The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-05-30
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
CLEANED FROM ALL SOURCES.
The Main Facts Related withous
Unnecessary worda

The Connecticut House Of Representatives
indefinitely postponed the bill limiting the
aloons in licensed towns to one for every
700 inhabitants
TbeP. r r. Co. has been buying property
n Baltimore from Its Union station TO City
Hall, and has now prepared plans for an
elevated road into the heart Of the city sim
lar TO that Ia Philadelphia.
The Ohio Democratic State Committee de-
sided that the State Convention should be
aeld at Dayton on August 81 aud %.
On the farm OF Mr.. Hayden, near Wichita,
Kansas, the father, mother, child and hired
man are desthly sick, and two cows and
horse lie dead in the barn yard. 1t would
SEEM from tho death Of the animals that the
poison came from the we'll.
The court at Eaton, o., refused new trial
10 Elmer l.. Sharkey, convicted OF the MUIR
der OF his mother. Sharkey was sentenced
TO hang on September L.
Rev. J. w. weatherold, OF Huntington.
w. Va died Tuesday night OF blood poison~
ing. Three weeks ago he stepped on brass
tack and this slight injury cost him his life.
A mine Of graphite has been discovered On
the farm Of J. II. Berch, near Plsttsburg,
Mo. The vein is ~ feet wide and 500 fesa
long. II will be developed for stove polish,
lubric ,ting powders and lead pencils.
Tic grand jury Of Union county, New Jer
sey, handed into court three indictments
against General J. Madison Drake, Comman'
der OF the Veteran x ,uaves, for criminal Ii
bel He was held in 81 800 bail
Tho most disastrous Nay storm and
freshet th.t has occurred In many years was
experienced Monday and Tuesday ut Still
water, N. Y. The canal overhowei and
the crops on the lowlands were ruined. Foui
inches OF water fell at Comstocks, Washing
con county, and the crops were badly dam
aged. A furious storm OF wind. rain and
hail foll at Sandy Hill and vicinity. Con-
siderable damage was done to crops by the
s.orm. The Hudson liver has risen about
.hree feet at Troy owing 10 the rains
The Supreme Court OF Ohio has decided
the case OF the State ag inst H,nry $. Ives
and George II. Slayer IN favor OF the dsfend>
ants. The prosecuting attorney OF IL Himilton
county had taken exception, TO tho uling OF
| Judge Shroeder, of this Common Pleas
| Court, where the jury was directed to bring
| in a verdict for acquitt,l, tn, d1tendants bc>
| ing on trial for swindling the stock holders
Of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton
Railroad. The exceptions were overruled
and the case dismissed.
The l4.year>old son OF Peter Schriber, n
prominent oil man Of Oil City, fell from the
roof Of three>story building, distance OF
IS feet, breaking both arms.
The Commissioner, OF In lima and West.
moreland counties, at n conference Mt Green's
burg, decided to jointly build n bridge across
the Conemaugh rive. at New Florence. 1t
will be 325 feet long and cost slj,0
Mrs. Alex. Cummings, aged about 35 years
while carriage riding at OIL City, was thrown
from her carriage aud severely injured prob
ably fatally. The accident WIS caused b.
the horse taking fright at pumping oil well
The barn OF d. A. Beatty, OF Warrington
Marion county, w. Va, was burned recent
". and susp cion rested on one Hawkinberry
and he was arrested and place in a neigh
DOTS DOuSc. lnhJ HlBuI pun' Va hA"9heN
men broke into the house, took Hawknb rrJ
out beat him cruelty and hung him to 4
tree, running him up and down severa
times, trying To eXtort confession iron
him. Hawkint erry was found yearly deaf
by some neighbors, who carol for him, an'
an invests alton reveals that he was limo
cent Of the crime charged az .inst him,
The members Of the Women's Christian
Temperance Union ia / hiladclphS have de-
cded not 10 visit the POLLS on juno Is, whe
the vote will lie taken on the Prohibition
Amendment Tney will hold prayer meet
inss ia churches in various parts Of the cit
all through the day, and hope to nccompl's
more by this means than by soliciting votes
The people OF the Dskotas are discussin
the question OF whethertwo Houses are nec.s
sary or desirable in Legislature, and wheth
: er II would not DO better to have but one.
General Lew Wallscs and Nathaniel
, Tucker have been slscted as Unitoi Stat.
, Commissioners to H,yti Tney will col
for with Hippolyte and endesvor to secuI
peaos and fow locations suitable for ooaliu
r stations. Beyond this their instructions ar
secret.
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