The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-12-16
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday. Dec. 4.

wednesday, DeC. Ss
Miss Bradley. daughter of Kentucky's
governor will christen the battleship
Kentucky.
China has yielded to the German de-
mands, which do not include the oc-
cupation Of Kiao-Chau.
A mass meeting will be held in Chi
cago next Monday night TO consider
the Salvation Army poor farms plan.
a fanatical mob OF 10000 sacked the
Jewish quarters at Bucharest. Rou-
mania. Severe fighting took place be-
tween the mob and the police.
Thursday, Dec. D.
The cultivation of grain being more
profitable, Bohemia next year will cur
tail her beet sugar area.
Frank NJ. Duly, of Chicago. is ac-
cused of proposing an elopement while
standing beside his wifes coffin.
Secretary Gage is preparing a finan-
cial bill which will be submitted to the
house banking committee In about a
week
Residents of the Kankakee valley,
Ind. are considering the advisability of
erecting beet sugar refineries in that
locality.
Cattarina Monreala. who was married
by proxy in Sicily to Bartolo Carapezra.
of Brooklyn, was allowed to land at the
barge office.
Friday. Dec. 10.
Hereafter all new revenue cutters will
be named after tribes of Indians
The Georgia legislature failed to pass
the anti-football bill over Governor At
knsons veto.
1t is officially announced that the
Cuban insurgents have captured the
seaport town of Caimanera.
Rear Admiral Joseph f, Green. U S.
N (retired). died at his home ut Brook
line. Mass, last night from a compli-
cation of diseases.
Otilia Kunder, Il years o.d is under
arrest ut Rochester, y. Y. charged
with numbering her mother and at
tempting to kill her brother, by poison.
for his life insurance.
saturday. Dec. II.
Thousands of Cuban refugees are said
to be starving in New York city.
A curfew order has been made hy
Mount Vernon IN. " judge for the
benefit of a wayward girl.
Secretary Long has ordered an in
quiry into the cause of the frequent
fires in the bunkers of naval vessels.
Friends of Dreyfus, the eXilcd French
army officer. are said to have received
from London documents of great I'M
portance.
Horses drawing Il funeral carriage
ran away in Allegheny. The driver was
fatally injured, and the lve persons
in the carriage badly hurt.
Monday. Dec. IL.
Residents of Cliffside N j., complain
that outragcs have been committed by
roughs unchecked by the authorities.
Mrs. Kebecca Carlton, an elderly
woman, was murdered in her home at
Dcnton's Valley, Pa, by an unknown
assassin.
The drop in the price of wheat will
reduce the profits Of Joseph Letter and
his associates in Chicago to sl,OOO.OOO
instead OF $3,0OO,O00.
John Riegcl of Detroit. Mich, in
jured in a collision on the Oakland
Electric railway last Saturday, has
died, making four deaths resulting
from the accident.
Tuesday, Dec. II.
Two large sales Of California petro-
leum have just been made at 81 per
barrel.
The Alton, Ills. public school color
line question has been carried to the
state supreme court.
Actor Waldermar Dahlborn, who died
suddenly in Chicago. Is said to have
been victim Of starvation.
The school authorities Of Passaic, n.
j., have advertised for an able bodied
man to take charge of a class of boy
truantS.
The agricultural department issued h
crop report. estimating the wheat pro-
duction the past year at $50 OOO
bushels.