The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-12-12
LATE NEWS IN BRIEF.

New York City has secured the sum of
money which II set out to raise. The pro-
posed s5,ooO,0Oo guarantee fund for the
Worlds Fair Of lS9! now reaches s., 1876, $40.
A tragedy is reported from Robson county,
s. @. A circus exhibited at Lumberton, and
a crowd Of negroes began quarrel among
themselves. oon a free fight was progress
and pistols, knives, clubs, stones and other
weapons were brought into use. Jack Hunt,
Tom Collier and Julius Embra were killed
and half dozen others more or less seri .,
eusly injured.
A dispatch received from Vancouver,
British Columbia, states that on the steam
ship Batavia there arrived at that port from
japan, o Russian gentleman who had Just
escaped from Siberia, where he had been
in exile Is years. he gentleman, who had
assumed the name Of B'ant, was Is years
ago the editor of a newspaper in Russia. He
was not Nihilist, but his Liberal views, as
expressed in his paper, displeased the Gov.
ernment, and for the offense he was sens
fenced for life in Siberia For six years
Brant was in solitary confinement.
The death Of Jefferson Davis recalls tho
fact that but three out OF the fourteen men
who served under HIM in the Confederate
Cabinet are now living. Senator Reagan, of
| Texas, who was Postnas. General of the
Confederacy from first 10 last; Thomas II.
Watts, of Alabama, who was Attorney Cen
eral for a short time, and George H. Davis,
/ of North Carolina, who also illel that posi-
! tion for few months, are the survivors.
| Mr.. Reagan lives at Palestine, Texas, and
represents that tate in the United States
Senae. MIR. Watts lives at Montgomery,
| Alabama, is very active man still engaged
/ in the practice Of law. Mr.. Dav $, Of North
! Carolina, still lives at Washington, practio-
ing law.
fn- bookkceper Of the Farmers and Ne.
! hanics Bank at TT. Worth, Tex forgot tc
| lock th" safe, aud Natchuan Charles Wal
lace. discovering thi, during the night, sent
for his friend Lee RELY. Eiclly responded
with bag and $500 in silver was carried
OF The men were arrested aud part of the
! plumber rec lvered
! The steamer Atlanta has arrived at New
York from West Indian ports with the chic
officer and fourteen men of the steamer
! Edith Gordon, viii IA foundcred at sea No
vembcr %. No lives were lost.
William Jackson, Il chopper in tie-camJ
ucar Be,ton, Mo had fight with Jonr
Ryder, the camp cook, on Wednesday. Each
man was armed with an AK and the iishi
continued until both were fatally wounded
Robert and George Lilly, aged respectively
and years, were suiiucated by smoke dur
ing n so fire in the basement of u New Iors
fat-house. The mother locked them up IL
the room while she went marketing.
The boiler Of Calhoun's cotton gin, at Col.
fax, La, on the Meredith plantation, ex-
ploded, killing six men and two women and
iniuring many Others all negroes.
Two Apache murders were hung at Flor
ence, Arizona, and three more would have
been hung on the same gallows, but they
committed suicide the day before.
Nathaniel J. Niles, Jr.. ex.Pre5ident OF the
Tradesman's National Bank, New York city,
was indicted by the grani jury for letting
house for immoral purposes.
Jimmy Hope, the noted bank burgla,
brought back from California, was discharg.
cd from custody mt New York and was allow
ed two days time to leave the State.
At Newton, l.. l., on Tuesday, paint
mill was burned. In the ground beneath
was fouu u moonshincrs' nest IN the vat,
were zoos gallons of mash, and it has been
! running ten years. Warrants are out foi
the three men, one oftHem being Justice
Of the Peace.
| Attorney Foster finished his argument in
| L,I hi e I.l,, I, a, ~ ,s,,
Saturday. lie told the jury they must ac-
oordng to the evidence, either find his client
worthy of death or acquit him entirely. Mr..
Forrest also spoke in behalf OF all the de-
PENDANTS.
Henry Ward Beecher's country place on
the Hudson, upon which he spent 500, 90,
has been sold TO Thomas NJ. Stewart, of New
York, for $4,000.
August IL. Schattenberg, of Milwaukee,
who, as secretary of the school board, was u
defaulter for perhaps 100000, shot himself
through the heart.
James Barry, George Booker, Richard
Johnson and James Whalen lost their lives
trying to rescue property from fire on the
North River pier. New York.
At the Delaware Bank at Wilmington,
Delaware, while John c. Patterson was
clipping coupons sneak thief snatched bis
deposit box containing $4,000, and escaped.
The latest instance of judicial virtue Is tn,
fining of himself $50 bya California Judge
for getting drunk, a fine that he paid like O
man who respects the judgments of the
Court and applauds the integrity ofthe Judge
himself.
Judge Brewer is the Kansas Judge who de
cided that when State adopts prohibi y
liquor law it must pay for all the distilleries
and breweries whose business i destroyed
Fully 10000 people viewed the remains of
Jefferson Davis, Sunday, lying in state in
the City Hall at New Orleans, At nearly
all of the churches illusions were made to
his death. Many churches held memorial
services in his honor, principally the Protest
ant Episcopal, Catholic, Methodist and
Presbyterian.
At Troy, n. Y, Saturday, Lineman VIII
liam Mcnamara received a current said to b,
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