The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-08-02
MURDERED HIS MISTRESS.

Mr. PLEAsANr.-Wi William Freeman. n color
ed man from Sharpsburg, shot his mistress,
Mrs. Timberlakc. He is in jail ut Greens
| Uurg.
BoBERr DUNBAR. colored man, formerly
Of Charleston, W. Va. was shot and killed by
Phoebe Dungee. u 19-year-old colored girl at
| Cannonsburg. Dunbar was Jealous OF
| william Quomes, another colored young
man. and tried TO force his way into the
house. according to the girls story. Phoebe
was arrested. as was Quomes, anu both were
| placed In hil at Washington.
MARrIS GAYLoR, n farmer in Greene town
chip. Beaver county, attempted TO pry up u
large stump. when the lever broke and tho
stump fell back, breaking his right leg aud
| pinioning him to the earth. This happened
| In the morning. When found at o'clock in
the evening he was unconscious.
Mns. WOLFF. of Bear Run. attempted sui
eide 10y shooting herself in the forehead. The
bullet did not so through her skull. She said
she had been "a burden to her family and
wanted TO die. Sine will live. She is about
80 years old and has been an invalid tor a
number OF years.
wM. DuHsTAS. OF waynesburg. found a
rusted revolver in well on the Baltzell prop
erty. As John Eisminger, convicted OF tho
murder of Huckster Mccoy, stopped there
| the morning the crime was committed, the,
weapon is believed by many TO belong TO the
convicted man. -
IS the eastern part of Lawrence county
| the pasture fields are burned brown by the
drouth, and the corn fields are withered 1t
has been nearly two months since any rain
| Iell In that section. Farmers in many in.
stances have been compelled to feed new
hay.
AT New Castle snake charmer in the
ladies waiting OF the l.. 4 Z. station upset a
box containing nine serpenis. the smallest, a
| blacksnake six feet long, and the longest n
lS-foot boa. The ladies and children III the
room ran out in terror.
| The sheriffs of westmoreland and Faye,te
| counties have telegraphed 20 Gov. PatIison
that they are prepared to meet any probable
| emergency that may result IRON the great
strike in the Connellsville coke regions
The four-story building on Wood street,
| Pittsburg which contains old Lafayette Hall.
is to be replaced with magnificent bank
building. This hall If noted rs the birth
| plase OF the Republican party.
The post mortem examinGtionin the case
| Of W. V Hardman the prominent oil man of
| Butler. who died suddenly, disclosed the
| fact that death had resulted from an opiate
taken for insomnia.
MISS MARY BIDDLE nj Frew's mills, Lawrence
county, was terribly burned and Is in "A
critical condition. Her dress caught fire, and
! as IL burned she ran across u field 10 a neigh
boring house.
GOVERNOR PATTisoS has decided that the
situation in the coke regions is not suiil-
! ciently serious TO keep him ut the Capitol,
and he will leave ON II trip covering Il week
or ten days.
Mns. ANSA HuST, of New Castle, has begun
900 damage suit agains, George W.
VlR E..N th.a L.
her husband was killed by the falling OF u
damper.
A fire at Beaver Falls DESTROYED the Oar
| lington Fire Brick works, causing loss of
$4,000. Thirty men were thrown oat OF
employment.
S. C. WILSON has been appointed post
master at New Eagle. Washington county.
and Mrs. Sarah Pryor at Branchton. Butler
county.
The Allegheny and Butler Plank Road
company has two toll gates in the borough OF
Etna. Legal steps are being taken to remove
| them.
The English-speaking white cokers at
! Uniontown have gone out again. ard will
| they say, remain out until the strike is
won.
Two men George Milton Roy and David
Blaney died in Pittsburg on the same day
while under the influence OF anesiheiies.
| A COMPANY has been formed at Beaver
| Falls to manufacture patent scale and reJis-
ter. The capital stock is 700.
MRs. MARY CoYLE, blind resident OF
| Wlkesbarre, visited the grave OF priest aad
| had her sight restored.
NEW Hebrew hospital IL TO be erected in
| Pttsburg. II will cost at least S75.0J0 and
may cost 300 900.
MORE than hundred searchllghts vii! be
utilized in pittsburg during the q. A. Il. en-
| campment week.
| A FIRE In Allegheny city burned Smiths
broom factory and a large tenement, causing
u loss of $4,000.
A GREEK. named Francis Geogy. fell from a
bridge at Braddock 25 feet receiving fatal in
! juries.
TuE State League OF Republican clubs will
| hold convention at Harrisburg Septenl-
ber 8.
THREE churches are being built at Ellwood
City; Methodist, Presbyterian aud Catholic.
Tue Ely Novely Works at Girard have
been burned. Loss S25 900.
A SHOCK resembling an eartnqnaxa ey-
! cited all the geysers In tbs Norr.s basin,
Yellowstone PARK, into great activity.