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Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles of 1887 Page 1

Articles from The Weekly Reporter newspaper, Washington Co., Pa., July 23, 1887, page unknown: [The following combines 2 Xeroxes made from 2 sections of the same page of the newspaper.]  [top of column cut off on xerox] 

Co. H practiced guard mounting at the college park Tuesday evening, in the presence of a number of spectators.

Chas. Bailey has the coolest room in town at his restaurant. Patent fans run by steam do the business.

Wm. Cockins and daughter, of Leavenworth, Kansas, are guests of Mr. C.'s brother, John L. Cockins, Canonsburg.

A cow on Sunday last gored and severely injured a twelve year old daughter of C. Buckingham, of near Zollarsville.

Wiley & Son, undertakers, have purchased two very handsome casket pedestals, covered with broadcloth and satin with nickel corner pieces.

"Twenty-eight rats were captured in a [boss ?] trap at the residence of Nelson Vankirk, this place, Tuesday night. The hot weather will not trouble them any more.

Lieut. Col. J. M. Kent, Waynesburg, of the 10th Regiment, has tendered his resignation, which has been accepted. His successors will be elected at an early date.

Parties are in the habit of riding hurriedly out West Maiden street, on horse back, much to the danger of pedestrians. On Tuesday a little child was nearly run over by one of them.

Mrs. Fammy McGahey has made application for a divorce from her husband, Thomas McGahey, through her next best friend, S. M. H. Bebout. The parties reside in South Strabane township.

Mr. Speers, of near lock No. 4, one of the engineers on the steamer J. G. Blaine, has been laid up at his home from sickness for the past three weeks. He is able to be up, and we hope will soon resume his station.

The Moundsville campmeeting [sic] will be in full blast on the 3rd of August. The groves have been improved and a large auditorium erected. The special attractions this year are the Revs. Sam Jones and Sam Small.

During a family quarrel at the home of Jas. McDonald, colored, on Tuesday, Mrs. McDonald threw a quantity of concentrated lye into her husband's face. A physician rendered the necessary aid.

Mr. T. Rider, Fallowfield, while engaged at the Devore sawmill, on the Carson farm a few days since, had his foot twisted and lacerated by the circular saw. He was pushing a truck back with his foot at the time.

A member of the borough council, one of the representatives of the council ward, requests us to state that unless the parties who have been making a practice of dumping filth, &c., in the rear of the old graveyard, discontinue the same, they will be prosecuted.

Prof. Simonton and wife, who have been travelling in Europe during the year past, landed in New York, on Sunday. They will make a short visit to Judge Simonton, a brother of Prof. Simonton, in Bedford, Pa., and will arrive in Washington about Saturday evening.

The McDonald correspondent of the [italics] Argus [italics] says: - John S. Willets, the notorious faith cure apostle, has returned to Midway and taken possession of the street corner near J. S. McCarty's, where he exhibits his panorama and lecture every evening on the terrible things that will occur in the near future.

Clem Brady, grandson of Jesse Jordan, was stricken down in the harvest field on the farm of Isaac Dayer [NOTE- i. e. Dager], Amwell township, on Wednesday. He was conveyed to the house, and a physician summoned, who pronounced him suffering from sunstroke. On Thursday he had recovered enough to be brought to the home of his grandfather in this place.

Robert Garrett, the president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, writes to Mr. Singerly, of the Philadelphia [italics] ? Record ? [italics] that all negotiations for the consolidation of that road with others are at an end, the syndicate failing to meet their engagement. The B & O Railroad and Telegraph are just as they were at the beginning.

[Next entry is too blackened and fuzzy to read - it is about fixing the eastern wall of the Washington public school building which was erected about 30 yrs. ago and had a crooked wall when it was finished. The rest is unreadable.]

[The next column is also cut off at the top] 

Mrs. John Paxton, of Clokey, and sister, Mrs. Robert Arnold, of Houstonville, returned on Wednesday from a week's visit to friends in Dallas, W. Va.

Wm. M. stevenson, of the Pittsburgh [italics] Commercial [italics] Staff, son of Rev. Ross Stevenson, this place, left Wednesday for a month's sojourn along the St, Lawrence.

A son of Policeman Greer while out hunting, on Tuesday, had a shot gun to burst in his hands. Fortunately the break was so near the muzzle that the boy sustained no injury.

The rains of Wednesday night filled Pigeon Creek to overflowing, swelling the streams also in the neighborhood of Kammerer. In that vicinity a number of fences and bridges were washed away.

The case of barratry against Capt. Wishart and others of the Law and Order Society at Pittsburgh was dismissed at the hearing, and the prosecutor, O'Conner, arrested and jailed for perjury.

James McCabe, formerly of Paris this county, who has been engaged for a number of years in the Post Office Department at Washington, D.C., was last week made chief of the Contract Department at a salary of $1,600.

A colored man was arrested by the police as a suspicious character. Burgess Hazlett gave him five hours to get out of town. He is said to fill the description of the man who attempted to burgularize Dr. Davis' house last Sunday night."

A string of oaths uttered by a young man at Mt. Morris, Greene county, a few days since, cost him $23.60. An indignant citizen had counted the oaths and made information against the young man. [NOTE: fined for swearing]

Willie, the 12-year-old son of Dr. W. L. McCleary broke his left arm while visiting his uncle, Cal McCleary, in East Finley township, Wednesday. He was thrown from an ox on which he was riding and trampled on.

Owing to the sudden illness of Rev. J. R. Foulkes, the first issue of the Prohibition Standard, at Claysville, will not make its appearance until next week. Mr. Foulkes has passed the crisis in his sickness and hopes to be at his post soon.

On Sabbath, the 17th, a storm of wind and rain struck the Hoe farm of Jacob Swagler, near Scenery Hill. It blew down twelve hay stacks in one meadow and scattered them in every direction; it also blew down his oats that was not cut and damaged it considerably.

Mrs. Lilly Allender, of [TenMile ?], had Wm. Parker and Susan Morrow arrested on a charge of assault and battery, Thursday evening. Unless the case is compromised sooner the accused will be given a hearing at 4 p. m. Friday.

The police were notified Friday morning to look out for Maggie Thompson, one of the inmates of Morganza, who escaped from that institution on Thursday night. Detective Fryer of Morganza and Policeman Redman captured her and the former will take her back.

Charles Farnsworth, of Clarion, Pa., was married on the 20th instant to Miss Laura Gahey, of Speer's post-office, Washington county, Pa. The nuptials took place at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. Farnsworth is a soldier of the regular army. He is stationed in Dakota territory.


[Column Three is cut off on the top and bottom, therefore I cannot list all names. The story is about a murder case (deceased is a woman) where they are empanelling a jury. This *may* have been a case moved from Hancock county, *if* I am reading it correctly.] Twenty jurors were questioned. Here are the names of some of the jurors that I can read:
John Melvin, Jr. - accepted
Geo. Lambert - accepted
David Ralston - excused
J. W. Johnson - excused
Edward W. Hart - accepted
R. A. Shay - accepted
Wm. Allison - opposed to capital punishment - excused
Geo. Prosser - distant relationship to the murdered woman - excused
Robert O. [Taylor ?] - excused
Edward Carothers - accepted
Wm. A. [Jenter ???] - [can't read]
Robert Wilson, Cumberland - [can't read]
[cannot read any other names]

Articles from the The Weekly Reporter newspaper, Washington Co., Pa., Tuesday, August 2, 1887: 

[Advertisement] - "Wm. Smith and Son - Clearing Sale of Clothing - [rest cut off this Xerox]. 

"[caps] Canton Township School Tax [caps]" - [excerpt] the undersigned will be at Clark's Schoolhouse on Sat., Sept. 17th, from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m., for payment of school tax... W. W. WEIRICH, Treasurer. 

[excerpt only] "For Sale or Rent - In Beallsville, Pa., on Main Street, Two Lots, running back to an alley. On one lot there is a large two-story [caps] brick dwelling [caps]. On the corner lot is a very large [caps] livery stable [caps]. All in good order. Anyone wishing to engage in the livery business, this would be a good opening. Also, for rent, a [caps] store room [caps], now occupied as a clothing store, on corner of Main and Maiden street. Inquire of W. B. FLICK, Beallsville, Pa." 

"House and Lot at Public Sale - I will offer at Public Sale, Saturday, August 20th, 1887, My house and lot, situate in Claysville, Washington county, Pa. House two stories, 16x32 feet, two rooms back, 12x18; six rooms in all. The house is very convenient for two families.

Also, at the same time and place I will offer a pasture lot of about 2 acres and one-half very convenient to the above named property. This property will be sold at a bargain. Sale to begin at ten o'clock, when terms will be made known. W. G. PATTERSON, Claysville, Pa." 

"[caps] Public Sale [caps] of Valuable Real Estate ! ! The undersigned, executors of the estate of [caps] Jacob Weirich [caps], deceased, late of Franklin township, Washington county, Pa., will expose at public sale, on Thursday, September 8, 1887, At 1 o'clock p. m., the following described real estate, viz: The homestead farm, containing [106 ?] acres, more or less, on the National road, four miles west of Washington. The improvements consist of a comfortable [caps] house [caps] of seven rooms; new barn; good orchard. The land is of good quality and well watered. [caps] Terms [caps] made known on day of sale. - [W. A. ?] ELY, Israrl [sic] WEIRICH, Executors, Washington, Pa." 

"[caps] A Good Farm [caps] ! At [caps] Private Sale [caps] ! In the supposed Oil and Gas Belt of North Western Washington County, Pa. - The farm of Miss Eleanor Orr, situate in Cross Creek township, near Patterson's Mill, containing about [bold] 137 1/2 Acres [bold]. About 100 acres in a good state of cultivation...." [rest cut off of this Xerox copy]" 

"Sheriff's Sale - [caps added to names by typist] - By virtue of a writ of Fiera Facias, issued out of the Court of common Pleas, of Washington county, and to me directed, upon which inquisition and exemption have been waived, there will be exposed at public sale in front of the Court House, in the borough of Washington, Washington county, Pa., on Monday, the 15th day of August, 1887, at 1:30 o'clock p. m., of said day, the following described real estate: "All the right, title and interest of the defendant B. F. RYAN in and to a certain tract of land, situate in Amwell township, Washington county, Pa., bounded and described as follows: Adjoining lands of WASHINGTON GREGOR, SAMUEL BRADEN, WM. HILL, JOHN BOSTER and J. M. MARTIN, containing fourteen acres, more or less, upon which are erected a Log Dwelling House and other buildings. "Taken in execution as the property of R. F. RYAN at the suit of WM. L. DILLE for the use of H. K. BELL, now for use of WM. L. DILLE. - - J. T. HEMPHILL, Sheriff. - Sheriff's Office, Washington, Pa."

"Sheriff's Sale - [caps added to names by typist] - By virtue of a writ of Fiera Facias, issued out of the Court of common Pleas, of Washington county, and to me directed, upon which inquisition and exemption have been waived, there will be exposed at public sale in front of the Court House, in the borough of Washington, Washington county, Pa., on Monday, the 15th day of August, 1887, at 1:30 o'clock p. m., of said day, the following described real estate: "All the right, title and interest of the defendant ORLANDO MITCHELL and MARK MITCHELL, administrators of HIRAM MITCHELL, deceased, in and to a certain tract of land, situate in Bentleysville, Washington county, Pa., bounded and described as follows: Adjoining lands of THOMAS RICHARDSON, JOHN FEN*TERS and A. J. McCORMACK, containing five acres, more or less. No improvements. "Taken in execution as the property of ORLANDO MITCHELL and MARK MITCHELL, administrators of HIRAM MITCHELL, deceased, at the suit of JOHN _. JONES, administrator of [JAMES ?] JONES, deceased. - - J. T. HEMPHILL, Sheriff. - Sheriff's Office, Washington, Pa."

"Sheriff's Sale - [caps added to names by typist] - By virtue of a writ of Fiera Facias, issued out of the Court of common Pleas, of Washington county, and to me directed, upon which inquisition and exemption have been waived, there will be exposed at public sale in front of the Court House, in the borough of Washington, Washington county, Pa., on Monday, the 15th day of August, 1887, at 1:30 o'clock p. m., of said day, the following described real estate: "All the right, title and interest of G. W. DICKEY and JAMES H. DICKEY, in and to a certain tract of land, situate in Donegal, Washington county, Pa., bounded and described as follows: Adjoining lands of JOHN G. POGUE, JOHN M. ______ [rest of article cut off this Xerox copy]"

Article from the The Weekly Reporter newspaper, Washington Co., Pa., Aug. 3, 1887, page unknown:
"Centreville [sic] - Miss Jesse Hawkins of Beallsville is visiting friends in town: Miss Mattie Seaman, of Washington is visiting relatives here also. FRITZ "

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