The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-07-19
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
CLEANED FROM ALL SOURCES.
rhe Main Facts Related without
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A mob Of 10 men attacked Che crew OF a
freight train of the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy Railroad n'he st. Paul yard. Engi
neer Fred. Hcele ant Fireman Dan Barkyle
were severely injured.
The Rio Grands river Is slow that not n
drop can enter the Acequia, wl.ch furnishes
irrigation to the people of FL Pas, Texas,
and farmers in the vicinity. Gardens, flower
bsds. shad, trees &C., are suffering greatly
tor lack of water.
J. r. Mason, who was on trial at Ashland,
Ohio, for the murder of Editor Reynolds,
was acquitted.
The big training stable Of VIM. Rue, at
Danyille, KY, was burned, including 33
valuable horses, entailing n loss of $4,000
Albert Apple an Joseph Akens were kill d
and .hree others seriously injured by fall Of
marble at a quarry near Norristown, Pa.
Mrs. Mary Jcnkens, Of Tccnmseh, Ind,
Shot and fatally woundel her niece, Hattie
Dclann, for taking apples from her orchard.
Tie manufacturers and dealers in cotton
b1gsng of the United States, have formed n
combination for the purpose Of controlling
the m,rket aud putting up the prices.
John p. Egan, collector for the st Louis
Post Dispatch, has disappe ,red, leaving
shortage in his accounts and wrongcd wife,
having already one wife in Sa1 Francisco.
Heavy gales have prevailed on the river
Tyne and the English channel. A number
Of small vessels have been WI eckei along the
French coast.
There have been heavy storms in Hungary,
Destroying much property and the harvest.
Many persons were killed by the hail stones.
The Pittsburgh, Canonsburg and State
Lno Rsilroai, with capital of $2OO, 900,
WIS founded at Wheeling, w. Va. 1t will
build lire from Pittsburgh to Canonsburg,
aud through the Washington oil fields towards
Wellsburg, W. Va.
Tho barrel and pail-shops in the Eric Coun-
ty Penitentiary, at Buifilo, n. V, were de-
stroyel by fire, causing loss of $4,000.
BY direction Of the Secretary of War, Maj
Alexander c. NJ. Pennington, of the Fourth
Artillery, is detailed to visit tho several en-
campments of the National Guards OF Penn
syvania this summer.
The old Ben Holiday stone mansion, about
three miles from White III aims, n. Y owned
/ by White'aw Reid, was destroyed by fire.
The loss will reach $500 900; insurance about
two-thirds.
Two freight trains colidei on the Western
North Carolina railroad, near Ashville, wreck
ing both engines and smashing up mum ter of
cars. A negro brakeman was killed and five
persons wounded, though not seriously.
While train on the Cincinnati, Wabash
& Michigan roai was crossing the bridge over
Eel river, near North Manchester, Ind, late
Saturday afternoon, the structure collapsed
and the locomotive and i've ciifsf twenty
feet TO the shallow water below Engineer
Radabaugh was seriously hurt. The wreck
took fire and the broken cars were burned.
Or. VIM Pepper, who has been in frequent
communication with the physic aus in atten-
dance upon General Sheridan, says that his
removal from the atmosphere Of Washing
ton was ne cessity. While the g'eat danger
| from heart failure has been arrested, another
danger of the first magnitude remsius, and
that is in the direction of failure Of vitality
| and Of nervous exhaustion.
In consequence OF n washout on the Fl.
Worth and Denver Railroad, north-bound
pass niger train was precpitated through
bridge early Sunday morning Engineer
Smith and Fireman Wilson We're instantly
killed and a num.cr of PASSENGERS badly
shaken up.
| The peop'e Of Conneaut Lake are making
an attempt to stop Sunday excursions 10 that
place.
Richard Randall and Miss F,nnie Foster
OF Sharpsville, Pa, elopcd on July 4, and
were married at jamestown, n. y.
Bert Whit1cre, of Alliance, o., died or
Saturday night Of blood poisoning, which
snsue after the amputation of a foot crush
in a railroa accident.
Four printers, o. f. Witter, Fred Tucker
aud James Thompson, of Chlcag,, and Wal
ter Wall, of Dallas, Tex, started from the
latter place to explore the Trinity river. On
Su' day Witter was brought back dying He
sa d the party ha suffered great hardships
Wall h d died near the ancient town o
Talico. He d .es not know whether the other,
are alive or not.
Rev. James Wiley, Of the Covenanter
Church, Adimsville, Pa, has acc ,ptc a c,l
from church at New G. ,lilee, Pa, and viii
oto his new fed in II few days.
Joseph Lindsay, a colored port of thu
Central Hotel, b aiisyile, Pa, died in a dei.
fists cnair at that plac'. Chloroform ha'
iee1 administered with the intention Of ex
tracing tooth.