News: Gettysburg Compiler, Wednesday, March 17, 1909, Adams County, PA

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MULES POISONED
A pair of 3-year-old mules belonging to Mr. William Wagner of near the Pigeon 
Hills, Berwick township, are supposed to have been poisoned by some heartless 
miscreant a few night ago.  One of the animals has since died and the other is 
not expected to recover.  Cyrus Wolf of the same neighborhood has three young 
mules to act in like manner recently two of . . .

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FIRE LOSS ADJUSTED
The Insurance on stable of Jacob C. Shriver recently destroyed by fire has been 
satisfactorily adjusted by Martin Winter, Agent Royal Insurance Co., of London.  
Insurance $200.  Adjustment $200.00

REAL ESTATE SALES
John M. Blocher has sold to Martin Winter the house and lot recently purchased 
from Mrs. Laura Eicholtz, corner Carlisle and Broadway streets, Gettysburg.

UPSET IN MUD
Harry T. Smith was taking Mrs. John Bream to her home near Biglerville on Monday 
of last week when the horse took fright at some telephone wires lying in the 
road.  The buggy was upset and the occupants were given a bath of mud enveloping 
them from head to toe, but neither were injured.  The buggy was somewhat 
damaged. 

SMOKE HOUSE DEMOLISHED
Harvey S. Cromer living near Mt. Joy Church, had his smoke house and wood house 
demolished last Friday morning by an explosion of dynamite.  He had placed 
thirty sticks of dynamite in the smoke house to dry which contained the meat of 
three hogs.  The family were at breakfast when the terrific explosion took 
place, which completely demolished the smoke house and wood house and blew to 
atoms the contents of the houses.  The house was not injured except a great many 
window panes were broken.  None of the family were injured.  The explosion was 
heard for several miles around.

FRACTURED HIS LEG
Clarence Deardorff, son of former County Commissioner Jacob F. Deardorff, of 
Franklin township, was thrown from a mule one day last week and sustained a 
compound fracture of the right leg below the knee.

RESOLUTIONS BY SCHOOL BOARD
At a regular meeting of the Gettysburg School Board held March 4, 1909, the 
committee on resolutions reported as follows:

Whereas, Miss Ida E. Sheads, who has been a teacher in the public schools for 
the past thirty-five years was called away by death Feb. 15th, 1909, therefore, 
be it:

Resolved,  That we hereby place on record an expression of our gratitude to 
Almighty God for the many years of efficient service she was permitted to render 
to the public schools, also our testimony to her earnest Christian character and 
the interest she has manifested in the cause of education in general.

Resolved, That we extend our sympathy to her relatives and friends in their 
sorrow.

Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be given to the papers of Gettysburg 
for publication.

                               J. Elmer Musselman,
                               J. Harry Holtzworth,
                               Peter Culp.

SELF DESTRUCTION ACTS
Edward Overbaugh, a cigar maker of McSherrystown shot himself Wednesday of last 
week.  It is said he had been drinking heavily for several weeks.  On Wednesday 
afternoon at 2 p.m. he was in the McSherry restaurant and purchased drinks for 
the crowd.  He then walked to the barn of Peter McSherry and two shots were 
heard but no attention was paid as it was supposed some one was shooting ra?e.  
He was found about 3 o’clock lying in the barn and was able to walk to his home 
with some assistance.  He had shot himself twice, one of the bullets entered his 
left breast, passed through the left lung and became imbedded in the muscle of 
the back and the other bullet went through the shoulder making its exit under 
the shoulder blade.  Drs. George L. and A. C. Rice located the bullet but were 
unable to remove it at once on account of the condition of the man.  Overbaugh 
insisted that the shooting was accidental and refuses to say anything further in 
regard to the matter.  The weapon was found on a jug under a manger in the barn.  
Physicians expect wounded man to recover unless there are complications.  He has 
a wife and four children.   

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William Weaver, utility man at the Central Hotel of York Springs in an attempt 
at self-destruction on Monday of last week swallowed a quarters worth of arsenic 
which he had purchased several weeks before in New Oxford.  After taking the 
arsenic he told the women folks at the hotel what he had done and they sent for 
Dr. E. W. Cashman who succeeded in saving Weaver’s life.