The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-22
GENERAL JOTTINGS.
HOME AND F,oREIaN.

tories in Cincinnati.
Secretary Proctor is again at War Depart
ment headnnarters, having retur ned to
Washirs: IN Rom Vermont.
A farmer named Seney, of Chelsea, Mich.
euarelled with his son, Harvard and stab
bed the boy In the abdomen, inflictins "a
tai wound.
Joe Atkinson, the expert hangman of New
York City, is short of gallows and is trying
10 borrow one or two for the occasion of the
quintuple execution of women-killers in the
metropolis on the I'D of this month.
An unknown man whom the citizens Of
Elizabeth, \. j., have dubbed Jack the
PEPPER" has made several attempts lately to
get into the sleeping rooms of several houses.
Wednesday night Mr.. Zimmer chased him
with a revolver, but the rascal escaped
Harry Terian, aged q while attempting 10
eject crowd of outsiders from a hall i'm
Covington, KY, Wednesday night, where a
ball was being held, was hit by a woman On
the head with a beer glass. He died few
hours later. The identity of the woman has
DOT been established.
VIM. Gallagher, a puglist was shot by
Oliver Smith, n fellow bruiser, in Chicago,
and the chances are very much against his
recovery. Smith has SO far succeeded in
eluding the police.
Military men are watching with keen in
terest the experiments on the continent
with new smokeless power. So far nothing
except its higher cost has been brought for
ward against 1t to counterOalance the very
evident advantages which result from its
Use.
Twenty robbers boarded freight train Of
the Western New York and Pennsylvania
Raj road at 1rvington, n. Y, intimidated
the trainmen and broke open and robbed the
cars Of large quantity of goods. Officers
we're sent from Olcan and four of the robbers
were captured.
Clan.na Gael friends of the late Dr. Cronin
held their annual picnic at Chicago, and
adopted resolutions indorsing Gladstone and
Parnell and denouncing in severe and un-
compromising terms the murders Of DR.
Cronin.
Advices from Europe indicate that the
condition Of ex-Minister Pendeton is very
daughter has ppved very serious. and it is
feared he cannot recover.
Governor Ames, of Massachusetts. who
represents one of the largest steel industrie,
of New England, is reported to have signed
the petition to Congress for the abolition of
the duty on coal and iron ore, and the re-
duction of the duty on pig and scrap iron
and scrap steel to "a per cent.
The Newark Clothing salesman's Associa-
ton has started a crusade against the cloth
iers who refuse to close their stores at
o'clock in the evening. One clothier has re-
fused to aid in the movement, and at meet
ing of the association threats of boycott
were made against him.
Two Mormon elders, named Devoir and
shinn, attempted to hold meeting at Pine
Grove, Ritchie county. w. Va. The crowd
attacked the missionaries with clubs, stones
and rotten eggs, and they were badly beaten
and their clothes ruined. Shinn has a severe
cut on his head.
President Harrison and wife left Washing
ton Saturday for Deer Park, Md.
John A. Kasson, of Iowa, will likely suc-
coed the late Allen Thorndyke Rice as Min
lister to Russia
The hav kin; or placardng of documents
emanating from General Boulanger has been
prohibited in Paris.
Southern Spain was visited by a terrific
hurricane Saturday. A number of churches
aud other buildings in different localities
were wrecked.
The white Democrats of Fort Bend Tex
rs, and the negroes have had another race
war, and during the nights of Friday and
Saturday many shots were exchanged. Sher-
if James Garvey and ex-Sheritf Blakely
were killed and Judge J. w. Parker,
Deputy Sheriff Mason, Henry Prost and
'olney Johnson wounded.
Fire broke out at the Chautauqua Assem-,
bly, Grounds and destroyed several build.
ings.
Walter Asburg, alias Berriam, colored, was
lynched at Pooler, ten miles west of Savan-
nah, Georgia, for assault upon Lula Kiss
man, 17-ycar-old German girl.
The latest information from Hayti is that
Legtime is virtually master of the entire
island He is undoubtedly assisted finan.
cially by the French Government. The
leading business men of Port-au-Prince yet
sympathize with Hippoyte.
A special envoy of King Humbert of Italy,
presented Thomas A. Edison. the famous
American electrician, with the insignia of a
grand officer of the crown of Italy. Mr.. Ed.
son thus becomes a Count and his wife
ountess.
Two smelling furnaces are to be erected
in the State of Nuevaleon in consequence Of
the imposition of duties upon lead ores car
ricd into the United States. Petroleum in
large quantities has been discovered in the
State Of Chiapas
John l.. Sullivan has been sentenced to
one years imprisonment for prize fighting.
Sullivan's case cannot be heard by the Mis-
sissippi Supreme Court for six months, and
he has left the State on bail. He will now
organize company and give athletic exhi-
bitions, 1t is stated that Governor Lowry
will be lenient and there is no danger OF