The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-15
GENERAL JOTTINGS.
HOME AND YoRn1oM.

| retired merchant who bad lost all his money.
BY the recnnt death OF q relative, Mrs. I'M
derhill received as her share $4,000 and
she and her husband have taken a trip to
Europe.
Two young men named McGrath and Mar
tell voluntarily walked into a Chicago sta
ton house Saturday and gave themselves
up, saying they understood they were want
cd for the murder Of Officer Freyer last
Thursday. If guilty they have had plenty
of time to concoct good story, and the
chances of confession are slight.
Asher Haggerty, an ex-convict, struck and
killed Edward Bagget, aged Do at the Mon
mouth House, Freehold, N. j., Saturday.
Haggerty was arrested.
London tram car men have had their wag-
es increased, their hours oflabor diminished,
and the right of the men to combine has
everywhere been recognized.
As soon as the Secretary of War returns to
Washington he will make n number Of
changes, sending officers on duty at Wash
ington to the frontier and bringing in those
out West.
A.troch Brothers. millinery dealers of Ian.
caster Pa, fail cd Saturday. Liabilities
$4,000.
The steamboat s. b. Van Meter burned at
Lowell, Ohio. Loss 5000.
Blondn, the tight rope walker, will walk
one rope from Eiiie tower to the main dome
of the Paris Exposition in five minutes on a
bet of $1,000.
John Yeldell Is now free and happy man.
A jury Of ~ white men have declared him
innocent ofthe murder of James $. Blackwell.
| The State made a hard fight to sustain the
Indictment, but the testimony against him
was weak, scattering and contradictory.
The famous chancery case of Writ county,
West Virginia, against the Little Kanawha
Nav CATION company was argued and is now
in the hands of the court. The case involves
the validity of subscription to the COM
| panys bonds voted by the county, and is a
test one. II the county wins, numerous sim.
liar suits will be brought in the State.
The Merced Morales Theater, City of Mex
leo, was burned Wednesday night. Several
persons were injured, but no lives are re-
ported lost.
II. ii. Stcdman, County Treasurer, who
! lives at Vinton, Ia Is short ell 900 in his
accounts. The revelation was a great sur
prise TO his friends.
J. w. Harde, Probate Judge of Townor
county, Dakota, for five years, has dsap-
peared, leaving a large indebtedness. He is
thought to be i'm Canada.
The United States Geodetic Survey, sent
out to definitely determine and establish the
Alaskan boundary, are making satisfactory
| progress with their work.
On Tuesday a heavy hail storm occur.
red in the northern and central to nships of
Brown county, Dakota, cutting swath sew
sral miles in length through unharvested
grain and doing great damage. Farmers in
the vicinity of Plana and 0rdway will lose
most of their grain. uailstones eight inches
in circumference fell during the storm.
The late Ex-Premier CaroLr, the emf
nent Italian statesman, twice Prime Minis
ter of Italy, died at Naples, aged 80 years.
Signor Carroll fought with Garibaldi, and
was wounded at Palermo in 1860. In 1875
he was stabbed while protecting the person
fixing Humbert He was the leader of the
Extreme Lett in the Italian Chamber.
1t is announced that the Columbia iron
( Company, of Lancaster, Pa, posted notice
of an increase from $3.50 to 1886 per ton for
pudding and other wages in proportion,
keeping the promise made four months ago,
when the reduction was made, that when
trade grew better they would increase.
Thomas Burns aged 27, was struck by the
accommodation train bound west on the
Allegheny Valley road, at Dsnney's curve.
His skull was badly fractured and he was
taken to the West Penn Hospital, where he
died an hour later. He lived with his sister,
Mrs. J. Fox, on Hill street.
A raid on the establishment Of Quong,
Wo Sung Il Co., at l70 Second avenue,
Pittsburgh, Sunday, resulted in the capture
otsome 40 Chinese gamblers with the neces-
sary parapherna!ia for carrying ON their
heatbensh games. The place had been un-
der police surveillance for some time.
Patrick Calhoun, General Counsel for the
West Point Terminal road, and j. ID. VIZ
| hanson, President of the Chattanooga,
Rome q Carrollton road, fought duel at
Hokes Bluff, near Atlanta, Georgia, in
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Williamson had denounced statement by
Calhoun before legislative committee as
false, which caused the trouble.
horrible butchery is reported from Nc
Dowell county, w. Va. 1t appears that
widow named Gilis lived in remote dis.
trict Of the county with two daughters about
grown. They were poor but respectable
people. Friday neighbors found all three
dead. They had evidently been orimnally
assaulted and murdered. There Is absolutely
no clue to the perpetrators of the deed.
The new cruiser Chicago will be ready
next week for the coming speed trials.
The village of Sachsenberg, Germany, has
been burning and is entirely destroyed.
Section Boss Cushing of the Waterbury
railroad, was killed by riotous Italian at
Waterbury, CT.
Fifty thousand women voted in the re,
cent Kansas school elections, and many la
dies were elected to office
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TWO MURDERS.