The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-18
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Thirty-seven more bodies have been YAK.
en- from the coal mine M st. Etlennc
France, where the explosion occurred Las
week.
Patrick Doyle, a one-armed peddler, chok
ed Henry McNulty, who had lost both arms
TO death in a Buffalo saloon Monday night
The Pope has been asked TO caaonix'
Christopher Columbus, on the anniversary o
the discovery of America, by q number o.
bishops and others.
Patrick Packenham, James Nolan and
John Lewis, the latter colored, all women
slayers, were yesterday resentenccd TO bt
hung ON August %, at New York.
At Salem, o., Hungarian by the name oI
George Matthews, who is employed by the
Salem 0rgan-Works in the glue room, took
piece of board and went to the circular saw
to saw it. The board split, part Of il run
ming into his stomach, killing him instantly.
| He was a single man and with q number
OF other Hungarians kept house on the
flats.
Jack Cummings, the man who was charg-
ell with the assassination OF Joseph B.
Smith, of Roane county, w. Va. has con-
fessed, duplicating Granville Ramsey, a
| prominent and wealthy farmer, as an ac-
complice. Ramsey has been arrested. He
| furnished the weapon with which Smith
was killed.
! A decided impression now exists that the
President has determined TO call an extra
session of Congress, to begin prior to the first
of November. Upon several occasions lately
the President has taken the opportunity TO
discuss with Senators and members who
have called upon him the reasons and nee e.
stiles for an extra session, indicating that his
inclinations were turning in that direction.
The Treasury Department has affirmed
the decision OF the Collector Of Customs at
New York, in assessing All additional duty
of ~ per cent. ad valorem on certain impor.
ted silk and cotton yelour.. The importa.
ton consisted of two classes " silk and cot.
ton goods-silk and cotton satins and silk
and cotton velours.
James Anderson, of Springfield, Ohio, a
bachelor, aged 20 years, and worth slO0, 900,
married Annia Nevis, aged IL years. An
derson boarded with the girls family. Hi.
own relatives are indignant.
VIM. vaas, an aged musician OF Wheeling
was found dead under the Baltimore & Ohio
Railway bridge. lie had leaped 60 feet to
his death, suicide being induced by melan-
choly.
n, Walter. and w. A. Grimes we're buried
under about three feet of earth by cave-n
of a sewer at Canton, o. Both were badly
injured and Walters will probably die.
The Ohio River railroad passenger train
last night ran over and crushed to death an
unknown man who was walking on the
/ acks about four miles from Psrkersburg,
w. Va.
A company has been organized at Beaver
Falls for .1,c construction of cable load
from Col 4 Hill, at the extreme upper
limit Of rewn, into and through New
Brighton and eventually to Rochester.
The Otis Steel Company, Of Cleveland, o.,
has sold its works to an English company
for 100000, but the present management
Wire Works are not included in the sale.
Postmaster Cowden, of Wheeling, w. Va,
will bring suits against number OF leading
business men of that city for violating the
postal laws in sending out first-class matter
in newspapers and at newspaper rates.
Zebulon Ruddy, of Poughkcepsie, N. Y,
cashier of the First National Bank hs, been
forced to resign his position on account OF
selling securities and pocketing the commits.
,ions which the President OF the bank held
should accrue to the bank.
The Ysrana again defeated the Vslkyrie in
the Royal English regatta.
DR.. w. p. White, of Boston, killed his
wife with knife and then committed sui
eide by shooting himself
John Dunno and John Grace, detectives
are under arrest at New York. charged with
cnticing men to commit burglaries and then
arresting them.
The Australian steamship Caledonia,
from Singapore, is at Msrscilles, with cholera
on board, many of her III passengers being
Frustrated with that disease.
A cloudburst occurred at Soldier Creek
Valley, Neb., in which four persons are
known to have been drowned. Some of the
waves were six feet high.
Thomas Jefferson, colored, was hanged at
Memphis, Tenn, for the murder of William
Ragland, a hackman, last October. Jealousy
vas tho cause Of the crime.
The Sterling Steel Company, OF McKees-
port, Pa increased its capt. al from $50, 900 to
$3.50, 900, and will at once proceed to double
the capacity of its works.
II. X. Taylor,an attorney of Youngstown,
Ohio, was appointed receiver of Brown,
Bonnell & Co., by the court on the applica-
ton of stockholders TO dissolve the corpora
| tion.
The Supreme Court of Texas has affirmed
the finding of the lower court in the case Of
the Milino National Bank OF Laredo Texas,
in its suit against Jay Gould to recover S32,-
| PA for work done for the Southwest Con-
struction Company, organized by Gould.
Commander-in-Chief Warner, ofthe Grand