The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-10
SNAP SHOTS.
HOME AND FOREIGN JoTTINGs.
tnE PrrH OF MANY MATTERS or MOMENT
BRIEFLY PUT.

girl OF good tafnlly. III IL hileSeu no HAS
four wives living.
farmer Of Marion county, Illinois,
named Mediation has been sent to the peni-
Tertiary for one year for perjury in under.
valuation Of his property in making his re-
turn to the tax assessor. He returned his
horses at SIS; cattle at $50 and mules at SIS
He submitted evidence on his trial that other
stock on his farm were not his property but
the States witnesses swore to the con irary.
and he was sent TO the penitcntiary, besides
having f2iS in costs taxed against him.
George Myers, married, and Matte Silbl
| eloped from near Peerless. Mrs. Myers got
| n pistol and overlook the runaways at Peer.
| less and opened fire on the woman, which
resulted in prabably fatally woun1ing her.
!, coinHon occurred between passenger
! and n freight train at Lasswitz, in Poscn.
| -Four railway officials, who were on th,
passenger train, were killed, aud many o,
the passengers were injured.
Smallpox is raging at Socorro New Mex
leo.
Boulangcr says he will spend the winter
IN Egypt,
bushels short according to State department
reports.
The sultan is making dazzling prepara
tions for Emperor williams visit to Con
stantinoplc October ..
The grand jury at Chicago has returned
indictments against James +. Moore and
William Wright for selling lottery tickets
The New York Central is going to build
the inCinnati Louisville and Dayton Rail
road, now being surveyed. Property for
large yards has been purchased at Cncin
natl.
Some fool started run on the Dime Saw,
mgs Bank of Peoria, ILL.,, Thursday. The
officials paid out many thousands and kept
open up to II o'clock at night. All that was
taken ont was deposited again.
Warden wright, Of the Western Peniten-
tiary, has solved perpiexing problem. He
has found means of employment for 7l3 con.
victs under his charge. The warden has
found market for the production of the
broom factory he established last August.
Australia has agreed to take all the broom'
he can send.
Mrs. MacRae, wife of Presbyterian
clergyman in st. John, y. b., has beer
poisoned by strychnine which was in candy
sent TO her husband by mail Two othei
ministers in st. John received poisonts
candy in the same way
The n-Amcrican delegates, who went I,
West Point on Thursday evening, returned
to New York Saturday afternoon, making
the trip down the Hudson river on tn,
cruiser Yorktown. They were transferred
from the Yorktown to the Puritan, which
left for Boston in the evening.
The National Assembly of Guatemala has
approved q contract for building railroad
/ from Port IIarrios, on the Atlantic side, to
, the capital of the Republic.
: Major Wilson Special Commissioner, sold
! in Springfield, Illinois, under tbs order o
| the Federal Court, the St. Louis and Chica
l go railroad, running from Springfield to Mt
Q olive, 43 miles. The road was purchased by
a a, II, JoIine, Of New York, representing
; George Copsel, d. d. Withcrs and Frank c,
t Holins.
, Admiral Porter is lying dan ;srously i'll n
>, his home in Johnstowu, K. /.
a Pierre, the new capital Of South Dakota
/. is iscnioying boom that rivals Oklahoma 8
2, Barnum's great and only show will lea,
II the Lord Mayors procession u: London ol
As Noycmb,r0.
i The working women OF the East End, Ion
r. don, are now baius orslnizci prior to a de
II mand for better pay.
), Pleasant Bynnt, a colored man, was kill
III ed by the explosion of a soda water fountain
u VI Washington, Saturday.
,, The Jury investigating the South Eng
wood disaster ut Chctso has censurei I'll
officers of the road for negligence, in add
ton to holding Engineer Twombley and h
fireman for murder
The base ball championship season ende
IN Saturday, with New York the winner oil u
pennant. and Pittsburg in fifth place
n,, Thomas White, Camden, New Jerse
cn boy, robbed his employer of 300 which
lp- intended spending ON Alice st. Clair'
on young woman connected With ten eel
IgO circus.
~n Large deposits of valuable iron ore hav
ed ust been discovered ona number OF farm
In the famous Middctown Valley, Nd. III
ite' varieties so far found are known as specul'
ias iron. A large portion of the land has
ers ready been leased to a Baltimore syndlca'
zen and the Cambria Iron Company, OF Pen
he sylyanla, is also negotiating.
"H' The President has appointed Edward
''r Lee,h, of the District OF Columbia. Direct
w. Of the Mint.
10y Ex-Presdent z. B. Hayes is visiting q
T., home of the Bigeows at West Brattleb'
~, ough Mass, the home of his grandparen
in Three counterleiters-IsaacR Rcynolis,J Jo
Lucas and j. IL. Mcbride, the latter an {
offender, have beea arrested in Indian
They were engaged in counterieiting
coins.
VIM. Mcdonald, clerk in drug store
st. John, n. B., is in custody, charged W
, being the person who sent the poison
. VI candy through the mail which caused
death of Mrs. McRae