The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1891-03-05

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gan, Col, playing havoc with the soldiers.
Eighty are in the hospital and four deaths
have occurred this week from the DIS
ease.
Atornado passed over Jacksonville, Ind.
Wednesday night. There was no damage
except the blowing down of 75 bell towers at
Howard's ship yards but houses rocked Ike
cradles.
Sixty victims Of the Spring Hill, N. S.
colliery disaster were buried this week.
Prier, Wotton & Co., timber merchants OF
London, have failed with liabilities amount
ing to 81 $4,000.
The total collection Of internal revenue
during the first seven months of the fiscal
year ending June 80 1891, were $1,000, 1856,
being 7,4s7, ,4l2 more than the collections
during the corresponding period OF the pre-
Vions fiscal year.
General Master Workman Powderly do
nies that he is suffering from his heart and
says that he is attending to his business
right along.
The town Of Fennville, Mich, was almost
destroyed by fire.
A bill was introduced in the Legislature
| legalizing prize fighting in Nevada. The IL
cense is fixed at five hundred dollars.
On Friday, the body of Manager Swift was
taken out Of the Spring Hill Mines (N. s.
! This is the last, making in all 1G3 victims.
! There are 90 widows, 1863 fatherless children,
and widowed mothers deprived of the
support OF their sons.
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| the Dea1wood Central railroad, Colorado,
collided near Dcadwood Two coaches were
wrecked, one person killed and two injured
The vegetable cook at Green's Hotel, Phia-
delphs, whose name is ary Murphy, has
been dumb for three years, but yesterday
being aroused to fit ofintcnse anger, by the
impudence Of a colored waiter named Joe
Todd, she suddenly recovered her speech
Miss Anna Dickinson, the iwell-known
author and lecturer, has become insane and
is confined in the Dsnville, tPa,) Insane
Asylum Miss Dickinson has been unable
to sleep At all for months past. She would
read all night long. Her physicion attempt
| cd TO break her Of the habit of constant
reading but without success. The patient is
said 10 have made herself poor by her pro-
miscuous almsgivng.
The % typefounders Of the United States
have formed a combination or trust for the
establishment of uniform prices.
Mary Dunn. an old woman of Sedalia, No,
and 2-year-old grandchild were burned to
death in their residence.
A wreck occurred on the Erie road at East
Buffalo, in which one man VAS KILLED and
six Others badly injured.
Ex-Judge Bobs, of Decatur Ind, while
under the influence Of liquor shot and killed
Roland, his 33-year-old son.
The recent explosion in the Spring Hill
IN. 81 mine, by which 1875 men lost their
lives, was caused by two miners who sur
reptitously used open lamps in connection
with safety lamps.
Cutters, sharpeners and quarrymen Of the
Granite Union at Concord, y, H., threaten
u strike on June for an advance Of about
10 per cent.
The new freight steamship America. eight
days overdue from Liverpool, arrived at
New York yesterday in a badly battered
condition.
The round house OF the Wheeling and
Elm Grove Railroad, at Elm Grove. burned
this morning. A motor aud several cars
were destroyed. Loss, $1,000.
Near Paincsville, o., Frank Lett attacked
his uncle Andy Lett when the latter stab
bed him several times with pack knife,
wounding him 50 badly that he died.
Eighteen blocks, including the Baptist
church and many residences were burne!
by fire at Heron, ST. Lawrence county, \.
j., at midnight Saturday. Loss $1,000; in
surance $4,000.
Max Rothschild, cotton goods swindler,
is under arrest at New York. He took in A
number of Western firms by Offering to sell
goods 40 per cent cheaper than compe titors
and obtaining advance money.
John Boles Copeland, of Parnassus, West,
moreland county, Pa, aiiectionatey kissed
his wife, and then fired two bullets into her
breast, naicting fatal injuries
Twenty-Five fully-developed cases of
! leprosy are reported in New Orleans, and as
the city has no hospital for such cases the
danger Of the disease spreading Is very
/ great.
EI7State Treasurer Woodruff was arrested
at Little Rock, Ars., on a charge of embez.
zeling $4,000.
Daniel Porter the murderer Of Edwin -.
Smith, oyerrOweredt the jailer at Quincy, H.,
Sunday night and escaped.
A masked robber at Kansas City, Mo-,
entered the residence Of J. $. Morris, Sunday
evening, and finding Miss Clara Morris alone
in the paror took her gold watch aud tore
the diamond earrings from her ears, badly
mutilating them.
Governor Jackson, OF Maryland will not
| appoint a successor TO the late United States
Senator Wilson. The seat will remain va
cant until the Legislature, which meets in
January next, elects senator. Governor
| Jackson will then be q candidate himself
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