The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-11
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Ruggiere's fireworks factory, in Aubervei.
| liers, five miles from Paris, exploded, killing
seven people.
While the cashier Of solmier's bank, at
Ligonier, Ind, was at dinner a thief entered
the bank through window and stole 81 600
At Erie, Pa. the Coroner's jury in the
! case Of Gustave Rosterholz, who was found
dead on the Lake Shore tracks few days
! ago, have placed the responsibility for Ros-
terholEs death upon John Killen, . saloon
keeper. Kilen sold the young man liquor.
Kilen has been prosecuted.
Joseph Mackin, of Chicago, who was sen
tencedto five years in the Joliet prison for
connection with the election frauds of 1884,
has been pardoned by Governor Fifer in or
volved in his sentence.
There is an organized gang OF thieves
| who confne their work 10 the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad between New York and Pitts
burgh. Three persons were arrested at Mon
mouth Junction, n. j., and six others at
Railway, N. j., yesterday. Persons of high
standing are said TO be implicated in the
| thefts.
The iron men of the West are in a state Of
exultation. This condition OF affairs is due
not so much 10 any marked advance in
prices rs to the heavy and unexpected con-
su nption. There is also heavy specula-
/ tive demand for the manufactured product
and coupled with this aupicious condition Of
trade is the fact that freight rates are away
down. Altogether, therefore, the iron men
are happier than they have been for a long
time.
The stable Of the Harvey Paper Company
at Wellsburg, W. Va, was destroyed by fire
and two horses were burned to death. Loss
| q, 500 insurance 5000.
Augusts J. Kicks. of Ohio, has been APP
pointed United States Judge for the Northern
districts Of ohio,in place of Judge Day, who
declined the position on account Of ill
health.
At Durango, Colorado, fire did damage TO
J the extent Of $500, 600 TO $500, 900, with one
third insurance and rendered 100 families
homeless and destitute. Among the build
\ ings destroyed are the city hall and court
house with the county records.
The sixteenth annual session of the Chau-
tauqus Assembly opened Tuesday.
The Chicago Council passed an ordinance
forbidding the employment of alien laborers
on city contracts.
The total number Of mercantile failures
! throughout the United States reported to
BrddStTec's during the past six months
shows gain ofG6i as compared with the total
record for six months for nine years is; 1889,
5ols; 1883, 5,25i: 1887, SOP; 1856 5,46l; 1885,
6,iO5, 1851, 5,4S4; 1883, 5,2e6; 1882 364S;
! 1881. 1886
| Constitutional conventions for the four
/ States began at Helena, Mont. Sioux Falls,
/ South Dakota, bismarck. North Dakota and
Olympia, Washington Territory, yesterday.
The Navy Department is making prepara-
tions for observing the total eclipse of the
sun, which will occur on December 81. 1t
will be visible in its totality at Sc Paul de
! Loando, on the coast of South Africa. The
scientists who will be sent to observe the
eclipse will go 10 Rio Janeiro, aud thence
to st. Paul de Loanda in the United States
man-of-war Richmond.
Hadjs Hassein Ghooly Khan, the Persian
Minister to the United States, will shortly
leave this country for Europe. In an inter
view he told reporter that he would no,
come back, and that he had been driven out
of the country by the upkind and ungener
Gus things which had been written about
him and his sovereignin the American news
papers.
George Ewing of Fort Wayne, Ind, ha,
made claim through an attorney to the one
fifteenth interest in property in various part,
ofSt. Paul, estimated to be worth about g.,
100000 Notices of this claim have been ser
we'd on all the owners of the lots affected.
President Harrison, in company with
members of his Cabinet and other distin-
guished personsges, celebrated the Fol h Of
July at Woodstock, Conn. Speeches were
other guests. Congressman Reed outlined
the future policy of the Republican party
in the national Legislature. The ceremonie:
were interrupted by rain.
Thirty.five firms have thus far signed the
Amalgamated Associations iron scale. This
disposes of the scale for manufacturing iron
as the number constitutes half that worked
under tho Association rules last year. Re
garding the steel-scale there is still troub'
ahead.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union has created stir at Buffalo
by sending committee to get the ministers
10 substitute syrup for fermented wine in
administering the sacrament
James Hoover a convict, died at the STATE
Penitentiary at Cannon City, Co.., recently
Previous TO his death he told Warden Hoyt
OF buryinga fortune consisting Of gold mug
gets worth about s7,6G6, in Carter township
Huntington county, Pa. The money has
been found.