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Newspaper
Warren Ledger
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1883
Page
5
Warren County items report skating rink plans by Mr Northrup of Clarendon and mercantile appraiser appointment for Warren county by E A Pelton of Freehold. Winter scenes include record cold, ice harvest, house fire at Captain Henry Howard's near Clarendon, and a fatal arsenic death in Jamestown.
Ex Governor Fenton has gone to California for the winter. Miss Mattie Johnson returned to El mira College. Mr and Mrs D Wentworth of Sugar Grove visited Warren last Monday. Mrs C 8 S Luffkin and daughter Leonella were in Warren Thursday. Mrs Jane Orr spent most of the winter with friends at Jamestown New York. Mrs T J Vandergrift came down from Jamestown Wednesday. Miss Nettie Hall holidaying with sister Mrs S Ramage in Oil City. Tom Kern Bradford Era reporter seen in town last Tuesday. S T Neil of Titusville plans to open a Warren law office. Miss Grace Proctor with Miss Flora Bell awaiting her father to depart to Syracuse. Capt J M Smith promoted to master carpenter Western Division PD and E R R. Mrs E L Watson formerly of Warren now San Jose California lecturing in Australia. A D Wood severely injured in Erie near Salamanca. cross-shaped scalp wound, improving at home. R M Gray of Sugar Grove in Warren. staunch, independent, seeks justice whether majority or not. No time server.
The Buffalo, Pittsburg & Western case involves Mrs. Ellen O'Hara injured when a train dashed into a pass rider between Oil City and Trunkeyville. The court held a common carrier cannot shield itself from negligence liability with a contract. The jury awarded £3,000, reduced to $2,000, and the lower court's judgment was affirmed.
At the annual meeting of Warren and Farnsworth Valley Rail Road stockholders on the 8th inst the following officers and directors were elected Myron Waters president L D Wetmore J E Eddy M Beecher A J Hazeltine Thos Struthers F H Rockwell C W Stone J P Jefferson W T Scheide J A Cadwallader Directors J P Jefferson elected Secretary and Treasurer A D Wood named General Superintendent The iron reached Vandergrift pump station and a spring extension to Forest oil field is anticipated plus bank officers and capital increase details follow in brief notices. A wedding at John Hieberlin residence Carrie Hieberlin married A Lauffer of Naperville and a reception in Chicago followed. Advertising notices and remedies closing with Brown's Iron Bitters and Shiloh's remedies promoted.
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