The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-09
rERsE TELE0RANA

Both hands OF 5-year-Old ThomaS
Malley were cut off by locomotive at
Allegheny, Pa.
Seth Low was nominated for mayor
of greater New York by the citizens
union Tuesday.
General Lee, consul to Havana, mas
returned TO this country on so days
| leave of absence.
Masked men robbed a train on the
Gulf Road at Twin Mountain, Col, and
secured $4,000 last Saturday.
II is alleged England wants to coin
| silver. and will do IL. offering as an eX-
cuse the financial situation in India.
Poisoned scrambled eggs, served by
/ a demented daughter at Metropolis.
H.. may result in the death Of the girls
| father.
| The basket and wickerwarc factory
| of John NJ Rowe Sons & Co., of Phil
adelphia was damaged to the extent OF
100000 Monday morning.
Jack Fitzpatrick. colored, aged lO6
! died Monday at Bowling Green. Ky. He
went through the war of 1872 as the
/ servant Of an officer
| a nywheel burst at Jones & Laugh
! Inns mill, Pttsburg, damaging the
! plant to the extent of $4,000 and shut
ting down three mills.
To secure safety from a rattle snakes
! bite. Fred Reece, Helena, Mont, hre
marshal, placed his finger over the
muZzle of shot gun and blew II or.
$4,000 was robbed from the safe OF
the collector OF taxes for the District
of Columbia, Tuesday night. Hamkins,
a colored messenger. Is also missing.
Wild horses have become so much of
a nuisance in Northern Arizona that
Attorney General Frazier has been ask
ed if they may not legally be slaughter
| ed
The Carnegie company has practic-
| ally secured control of all the iron
mines of Rockefeller in Minnesota,
which will give the big company
monopoly.
While assisting two other men to
steal wagon load of clothing worth
500 in New York the other day, Abra-
ham Dorfman was shot dead by po-
liceman. -,
The American Forestry society VIII
visit the Tennessee exposition Septem-
ber 20, 81 and 90 There will be papers
and addresses on subjects relative to
the forestry industry
Holding up freight trains, assaultinS
men and women and raiding tarfh
houses is the employment burly tramps
in the central part of New jersey are
at present engaged in.
Forest II. Parker, President of the
Produce Exchange Bank of New YORK,
and his wife were drowned few days
ago in the Chain Lake. near Paul
Smiths, in the Adirondacks.
\ small boy attempted to board a
freight train, few days ago. and he is
now lying dead at the home of his par
! ents. His name was Thomas Stevenson
and he lived in Pittsburg.
The falling of 900 pound attachment
to a bell in the st. Marys German
Catholic Church at Cleveland disturbed
300 six o'clock worshipers Sunday morn
ing. After the excitement had passed
the interrupted mass was finished.
About 1000 Apache Indians are off
the reservation and are scattered
through the Pnal and Superstition
mountains, killing deer and gathering
wild fruits. None of them are provided
with passes and all are armed.
Inability to pay debts led to the dis
! charge of Henry N. Watson. an Allie
i gheny, Pa, letter carrier A rule of
the post office forbids the contracting
of debt, without the means of liqui-
dating. Watson Is q colored man.
A colored woman applied to the st.
Louis supervisor of the poor for relief
"A few days ago. She was only is years
old and had been four times the moth
or of twins, according to her statement.
which the supervisor, DR.. Woods, says
he verified.
Harry Coyle was killed. August Pole
XII had several ribs and his shoulder
blade broken, and Thomas Thompson,
John McGovern and Stephen Halpin
were more or less injured by the cav
ing in of a small coal bank last Satur-
day at Pittsburg.
Wheat in Minnesota, 100000 acres,
average yield. II bushels total $4,000, 600;
| North Dakota 100000 acres, average
yield II bushels, total 44,0O0,O0O; South
Dakota, 2,750000 acres, average yield 3
bushels, total 10000 900 bushels. Grand
total for the three States, 100000 900
bushels
Preparations are being made by
hundreds of Swedes in Minnesota and
Illinois to establish Swedish colony in
Alabama. A city to be called Svea city
after a Swedish goddess-will be
founded The site of the colony con-
| tains 5000 acres, and lies ten miles
east of Mobile bay, in Baldwin county.
George w. Clarke broke the worlds
high dive record recently by jumping
off the railing of the Halstead street
lift bridge at Chicago, when the struc-
ture was raised to an elevation of 165
feet above the Chicago river. The diver
! was taken out of the river without in
jury and placed under arrest by the po-
| lice.
George Price Hays, DID,, LID, died
at his home at Washington. Pa, Mon
day. of paralysis. having been an in
valid for the past five years, suffering
from nervous breakdown, and the par
alytic stroke is the elimination. He
expired in about five minutes. He was
president of Washington and Jeffer-
son college for II years.
The steamship Capitano, Capt
Pow!s. returned from Juneau, Dyea
and Skaguay a few days ago. She
brings down one miner from Juneau,
! who Is disgusted with the outlook for
getting on to the gold fields this fall
Her cattle and horses were landed
safely. but American customs officials
charged a duty of $40 on each horse.
A woman who had been confined to
her bed for three years with an in
durable disease. and unable to speak
for "a long time. was visited by party
of ladies a few days ago. They in
dulged in a season of prayer, and lay
ing on of hands, when Mrs. Hartman,
the invalid, announced that She had
hnap bealed and arose from her bed