The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-09-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

has broken out In herd of milch cows Tba
matter has been kept as quiet as possible
Fifteen cows have diel up to date. The Stata
Veterinary Surgeon is making an inspec.
tion.
Old soldiers entitled to an Increase OF pen-
sion under tho recent act OF Congress, for
partial or total deafness, can secure the in.
crease by sending letter to the Commission.
er, giving name certificate plumber a I'd SCI,
vice. and such cases will be ssttcl a. ;Ls
earliest practical moment
There is great suffering from stsrvatio,
among the Indians of the Canadian North.
west Territory. In tho Peace River dis
trict several cases of cinnibalism are report
ed, where, to save their own lives, heads on
families have killed and eaten their child.
rem.
At tho brick works OF J. II. Vaughn & Son.
Mt Altoona, Pa, John Sweeney, IL years Of
age, was almost instantly killed. lie was a,
play with companion, and was standing on
the edge Of one of the clay>pits, when 10y some
IN shap he fell In. The knives caught him a,
the hip joint, aud before the mlchino., uld
be stopped, hls right leg was torn from the
socket, aud mangled frightfully.
Corn, cnd many small vegetables, such as
turnips, potatoes, &c, have suffered by tho
long continued drouth Ia Michigan. Pastur.
age is scant aud streams aud springs which
usually give abundant water are dried up.
Many families are compelled 10 haul water
for long distances. Tho farmers loss will 10
heavy.
Colonel C. A. Iounsberry, " Ftrgo, Ia.
ko n, telcgraphs that the work Of threshng
has been in progress for two week., aud that
he oaunot change his estimate of last week
that the wheat crop has been injured 60 per
cent. lie expects the loss in the Rod River
Valley will be 10, ,OO0, 600 bushels, and it is no
better on the Minnesota sd,.
Late reports show that Indiana will turn
out unusually large crops of wheat, coru and
oats
George w. Colt has been jailed at Newark,
Ohio, on n charge OF forging note for S3O,.
600.
An alarming NUM- or OF typhoid fever
cases are reported at Springfield Ohio.
Jennie NJ Sweetlaud was recently arrested
nt Kalamazoo, Michigan, for forging the dis
shows her operations to have becn quite ex.
teusive, and that her swindles will foot up
$1,000 What sho has douc with the money
is mystery.
man named wise, hniling from Pclnsyl.
vana wns lynched in the Turtle Creek Noun
tain, Dakota, fo- horse stealing. He was at
one time prominent citissA of Wyoming,
and during his residenc, in TINT Territory
was prominently mentioned for the l. sisa.
ture.
Ten ye,rs ago all the machinery required
for the sugar plantations in the Hawaiian
archipelago was imported from Europe but
il is now almost exclusively supplied by the
works in San Frar cisco, which have devoted
great attention OF late TO the construction Of
powerful pumps, for irrisatiug purposcs,
some of which a said 10 b, cap ible of dis.
trbuting $4,000 to $1,000 gallons of watcrper
hour. The number of iron boilers produced
yearly in San Francisco is estimn'cd at 500
The railroads centering in Pittsburgh are
taxed to their utmost capacity to haudlc the
freight that is offered them. The Pennsyl
vania Company people say that the freight
that they are now daily trlnsportin; is euor'
nous. The coke shipments have bcen stead,
lily increasing Tor several weeks past, anl
there are immense quantities of ore being
shipped from the lakes in an effort % have
al orders filed before navigation closes 70;
the season. The shipment, of grain com.
mercsd last week, and thus far they have
been very heavy.
The Youngstown stamping Company, Of
Youngstown, Ohio, IN mu acturors ol stamp
"a ami tuware, havs leased gas phut 10
the above named CITY and will put IL 10
operation as soon aS repairs an new I'M
Irovements can lie made. The company Use
IL large amount of glass jars in mtkins o.
cans and other sptc.alic', They manuao
ture this glassware much cheaper than It
can be bought from dealers.
Hanson Willis, who has just pleade guilty
of man.laughter at Pomcroy, o., aud re-
ce.ved sentenc, Of - years in the pointer
tiary, has remarknbe g criminal Ii story.
Four murders are reported as having ben
committed by him along the OHIO within the
limits Of West Virginia, and il is thoughtu no
fault of his that this mum or has no. been
largely added 10.
A very disastrous fire causing loss q
about 81 100000 took place in san Frlucsc)
on Sund iy, the damage b ing mostly sus'
taiLed by manufacturing conc rms.
A horrible catastrophe occurred at Dtyinc
station, 70 miles from San Antonio Texas,
mtely Callie Smith, a H-year-oli girl, en-
deayorcd TO light fire, using kero5 me- hyf
two sisters aud "A baby brother standing
around the stove The oil can exploded, set
ting all the children on fire aud all w.r
burned 10 death The mother, Whl c.me0
the rescue, was also lady burned.
Reports from the place Of Mr. Rob bri CIR
retts confinement say that lao Is no ola
II trans Tres that his ht, are about the saue
only little wors' than they were WHO be
! was travelling aDro Il, aud while reports "
Improvement Wero s,n' hack, Ills mDd
up ct, apparently irrocOyeramy, ~ oA0
seems TO think Of bis ever recovering. h'
has always been an odi sort of man, "a col,,cf
or Of canes, almost Insane on clothes, bo'ldr
Other eccoDtrcities His mind hIuAe uP