Sincerny, Frank
Sept 15, 1887. Frank Sincerny, age 23, switchman at Oil City (Venango County) was making coupling at Reno, the link caught the pin and pressed back catching his finger between pin and deadwood....
View ArticleFlood, Thomas
Jan. 27, 1881. Thomas Flood, trackman on LS & WS RR Co, was struck by Train #83 (J. W. Babcock conductor, George Hartlerode engineer), 1 and 1/2 mile east of Reno. Both legs broken, head injured,...
View ArticleGillespie, S. W.
Nov. 17, 1881. S. W. Gillespie, brakeman, Train #88 (Jno. (John) R. Reed conductor, D. McNamara engineer), got two fingers jambed (sic) off at Franklin (Venango Co.) when coupling cars. Caught his...
View ArticleStrayer, George
Source: Franklin Intelligencer Newspaper, for the years 1834 to 1839, Venango County. George Strayer was employed in boating stone to public piers and fell off a scow leaving a wife and one child as...
View ArticleDeWoody, George
Source: Franklin Intelligencer Newspaper, for the years 1834 to 1839, Venango County. George DeWoody was hunting raccoons on Friday night, Augut 15, 1834, when he was precipated about 30 feet from a...
View ArticleDyes, Thomas
Source: Franklin Intelligencer Newspaper, for the years 1834 to 1839, Venango County. Thomas Dyes, of Venango Co., aged about 39 years, was repairing a breach in the Bemus'Dam that caused an...
View ArticleMcCarty, Florence
Source: Franklin Intelligencer Newspaper, for the years 1834 to 1839, Venango County. Florence McCarty, from Ireland, aged 20 or 21 years, was repairing a breach in the Bemus'Dam that caused an...
View ArticleKearzy, David
Source: Franklin Intelligencer Newspaper, for the years 1834 to 1839, Venango County. David Kearzy, of Erie Co., aged about 30 years, was repairing a breach in the Bemus' Dam that caused an unexpected...
View ArticleEaton, James Edson
Source: Franklin Intelligencer Newspaper, for the years 1834 to 1839, Venango County. James Edson Eaton, age 12 years and the son of James Eaton of Cranberry Twp., died Tuesday evening Dec. 16, 1834,...
View ArticleDynamite Found
OIL CITY, Pa., Sept. 25: The police are endeavoring to discover who performed the act of putting into the sprinkling cart of Barnhart Bros. two dynamite cartridges eight inches long and an inch and a...
View ArticleMr. Hixon Robbed
Venango OIL CITY, Pa., Oct. 9. - Hixon, 75 years old, lives alone near the Shaw, and is postmaster of Cornplanter township, from which he realizes $100 a year. He is also a local preacher. He had just...
View ArticleUnique Family Tree`
In 1935, a Johnstown, Pennsylvania, woman fell down the cellar stairs and broke her arm. One result of that mishap is the unique record of one branch of the Joseph Johns family [Johns was the founder...
View Article$2 Reward
Ran away from the subscriber residing in Sandycreek Township Venango County about the latter end of March an indented [indentured?] Apprentice to the tailoring business, named Robert King, aged about...
View ArticleAllegheny Ferry
The Subscriber has provided himself with a Flat-boat and Skiffs for the purpose of keeping a Ferry, just below the junction of Frenchcreek with the Allegheny river, and immediately above the site of...
View ArticleCooperstown Hotel
The subscriber has opened a house of entertainment in the village of Cooperstown, Venango County, for the accommodation of travellers and others visiting that section of the County. His table will be...
View ArticleAttention! Franklin Guards
You are commanded to parade on the Public Square in the Borough of Franklin on Thursday the 4th of July at 10 o'clock precisely, properly armed and equiped [sic] for drill, with 12 rounds of blank...
View ArticleStop the Stray
Strayed from the subscriber in Sugarcreek Township, Venango County, about the twenty-third day of May last a LIGHT SORREL MARE, supposed to be seven or eight years old, has the fistula, a small star...
View ArticlePhysic
Doctor Connely expecting to have leisure from other business will devote his time and attention to the practice of Physic &c. All calls in the practice of his profession will be thankfully receive...
View ArticleNotice
Persons who have subscribed stock to the Franklin & Allegheny Bridge, are hereby notified that they are required to pay up the whole balance due, otherwise suits will be instituted against all...
View ArticleToll
All persons indebted for toll at the Frenchcreek Bridge are hereby requested to make payment to the subscriber at or before the next August Court. Those who neglect this notice will find their...
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