The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25
GENERAL JOTTINGS.
HOME AND FOREIGN.

dium &c secret circulars, the most effective
form of advertising scheme of the kind yet
devised. 1t will include, as far as heard
from, the Knights of Labor, the Federation
Of Labor and the Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Firemen.
The sale Of tickets for the Sullivan Kilrain
prize fight in the New Orleans ticket Office OF
the Queen and Crescent route alone nrtted
the big sum of 81, 600, but there were prob
ably as many more sold at points through
out the country and at the ring side, of the
receipts from which the railroad comp my
got a goodly share.
DR.. Mellow, the slayer Of Captain Daw-
son, was expelled from the South Carolina
Medical Society.
The Virginia State Prohibition Conven-
ton met at Lynchburg and nominated full
State ticket, at the head Of which, for Gov
ernJr, is Hon, Thomas Il. Taylor, of Lou
don county.
Several lives were lost by the recent flood
in the vicinity Of Uvalde, Texas, and much
Sroperty was destroyed.
The horribly crushed body Of dissolute
woman of 50 years who called herself An
ME Elliott was found in the back yard of o
house at Boston. She had fallen from the
fifth story window while her companion
was out buying LIQUOR.
A pretending purchaser at Fred scholek's
jewelry store at Chicago covered the pro-
prietor with a revolver, snatched up tray
of rings, backed out of the door, ran down
Hasted street and escaped, dropping rings
as he ran.
James Stephens. on Strawberry Plains,
jefferson co nty, Tennessee, wa, shot and
killed and his wife wounded by part Of
band of negroes against whom he had re-
Gently testified for petty theving in that
neghborhood. The perpetrator Of the deed
is thought to have been Bill Jackson, and,
If caught, he will be lynched.
Several thousand West Virginians have
petitioned Governor Wilson to include Henry
Georges single tax scheme in his subjects
for consideration at an extra session OF the
Legislature.
Thomas Moore, mine boss, of Elk Gar
den, near Kcyser w. Va, was assaulted by
footpads and robbed Of $500 and a gold
watch. Three young men have been arrest
ed on suspicion.
Two freight trains collided on the Kansas
and Texas Railroad Sunday, near Bonneville,
Mo. Both engines were demolished, 81 cars
destroyed and J0catte killed. Loss, $4,000.
No lives were lost.
The Lehigh Valley agent at Easton, Pa,
noticed Hun walking on the track and &c.
costed him. When asked where he was go
ing and what his business was he produced
card which stated his destination to be
Scranton. He also showed ticket good
from New York to Scranton. The man man.
agedto explain that he was under the inn
preston that the ticket entitled him to walk
on the track between the two cities. The
agent detained him until the night express
came along, pat him on 1t and sent him to
Scranton. The Hun had walked "a miles
with the ticket in his pocket.
President Harrison is so well pleased with
Dear Park that lac is not declined to go back
to Washington even to conduct cabinet meet.
ings. A government that can be run from
the portico Of summer hotel isn't going 20
the dogs very fast.
The Chippewa Indians have signed the
treaty disposing Of their Red Lake reservs
ton TO the whites. This opens up for settle
ment 100000 acres OF the finest land in
Minnesota, on some of which it is estimated
there are 10, 600, 900 feet of pine,
The Mississippi authorities are in dead
earnest in their purpose to prosecute those
Al, az, tn,
NOTED the late prize fight, and already a
half dozen OF them have been arrested and
held to bail for trial. Among these Is Mr..
Rich. the owner the property upon which
the fight took place a very prominent citi'
zen.
The long-drawn out war In Hayti will
soon be over. Hippolyte and his army have
Legitime and his army cooped up so com
pletely In Port au Prince that death or cap
ture are only the question OF u few days.
Recent experiments have gone far to raise
"A reasonable doubt whether electricity used
by known appliances is proper means OF
accomplishing the execution of human be
ing
A United States Judge in Kansas has de
cded that there is no law in Oklahoma. 1t
may be well to have judicial declaration OF
the fact; but the public was pretty well aware
of it already.
The wheat crop of Dakota, II is now said,
will fall short of the original estimste by 30,
100000 bushels, and will not exceed ~, 900, +.
00c bushels, owing to the drought. The
abundant yield elsewhere in the country
will more than make up for this shortage,
however.
John NJ. Stone was nominated Governor
of Mississippi by the Democrats, who In the
platform repudiated all sectional feeling, to
| joiced in the claims of the brotherhood, and
endorsed Governor Lowrys effort to prevent
prize fighting in the State.
The s., 900 900 needed to build the Congo
Railroad have all been subscribed by Eng
lish, French, Belgian, German and Ameri.
can capitalists. The projectors h ave calcu.
lated that it will do from the first a half
million dollar business yearly while the
cost OF operating aud maintaining they esti-
mate at s2i00O0 yearly, leaving a fair reye-
nue.. There will be no delay in taking the