The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-07-26

challenged the SelinsSrove team to
play on the Middleburgh grounds,
Saturday, July 2sth or Aug. 4th.
MISTAKEN Souls VINO DREAM OF
BLISS. The following marriage Ii
censes have been granted since our
last publication
forest Il. Holtzapple, Kantz,
lSarah S. Forty,
IT. j. Specht, Middleburgh,
ELLA Nj. Custer, Swineford.
As the miners in the shaft in the
mines at Williamtown, were being
hoisted out of the colliery Thursday
evening, the pulley underneath
failed to work and they were crush
ed against the top rock, five being
killed instantly. Those killed were
John Raudenbush, John Llewellyn,
NJ. A. Tate, William Clark, and
Charles Woodmau. All lived at
Williamstown.
Blair count ty ministers are divided
on the question of bicycling. Sever
al pastors denounced the riding as
Sabbath desecration, but Rev. Owen
James, pastor of the Baptist church
of Hollidaysburg,in n communication
in the press, holds that it is better
to ride n bicycle than to drive a
horse to church. The horse may
need rest, but the bicycle does not.
He further invites the wheelmen to
attend his church and an officer
will care for the bicycles during the
services.
John Meyer, Sr. fell through the
bridge across Middlecreek at this
place last Thursday. The driving
floor had been removed and an ele-
vated foot walk erected for the
temporary accommodation of foot
passengers. Ino Salk CAV,
away while Mr.. Meyer, Androv
Ulsh and Mr.. Wetzel were ST mding
on the same. Mess. Ulsh aud Yetzel
rescued themselves on the beams
but Mr.. Meyer went down into the
creek. He was hurt quite severely,
but was soon able to be out again.
a newspaper in Illinois recently
brought suit against forty-three men
who would not pay their subscrip-
tions,and obtained Judgment in each
claim. or these twenty-eight made
affidavit that they owned no more
than the law allowed them, thus pre-
venting attachments. Then under
the decision of the supreme court
they were arrested for petit larceny,
and bound over in the sum of $500
each. All but six gave the bonds.
The postal laws makeit petit larceny
to take a paper and refuse to pay
for it.
In the original draft of President
Clevelands letter to Representative
Wilson to stand firm against the
Tariff bill on certain conditions, was
there any advice to hold it by the
throat until the socialism of the
income tax, that indefensible Popu.
list principle, had been stricken out
of it II there was, it does not ap
pear in the copies printed Friday
morning. Under the circumstances
OF Democratic victory and Populisi
defeat, the income tax is a raid on
wealth differing not in principle but
in the matter of violence chiefly
from the Debs strike.
A GREAT FARMERS MEETINd.-Thert
will open at Williams Grove, Cum
berland county, Pa, thirteen miles
southwest of Harrisburg, August
9th, the largest agricultural exhib
ition ever held in the Middl,
Atlantic States. The exhibits alone
will cover over 80 acres of ground
Three meetings will be held daily il
the large Auditorium, which will b,
addressed by speakers of nationa
reputation. President Cleveland viii
be in attendance il official duties
will permit. The Secretary of Ag
riculture will be glad to meet tn,
practical farmers of the country OF
this occasion. There will be fire.,
concerts musical and literary enter
tainments every evening during
the week. All who can should
attend this great exhibition. Fo
full information relative to ex
hibit space, cottages and tents
write to r. H. Thomas, Genera
Manager, Mechanicsburg, Pa. Ex
cursions over all railroads, one far
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