraud Fidelity Mutual Life of 10000 by filing a fake Benjamin Purl death claim. He withdrew not guilty plea and pleaded guilty. Sentencing postponed.
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Philadelphia
Herman Mudgetts
M. H. Holmes
Howard
Hare
Fidelity Mutual Life Association of Philadelphia
Benjamin FP. Purel
Fidelity
Mudgetts
Moon
Rotan
Graham
Thomas W. Barlow
Jeptha D. Howe
St. Louis
Marion Hedgepeth
Mudgelta
Trio Rat Poison Deaths Shocks Cecil County Farm
In Mirton Maryland May 88 three of farmer Richard F Foraker’s sons aged 7 6 and 2 ate rat poison sold as candy. One boy died at once and two others remained gravely ill after being found sick in the second story of the John L Davis farm home. A North Fast physician arrived too late to save them.
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Cecil County
Mirton
Richard F. Foraker
Augustus
Alexander
George
John L. Davis
North Fast
Wisconsin farmer arrested for attempting arsenic poisoning
Viroqua Wisconsin May 28 Andrew Engebretson a 60 year old farmer from Irving in Coon Valley was jailed on charges of trying to murder his two sons his son's wife and a cousin by poisoning them with arsenic in coffee after breakfast all victims fell ill but survived He allegedly entered the house at night and placed poison in the coffee pot amid threats against his family.
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Wisconsin
Viroqua
Wis
Andrew Einnebretson
Irving
Coon Valley
Engebretson
Ohio Grows in Size as Sherman Heads Rump for Sound Money
McKinley Foraker and Sherman receive loud ovations at Zanesville Ohio state convention as they rally for protectionist tariffs, a strong currency, and bimetallic policy. Bushnell wins governor nomination on sixth ballot while Foraker and McKinley receive broad endorsement. Resolutions praise Union veterans and mourn Secretary Gresham.
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Memorial Hall
Senator Sherman
Bonner
Ohio
Sherman
McKinley
Oble
Foraker
Shermin
Republican Party
Lincoln
Grant
Sheridan
Atlanta
Elwil Poliey
Porst
Wfe
Dimitas
United States
Tepub-lieun
Uniter States
Republican Party of
Foster
Committee On
Li le
Joseph B. Foraker
United States Senate
Brice
William B. McKinley
Gresham
Telegraphic Ticks
After a quarrel William Worcester fatally beat his wife with a baseball bat then cut his own throat at Oberlin. Wife murderer Buchanan was resentenced by the Court of Appeals at Albany to be executed the week of July 1. Carrie Alexander severed arteries in her own and her baby's wrists at Chicago but both survived. Frank Hoenck from Missouri fled with a claim against Hrewall over exile as a soldier-detective. Dominick Kearne shot Robert H. Chatheld after Chatheld claimed A P A allegiance in Rochester.
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William Worcester
Oberlin
Buchanan
Court of Appeals
Albany
N. Y
Mre
Carrie Alexander
Chicago
Frank Hoenck
Atate Department
Hrewall
S Oldier
Dominick Kearne
Robert H. Chatheld
Rochester
Chatteld
Kearns
Baltimore Mother Kills Daughter Then Commit Suicide
In Baltimore on May 24 Mrs Marlon Curtin age 45 murdered her 11 year old daughter Mamie at 1713 Asquith Street with a razor and then cut her own throat with the same blade. The tragedy appeared to be a momentary mental collapse.
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Baltimore
Marlon Curtain
Mamie
Asquith Street
Gulckie
Finley Silks and Wool Dress Goods Fall to Special Prices
Nationality of goods debated as Finley Silk House cuts prices on wool dress fabrics to clear stock. Special low prices offered on a large line of wool dress goods this season.
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Saylor
Snyder
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Upperman
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Naye
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John Sherman
Republican State Convention
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Harriet Bushnell
Oneida County
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Cincinnati
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One Hundred and Fifty Second Ohio Volunteer Infantry
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Hunter
Governor Foraker
Jon Sherman
Eastern
H. A. Kingsbury
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Ako
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