The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-02-20
PENNSYLVANIA.

accepted the call as pastor of the First Chris
tian church OF McKeesport.
The citizens OF Duquesne are all ready to
make application for a borough charter. In
March the matter will go before the grand
jury.
Rev. 8. NJ. Bell, Of Greensburg, has been
\ appointed presiding elder of the Blairsvlle
district NJ. L. church, vice Rev. A. G. John.
ston, sick.
| The jury in the libel suit against L. NJ.
| Truxell, of the Believer on Enterprise, after
deliberating 2. hours, found the defendant
not guilty, the prosecutor to psy one fourth
| and the defendant three.fourths of the costs.
A meeting Of the Forest Oil Company
stockholders was held at Oil City, at which
| the capital stock was increased from ,2O),.
| 900 to S2,OO0,000 the increase to be used for
buying up new property. The company now
controls 5000 acres, aud the present daily
| production of the company's wells is 100
barrels Besides this the company receives
ROYALTIES from 30 wells.
company composed OF the stockholders
of the Pittsburg & Western railroad have dc
| termined to at once build the line from
! Akron to Cory, 10 conncs with the present
I narrow guage running to Akron, which will
| also be changed to standard guage. The
/ new line will give the Baltimore & Ohio a
| shorter rout to Chicago by 80 miles It will
be known as the Pi;tsburg, Akron IS Western
/ railroad.
J A gushcr of the first magnitude has been
/ struck in the Hundred-foct district of the
: Butler field that has caused the widest kind
/ of excitement there. Lockwood & Co s No.
!, on the EichOltz farm at Little Creek
reached the first pay strcaS Wednesday, aud
the oil spou,ed over the derrick. The well
started flowing 20 barrels an hour, but in
creased 10 20 barrels an hour. The well is
located in the northwest part of the Hun
drcd-Foot field not FIR from the Cabel farm
well, and is the largest producer yet found
in the Hundred Foot sand. The latest infor-
nation from the well is that it is increasing
its flow and there IS no telling where it will
reach.
James Wansby, n Winebrenarian preacher
at AleppO. Greene county, left his sick wife
last Sunday night and eloped with Miss
Belle Knapp, member of his church.
Wamsby is about 80 years old and was sent
to the charge at Aleppe last f,ll by the West
Virginia Eldcrshp. lie was well liked as a
minister until some Of his misioings became
known. Miss Knapp is a handsome young
lady p years of age aud belongs to good
family. She had always borne a good name.
Wamsby had been holding series of meet
ings and on Sunday evening preached to q
81,
sulrection OF the dead" The couple took an
early train at Cameron, w. Va, for the
East Money has been raised to hunt their
up and bring them to justice
w. y. Porter, was nominated for Burgess
of Scortdaic 10y the Republicans.
At Grcenvillc ~ l.. Leech has been nomi.
uat,d for Burgess by the Republican Caucus.
All the suits brought against the patrons
Of the Fuller Cash Carrier Company, of
| Mcadville nave been dismissed.
An order has been given at Cherrytree for
500 wheclbarrows and 1000 picks to be used
in the construction of railroad to that
place.
The house of John Snyder, bachelor liv.
ing alone ON farm near Saint Peter, was
entered on Saturday night by masked burg.
lars who bound Snydcr hand and foot aud
carried OIL 500 the savings of Il lifetime.
number Of men were engaged in clean.
ing ont gas well Ia the Grapeyile field
Westmoreand county, when the gas came in
with great roar, throwing man named
Pitts ~ feet and injurng him perhaps fil-
tally.
At Johnstown, Jerry Lynch was danger.
ously shot by John Craig in a drunken
brawl.
William Nohn, foreman at Bridge No. 9
Of the Pennsylvania railroad near Johns
town, was crushed TO death by falling rock.
The Lake Shore Il Michigan Southern
Railway Company is negotiating for dock
facilities at Erie, and the prospects are that
the road will divide its Buffalo business with
that port
Prof d. J. Waller, D. d., who has been
appointed 10y Gov. Beaver Superintendent
of Public Instruction to succeed the late
Rev. DR. H. T.. Higbee is although young
man, one of the most prominent educator.
in the State. lie will take charge on the
first of March. Prof, Waller is Il graduate
Of the Lafayette College, He preached for
some time in New York State, but his failing
health compelled him to leave the ministry.
While in charge OF an academy at Orange
Vile, Columbia county, he was elected prin-
cipal OF the State Normal School at Blooms
burg, which position he has ever since held.
The Johnstown steol nail company began
working double time ne day, the company
being behind in orders
Curtis Wells, the head man at the Clifford
shaft, Forest City, met fearful death by
falling down the shaft distance of 800 feet.
Falling slate killed Michael Hughes, mi
ner at Hill farm, near Dunbar.
, A company has been organized to develop