The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-08-30
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

mnion, Is bringing pressure to be T upon the
Governor General TO veto the bill recently
passed by tle Provincial Legislature OF Que.
bee, granting siOO,0)o TO the Jesuit Order in
compensation for lands belonging TO that Or
der which had been confscated during the
time they were declared an illegal body.
The three men arrested a. D,nver, Col,
supposed TO he c)unterfeters, turn out TO be
confldencs men, aud tho officers have big
Joke on their hinds. Tdey s,ld their victims
a compound resembling gold, and, to delude
purchasers male pretense of manufacture
ing s. gold pieces from It. The die used, how.
ever, was trick box an genuine gold pieces
were turned out. The arrested men cannot
be held by the Government officials, but will
be rearrested ag in by Safe off ,ers
A party of fifty Indians was seen moving
towards the Big Horn in the direction Of Fort
Mckinney. They had no children with them,
but as yet have committed no hostilities.
The settlers feel alarme |, but tn, army Off.
GERS feel assured that no trouble need be
fo1rel.
Fifty-one new injunctons have been en-
tered against Dubuque, Ia s,loonkeep,rs by
s. r. Adams the noted prosecutor of saloons,
who is determined 10 close all saloons In that
city.
Thom,s L johnson OF Eau Claire, Wis,
died Wednesday. IL had been asleep for %
days, and had taken no nourishment but oc-
c sional swallows OF brandy and water, which
were forced down his throat.
Father McGlynn, the e'oquent hea Of the
Anti'Poverty Society, is threa,eningy ill
His health seems greatly shattered, and his
friends fear that somo fatal disease will be
developed 10y his bad mental and physical
condition.
Rev. John Bcnfer, n Method preacher,
has been expelled from the Church, after a
lengthy trial at Bea h City, Ohio, upon being
found guilty Of various charges Of msde.
mcanors and Of yhting with DR.. VIM. Nc,
Kean aud threatening to shoe him.
The wife of W. S. Lyons, prominent gro
Ger Of Newcomerstown, Ohio, has deserted
her husband and two Sun al children.
II has BEEN decided by the Pennsylvania
Company to begin immedi di,,ely the erection
Of five mammoth shops In East Altoona at
S'Hs VI t''Vi'V''
Black measles of most virulant type has
broken out among tn, negroes on tho rice
plantation on the Santee river. Fifty aths
have already occurred, and the disease has
become epidemic. 1t has created a panic.
By the overlooking of the Teng Chow river,
China, flooding the country for miles on either
side, 800 working men were drowned.
Reports from all parts of Europe, particu.
larly England and the West, show he crops
TO lie short from 20 to 35 per cent. this year,
and all of inferior quality.
The Stqts Department his been informed
that $4,000 has been appropriated by tho
Haytien government for the relief Of the vic,
Tins of the recent fire at Port au Prince.
1h' Portuguese Cover I'm is in receipt Of
information that violent outbreak of cholera
has occurred on board ths Portuguese trs-s !. .
port, India, bound from Macao to Nor Al.
bique. Within forty-e'ght hours 3s cases
were manifested, "a Of which were fatal.
lie mop crop will only averageGO per cent.
this year and the price as been put up five
cents per pound Mt Watervile, y. y.
A woman at East Liverpool, o., bee ,mo
so infatuated W tn the Salvation Army that
she gave the members n tbs food in her
house, le wing her children nothing TO eat
but raw, green tomatoes for.ssveral days.
The authorities interfcrel.
Morgan Burke and Nathan Edwards, Of
lee county, Virginia, engaged in duel on
Friday over an old fcud Revolvers w-re
ascl. Burke was instantly killed and Ell
wards 50 b .dy wounded that he will die.
Two skeletons were discovered in a sand
bank on the farm of Apner Armstrong,
sblu, five miles northwest OF Wooster, o
The boiler in the cotton mill Of James w.
White, at Bremond, Texas, exploded, killing
W. L. Wooien and fatally wounding his two
sons, John aud Sias. Ignatius Srumski
Denny Chambliss, Mat Rusty and Buck Wal>
son were seriously injured. The mill was
completely wrecked.
The well known Mormon saint, George Q.
Cannon, who is a fugitive from justice for
violation Of the Z imonds law, has left Utsh
with three Of his wives for old Mexico His
objective point is supposed u tie Tunis where
the Mormon Church owns a large body Of
land.
A Sherinrs posse was sent tokeep the peace
at Stonewall, on the Maxwell grant, Col,
but was met by 2OO or 3Ou citizens who de.
manded their arms. The posse refusei TO
give up their guns and took possession OF
building into which the settlers tried 10 force
an entrance, when they We're fired upon and
ID. Russell was killed and two others wounded
The Sheriff is getting another large force TO
go 20 the scene Of the trouble. A bloody
battle may follow, u, sympathy is entirely
with the settlers.
Ensiish surgeons have devised new oper
alton by which tue sh. cath Of the optic nerve
behind the eye is opensd, aud is not only the
'ressure upon n, nerve removed aud total
or almost total blindness cured, but the brain
itself Is relieved.
One Of Philadelphia's biggest manufacture
ing coucerns of textile machinery, is 10 20 10
Augusta Ga, where afty acres Of land have
been donated aud s.5),OJO raised 10 help II