The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-06-10
TERSE TELEGRAMS

W. J. Bryan Is lccturing in Canada
Three firemen lost their lives at II $1,000
San Francisco fire.
great many colored people attended
Negro Day ut the Nashville Exposition.
Commissioner Calhoun left Havana for the
United States on the 81 by the steamer Sara
toga.
Richard Caldwell, jealous lover, shot
and killed his sweetheart, Mary jenkins, al
Cairo, Ill.
Francis Schatter, the "Diyne Healer, is
reported dead 1t is claimed that he died OF
starvation.
Fifteen thousand people participated in
the New York bicycle parade. 1000 people
witnessed 1t.
Henry White was hanged Mt Columbus,
Gu, for his share il. the murder of three po-
licemen on October II.
The town OF Foyll, near Chelsea, |. IT..
was laid in ruins by n tornado. One person
was killed and one injured.
The bill forbidding department stores was
defeated in tho Illinois House OF Representa-
tves by vote OF II to G3.
Representative Bailey, Of Texas, the Demo-
cratic leader OF the House, wants Bryan
nominated for president in 1900.
Uncertainty rs TO the passage OF the tariff
bill has obliged eastern cotton manufacturers
to curtail the output of their mills.
Natives Of the Solomon Islands, in the
South Pacific, killed three of the crew Of the
schooner Navarro and ate the bodies.
Secretary Of State Sherman is considering
n new treaty TO be made with Spain to settle
perpleXing points regarding naturalization.
Theodore Durant will not be hanged on
the llth. His attorneys have gained for him
u new lease Of life for four months at least
The cloakmakers strike is assuming largo
proportions. Three weeks ago there were
800 men out, now the number has increased
to $4,000.
Thirteen hundred Mormon missionaries
are now endeavorinc to spread the faith Of
'The Church Of Jesus Christ OF Latter Day
Saints" in thi, country.
Frances L. willard the temperance advo-
cate, who has been III for two months, ia In
proving She is the guest OF Mrs. Ole Bull,
at Cambridge, Mass
The President will leave for the Nashville
exposition at noon on Wednesday, the 9th,
reaching there on the llh. He will be back
In Washington on June 18th.
John Tyler Cooper. ex-mayor OF Atlantr,
was found guilty OF embezzlement A short
age was found In his accounts as county
| commissioner amounting 70 e. $50.
Seth Low, President OF Columbia University
and formerly May OF Brook lyn, hasbeen select
ed as a candidate for Mayor Of Greater New
York by the Executive Committee Of the
Citizens Union.
A special dispatch from Naples says tha.
| Mount Veruvius Is in eruption. An urea Of
1000 yards long by 500 wide Ia covered with
lava, and It Is dangerous TO approach within
400 yards OF the principal crater.
Senior sagasta, the Spanish Liberal leader,
in an interview said that IL his party got into
| power the first thing they would do would
| be to oust Weyer from Cubn and change the
entire policy OF the war on the island.
| Richard NJ. Scruges, the ST. Louis million
aire and his secretary, L. s. Langhorn, were
held for the grand jury ut New York on
charge Of attempting TO smugge $4,000
worth OF iewelry, etc, into the country from
| England.
The Federal Court at Raleigh, n. C., has
been given judgment for Sl2s, 10, principal
and interest, against the Roanoke Water
Power and Navigation Company, OF Weldon,
in favor Of ex-senator J. Donald Cameron.
OF Pennsylvania. 1t is ordered paid In gold
coin.
From Havana II IL learned that Wendell
Phillips, the Cuban war correspondent for
the London Chronicle and several American
newspapers. was formally released from
the government prison at Matunzas, where
he has been confined for the pas. ten days.
under promise that he will depart from
Cuba never to return.
Northern Texas was swept by u tremendous
wind and rain Storm doing great damage TO
the wheat and oats crop. AT Fort Worth 70
residences were blown from their founda-
tions ard church was struck by lightning.
At Arlington S. G. Lasa,er and L. J. Prose
were caught in a house that was destroyed
and both wero seriously hurt
While the directors OF the First National
Bank OF Dover, Del, were in session ex-
amining the accounts Of William n. Boggs,
the paying teller, who has been In their en-
pioy for Is years, they received q letter from
him saying that he WIS 63S. 900 short and
had left town. He gavedetails OF his irreg-
ularities, which had extended over ten years.
The loss will not affect the banks depositors
nor the solvency Of the bank.