The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-09-06
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Enc impment, to fieece the soltiers IN atteni- |
ance There doings becime known TO the
White Caps, and, as they tsrried in the vicin- |
ity over Sunday, thcy were visited Sunday
night by the night-riders, who ordered them
to leave before daylight, under penalty OF 100
l,shes. Thcy went.
The Pcnnsylvapia Company ha, commenced
SUIT against the Baltimore a. Ohio aud Station
Island Rapid Transit Compa y, builders OF
the Arthur Kill bridge, between Staten Island
and New Jersey, for s5,oO0,0 0 damages
The coinplain,nts sllege that as the bridge is
not constructed on approved plans it is an Oh
s:ruction TO navigation.
The southern part of Indiana has been
visited by much the severest rains OF the
year. All the creeks and rivers have become
destructive torrents, flooding corn.iisds,
sweeping away fences, stacks of wheat aud
hay, and carrying Off great deal OF valuable
bard wood timber. The fruit crop has also
| suffered.
A race war is imminent in Wabbasca, AR.
kansas, over politics. a negro polit elan
named Taylor, is the cause of the trouble,
the whites vowing that unless he desists from
crooked practices there will be bloodshed.
Taylor has taken to the woods.
The state convention of the Union Labor
party of Pennsylvania was held at Wilkes
barre, Pa with 40 counties represented.
The following nominations were made; Aud
i,or general, Thongs II. Windle, OF Confess
Vile, Chester county; judge of the supreme
court, W. l.. Bird, of Pittsburgh. L.
| Rynder, of Centre county, was reelected
chairman. Captain Jacob Creps, of Indianl
county, and c. f. Hooker, of Mexican couu-
| ty, were chosen electors -at-large. A plat
form was adopted Iavoring war revenues un-
| ill the war debt is paid, and advocating re-
striction of immigration.
The town of Hoytsvie, near Fostoria, o.,
has been almost swept out of existence by
| fire. caused by a house taking fire from
natural gas pipe. Thirteen dwellings, 4 bus.
| iness houses and a number of smaller dwell.
ings were destroyed.
| Mrs. Jack Thompson, of New Lisbon, O.,
| left home, taking hr 3.days.old baby with
her, and threw herself and child into the
creek and both were drowned. She escape
from the house Will, ber mother was asleep
and was undoubtedly insane.
Detectives arrested John Fisher, on Union
avenue Allegheny, and took from him
| 5000 which ho ha 90 minutes before stolen
| from an old citizen of Allegheny by the
buuco game.
By the explosion of the boiler in Uhler'.
saw mill, near sherman, ILL.,, l.. n. Richard,
prominent citizen of Springfield, and VIM,
Martini engineer, were killed, aud VIM. Yo
| cum mortally wounded.
James Hardesty shot and lSillel VIM. MUIR
| ply, near Owensbo-o, Ky, the former being
prominent merchant aud the latter we'll
known farmer. Hardesty acknowledged the
killing, but refuses to say for what reason,
Miss Martha Green lost 500 in gold aud
| Greenbacks Mt campmeeting rear G. neva
| Ga Harriet wis, young colorc woman,
was arrestel on suspicion of having taken the
money. A crowd of masked men took het
| out OF the hands of Deputy Sheriff Richards
and proco.d with her to a woods where
they thrashed her most numerically TO ex,
| tort a confo sion from her. The girl Il not
confess, was returned to the Sheriff and
locked up. Gre 1t excitement exists over the
affair
A mob OF two hundred men gathered near
the Ash and, Wis, jill. where Dan Richie,
the murderer of William Arminc, is conlin
| ed. The Sheriff warneI them, as they were
about to make n break for the jail, that he
hal dozen armed deputies inside, who
wouli shoot the first person who attempted
to enter the Jail. The mob dispersed.
Forty-four merchants and jobbers OF Iowa
have brought suit against thu Rock Island
and st. Paul roid under sectol Is of th. gen.
eril railroad law, which provides that on
complaint of any firm, person, or 81 ,ss OF
! persons, that rates are too h gh, tn State
Commissioners hail grant hearing aud fix
rate TO be thereafter charged.
| At Pittsburgh William Mcclure and
Frank Freyvogle were sentenc ID topiy a fine
of 81 90 each and TO undergo an imprison-
ment of two years in the workhouse.
Six section men were killed at a small,
station near Bonneville, No., by a freight
| train jumping the track. A caboose attach
cd to the train was filed with passengers, all
| of whom escape serious injury.
Tn, Navy Department has invited propos.
| ais for tbs construction OF one steel sub
marine torpedo b )at complete, with torpo 10
fittings and appendages. 4 he vessel is TO be
of the best and most modern design, and, 50
says the circular, must he constructed within
the United States and of material of domestic
m,nufac ure Bids viii be received until
January next. Some time ago Messrs.
Cramp a. Sons made two propositions for the
construction of a vessel of this description,
hut they were rejected because Of failure to
guarantee its serviceableness.
1t has been decided by the Pennsylvania
Company to begin Immediately the erection
OF Ave mimmoth shops in Altoona, at a cost
OF s5OO,O0l The shops well have the capac-
ity to build 1850 locomotives year, and will
give employment to 1000 machinists This
means a gain TO Altoona's popu alton Of at
least 10000. Their shops are to be built in
such way as TO admit Of additions at any
time, and are part of the plan of the Penn
sylvania system, to concentrate all their en-
| gine and car building ut one central point