…bringing our past into the future
August 12, 1857 A Native Volcano. – In the Broad Mountain of the Schuylkill coal region, a subterraneous vein of Coal has been burning for twenty years. The Rolling Mill of the Cambria Iron Company was entirely destroyed by fire, on the 1st inst. The loss is about $60,000. It will be immediately rebuilt. A … Read more
August 5, 1857 Michael Cromer, of Mercersburg, Pa., one day last week, cut with a cradle, ten acres of wheat, in ten consecutive hours. The work was done in a thoroughly workmanlike manner. This is said to be the most extraordinary cradling ever done in this county, and in amount, is considerably beyond the average … Read more
July 29, 1857 The little daughter of Jacob Barton, of Hummelstown, near Harrisburg, Pa., was killed last Sunday, by the breaking of a swingrope. Her father was swinging her at the time. Married on the 21st inst., by the Rev. C. S. Haman, Mr. John Z. Shellenberger, of Lebanon, to Miss Anna Mary Long, of … Read more
July 22, 1857 Charles Biehl, the young man who shot the son of Mr. John B. Snyder, in Bieber’s brick-yard at Kutztown, on Thursday last, was arrested on Saturday, and after a hearing before J. D. Wanner, Esq., committed to prison. He will be tried at the August Court. It is now said that the … Read more
July 15, 1857 On Thursday afternoon, at Kutztown, Berks county, a man named Charles Biehl, purchased a revolver, loaded it, and went to a brick-yard, where he fired at a young man named Silas Snyder, killing him instantly. Some say that Biehl was intoxicated and that the deed was accidental; others say it was designedly, … Read more
July 8, 1857 On Tuesday of last week, the first locomotive made the through trip, by rail from Reading to Lebanon. The locomotive was the “New England,” and under charge of Division Engineer Mr. Edw. Muhlenberg. Married on the 5th inst., by Rev. H. S. Miller, Mr. John Scheetz to Susan Matilda Wolf, both of … Read more
July 1, 1857 Died. Mr. George Heim, a respected citizen of Jonestown, this county, died suddenly, of apoplexy, on Thursday night last. He had retired in apparently good health. Died on the 24th ult., in Elizabethtown, Lancaster Co., at the residence of her grandfather, Lizzie Laura, only child of Samuel and Caroline S. Hoverter, aged … Read more
June 24, 1857 Berks County Horses. – His Excellency, the President of the United States, has recently purchased two fine carriage horses from George M. Lauman, Esq., of Reading. The price paid for the span was $800. This is the second pair of horses purchased by Mr. Buchanan in Berks county within the last few … Read more