The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-02


speak at Pittsburg on Labor day.
Ogden Goelet. IS years Of age, a
wealthy landowner Of New York. Is
dead.
Erastus Corning. a well-known Alba
ny. n. Y, pilanthropist. died a few
days ago.
An English syndicate Is surveying
for the purpose Of building railroad to
the klondyke.
Frank Savage. the racing wheelman,
was drowned while bathing in a creek
near Newburg. N.
The Southern Pacific Railway compa-
ny has had seven locomotives adapted
10 burn petroleum for fuel.
In. the Holy Trinity Catholic Church
of New York, George Stulz was muir
dered and robbed Of his watch.
Excessive dancing caused the death
Of a l7-year-old girl at Pittsburg last
week. Name, Miss Mary Johnston.
After suuandering $6O, 900 in specula-
tion George w. Parrott, Jr., OF Atlanta,
Ga, committed suicide last Saturday.
Pittsburg is making a strong hght
against Milwaukee in her endeaVor 10
secure the convention of Master Prin-
t,rs in 1897.
Count of Turin has received congrat-
ulations from Cincinnati Italians on
the successful outcome or MS recent
duel with the Frenchman.
Chief Of Police Peter Collins. OF New
York, was retired by the police com
missioners on his own application. He
will receive a pension OF S3,0OO year.
Five dollars was the sum stan Of
ficer of General Grants was Obliged 10
t,, vnrk nnlfpa court rev
days ago. His name Is Gen. John
Hayes.
The North American Commercial
company has caught only 10000 seals
this season. There are but 29 sealing
vessels in Bering sea this year, against
20 last season.
A wagon at Buffalo was struck by
a 65-mile an hour Erie passenger train
last Sunday. Melville II, Valentine Is
dead and four other occupants OF the
wagon severely injured.
John Kelm and Alex libel, two sold
iers OF the First regiment, /. N. G.,
were drowned off Camp Logan, near
Chicago, a few days ago by the cap
sizing of their sailboat.
II never paid $500 more willingly
said II. c. Frick. the Pittsburg iron
manufacturer. when he returned from
Europe, and paid that amount as duty
on goods among his baggage.
. The farmers national congress be-
gan it's annual session In the hall or
representatives In the state capitol at
st. Paul. Minn., Monday. About 'oo
delegates were in attendance.
With a broken jaw-bone, Frederick
Renzelman is now lying in Pittsburg
hospital. He put his head into the ele-
yator shaft to call the boy and was
caught under the chin by the lift.
The British steamship Titania will.
in few days, sail from Baltimore
bearing the first cargo of steel rails
ever shipped TO South Africa. The
shipment will amount to 1,SOO tons.
The Catholic school board of Mon
treal admitted non -vaccinated children
to- the schools against the orders of the
health board, which has now stationed
physicians at all the schools to vaccin-
ata the pupils
Word has reached Seattle of serious
forest fires in the Klondyke region.
Many square miles of timber land have
been burned over and fuel as well as
a food famine threatens those who Will
winter on the Yukon.
Forty human skeletons have been un-
earthed on the shores of the Prien lake,
nine miles below Lake Charles. Ia.
The skulls are very thick, the jaw
bones heavier and longer than those OF
the. average American
The falling of wall crushed to
death two firemen, Ezra Glover and
Harry b. Holt at Pittsburg last Fri
day. The building burned was the fur
niture store Of Edmundson & Perrine,
and the loss amounted to $25OcOO.
1t was suggested that Terrence V.
Powderly be thrown out Of park in
New York, where a Knights of Labor
picnic was being held. The ex-Master
Workman departed however, before
disturbance was made last Saturday
The officers of the Merchants asso-
citation at New York estimate that the
benefit by the visit Of buyers from all
parts of the country this fall to New
York will approximate $50,OO0,OOO and
saw that future benefits are incalcula-
BILE.
Banker d. ]. Seligman, of New York,
died at Hollywood hotel, Long Branch
last Friday. aged AZ. An operation was
performed on him Wednesday for ap-
pendicitis. Mr.. Seligman was the Sc
nior member of the banking firm
which his father founded.
The tax OF cents per day on work
, ing aliens was declared unconstitu-
| tional by Judge Marcus L. Acheson. OF
the United States Circuit Court al
| Pittsburg. The law was enacted al
/ the last session of the Pennsylvania
| legislature.
In their night clothes two daughters
of Thomas Giles escaped from burn
ing building at Buffalo. Florence, an
other daughter was burned to death.
David H. Rider, Jr, of Accord, ulstal
county, n. Y. was stung by a money
bee so badly the other day that he sool
after dropped dead. 1t Is thought deatf
resulted from weakness of the hear
aggravated by exitement and the pois
onous stings.
The coored people Of Sedalia ant
Pettis county, Mo-, will hold fair a
Association park September %, "a ant
%. 1t will be devoted wholly to exhib
its by negroes and especial attention i
to be paid to the products of the field
garden and orchard.
Andrew Jackson Evans, aged 6
years, died few days ago at San An
tonic, Tex, He was United States at
torney for the eastern district of Tex
as under Presidents Grant, Garfield
Arthur and Hayes, and was the mos