Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles From the Past
Indiana County Pennsylvania
The Indiana Weekly Progress (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
November 29 1883
The Saltsburg Press, of November 21, thus notes Coalport, a new mining region recently opened up on the bank of the "Roaring Kiskiminetas" three miles below Saltsburg. The Foster mines of the Saltsburg Coal Company are now all equipped, opened up and ready for business on a large scale, and for completeness, order and system the tipple, mine, railroad, shops, etc., etc., stand at the head of all the mines in Western Pennsylvania. The adjustment of freight rates is about completed and shortly Coalport will loom up as the most extensive shipping point for coal in Indiana county. Gen. White, Wm. M. Stewart of Philadelphia, and other prominent gentlemen visited this place last Monday for the purpose of examining the coal works. Such gentlemen of culture and understanding are always welcome visitors.
Indiana Gazette (Indiana, Pennsylvania)
October 30, 1890
Keystone Notes - Items of Real Interest Presented in Condensed Form
T. H. Edgar's planning mill at Stillwater, Luzurne county, was destroyed by fire. Loss $9,000, partially insured.
Justice McCormick's business block at Irwin was damaged by fire Sunday night. Loss and insurance not reported.
Robert Goodwin, who deserted his wife in Allegheny thirty years ago, has paid a visit to that city from his North Caroline home.
George Meitel, a porter at the Central Hotel, at Bethlehem, was severly burned by a gas explosion in one of the basement rooms of the hotel. The room and its contents were wrecked.
James Oatfield, of Plymouth, while attempting to jump on a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western railroad, was thrown under the cars. Both legs were cut off and he was removed to a hospital in a dying condition.
Ex-Postmaster Baldridge, of McKeesport, was found dead in a railroad ditch in Boston, Pa., Saturday night. No marks of violence were found on his person. It is supposed he died from sickness or exhaustion, as he was in poor health.
The Susquehanna river at Wilkesbarre was seventeen feet above the high water mark Saturday. The low lands between the city and Kingston are entirely submerged. The street cars running between Wikesbarre and west side towns stopped running owing to the overflow of water in the roadway.
Passenger train No. 14, on the Philadelphia and Reading railroad, while running at a rate of 45 miles an hour, collide with a coal car about a mile north of Pottstown, killing one man and severly injuring several others. The coroner's verdict blamed the Conductor Missiman, of the shirting crew for the accident and ordered his arrest.
Robert R. Williams, an old citizen of Cherryhill township, this county, died at the residence of his son, Hugh Williams, in Blainsville, with whom he has resided for several years. Deceased leaves a widow and several grown children. He was about 90 years old. His remains were brought to this place on Monday and were interred in Oakland cemetery.