Erie Co PA Miscellaneous News
The Centinel, Gettysburg, PA, July 18 1810
Erie, Penn., June 16
On Sunday, the 3d inst. This place and neighborhood, for several miles round, was visited by a most tremendous storm of wind, attended with heavy thunder, lightning and rain, ever witnessed perhaps within the recollection of our oldest settlers. The gust commenced from the south west, between five and six o'clock in the evening and blew for a few moments with such unaccustomed violence, as not only to fell innumerable trees on almost every man's plantation, but to level fences, up roof houses and barns, and one new log house it blew entirely down to its foundation. Many of our farmers have sustained serious losses, insomuch that some were almost discouraged from trying to plant or cultivate their corn.
Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania)
June 2 1824
From the Erie Gazette
The late sessions of our court of Oyer and Terminer excited great interest; as well on account of the number as the importance of the public prosecutios and we trust that the fate of those convicted of passing counterfeit money will relieve us for a season, at least, from the horde of counterfeiters, to which, from our situation on the frontiers, we are so much exposed.
Phineas L. Rogers was indicted for passing counterfeit money. He was found guilty and sentenced to pay a fine of $50, to pay the costs of prosecution, and undergo a confinement for 10 years in the penitentiary.
John Miles was indicted for the same offence. He was convicted and sentenced to pay a fien of $10, to pay the costs of persecution, and undergo a confinement for five years in the penitentiary.
(?) Russell was indicted for assisting Charles Butler, confined in the jail of this county for passing counterfeit money, to escape from prison. He was convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of $50, to pay the costs of prosecution, and undergo a confinement for three years in the penitentiary.
Thomas Doyle was indicted for grand larceny. He was convicted, and sentenced to pay a fine of $1, to pay the costs of prosecution, and undergo a confinement in the jail of this county for one year.
Weekly Indiana State Journal January 29, 1896
Contributed by Barbara Ziegenmeyer
SHE OBEYED THE SPIRITS.
Mrs. Nellis, Alleged Poisoner, Influenced by a Medium Gardner
ERIE, Pa., Jan. 27.—Mrs. Kate M. Nellis and Edgar Gardner, who were arrested late last night at Girard, Pa., on the charge of poisoning the woman's husband, Peter Nellis, had a hearing to-day, when both pleaded not guilty. Mrs. Nellis is said to hare been under the influence or Gardner, who is an alleged spiritualist medium. Letters are in the possession of county detective Sullivan from Gardner to Mrs. Nellis which he believes will connect the former with the case Indirectly at least. Gardner is said to have been predicting there would be a case of poisoning in Girard within two years. Last summer he sent word to Mrs. Nellis that the spirits directed her to go to Cassadaga. and occupy a cottage there. She went, and is said to have entertained the medium as well as her husband there for a long time at a cost of several hundred dollars. Gardner is also said to have told Mrs. Nellis that in order to get closer relations with the spirits she must buy two diamond rings,presenting one to him and wearing the other herself, which she did. The Nellises Kept the leading hotel in Girard, a town of about 1,000 Inhabitants. Mrs. Nellis is about fifty years of age, and her husband was slightly older.