The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-11-22
NEWS IN BRIEF.

culating petitions 10 have tho land rcopcned
The Adams Express Company paid the
Government 81 400, that amount having
been stolen during the recent shipment Of sill
yer from New Orleans TO Washington.
The United St1tcs Court at Canton. China,
reports that owing TO the disastrous fools,
the exports of silk from China will not bo
over lOOOO bales this season Instead OF about
O. 900, as usual. The loss 10 the silk district
of Kuuaytung is about S3,3DO,9J0.
The Prohibition vote IN Pennsylvania will
aggregate 2OOOD, which * 4,SDO larger than
that party cast in 1854. Tie Grccnback,La-
Dor vote has decreased from l70O TO $500.
Gov. Beaver issucl "A proclamation calling
on the people of Pcnnsyvann to observe No
vembcr ~ as Thanksgiving Day, Us recon-
mcnded by the President.
Measles have become epidemic at East Liv-
erpool, Ohio, and the public schools will likely
be clos d Oh account Of il.
An advance of from 10 to 10 cents per day
has been given to the furnace employees in
the Snenanso Valley.
William Smith, Of Morgantown, W. Va, a
Il. d o. brakeman, was ground to pieces by
freight No. 40 near Meyersdale Saturday.
Tho weekly statement of the New York as
sociated banks shows the following changes:
Reserve, increase, $4,000; leans, decrease,
S9s3, ,3OO specie, decrease. 81 ,2SS 800; legal
tenders, increase, $l,23l,9JO; deposits, de-
crease, $685., 300; circulation, decrease, S4, 400
The lanlis now hold s11, ,42l, 400 in excess o:
the 2j per cent rule.
| Delegates representing 10000 butchers and
1900 cattle raisers met at st. Louis this week
TO take action against the Chicago Dressed
Beef Trust.
/ Major J. b. Thomas has been made COVER
nor of the Solders'IIomc Mt Dayton, o., with
rank as Lrigadier general, to succeed General
Patrick, deceased.
! The b. 81 o. rebuilt the Be'laire aud st.
Clairsvlle road, which was almost ruined by
July food, and have now purchased the
stock Of Troll Bros, tie original owners The
road connects Bellaire, Ohio, with the county
seat.
A stranger is in Bellevue Hospital, New
York, raving maniac. When picked up
he seemed to think ho was in London. Vari-
Gus circumstances have led to the suspicion
that ho is the Whitechupel monster.
John w. Kcely, the Philalclph'an, who in
vented the motor tina; will not mote, has been
jailed by Judge Finlciter for contempt of
court in refusing TO disclose the secret of his
invention TO mmittee of experts appoint,
cd by the judge in the interest of the stock>
holders.
The crank who insisted that no shoul |
marry Mary Anderson has been locked up,
Mary and Anna Rusher, in Jail at Evans.
Vile, Indiana, have confessed to the murder
of John Anderson, wealthy and aged far
mcr. They stabbed and dubbed him and
drove knife through his heart with hatch.
ct after he was down.
AT Versailles, Ind, Sa'urd ~ night, an
overcharged Republican anvil burst Mrs.
Henry o. Rotcrs anl David Ristoneach had
u leg blown Off and will die. Others wero
dangerously hurt
At Baltimore. W. S Stein and James L
Welch, conductor ami engineer of the freight
that caused tho collision on the Baltimore
g. have been indicted.
Joseph and Louis Coon, brothers, engaged
in fight Mt Berea, Ohio. Joseph, SO Louis
says hit their father in the neck with n stone
when he attempted tc stop the fight. The
fathers neck was broken.
At IndTnapoIIs, recently, Patrick Walsh.
n. l. al
ter on the arm. Mr.. Walsh was also severely
bitten while re'cuing mis- daughter. The dos
then started down the street biting fully 81
animals and finally attacking small chlli
tearing out one of his checks and destroying
an eye The he ,st was killed after chase o
two miles.
Miss Belle Brilewel, n school teacher, Of
near Streator, ILL.,, was endcavoring to pun
ish 10y for insubordinution, whe
he knocked her down and kicked her in tn
breast, causing her death from .marrhaSe o
the lungs within five MINUTES.
Hon. George II. Pendleton, United S,ate
Minister to Germany, has gone to Nice to re
cuperate his health.
Canada's action in increasing the export
duty on pine logs from Sc to So per 900 i
directed against American lum ernen.
Governor Beaver has appointed Ere Gun
ster, of Lackawanna, as juire TO succee,
Judge Hand, now on the suprcIn, bench.
Nathan Owens, Of Glndcwater, Tex, sus
pected Geo, RodeI OF intimacy with his wife
and went To his room recently, 10 Gu
, his throat. Ro lon awulc and chased him I
the wool pile, and there cut his head oil will
an axe.
Herman J. Emerson, the convicted polio,
dealer, in whose place Forger Beicl 10.
S20l 900, was fined 81, 900, nt New York, anC
. sent ono year to the peuitentinry.
The Government of Manitoba has orderet
a suspension Of work for the winter on tn,
Portage Ia Prairie OK ension Of the Northern
Pacific rair)sd, against which the CInadiar
Pacific is fighting.
James S. Jacobs, the Lancaster county
murderer, is to be hanged January 0.
The council of Reading, Pa, is in dead
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