The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-12-13

3 was on Saturday arrested the second
= time charged with stealing. He was
lodged i'll Jail at Lewisburg. On
= Monday the grand jury found
true bill against him for larceny and
the court here sent constable to
Lewisburg to bring the prisoner.
Our readers will remember that
Heiser is the man who pretended to
be so innocent last summer.
The Perry County Freeman, the
Oldest republican paper in Perry
county, was sold last week to VIM.
ii. Sponsler, Esq, son of VIM. A.
Sponsler, president of the wrecked
Perry County Bank. The late pro.
prietor, John A. Baker, is next to the
oldest man in the newspaper busi-
ness, having established the free
man So years ago. Infrmities caus-
ed by old age compelled the late ed
itor to retire.
About October 10, 1893, two per
sons not known to me left one bay
horse. one top spring wagon, har-
ness, two horse shoes, and old
blankets, at my stable at Kreamer.
Snyder county, Pa. The owner or
owners are requested to come and
pay the expense for the keeping, or
L will sell the horse and the goods
according to law for the keeping of
the horse, &c.
SAMUEL RUMDAUGH.
kreamer, Pa, Dec. 4.
Miss Emma Watson, of Roanoke.
w. Va, was murdered by Samuel
Feldt, who had repeatedly asked
her to marry him, and had been re.
fused. Miss Watson was 10 years
old. and went to school. Feldt, who
is 20, worked for her father till he
dispissed him on ACCOUNT ~ bis NJ
. tentions to Miss Emma. He met
= her on the road, and when she spurn-
e ed him, shot her in the head. There
, has been talk of flynching, and it may
| be done yet.
Senator w. II. Hackcnberg stop
= ped in Lewisburg ON Monday night
= while on his way To Bellefonte on
legal business. The Senator will in
troduce II number of important bills
ut the next session of Legislature,
one of which will fix the liability of
overseers of the poor for the sup
port of paupers who move from one
township into another, thus obviat-
ing the innumerable law suits that
now constantly arise. Le,ciSbtr0
Ne,cS.
The people in Milton who sided
with Harry Auer and looked upon
him as much abused young man
Mt the time he created the distur-
bance in the opera house, feel rather
crestfallen to think they wasted
their sympathy ona young man who
was the past week sentenced to
three years and six months in the
penitentiary for robbing, and who
has been i'll dozens of scrapes since
his short soiourn in Milton.
VIM. 5, Arbogast of Mt. Pleasant
Mills. formerly proprietor of the
Jacobs House, Mifllintown, Pa, on
|, Tuesday took possession of the Nat
ional Hotel at Selinsgrove, Pa. j. G
Deckard will go to Baltimore. Mr..
Arbogast kept one of the best, if not
the best, hotel in Juniata county
and he is an entertaining, pushing
business man who will make the
National Hotel in Selinsgrove
welcome place for many travellers
and friends. His past record as
successful hotel proprietor is a suf-
ficient guarantee of his future sue
cess.
| From the following statement it
will be seen that the lumberman
upon whom devolved the task Of
securing the logs that escaped from
the Williamsport boom during the
flood of last May have done effective
work: About 10000 900 feet came
down the river, of the value of about
81 100000. OF this quantity, the
amount already returned to the
WilliamspOrt mills, or to be returned
by tho middle Of this month, is
about 10000. 900 feet, and $4,000, 900
feet additional will have been de-
livered to various other mills fur
ther down. OF theremainder abo ut
40, 900, 900 feet are in Chesapeake
bay and will be cut next year at the
mill nj Snarroxa, Point