The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1892-02-11

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benefit Of creditors.
The banking firm Of Marcy. Gerr & Nc
Ann, Of Ration, N. NJ, has failed for about
ts0,0o0 assets, 10000. Depreciation In cattle
securities caused the crash.
The First National Bank af Silver City. N.
NJ. and Deming, N. NJ. have closed simul-
taneously, their stockholders being largely
identical.
The Western Farm & Mortgage company,
Of Denver, has collapsed, and arrests are
expected. The company has boen doing
business Of $1,000, 900, principally on other
peoples money.
In the case Of man tried in United States
district court at Helena, Mon, for selling a
bottle Of beer to an Indian on the Crow
reservation, Judge Knowles has decided
that beer is not spirtuous liquor. The man
was discharged,
Mortuary.
Rev. George Phillips d. D.. of London,
England President Of Cambridge, and ex-
Vice Chancellor of the University, Is
dead.
Nine. Flygare Carline the Swedish
auth Dress, who had been considered by her
compatriots the George Sand of the uors
died at Stockholm.
Adjutant General William McClelland
died at the Harrisburg, Pa, Hospital Satur-
day afternoon. He had been suffering for
months from malignant liberation of the
stomach and cancer ofthe liver. His ply
sicidns found 1t necessary to determine the
full nature of his disease by internal exami-
nation and an operation was performed for
that purpose, after which he rallied, but later
in the night death relieved his suilerings.
Rear Admiral Andrew Bryson, United
States navy, retired, died at his residence in
Washington, in the SEVENTEEN year of his
age.
Sir Morrel Mckenzie, the eminent
physician, died Unexpectedly at London. Dr.
Mckenzie was the Queens medical adviser.
She knighted him for his services One of
the most famous cases he dealt with was
that of the Emperor Frederick, Of Germany.
Russell Sage Jr, the nephew Of the mil
lionaire Of the same name died at New York
City.
Miss Katharine, daughter OF DR.. Thomas
W. Shaw. a prominent physician of Pitts
burg, Pa. died suddenly in the theater Of
the Pittsburg club house at 3 o'clock Satur>
day morning. While Miss Shaw was
promenading the ball room in company
with some friends, she suddenly threw up
her hands as IL In faint. Willing hands
earned her to couch, where she was laid
down, but despite immediate and skilled
medical attention, she expired. Heart
failure was the cause Of her death.
The Weather.
Saturday nine inches Of snow fell at Wash.
ington, ID. G., while Chicago, H., was
revelling in balrny spring time weather.
It was % degrees below zero at Saratoga,
n Y, on Saturday. Reports from the
below in that section.
At Rembina; N.-D. the thermometer
stood 4s degrees below zero on day last weea.
At Spiritwood lake In the same region, the
ice is three feet thick, and in cutting II on
cold days the saw stuck fast frequently and
had to be cut out with an AK.
Sanitary ItcEis.
The following five person, committed
suicide in Western New York last week,
victims Of gripp and its sequences; Edwin
! A. Crown, financial clerk Of lumber
company at Tonawanda; James Gotta,
wealthy citizen Of Medina; Salem II. Waters
| Of Waters Creek; John Stein, of Batavia;
and Mahlon Chambers, of Chariottevillo.
Spotted fever is raging near Dangerfeld,
| Tex.
Bordentown, n. j., reports five cases OF
small pox.
The grip is beginning to abate in Indi.
ana and Illinois, but is still very bad.
/ EIrps.