The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-09-30
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| Earthquake shocks were felt Satur-
day In Bangor, Me-. and several sur
rounding towns.
TWO Londoners representing a COM
pany with s5.eoo. 900 capital to operate
In klondyke arrived in New York Sat-
urday.
In the Big Horn county. s. D.. fifty
four square miles of timber land has
been burned over. involving loss OF
500. 900.
Physicians OF the Homeopathic hos
pital at Pittsburg are working upon the
theory that the Y rays will kill con-
sumption bacilli.
All the business houses in Alton, /. T,
were destroyed by fire. besides Is cars
of wheat on the Frisco siding a few
days ago. Loss $4,000.
The next annual meeting OF the
American Poultry Association will be
held in Boston January, 1898. The vote
resulted 81 to % against Chicago.
John Myers, a convict at Trenton, N.
| j., placed dummy made Of dough and
covered with tissue paper in his cell,
ana escaped. but was recaptured.
! The Versailles Und) grand jury fail
| ed to indict any one for the lynching Of
five men at that place. The governor
has determined to take up the investi-
! cation.
Several students have resumed their
studies at Yale college, New Haven,
Conn, after having been employed dur
| ing vacation as motormen on the local
electric line
The latest news from Guatemala is
/ that prize of 100000 has been placed
on the heads OF Prospero Morales. the
| revolutionary leader, and his aide,
Manuel Fuentes.
ExQucen of Hawaii Liliuokalani left
San Francisco Sunday evening for
Washington to get ready to resume her
| fight against annexation as soon as
| Congress assemblies.
w. F. Kasson, OF Austin, Ia, serving
| 10 months in the county Jail at San
| Francisco, is one of two heirs to a for
tune of $500, 900 left by his uncle. James
Kassin, who died last week.
Miss Susan de Forest Day, owner OF
the steam yacht Scythian. has had the
cabin boy of the vessel arrested,
at New York, charged with steal
ing $4,000 worth OF diamonds.
The San Pedro silver mine, in the
Corralitos group, II miles from Ell
Paso, in Mexico, caved in the other
day, killing II men. They were buried
under 30 feet of rock and dirt.
w. l. Meeker, of Kansas City. has
sued the Western Union Telegraph
Company for $4,000 damages for trans
mitting an alleged insulting message to
him from j. l.. Jordan at kaney, Kan.
Joseph M. Hardy and Henry G.. Hale,
two of the three kidnapers of little Jonn
Conway al Albany, n. Y, some weeks
| ago, were each sentenced by County
Judge Gregory to IA years and 4 months
in State prison.
An attachment suit for SAL 900 was
begun in the Superior Court Wednes-
day at Chicago against Elmer and jay
Dwiggins and James Il. Willard a.
Co. The defendants are the New York
stock brokers who failed about a week
ago.
Edward Riley. of Providence, r. l.,
glded a large, lump of coal, labeled "$9-
900 gold nugget from Klondike," and
put 1t In his show window. A man
smashed in the window, stole the mug
get" and escaped.
A son SO years old followed his mother
to the grave Sunday at New York,
while l2 grandchildren and three great
party of mourners. The dead woman
was Mrs. Mary Jane Hatton, who was
80 years and six months old when she
died Friday.
The Ontario cabinet Wednesday
adopted a Regulation prohibiting en-
f'ployment OF any person not a resident
OF Canada in any capacity in lumber
ing operations, except manager. head
bookkeeper and one estimator or eX-
plorer for such operation.
c. l.. Addington. who was to be exc
cuted Friday at Paris, Tex, for the
murder of Oscar Hordes, in the Indian
territory, June 2S 1895, received a com
mutation from President Mckinley a
few days ago. When the message was
read to him he wept like child.
A Neapolitan nurse maid has disap-
peared from Rome with the infant son
of young Englishman named Hast
ings. Letters have been received de-
nianding a ransom of $4,000. 1t Is
thought that the nurse maid was in
league with some of the brigands in
the vicinity of Naples.
Washington police are looking for
John +. Reidy from st. Louis, and
treasurer of the police relief associa-
ton of that city, who drew $4,000 one
dollar bills from the fund in his charge
on the 10th inst, and skipped, leaving
his accounts $S,229.05 short. Fondness
for playing the races is given as the
probable cause.
The final account of the estate of en-
Mayor Edwin II. Filter of Phiade-
phia was filed with the register of wills
to-day. The estate is valued at 49,
l37207 l6 and includes stocks on the
Pennsylvania railroad. United Gas Inn
provement Company, Philadelphia,
Wilmington & Baltimore railroad and
stock in different banks.
The notorious Staifleback house at
Galena, Kas., was burned by mob,
and every vestige of the old structure
where murders and crimes of the most
diabolcal nature were committed was
destroyed.
At the Coburg assizes at Toronto
Saturday j. +. Hendricks. aged rs, was
tried for kissing his niece, Mrs. Efiie
Pilkey, a school teacher. She asked
81. 600 damages. The Judge said he evi-
IDENTIFY had no improper intentions. An
old man had right to kiss female rel
atives without having his character
suspected. The jury awarded the plain
tiff 20 cents.
The Central American republicans,
according to Pan American diplomats
in Washington. are undoubtedly on the
eve of general political upheaval. The
success of the revolutionists in Guate-
mala. entailing the downfall of Dicta-
tor Barrios and the elevation of Pros
pero Morales to the presidency. Is be-