The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-09-27
LATE NEWS IN BRIKl.

In wreck on the Wabash q Western rai'-
road Wednesday night, Geo. Hendrck, engi-
neer, and Geo. Koettler, fireman, were killel;
Chaa Williams, conductor, and Rudolph
Stoufsr, shipper, badly injured. 1t h
believed the wreck was the work OF parties
who have some grudge against the road. aud
that 1t was intended for Burlington train.
Jack Rodgers, Deputy Sheriff OF Cook
county. Wyoming, captured five horse
thieves with over 30 stolen animals in their
possession, which they had taken from Texas,
Kansas aud Nebraska, and offered for sale in
the Territory.
Eight hundred pounds OF quartz, carrying
ss 1000 in gold was disloiged by single
blast at the Michigan Mine, at Ishpening.
The shaft is now IA feet, and over 10000
worth of gold has been takon from it in less
than month.
John Murphy, deputy. postmaster OF Arte-
sian CITY, Me ide county, Kan, was arrested
on the charge OF robbing the U. =. Express
Company of $4,000. The robbery was COM
mittcd at Greenville, Ohio, year ago. Muir
ply was driver for the Company. He con-
fessei his guilt, and returned $1,000 OF the
stolen money. Heis now on his way to Ohio.
The official French crop estimate raises the
! last to 4j, 900, 600 bushels, which will leave a
deficit of 100000 bushel, under an averag,
Of last crop.
1t is reported that potatoes are 50 plentiful
! In some parts Of Out,rio that farmers for the
present are unable to secure any market for
their proiuc;. Reports from nearly all quar-.
ters indicate a big yield Of potatoes.
The decision OF the arbitrators In New
York in the case Of the Columbus, Hooking
Valley and Toleio Railroad against Stsven-
son Burke, In favor of tbs latter, settles one
Of the most prominent railway suits ever
tried In this country. The amount involvei
was sS, ,00O,0 90 and the charge against Judge
Burke and the other defendants involved the
mappropriation Of funds.
Passenger train No. AZ, on the Wabash,
colided with freight near Fairmont, Illi-
nos, causing a bad wreck. An unknown
man, stealing ride, was killed; Engineer
Brandt, Of the passenger, had leg broken,
postal clerk David Cotterman sustained Sc
we're internal injuries.
A big -four milling firm in Minneapolis
adopted four years ago plan for sharing the
profits Of their business with their employees,
and have just finish, d the distribution of $4O,-
600 among them.
Hon. John G.. Carlisle wos re>nomipated
by acclamation in the Sixth kentucky Con.
gressional district convention, held at Odd
! Fellows Hall, Covington.
Information comes from Coleman. Texas,
of the killing OF Charles II. Harris, the Santa
Fe Railway agent at that place, by VIM.
Attley, a drunken cowboy. Harris ordered
Attley out, whercup)n the latter shot him.
As he fell Harris drew his own pistol and
fred two shots at Attley without efroct.
Harris died in two hours.
Texas fever has broken out among some
recently imported Arkansas cattle on the
farm of Joseph Beers, near Mount Vernon,
Ohio. Prompt measures will be adopted TO
stamp out tho scourge.
A farmer oe Ste. Anne, Ontario, named
Perreault and his son, miller, named Bois-
vert, Mr.. Morrin, the station agent at Ste.
were drowned. They were going over the
st. Lawrence river in a small b at
The people of Richneld, Boston, Spring,
field, Villas, Minneapolis an Carrs, Kansas,
are taking steps to organiz, 200 troopers TO
go into the neutral strip and ret Ike stolen
horses and other property, ani capture the
thieves. Their object will be to cipturs the
outlaws, who are fortiie | in Sqlaw Canon,
natural fortress aud almost inaccessible.
Tn, boiler OF Hpmiton's s,wmil, on the
Missouri river, near Blair, Neb., exploded,
instantly killing Henry Morrell, the engineer,
aud Henry Alexander tho fireman. Five
others were severely inj1red. The boiler had
been in use at the mill only two weeks.
A crowd OF armed men at Vile Platte
Prairie, Ala, took two colored men to the
woods and shot them to death for using in'
cendiary language.
All the mills in the Mahoning valley are
running double turn and tho furnaces arc al
in blast
The New York authorities were doubtful
whether the contract labor law applies tc
maidens coming TO this country under con-
tract 10 marry, and so permitted twenty
four Swedish maid.ns TO land. Tho law, il
seems, applies principally to foreign clergy
men who accept calls to American churches
At Chicago, Mrs C. ]. De Leon, widow
residing in Il fashionable part of town, fasten
ell n tube 10 the gas jet, and fastened the snC
under the oil clothes, 50 that she inhaled thu
gas, aud thus died.
Ned Gden, negro, tumbled down appa
rently dead, at Birm ghnm, and p,nic fol
lowed, the impression icing that he had vel
low fever. The negro came around all righ
after a little, and IS now us well as ever
An expert New York Politician reckon
that the actual expenditures for nocessar,
expenses in this Preside tial campaign wi
be at least $40, 900, ,0l9, distributed as follows
For music, 81 900, 600; Tor fireworks, 81 0OJ,
900; for printing, si,0O).O 900; for speaker,
expenses, 81 600 900; and for uniforms 81, 900
90.
Gel. Nlshanel +. B nks has been nomins
ted for Congress by the Republicans of th,