The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-07-26
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huge mass Of earth caving in on him while
at work. A companion named Belcher was
also very badly injured.
The four -year-old son Of Resin Brown,
farmer living near New Garden, Stark
county, Ohio, fell undsr tho knives of
moving machine, and was cut In such hor,
rible manner that death resulted in short
time.
A cloud.burst, or water-spout, ne,r Pur-
cell station, on the river Duchee, Indiana.
was followed by a remarkably heavy rain.
The railroad tracks aud surrounding country
were covered with two feet of water.
The farmers Of Crawford county. Ill,
tave resolved not to raise any wheat, barley
or rye for the next three years in an effort
to exterminate the chinch bug. The farmers
will exert their influences 10 this end with
farmers in adjacent counties.
John Bowman Cummings, an engineer,
committed suicide in New York. In March,
1856, he was sentenced TO imprisonment for
abducting his sister.in-law, Miss Alice Weisse,
Of Middleport, o.
The passenger railway employees OF Phila-
delphia ave passed resolutions indorsing a
demand for ten hours work and appointing
committee of each of the roads to see all the
men and secure their promis, TO join in tho
movement.
A volcanic eruption ha, occurred at Max.
mats, in japan, by which 400 persons were
killed aud 1000 injured.
Benjamin Benneton, wife and child, Of Co.
calico, Pa, visited Henry Bennstch, Of Hell
delburg township, Berks county, on Tues
day. The child fell into the we'll and was
drowned. When the mother beard of 1t she
was in the barn and fell d ,wn the hay.mow
She was seriously injured.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Fulda, which has arrived from Bremen, ran
down an unknown fishing schooner on the
banks of New Foundland. a dense fog pre-
vale at the time, and the schooner disap-
peare astern almost imme lately after the
collision Boats put out in search Of her, but
as she was not found it is feare that she was
lost, with all hands,
The Western Iron Association Is dissolved.
| The conference, committee of the association
met at the association room: IN Pittsburgh,
and after long sitting came to the conclu-
sion that it was better TO dissolve. The sew
eral firms which had vowe allegiance to the
association, and who agreed with the other
members to stand out against the Amalgam-
ated SC ale bre liking faith AID signing, caused
the fatal disruption of the organization.
A sad catastrophe is reported from Lake
Minnetonka, Minn., where four young men,
whose names were not reported, were drown
ed while yachting.
At Wheeling, Thomas Kelly and Harry
Christy, convic ed recsntly of the murder OF
Police Offi"ir Glenn, were sentenced to i'm
prisopmeht fd life.
The great Eau Claire Lumber Company,
with headquarters at st. Louis, announced
its retirement from business, having sold its
"a, 900, 600 plant TO the lumber trust.
Michael Mack. a fourteen year-od boy
under arrest for burglary, escaped from the
st. Louis polio, and jumped into the Misss-
sippi river, swimming two miles aud half
before he was captured.
Patrick Kelly, the siilor in custody at New
York for the murder of two shipmate at sea =,
confessed his crime and requested to be
hanged as soon as possible.
A large sewer pipe factory is being erected
at East Palestine, o.
Owen Sheeky has been appointed post
master at Rankin station, Baltimore and
Ohio Railroai.
Flossie, the two-yeT-o'd daughter Of John
Montgomery, fell into cistern at Alliance,
O., on Saturday and was drowned
The miners in the Huntingdon district are
said to be in a starving condition, and unless
there is a compromise soon an outbreak is
feared,
At New York Mrs. Nary V. Yznaga, a
leader in tn ultra fashionable circles OF the
metropolis, and who recently securel Cali
fornia divorces from Fernando Yznaga, was
married to VIM. g. Tiff my. q.
In New York City Harry Rogers, an 49,
year-old tough, stabbed and killed q com
panion, WIN. Dunn, II yea old.
Near Livermore, KY, the bodies Of tw'
unknown men We're found in Buck creel
strapped together and with their skull
cloven with some s arp instrument.
At Brooklyn Marcus Tallman, aged i
years, became eugulfed in quicksand Will
bathing and was smoth.red to death.
The Marine Hospital Bureau is informet
that Asiatic cholera is epidemic in Honl
Kong.
Rev. f. p. Roe, the novelist, suddenly ex
pired at his home at Cornwall-on-the-Hud
Thursday night from neuralgia OF the heart
The Senate confirmed the nomination o
Hugh w. Wier, of Pittsburgh, Pa, to b.
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho
In Nebrask, City, Nebraska, during
drunken row a. a German gathering Charl Q
Hoffmeister had his skull crushed, and Jac
Young and John Hart were shot and severe
ly wounded
At Clear Lake, Iowa, Mrs Jessie McKin
ney shot and fatally wounded J. +. Sullivan
of Forest City, who with two other men
was prowling about her residence and re
fused to leave when scovered.
A dispatch from Waly Halfa says tina
three boats loaiei with native fugitive
who left that plac, during the attack of tn
Dervishes on the 30th inst. sank in the river
and that l5o persons were drowned.
, There is great negligence and inefiicienc