The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-01


Mesarash, of Hudson, y. Y, into in
| sanity.
The Baldwin Locomotive works. of
| Philadelphia. will shortly begin work
| upon 30 locomotives ordered from ia
| pan.
a woman politician of Denver, Ger
trude Allen, has been arrested for forg
| ing election returns at the April cleo
tiOns.
BY an explosion of powder placed
| under a shanty at Pittsburg Gaetano
Artonell was killed and another Italian
injured.
Cornell College won the great Var
sity boat race at POughkeepsia, n. Y
Yale was second and Harvard came in
third.
Richard Raddatz, of Oshkosh. Wis, is
about To start on a journey of 700 miles
urder water in his new submarine
boat.
II. c. Sutherland. a prospeCtor an
nounccs he has discovered ore on the
east slope of Pixies Peak that assays 500
to the ton.
Two men at Ouray, Col. entered a
saloon. and with reVulVerS compelled 10
men to hold up their hands while being
robbed.
HailstQnes "A inches in circumference
and weighing one pound are reported
to have fallen at Topeka. kas., during
storm.
The jury in the case Of J. s. BARLEY.
the eXTreasurer of Omaha. Neh..
charged with cmbeZZlement, returned
a verdict of guilty.
While resisting tramps. who attempt
ed to hold up passengers on a train at
Chalco, near Omaha, Neb., q. \. Pond
was fatally shot.
Twenty thousand dollars is what Miss
Rose Brady, of Media. Pa, demands
from James j. Townsend. a Chicago
broker, for breach of promise.
State Treasurer BARLEY. of Nebraska,
convicted OF embezzlemcnt, was SEN
'tenced to ~ years in the penitentiary
and to pay fine of 100000.
In a recent sermon Moody said that
the young man of to-day has three
great temptations to fight: trolley cars.
Sunday newspapers and bicycling.
The Catholic cemetery at Leadville,
COL, is guarded by armed men who are
keeping claim jumpers who want to
seize it for mining purposes at Il dis
tanCe.
William Louis Winans. the builder
of the Moscow railroad, died in Balti-
more. He accomplished n great work
in opening the Russian interior to civ
iliZatiDn.
Delicate health. resulting from the
excessive smoking of cigarettes. drove
Samuel Fink to commit suicide by
jumping OFF Brooklyn bridgt. He was
the son of a wealthyLivermore, Pa, oil
ul orator.
Hugh ana Robert j. Dreary. broth
ers. We're crushed to death at Pittsburg
10y the Caving in uf an embankment on
the BeeChwood boulevard. Hugh was
~ years old and his brother l. years.
They We're teamsterS.
An attempt to wreck a passenger train
on the Rome. Waterloo and Ogd"nsburg
Railroad was made in the outskirts Of
Waterloo. y. Y. 4 heavy tie was placed
across the track. but the train. which
struck it. was not derailed.
Bert van Nostrand. an architect of
Kasson. Mimi. shot and seriously
wounded Jennie Geesie. aged l6. and
then blew out his brains. The couple
were lovers and the cause of the trag-
edy is not known.
Agent Wisdom at FIT. Wisdom dis
bursed s23.fO0 OF the Cherokee freed
mems (ncgroesD fund. Payment prog
ressed very satisfactorily. All excite
ment has subsided, and the freedmen
are behaving orderly.
The special grand jury appointed in
Denver to investigate the robbery Of
ballot boxes and other frauds commit
;ed at the late city election has returned
3s indictmen nts against lg election Of
iiccrs for violation Of the election laws.
The Massachusetts Cotton Mills were
closed at Lowell Mass. and will not be
rropened until July y. The mills en-
plOy 1900 hands. The shutdown was
decided upon because of the low price
at which goods are selling and the poor
demand.
All the manufactures Of window and
flint glass at Chicago. together with %
per cent of the green glass establish
ments In the country, will shut down,
and 1t is not unlikely they may remain
closed for the longest period in the his
tory Of the industry.
Guy g. Ledyard Jr. manager of the
National Starch company. at Chicago.
shot himself in the heart For some
time he has suffered from an abcess and
the pain has been excruciatlng This Is
supposed to have been the cause of his
taking his life.
NJ. Okana, Traffic Manager Of the
japanese Government Railway. has
been sent here by the japanese Govern
ment 10 study freight and passenger
traffic in all its branches. He will
spend some months In this country be
fore proceeding 10 Europe.
Rev. DR.. Frank NJ. Ellis, pastor Of the
Washington Avenue Baptist church.
Brooklyn, died suddenly of apoplexy at
the Brooklyn Tabernacle Baptist
church. where he was attending the or
dination services Of Rev James Bris-
tow. who is about to become pastor Of
the Rosedale church at Camden. n. J.
There are many odd disappointments
in London over the result OF the Jubilee.
An undertaken got ready a thousand
collins, and no one needed them The
temperance people are wildly raving at
beer being given 10 the outcast poor.
and there are thousands OF complaints,
based upon Jealousy. that everybody