The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-09-05
NEWSY CLEANlNCS.

Missouri has 81, G,i2l acres planted in flax.
lowa's corn crop is six or seven times as
big as las, years.
II is estimated there are 10000 bicycle
| riders In New York City.
There are twenty-eight people In the st.
| Louis jail charged with murder
Bicycles bring in this year s400 900 in
taxes to the French Government
st. Louis is the queen Of flying ocean
liners, accordingto her trial record
Mrs. Woodard, OF ovid, Mich. celebrated
recently her Tooth birthday in pretty good
health.
The Chicago Board of Trade proposc-t to be-
| gin n most vigorous crusade against the
bucket shops.
., Brigands in China are trying To make a
hVihg now by robbing folks who weren't
ruined by the war.
financial difficulties. Merchants and banks
refuse 10 make further loans.
British steamer put in al Rangoon. IN
india, recently, whose officers were all Ger
mans and the apprentices all Japanese.
The assets of Bingcn Bros, bankers. who
recently failed, are officially stated at SI7,
5VO,OeO. The liabilities are so 900 900.
=, Jacob Urban, an inmate Of the Lutheran
Home AT Mount Airy, near Philadelphia has
/ - "'' iV~u 'iI'nuhy III IcdSphdblt COM
| fort.
The complaints of British shipowners that
the charges for passing through the Kaiser
| Wilhelm Canal are too high are supported by
| tile shipowners Of Germany.
United States Consul-General DcKay In
Berlin says that Louis Stern the New York
merchant who was arrested in Kissingcn,
germany, has been unjustly treated.
The shipment Of California wines this year
U ll..N. 4 "a l.fg
against seven and II third million gallons
! coo. ''
One-seventh Of the members OF the present
helchstag, or German Parliament and one-
nth Of the Senators and Deputies ia the
French Parliament fought In the war of
lS70-7l
The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
recently laid the cornerstone Of u new build
ing IN Philadelphia which will be the future
nome OF the organization. 1t will be "a costly
structure.
The Panama Canal Company has agreed
10 pay the GOvcrnmcnt Of Colombia sl2O 900
year Tor military protection of property ON
the canal route. There will be a guard Of
250 soldiers.
The United States Navy Department does
not know what 10 do with the torpedo bonts
Duli Tor the battle ships Texas and Maine.
Ihese boats have failed 10 make the time
required Tor torpedo service and will not be
used.
When General Campos went 10 Cuba ne
predicted that the rebellion would be put
down. and he would be back in Madrid by
November. Now he wants 80, 900 men by
November in order 10 end the war by next
March.
John Wesley Hardin, the terror Of the
border, was shot and killed in the Acme
saloon OF El Paso, Texas. by Constable John
Seilman. Hardin had threatened 10 run
Seilman out of town. The men met in the
saloon and Sellman got the drop first. Hardin
had record of killing nine men.
The continuous drought is drying up the
springs from which the water supply of
Marion, Iowa, has been drawn. The water
company has been compellhd to take water
rom Indian River which is wholly unfit for
use. As a result, the town is suffering from
an an epidemic of typhoid and other malignant
forms Of fever.