The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-08-12
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To Etndu Alen, Nerfnont, last Wcu-
nesday.
A beer wagon ran over and killed
Harry Beatty, Pittsburg bicyclist. last
Saturday.
By cloudburst in Colorado Wednes-
day over 100 bridges were washed away
on Plum creek.
Fourteen firemen were injured at
100000 fire in the ID. Joyne q Sons
chemical works at Philadelphia We'd
nesday.
An educated horse. owned by DIR. Will
lism Key, negro of Shelbyville, Tenn,
has been sold to L. G. Duffeld of New
York for $4,000
Near Franklin. Ga. a negro chased
by would-be lynchers for the usual Of
fense. fell and broke his leg. Then he
cut his throat.
The Danville, H.. saloonkeepers have
surrendered to the higher license
prices fixed by the city council and re-
opened their bars.
George Prender. supposed to be an
agent of the Honduras national lot
terry. vas arrested at Washington for
violation of the anti-lottery law.
Near Lancaster, Ia, three young
daughters of Pierce Pample. and a
girl named Adams. were carried away
by the current while bathing in Skunk
river and drowned
Divine Healer Schlatter placed his
hands upon Ex-State Senator T. c.
Snyder, of Canton, Ohio, and the
crutch which he had used for IL years
was Immediately discarded.
The city council of Newton. Kas., has
voted to collect fines from the places
where liquors are sold in violation OF
the prohibitory law. which Is construed
to mean an illegal license system.
After a card had been placed upon
her door stating that no one but the
coroner was to enter, Mrs. Jaeger of
New York. because of jealousy. robed
herself in white, turned on the gas and
died.
The Importation Of American flour
into China is restricted to the needs of
foreign residents. The Chinese stand
ard of living Is to cheap to require
-four reports Consul Reed to the State
Department.
A dispatch to st. Petersburg from
Kremontchug, in the province OF Pol
tava. on the river Dnieper, says that
the floods have destroyed a swimming
bath, and that two hundred women
have been drowned.
Warren Wdrig the Springville wife
murderer, who was captured at Mach
las, Pa, late Saturday night, was
brought to Buffalo and lodged in jail
by Sheriff Lamy. Widrig is raving mad
and has to be closely watched.
The coroner decided that the death
of Joseph +. MIST of Pittsburg, was
due to paralysis OF the heart, caused
by eating of cucumbers, apples and
other indigestible substances. The boy
is the seventh of the II children of the
family to die.
Charles Stoll died at Silver Cross
hospital, Joliet, H.. Sunday. He came
from Lincoln, Neb., two weeks ago, to
plead with his wife to return home with
him. Upon her refusal he shot himself
He had quarreled with her frequently
and squandered $780, 900 in gambling and
drinking in four years.
A letter has been received from Mrs.
Chester Adams, formerly of Winlock,
Wash, which says that one man Is now
on his way from Dawson City with L.
500 pounds of gold dust. At SIS an
ounce this is worth s234,OO0. According
to the letter the next steamer from st.
Michaels. due at San Francisco about
August 20. Will bring out at least $2,-
100000.
John c.. Hessian, of Duluth, has re-
ceived a letter from his sister at Fort
Cudahy, Alaska. The letter was five
months on the way and was carried on
foot from Fort Cudahy to Healy's store,
a distance of $50 miles. 1t says: There
are about 1000 white men scattered
through this part of the country, and
carload of girls could readily find
husbands here"
Prof. A. w. Biting, appointed by
Gov Mount of Indiana to make an in
49, . l,, hAf oh.
in Indiana reports that $4,000 hogs
have been lost from cholera during the
year closing July l. They represent a
total loss of S6,O0O,O0O The fatality is
go per cent. of the number bred. The
disease was worst in the Wabash and
White river valleys.
In addition to the AZ political exiles
whom Capt. Gen. Weyler pardoned on
Saturday, permitting them to return to
Havana from Spanish penal settle
ments, the official Gazette prints a list
of ffty-eight others liberated on the
condition that they will reside in
Spain. and FL Pals announces that un-
conditional pardon has been granted to
sixty-three prominent autonomists
now in prison.
News comes from the north that
miners are now getting over the pass
and that heavy duty is being charged
by the Canadian government. but has
not seriously interfered with the great
rush. The novelty of the Klondyke ex-
citement is wearing Off, however and
! people in this city are taking a more
sober view of the matters. Hundreds
Of Fasteners will wait till spring.
The death of Mrs. Peter Hauptmann,
wife of the wealthy cigar manufact-
urer at St. Louis, was not suicide. as
at first thought She was found with
her throat cut from ear to ear Mrs.
Hauptmann was sleeping on a sofa in
the parlor when demented daughter,
Louisa aged 25, Is supposed to have
| killed her. The girl has been consider
| ed dangerous and has made several
vicious attacks on the servants.