The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-01-16
PENNSYLVANIA.
The Sharon stove works have resumed,


At Johnstown Peter RAIDER blew out bi,
brains. He was a millman and seemed In
be enjoying life.
1ramps arrested at Connellsville, Pa, are
made to serve a term in the lookup and
given 10 minutes to leave town.
benjamin Barnett, of Scranton. got out Of
sick bed to see his brothers funeral mass.
The effort caused his death a few moments
later.
La grippe Is so prevalent among Pennsyl-
vania Railroad employees at Altoona that
there is freight blockade in the Yards
there.
The strong wind blew down a large nun,
ber OF oil derricks near Butler. The wires OF
the United Pipe Lines are down, and com.
munication is shut Off with some of tho
districts
Hon. r. Milton Speer is lying seriously i'll
at his residence in Huntington. His re-
covery is doubtful.
John Heinlcin, Johnstown butcher, fell
into vat Of hot water Wednesday night and
may not survive the scalds
William II, Knecht, who blew out the gas
in the Pacific house at South Bethlehem,
died.
Fulton Cline, of Washington, bag
gage master OH the Charters railroad, died
suddenly of heart disease.
The Economite Society has taken hold of
the Whitla Glass Company at Beaver Falls,
increased its capital stock and will at once
resume operations.
John Mckinnon and f. NJ Bagley, while
coon hunting in the vicinity of Williams
port, caught coon weighing 40 pounds with
steel trap attached to its leg
Murphy Bros, oil well contractors Of
Washington, have caused the arrest of John
C. Mccoy, whom they claim has cut their
cables in spirit of revenge for having been
discharged.
A movement has been started by a. ].
Koracsy an educated Hungarian interpre,
ter of Connelsyille, and Rev l. Noremcsky,
of Freeland, to include all the Hungarian
and Slayish residents of the coke regions.
This will be ihe first institution of the kind
in this d strict
a syndicate Of capitalists, Of winch II. w.
Hartman is a member, has purchased 600
acres Of ground at the intersection of the
Pittsburgh & Western Railroad and Como.
quenssing creek, and will locate thereon a
number of man ufacturing plants. Several
dams will be thrown across the stream and
and the natural resources developed. A six
foot vein of coal and a tw nty-foot vein OF
Limestone underlie the tract. II is also stated
that oil and gas are found 5000 feet below
the suface.
Stewart Chambers one Of the oldest men
in Erie county, dropped dead on Wednesday
night at his home in Harbor creek.
Postmaster George Perrette Of Cannons
burg, who has been suffering from IL car
buncle on the neck, died yesterday morn
ing.
The Sphinx brothers Of Tions Fa., con-
victed Of conspiring to send the wife of one
of them to an insane asylum. were sentenced
to 80 daysin Jail and fined 500 each.
The Mutual Coal and Coke company will
begin the erection of 800 coke ovens in two
months on the coal land purchased from Jo.
seph W. Steel, in Mt. Pleasant township,
Westmoreland county. The price paid was
$4,000
he Tyler Tube Works Company, of Bos
ton, has decided 10 move its plant to Wash
ington, and invest $4,000. L,c cal capitals
wiz put another $4,000 into rolling mill
to supply the tube works with material
The new steel works Of the Cambria Iron
Company at Johnstown are approaching
their full estimated capacity of 1000 tons
per day The new Siemens furnaces at 40.
/ mil, with the new mechanical charging
rig, will be in operation next Monday.