News: Items From the Hanover Evening Herald, July 25, 1903, Hanover, York County, PA

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Items From the Hanover Evening Herald, July 25, 1903

Breakdown and Runaway.

Last evening about 7:30 o'clock E. M. Bittinger and Roy Bittinger started to 
drive away from the store at Bittinger post-office.  They made a short turn, 
when one of the front wheels of the buggy was demolished, and they were thrown 
out.  E. M. Bittinger escaped without injury but Roy was badly bruised.

The horse ran a short distance when he struck a stump and the top was torn from 
the buggy.  A littler further on he ran into a bundle of fence wire and was cut 
badly.  The animal was finally captured in a field about half mile from the 
store.


PERSONAL MENTION

D. B. Alleman, of Littlestown, was in Hanover this morning.

J. U. Ruff, of New Oxford, paid a business visit to Hanover this morning.

Miss Elsie Kohler, of Hagerstown, is visiting Misses Gettier, at Littlestown.

David S. Miller and wife, of Baltimore Street, spent the day at Green Ridge.

Mrs. Thomas Markle and son, of East Chestnut Street, spent the day at York.

Miss Beulah Reigle, of Centennial Avenue, spent the afternoon at Gettysburg.

Mrs. J. A. Melsheimer, of Abbottstown Street, is spending ten days at Pen-Mar.

Miss Maud Kling, of East Middle Street, left to-day on a week's visit to York 
friends.

Mrs. Henry Stump and three children, of High Street, spent the day at Green 
Ridge.

Miss Alma Finch, of Pen-Mar, is the guest of Miss Myrtle Parr, of Pleasant 
Street.

Miss Grace Smith, of Wrightsville, is the guest of Miss Florence Dodge, of 
Walnut Street.

Miss Agnes McCreary, of Gettysburg, is the guest of Mrs. David Hoke, of Carlisle 
Street.

Miss Hattie Hoke, of Carlisle Street, is spending two weeks with the Misses 
Gable, at York.

J. Roy Stine, of Brooklyn, N.Y., is visiting his parents, Daniel Stine and wife, 
of East Middle Street.

Miss Ada Hands, of Baltimore, is spending Sunday with Miss Attie Hull, of 
Abbottstown Street.

Frank Bussom, of Carlisle Street, left to-day to spend several days at 
Williamsport, his former home.


BRIEF MENTION

A valuable dog of Jacob H. Sell, of Frederick Street, was run over by a street 
car last evening and killed.

Henry V. Klunk, late proprietor of the City Hotel, Abbottstown Street, had 
public sale this afternoon of a lot of personal property.

Broker Bastian has rented the Menges property, No. 644 East Middle Street, to 
William Mondorff, of Carlisle Street, who moved on Thursday.

A marriage license was granted yesterday to Charles Shultz, a son of Benjamin 
Shultz and wife, of George Street, and Miss Annie S. Myers, of High Street.

W. A. Slagle, contractor for the new house of W. W. Hafer, on Frederick Street, 
yesterday awarded the contract for the brick work and stone setting to F. X. 
Kuhn.

Antonio Spatto, an Italian laboring on the railroad improvements near York 
Haven, had his right leg shattered by a dynamite blast so badly that it had to 
be amputated.

A woman representing herself as Mrs. Amelia Shultz, of George Street, is going 
around town begging.  We are informed she is a fraud, and citizens are warned to 
be on the lookout for her.


Girl Attempts Suicide.

Miss Marion Davis, of Gettysburg, was found yesterday on the garret at the home 
of Adam Ertter, with the strings of her apron torn off and tied tightly above 
her throat, her head being covered with her apron.  Her head was pushed through 
a hole between the joists, when found she was black in the face.  She expressed 
sorrow for what she had done after recovering consciousness.

Miss Davis had been sent to the State Insane Hospital at Harrisburg July 14, but 
friends on her appeal secured her release and she became an inmate of Mr. 
Ertter's home.


Accused of Horse Stealing.

Officer Smith, of New Oxford, received a phone message from constable Bubb, of 
Glen Rock, to arrest John Winters for the larceny of a team on information of 
Lewis Amspacher, of Carroll County, Md.  Officer Smith found Winters at the home 
of Edward Chronister, in Hamilton Township, where he was employed, and took him 
to New Oxford and placed him in the lock-up.

Next day Mr. Chronister, who had bailed Winters on July 10th, when arrested by 
Constable Heltzel on a warrant issued by Squire Straley on information of Frank 
Hartzel, for the larceny of a set of harness, for his appearance at the August 
court, appeared and demanded to be released from the bond.  Officer Smith turned 
the prisoner over to Mr. Chronister for a short time, when Squire Straley 
committed him to jail at Gettysburg.  Chronister presenting the prisoner before 
him and demanding a release.  Winters was taken to Gettysburg by Officer Smith.

The team brought to the home of Harry Stevens, at Heidlersburg, the beginning of 
July, is the one Winters is accused of having stolen from Mr. Amspacher, of 
Carroll County.