The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-01-23
NEWS IN BRIEF.
HOME AND FOREIGN JoTTrNas.
The Pith OF Many Important Matters In
All Parts of the World.


Charles NJ. Davenport, printer, at Kan.
sas City, received injuries Thursday night at
the hands Of some unknown person from the
effects Of which he died.
Sidney Dillon, nephew Of Hon. Sidney
Dillon, of New York, accidentally shot and
killed himself while out hunting on his farm,
ten miles northwest of Omaha.
Granville Cooprider, desperate character.
shot aud rilled Night Policeman John T.
Siller, a. Clay City, Ind, in revenge for an
arrest made recently for jumping on trains.
The murderer s,cle horse hltched near by
and escaped.
Allison was unanimously renominated In
the Republican caucus of the Iowa Legisla-
ture
J.N. Phillips, aged 20, committed suicide
at Stanford Ky.
w. B.Gerling, a mulatto, of Cincinnati, who
had been suffering from influenza, died in
fit of sneeziug.
A Brooklyn jury has awarded 5000 to
Dora Klein in her suit for $4,000 against
VIM NJ Peas for breach Of promise
Prince Amadco, brother Of King Hum.
bert, of Italy, died at Turin Saturday even.
| Of pneumonia, resulting from influenza.
lie was 45 years old.
The Car of Russa, II is reported, has
taken TO consuming immense quantities of
champagne. The latest plotters against the
Cars life include all manner of people.
from the humble clerks to aristocratic oiii-
GERS in the Imperial Body Guard.
Kunze, one Of the Cronin suspects, was
released from jail Saturday at Chicago on Sj-
eOO bail. He will be exhibited in dime
museum.
II is said that an English agent is in Dem
yer, Col, endeavoring to secure evidence
against Charles S. Parnell in the oShea di-
vorce case.
Marshall Field, Of Chicago, has given
acres of land worth $1,000 in the south
ern part Of the city. as a site for Tia Baptist
University which John d. Rockefeller has
agreed to endow with 10000
The jury in the case Of Caroline j. Cam
mercr against her ancient lover, Clemens
Mueller, in New York, brought in a verdict
of Sl2, coo damages for the blight on her af-
fects.
The Burgess steel and Iron Works, Of
Portsmouth, have recently purchased the
Portsmouth Iron and Steel Works, at Ports
mouth, large plant, well situated, which
has remained idle for some years. This mill
is equipped with facilities for turning out
open hearth steel.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railroad
Company has put in blast its Alice iron fur
mace No g. after repairing.
The new rod mill Of the Iowa Barb Wire
Company, at Alle1ouYn, Pa, is now in full
operation, running Tor ihle. turn.
Work has rscn sessmennt the Millvills
Pa, giving emplc A Il NJ 30 men.
A new company, under the name of the
( Cape Ann Drop Forge Works, has recently
been incorporated at Lawrence, Mass, with
a capital stock Of $50, co.
Chattanooga parties are in correspondence
with gentleman who proposes 10 organize
Il stock company to manufacture engines
aud wire nails.
! The entire plant Of the junction Iron
Company. at Mingo Junction, Ohio, is closed
| down at present, undergoing extensive re.
| pairs. Operations will be resumed shortly.
The large anthracite blast furnace at TEN.
pie Berks County, Pa, which has been lille
for number of years, is to be put into blast
at once. George f. Baer is President of the
company which will operate the furnace.
There are 80 car building companies in
| the United States, and IN the year 1850 they
| turned out 7O,5 Il ears, and At the shops Of
railroad companies there We're doubtless
enough cars built TO swell the number add.
ed to the freight equipment Of the roads Of
this country last year to 10000 cars,
By the decision of Judge Wickham, OF
Beaver, Pa, the number Of councilmen and
school directors in Beaver Falls was doubled.
They now have two OF each in each of the
six wards.