The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-07-29
fJyI0E yI1E ITS CONDENSED
HURLED THROUGH THE AIR.
u.v,er Slips and Catches q Han Under the
Chin.


40, steam tug. with a hawser at
ss.Shed TO a post, began to move. and
.ss bawser becoming taut. slipped over
.Ss ~. top of the post, and whirling rapid
" through the air. caught Campbell un-
~ the chin. The rope encircled itself
s'n,,lv about his neck, lifted the un-
s',tnnate man ten feet in the air and
Nan dropped him to the pier. His neck
ass broken and he was found to be
,aad when the horror-stricken specta-
."rs ran to assist him.
THE following Pennsylvania pensions
have been granted: James r. Batchel-
AR Sinenahoning; James c. Kennedy,
ptsburg; william Kerr, Uniontown;
,hsolom Shuler. billiards; William A.
,S,ms. St. Augustine; Andrew Klear,
waaceton; John Keefer, Birmingham;
psnben ]. Fox, Hollidaysburg: Curtis
crook. Cory; Robert Kelly, Brooke
',,e. Alexander C. Smith, Claysburg;
Matilda Bartleburgh. Penn Run: Mary
cheney. Puritan; Susanna Conrad, Ave-
~ Newton Williams, Pittsburg; Jas.
u Carroll, McKeesport: Reuben Leon
.,d Ohiopyle; James Green, Latrobe;
rsn,ey p. Luther, Fort Palmer; Sarah
Riley, Redmans Mills; Margaret
smith Mount Union; Franey Dobson,
s,anton: William H. Daniels, Alleghe-
ry william Clutter, Wind Ridge; Will
nam n. Nycum, Uniontown; John N.
,ndsrson, Dunbar; Mary Clutter, Wind
pdge. Mary Miller, Wampum; Barbara
usiplien, Erie; Mary A. Driver, Flem-
nston; Selma N. Isenberg. Altoona;
minor of william II. Duncan, Pittsburg;
sarah Kinds, Lock Haven.
IN the morning Of July 4, near st.
yarys. John Sobol, a Hungarian, muir
Ssred a fellow countryman named
william Krustic, and nearly killed An
drew Balliant. He had beaten both
men on the heads with an immense
rlub while they lay on the grass near
,heIr boarding shanty, helplessly
Srlnk. Krustic was killed instantly,
sut Balliant survived. He was taken
IA Kane hospital. and by careful nurs-
irg lived to tell the story of the mur-
dsrous scene. Sobel left. but County
D.tective Kline located him five miles
cas-, of Bradford.
Samuel p. Langdon, of Philadelphia,
entered suit in the Blair county courts
against John Loudon and seven other
monument capitalists OF Altoona to re-
cover 100000 damages Mr.. Langdon
alleges that the defendants bargained
with him on January s, 1898, to sell him
the controlling interest in the Altoona,
Clarified and Northern Railroad COM
pany, and that they have committed
breach of this agreement. The COM
any has gone out of existence and the
railroad was recently sold at receivers
sale
The cornerstone for the new Sunday
school addition to the Reformed church
a, York was laid Sunday with very inn
pressive ceremonies. The ground on
which this church stands was donated
to the Reformed people by the Penns
In 1888 The new building will be S5x57
feet and will cover the spot where the
remains Of one Of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence, Col. Liv-
lngstone Of New York state, was bur-
led on the 18th Of June, 177S.
Peter McAffree, miner aged 80. of
Parsons, met his death under peculiar
circumstances. He was asleep on the
river common, when he was aroused by
policeman. The sight of the officer
frightened him, and he started to run.
In the darkness, he became confused
and plunged down the steep embank-
ment into the Susquehanna. Before
he could be rescued, he was drowned
About 60 of the Baker heirs met at
the AlcOrn schoolhouse few days
since to arrange for taking steps to
secure the s36, 900, 900 they claim Is COM
Ing to them from an estate near Phila-
delphia. Several attorneys met with
them among whom We're ID. II. Wat
son, of this place, and w. II. S. Thomp-
son, of Pittsburg.
A boiler explosion in the lumber mill
Of kipp & Kiser at Cortez at Punxu-
tawney killed Peter Duff and seriously
Injured ten others few days ago. The
mill Is badly wrecked. A 14-foot piece
Of l6-foot boiler was blown a dis
lance of 400 feet. Two hundred men
Will be thrown out of work.
The police of Franklin captured
man at Big Rock Bridge, just below the
lly limits, who was totally divested of
elOhng and running wild. He gave
hs name as Thomas York, of Pitts
ourg, and says he has wife and four
rothers in Pittsburg. When found he
vas almost famished.
Five bridges in Jackson township
ere washed away during a storm the
ther day as was also Shafer's bridge
YER the Pocono, in Stroud township.
ne handsome summer resort owned
Thomas Sites was damaged to the
mount of 5000. Considerable damage
'as done to standing crops.
Miss Isabelle White and Mrs Harriet
ooper, of the Ladies' Auxiliary Com
lttee of the Butler Hospital Associa-
ION, received letter the other day
rom Andrew Carnegie stating that he
ouId contribute 81 500 to the fund for
e Ie erection Of a general hospital in
bis city.
while Campbell Warren, Of Washing
W was attempting to board a swiftly
wing freight train, he fell under the
neels. the entire train passing over
nI .s HIS body was ground to a pulp
.u dragged for about 100 yards. His
plher is distracted over her sons ter
ueorge McKibben, who knocked
yMn and killed James Kearns while
nihg on the street recently. at New
asue' was arrested for murder. The
,ohers jury declared the killing ac-
aehtal. McKibben is the son of Will
a,n Mckibben, proprietor of the Knox
Tue oody OF a female infant, about 8
.s old' neatly packed in a lard can,
= round floating at the Muncy dam
ew days ago by some fishermen.
e'y indication points to the fact that
enid was murdered before being
aced in the can.
saihes Mooney, aged 60 fell down the