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

forming a similar Office for himself with the
same instrument.
A cartridge charged with dynamite was
placed on the track OF the Pttsburg.
Allegheny and Manchester street car electric
line, on Beaver avenue, Allegheny, Pa,
Thursday about q. M, and night car No.
l02 coming along was blown off the track.
The car contained 10 employees Of the road
on their way TO work. No one was injured.
The two houses on each side of the track
had every pane of glass IN their fronts
broken, and the conclusion being heavy all
the inmates Of these four houses were
awakened. A strike sin progress on this
line and one of the strikers has been
arrested ON suspicion.
Maggie Wessmuller, 20 years old, New
York servant was shot and instantly killed
by Frederick Zellcr young man about her
own age, who was insanely jealous of her
Jos. Hamel shot and inatantly killed his
tenant William Reatt, at De Soto. Mo-
Thursday, because the latter refused to
return some farming implements Hamel
gave himself up.
The whippngy at New Castle, Del, Satur.
day, were witnessed by an unusually large
crowd. Six whites and six negroes, convicted
chiefly of petty larceny, took from . =" 20
lashes.
Disasters and Accidents
Two families, named Watkins and McCuf-
fy, who started for Oklahoma from Cedar
Glndcs, Ark, were frozen TO death in the
recent blizzard. Their bodies were found
on the prairie near the Arkansas line.
After drifting in the open sea nearly a
week, the two missing men Of scow No. 8,
which was hitched to the tug Webster of
New York, have been rescued and landed at
Philadelphia almost dead.
The boiler of freight engine on the
Chicago and Alton road blew up near
Joliet, Ills, with fatal effect Brandon
Thomas, fireman, and c. +. Hastings, head
brakeman, were killed. Dubois Williams,
the engineer, was seriously hurt
Mrs Lenig and her two children burned
TO death with their home at East Jackson.
vile, Fla. Lenig escaped with severe burns.
The United States express fregh. train
was derailed at North Baltimore, o. En-.
Eineer James Manvel, of Garrett, Ind, was
killed; fireman John Hampton and express
MESSENGERS L. D. Callahan and d. Gray
were slightly injured.
l. While attempting to drive across the rail
4 road track at Stamford, Conn, Frank Adams
and his nephew, Walter Adams were in.
family killed
Chares. Harris, a boy Of Philadelphia,
teiI, e g nn..---ioyna- -cnIlpsSAA AA5Ts,,-prurur9
kiIi,,mc giant powder and a stilk Of dynamite,
nd experimental with it in a woodshed.
hat Iarris is dead, His companions were all
!, seriously hurt, and the woodshed is NIL.
J, Adisastrous and fatal wreck occurred on
Y the Chicago & Alton road Sunday, near
Il Centralia, Mo-, by the collision of u pa sen.
ger and freight train. The names of the
killed are: Ollie Wiliston of Roodhouse H.,
engineer Of freight train. Thomas Hindman
g OF Roodhouse, ILL.,, fireman Of freight train.
. John w. Kelley, of Kansas City, Mo-, fire.
" man of passenger train.
a Capital, Lubor aud Industrial,
to All of the great central bodies of labor or
in New York State have indursed
,nsa ne bill TO enable all selfsupporting women to
nde vote at all elections.
the Forty eight contract iaborers were de,
a u, barred from landing at Ellis Island. New
TO York harbor, and they will be sent back
tobThe total number returned during the week
was l2i. Most Of them were immigrants
.rtm bound for the Pennsylvania coal mines
The Pittsburg and Allegheny (Pa.) union
;b bakers want shorter hours and more money,
but are not ye, ready to try to enforce their
,nt claims for an improvement in their CON
her dtion.
th, The strike on the Pitts urg, (Pa.) ALE.
las lgheny & Manchester electric street car lines
Of lis ended, the strikers deciding to apply for
.,o , their old positions on the same terms pre-
lr tvailing prior 20 the strike. The company
"a twill retain all the new men and re-employ-
, Ting the strikers as vacancies occur.
The new Enterprise wire mills, II in mum.
siglbert commenced operations at Chicago.
whitley are considered the largest in the United
eeustates are outside the trust.
! AZ r., The Adams Express company are dis.
Ialtcharging many employees, messengers, etc,
dnat all points. who are members of the Ex-
ehlSess Messengers Brotherhood,
uill Legislative,
. sh
ION The Worlds Fair bill, appr oprating only
,URs300, 600 for the exhibit that New York State
ig twill make at the Worlds Fair in Chicago,
npt %. passed the New York State Senate
yol A bill aimed at the Sugar trust has been
, introduced in the New Jersey Legislature.
An anti Pinkerton bill has been passed by
d the New York Assembly.
/, The Utah legislature has passed a memorial
Il o. congress urging the passage ofthe home
i rule bill introduced by Senator Faulkner and
Delegate Cain last month, The nemoria,
,. !yecites oppression through the Utah commis-