The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1895-07-25
NEWSY ClEANlNCS.


Americans are very popular in Mexico.
The highwayman has taken to the bicycle.
The British grain crops promise TO be very
| short
Porto Rico has an epidemic Of yellow
| fever.
Present anthracite coal prices are the low
est in years.
Harvard graduated G7s students this year
and Yale 575.
Flour is now shipped from Tacoma, Wash.
to China or Japan for "a a ton.
Missouri's apple crop this year will be the
largest the State has ever produced.
The United States Navy Department has
adopted the Lee gun for the use Of the navy.
New York City has "a, 1913 gas lamps and
2725 electric lights. These cost million
year.
Another big gold find has boen made near
Butte, Montana. and the citizens are running
to the place.
There are 50, 600 exhibitors at the great cx-
position at Kioto, Japan, with POS, 900 articles
on exhibition.
The plague is raging at Foo-Chow, China.
IL IL the same disease that devastated Hong
Kong last year
Snow and frost visited the famed Banana
belt of Minnesota and Wisconsin the last
Saturday in June.
The Governments lnc new harbor of ref
uge at Point Judith, II. l.. which will cost
S2l0, ,000 is half completed.
New York flremcn have been officially noti-
fed that their organizations formed 10 in
huence legislation must disband.
The last bob-tailed horse ear has been laid
on the shelf in Omaha. Ncb. II was photo
graphed at the end Of its last trip.
Postmaster-G General Wilson has issued an
order forbidding POstmasters to draw money
orders payable AT their own oillre.
This is a great year for apricots in South.
ern California. The crop in Pomona Valley
alone will amount to about 1909 tons.
Mrs. Singer, an aged woman. OF Newark.
n. j., was butted by u goat. which broke her
arm, and in week the shock killed her.
The disputed district in French Guiana
will, according to an agreement between
France and Brazil, be governed by dual rule.
The Interior Department decides that the
father OF "A deceased soldier has no pension
able status during the lifetime of such sol
dier's mother.
Consul Savage, at Dundee. Scotland, re-
ports that the shipment Of potatoes from that
country to tho United States fell of more
than 27 900 tons last year.
report comes from Prince Edward Isl
and that parasite has appeared there with
potato bugs, which speedily disappear be.
fore il.
The Chinese residents OF Tombstone, Ar-
zona, subscribed literally 10 the funds for
celebrating the Fourth of July, and also
contributed good share Of the uproar of
that evening.
Accu Atopie, an African from the German
colony OF Togoland, Is one Of the best stu.
dents in the scientific college in Cassel Ger.
many. Emperor William was once u student
in the gymnasium there.
Cambridge College, England, having nc.
cepted the challenge of Yale for an athletic
contest, arrangements are now being made to
have II occur on October 8, mt New York, to
follow the contest between the New York
and London Athletic Clubs.
The activity in iron and steel continues.
and cotton goods and wool, particularly the
latter staple, have advanced very rapidly.
decided change for the better is reported
inthe Eastern cities, and at the South the
outlook Is most encouraging.
The municipal council at Apia, Samoa,
mas passed an ordinance which ls the sub
ject OF universal ridicule, Owing to the
absence OF proper Hre-eXtinguishing appli-
ances, every householder Is now required to
hang up outside his house three buckets aud
bronz axe. Keosene tins may be used rs
buckets,