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The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
TERsE TELEGRAMs.

The factory Of the Rubber trust at Bristol,
X. l.. was closed. affecting 400 employees.
The locomotive works at DunkirE, n. Y,
has resumed full time. Several hundred ad.
ditional men were placed to work.
Carlin Wheeler, a graduate OF West Point,
aud a son OF John Wheeler, n wealthy citiz.
en- OF Lima, o.. wa found dead In his room
at the Ves,ibule lodging house. Chicago.
The president signed the joint resolution
directing the secretary OF war to purchase
tents for the Mississippi flood sufferers.
On Monmouth Beach the schooner Emily
+. johnson, from Baltimore for Cambridge,
with a cargo OF oyster shells, went ashore
and was los. during u fog, the crew being
saved.
In Hancock county. Tenn, Martha Bull
shot and killed her paramour, Thomas Me-
Crea, ond then shot herself. The Bull
woman 30 years ago was u leader Of %societ,
In Camden, Va.
Larz Anderson, OF Ohio, secretary OF the
United States embassy at Rome wants to re.
sign that he may marry Miss Perkins, u rich
Boston woman, after Easter, but the admin
tstrrisonl wants him 70 ysmsip r While.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
LEVEES GIVING WAY.
Flood Conditions Grow Worse in the Mis-
sissippi Valley.

A dispatch from ~Gre.nyille. Miss, says:
A creyasse occurred Sunday night at Lake
Lee, seven miles south OF G-eenville, through
which an immense body Of water Is pouring
into the Black and then Steele Bayou coun-
try. The opening is 500 feet wide, and I'M
less it can be stopped, which is highly i'm
probable, all OF that country West Of Deer
Creek and the most fertile and prosperous
in the Delta will be overlooked, from Arcola
south TO the mouth OF the Yazoo river.
Quincy. IL.-The Mississippi keeps up its
record OF the past week at this point. and
another rise is registered, making the stage
10 feet above low water mark. Thousands
sightseers line the river banks and bluffs to
see the muddy water which has submerged
all Of the islands and stretched back over
the Mississippi bottoms for n distance OF sew
erai miles, with only the tops Of trees and
partly submerged houses visible here and
there to mark the former places OF abode Of
the thrifty farmer.
ally to strengthen the weak places in the
crops, but il is now believed that their task
is a hopeless one, as old rivermen say that
the river will go beyond the mark OF 1888.
Reports from north oil here are very dis.
couraging, and the rainstorm which prevail
ed sunday only increased the fears OF the
owners OF land in the levee district.
There has been no danger to Quincy from
the Hoods, but the families on the lands
and in the Miss onri bottoms have been driven
out. The water is now stationary and the
levee north o. the city will be saved IL no
further rise occurs. Quincy itself could
stand ten feet more without injury.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
NEW WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY.
Prof. T!oworidge, OF Harvard, Announces
. Important Discoveries.

Prof. John TrowbridSe. OF Harvard, has
made some very important electrical discoy-
cries.
The most important Of the professors dis
~coveries il the amount OF energy necessary
produce an y ray photograph. He has also
demonstrated the fact that under certain
conditions a vacuum is a good conductor OF
electricity. although the opposite OF this is
the opinion held through the scientific world.
Incidentally he has found that II discharge
OF lightning a mile long does not encounter
any more resistance than n discharge only II
foot in length.
The full power OF n battery OF 2 10000 volts
may be used in charging u case OF thirty
Leyden Jars. Then by the use of the appa-
ratus be invented, which may be called an
electrical accumulation, tho total energy Of
the discharge OF all the jars is obtained, and
this to:al produces a spark with An energy OF
30, 200 volts.
II have made it possible, - Mr.. Trowbridge
said, ITO compute energy in the terms OF
horse power. The amount Of energy re-
quired to produce the y rays is 200, 600
horse power, acting In one ten-millionth OF a
second. This is n computation which could
never before be made. Hitherto the voltage
required to produce the rays has been great.
ly underestimated. | have proved the
amount necessary TO start the rays to be at
least 100. 900 volts. The tremendous power
OF the y rays shows us how they can go
through brick walls and penetrate flesh
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
STARVATION AND PLAGUE.
Cuban Refugees Seek Food Smallpox Raw
aging q Province.

Two thousand refugees from the stricken
districts o. the Province OF Matanzas recent
ly called al the headquarters OF the govern
ment in the town Of Matanzas and demanded
permission 20 so out into the country for the
purpose OF obtaining food.
1t is reported that the insurgents recently
captured JiGvani, on the road from Buyamo
TO Santiago de Cuba. also Santa Rita, To-
Gated on the road TO Holguin.
smallpox rs ravaging Bahia Honda. Hun
dreds OF persons are dying. The refugees
are said TO be In a pitable state. The situa
ton can only he compared to that reported
from India.
Advices have been received stating that
the insurgents recently burned the town of
Salamanca, in the province OF Santa Clara.
The church edifce was destroyed by Are and
the contents tossed into the street and
burned. According TO other advices the in
surgenis succeeded in setting fire TO that
portion OF Guauo village, in the province OF
Pinar del Rio. rebuilt since the former de-
struction OF the town during q raid Of the
Cubuns.
All Of the tobacco fields in the San Juan
MARTINEZ district, in the province OF pinar
del Rio, have been destroyed during recent
Cuban attacks. The insurgents have fired
on the towns Of Arroyoa Polio and Gala
bazar, in the province OF Havana. Calabazar
WIS burned, and the splendid home owned
by Sebastian Mustre. the former insurgent
leader, was destroyed 10y the flames.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
LATEST NEWS FROM WASHINGTON
FOSTER WANTS HAWAII.
The Ex-secrstary Of State Speaks in Favor
Of Annexation.

Hon. John W. Foster, formerly secretary
Of State lectured in Washington, ID. c.. on
the subject OF Hawaii" Mr.. Foster was
premier during the latter portion OF Presi-
lent Harrison's administration when the
treaty OF annexation of the Hawaiian islands
was sent to the senate, and the expectation
that he would have something TO say on that
feature Of his subject attracted a large audi
ence including the representatives OF the
Hawaiian government now in Washington.
The ex-Secretary came out in EN- phatic terms
in favor Of annexation OF the islands. He
said In the present government there is as
fully a de facto and dejure government as its
predecessor, that we have a strong equitable
claim TO the islands; that the United States
has, by means Of the reciprocity treaty,
brought life and prosperity to the islands,
enabled its merchants and planters TO grow
rich at our expense. He asserted that the
Americans Of Hawaii are loyal and patriotic
sons OF the fatherland, and declared II would
bea cruel and undeserved fate to abandon
them to the rule Of some foreign power. He
said that annexation presented no political or
administrative difficulties and the objection
advanced that there is no authority In the
Constitution to annex territory not contig-
uous did not seem to have had any weight
with the executive or with congress when
Alaska was admitted, nor will it, he added
with enlightened statesmen to-day. The
speaker did Got regard the suggestion Of o
protectofate as practicable, as he believed it
would bring no end OF complications with
foreign powers and in domestic affairs. We
must either annex the islands. he said, or
leave them free to make such other alliance
as they may choose or as destiny may deter
mine,
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
H0NORS HIS GRANDFATHER.
Magnificent Statue Of the Late Kaiser IN
yelled in Berlin

80
The ceremonies attending the celebration
OF the centenary of the birth Of Emperor
William l, grandfather OF the present En-
peror began Sunday and ended on Tuesday.
Mond.y an early visit OF the Emperor and
Empires TO the mausoleum OF william !. was
made. Thousands Of people lined the
Feststr .ssee, which was brilliantly decorated
f~rofietls castle to the Brandenburg gate.
ryrhe., .Naiesties, who received an ovation all
! 1he rc,tet, spent a quarter OF an our
OtCust nygudr ut the toni and returned to
,Oda soonc.ter 8 O'Clock. The monument
a ny, jed at IL 80 a. m. according to the
I, opry,JThe drawn up under the personal
Ntshs ,sion Of the Emperor.
w = de weather was bright and warm Tues
-, the last Of the three days celebration Of
he centenary Of the birth OF Emperor Will
am /. TIT procession was about three miles
In length, and II is estimated over 40, 900 per-
sons took part in II. At intervals were oats
representing scenes from the life OF the late
emperor. Germania was represented by the
wife OF a sculptor named Schott. She was
surrounded by 100 steel-clad knights.
There we're $50 bands in the procession,
which was reviewed by the emperor, the en-
press, the princess and the royal guests.
.tGermania addressed the emperor in a
poem specially composed for the occasion.
In view Of the patriotism evoked throughout
Germany upon the occasion OF the centenary.
Emperor William has ordered that the new
memorial medal be bestowed upon the veter-
ans of 1864, 1866 and 1901. Tn cost Of
producing the medals will be betrayed by
his majesty personally.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
MORE CONFIDENCE SHOWN
afajtal improvement in Bu,in,u :,
tinuss-lron Locking IN w

II. G. Dun 4 Co.'S Weekly Rs.,.
Trade says: Rarely have markets ,n., Z
prises as they have received Of la,s Wv
little loss. Foreign conditions and t.
alarms, the collapse Of the iron ore con,
ton. the destructive floods In the Nj
valley ind the decision OF the sunrsa4s
against railway associations have hs.eeouz
TO the utmost, but not even In rail,o..las ~
result been important. With copfsssSses
better times and larger business Are ~ Ia,
men are less disposed every dav ~ "aaLit
away good Investments. In all Mfes
also the number OF mills and sbcsss'nas
hands at work gradually increases. Net
The grain markets have lost yithor,
son the gain they made without res." y
previous week. Western receipts y, ns
for four weeks have been 7.6li.4i0 NueG
against II, sS4, 20s last year, but ,b Oasass
prospect for the crop OF winter VIII. oeus'
more weight. Atlantic exports. Acc. as
Guided. for four weeks have been Iv ny =.
bushels, against 5000. $50 las, year 'U'S' y
exports have been -, 1853, $40 bushels .on
4,577, 609 last year. Cotton was beirsInl sans
ward an eighth by the flood, bnt ~ "
half the gain, although manutacturis"s
more hopeful. "lss
Final dissolution OF the lake iron
has been expected ever since the C,,e pS0
Rockefeller deal, and insures low n,iaauFsiis'
ore the coming year, though perhans' w
lower than in 1895. Mesaba facIItIss' .'
production have vastly increased. ma 81 N'
great steel-making concerns have sue
mines OF their own, while means of ,rDr..NN
tation have greatly enlarged. With NV
ance Of cheap ore, hesitation about vss ~
products should diminish, and the dsn. os
is steadily increasing. Bars are still SamNNc
allied and at the lowest point, but fo, ni. .e
sheets, wire rods and all nails the danra.aa
growing larger.
Tho demand for rails continues eror,,
strengthen prices, although some from s~
ulatiye purchases are offered below ~
sent prices OF mills. Tin is n sbads Fe
with large arrivals, though the distribn.,..
has been considerable, and Lead is decISSas
stronger at 3.47c. Copper is weak at lITE
Increases in coke productions appea, ~
more is assured by the purchase OF wort,I.
the Cambria company, and. while ouo,a,o,..
are unchanged, outsiders are offering H..
mace at 81 70 per ton. N'
Speculation In wool has recorded l,,,..
sales for four weeks than ever before I
Goa, 800 pounds against q, 1854, 567 in the ar.
weeks Of 1892. Much more than half y,
speculation, as nothing like the full capar,,
Of the mills is employed. Failures ior n.
week have been 29l in the United sta,..
against 259 last year, and 30 In Cap.h
against SO last year.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
THE LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE
RAvAGES OF THE PLAQUES.
Progress Of Disease in Cuba, India, Turkey
and Crete

Under date OF March 20 Sanitary Inspector
Burgess. Of the marine hospital service at
Havana, reports that smallpox continues in
active epidemicity, the number OF deaths
from 1t in the past week being q little more
than in the previous one. A lumber OF
deaths from yellow fever occurred In the
military hospitals among Spanish soldiers
and one civilian died OF 1t in the city, near
the cathedral Intestinal diseases are quite
common. During the week ended March 10
there were 10 deaths from yellow fever and
$50 new cases OF smallpox. with 81 deaths.
In a report to the state department on the
plague In India. Z. +. Meyer, vice-consul OF
the United States at Bombay, estimates that
the exodus from that city to escape the raw
ages Of disease amounts to one-half the
population. The number OF people in the
city is estimated at this time to be 410, SS2, as
against s21, 764, according to the census of
1891. Under date OF February 10 last the
v~ice-consul says:
"The total number OF deaths has decreas-
ed from /, 9i1 last week to /, 72S for the week
under report, but as the exodus continues.
this difference is believed to be accounted
for by a corresponding decrease Of the pop
ulation still remaining in Bombay. which Is
confirmed by the low birth rate. Thu infect
ed area appears to be extending to east and
uOTtu. DuElDk Tue Wtch uuucE Tue pIONl-
sions OF the Dangerous epidemic disease act
OF 1897. most stringent measures have been
put Ia force by the government OF India to
prevent persons from carrying the infection
into districts still reported clear. All per-
sons proceeding from infected districts by
lane or sea are carefully inspected by gov
eminent medical officers; II showing any
unfavorable symptoms they are removed
from the trains and segregated. In Bombay
a constantly increasing p9Yber Of European
are being attacked, but d Very small percent
age OF cases are fatal"
Spiridlon c.. Zovitzian, In a sanitary re-
port on Crete and Constantinople. has the
following to say under date OF CONSTANT
nople, March 4:
''The sanitary news from the provinces Of
the Turkish empire is rather good. There
exist always many cases and deaths from
smallpox here and there. but this Disease is
endemic everywhere. Only when vaccina-
ton is adopted 1t disappears. In Turkey, In
spite Of the law OF the regulations and the
trades. w have many deaths attributed to
this disease. In Crete 1t is raging, and now
that thousands and thousands Of Cretans
have escaped from Crete to Greece, in order
not to be mastered by the Turks or bonn
barded by the civilized Europeans. II Is to be
feared that an outbreak of that disease will
occur In the different towns OF Greece where
refugee Cretans are STAYING. In CONSTANT
nople we have do deal with an epidemic OF
influenza, but more serious and fatal is the
epidemic of scarlet fever, as well as that OF
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
A GREAT CHARITY SCHEME.
The Hirsch Millions to Be Put to Good Use
Among New York Poor.

1t is reported that Baroness Hirsch is about
to expend 81 SOC, 900 in charity in New York.
Oscar Straus. ex-minister TO Turkey and
trustee of the Baron Hirsch fund, which ex-
ponds here for charitable and educational
purposes the income from "a. 400, 900 annu-
ally, says that Baroness Hirsch has a%ppropri-
ated a sum sufficient TO buy land and put up
a complete building for the Baron Hirsch
trade school. already established. She has
further appropriated 81, 600, 600 for the build
ing OF modern houses for the poor in the
tenement district or whatever the trustees Of
the iund may determine. In addition she
will build q working girls home on plans
similar TO those OF other homes she has had
built In cities abroad.
The baroness has authorized the Educa-
tional alliance, whose work is chiefly among
tho Russian Hebrews, to pay off at her ex-
pense the 800, goo mortgage on its property
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
A Spanish Denial.

Captain Ahumada. who is Acting Captain
General during the absence from Havana of
General Weyler. authorized the correpon-
dent OF the Associated Press to deny the re-
port published in the United States that the
insurgents under Calixto Garcia have cap
tured the own Of Holguin, Province Of Santa
Clara, Cuba. He adds that n steamer which
has just arrived here from the port OF Hol-
gum, reports that no news OF an attack up
on Holguin had been received up to the time
OF her sailing. no news Of such an affair is
contained in the newspapers, and the cor
respondence from Holguin, under, date of
the night OF March y, makes no mention of
any attack.
General Marion. the commander OF a bri-
gade OF troops in the Holguin district, has
also arrived At Havana and denies that any
attack has been made upon the town.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
LEGISLATION IN CANADA.
A New Tariff and the Question Of Pro-
hibition.

Lord Aberdeen, the Governor General,
opened the Dominion Parliament with q
speech from the throne. He said that n
tariff bill would he submitted providing for
the necessary revenue. and which. having
due regard to industrial interests. will make
the fiscal system more satisfactory TO the
people. He added that u measure enabling
the electors TO vote on the operation of pro-
hibition OF liquor will Ice laid before Parlia-
ment.
The Dominion Government has definitely
decided to push tn, work OF deepening the 81.
Lawrence canals TO n uniform depth Of IA
feet, the work 10 he completed in two years.
The recent visit o! Captain McDougall, Of
Duluth. president Of the American Steel
Barge Company, TO Ottawa. is reported to
have been in connection with this question.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
LATE BREvETIEs.

At Allensville, KY, Marshall Russell, Marie
Snoden and Maggie Short were drowned
in q pond by the capsizing Of n pleasure
boat.
At thu Tennessee Centennial Illinois will
reproduce on a scale one-sixth the original
size the administration building Of the Co.
lumbia Exposition.
At Clayton, N. NJ, two Cinnamon have
been found murdered in their laundry. Rob-
berry was the motive, rs the Celestials were
known to be wealthy.
The Evansville & Richmond railroad was
sold In Washington, Ind, to the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company for sl,4l3, 7l2 80.
1t was foreclosure sale.
The general traffic managers OF the Grand
Trunk think 1t will take but little time and
consideration to procure the same results as
under the joint traffic arrangement.
After searching thirty-nve years for his
father who eloped from the Boone county,
(IlL.), homestead. John !. Collier got on the
track and arrived In San Diego, CAL, Just
three week AFTER his father died.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
SIXTEEN CAsrAwAYs FOUND
Survivors Of the 81. Nazaire Picked u,
Without Food Four DAYS

The British steamship Yanarivs. Can,
Weston, which lef. Newport News on N.rb
10, bound for Glasgow, arrived at G%reenoc,.
The captain reports that on March y. while
in latitude 81, longitude II, he picked I'd,
small boat containing sixteen survivors AZ
the steamship Vile de st. Nazaire. Of N.
West India line Of the Compagine General,
Trans-Atlantique, which foundered In tbs
great storm Of March Z off the Virgin,
capes.
They had been without food and water "a,
four days, and were In a state Of eStrens
exhaustion and were bordering on madness
The officers and crew of Yanariya did al
In their power for the unhappy victims d,
TN ocean horror, and finally learned their
pitiful story piece by piece. They say .ha
four boats were launched. two ~containins
twenty-nine each. the third seventeen AID
the fourth six. The boat picked ND BY Ii.
Yanariva was one Of the two that took q
twenty-nine, bnt thirteen OF these succunk
ed to exposure, hunger and thirst. The lat
the survivors saw Of the other boats was On
the day the vessel foun1ered. when they
sighted two OF them dashed together si
empty.
For some time after the rescue the capah
OF the }anariva kept IN officer at the nas
head, sweeping the horizon with a CLASH
the hope OF getting some trace Of the oths
boats, but there was no sign Of them. ~
night was falling rapidly and the sea and
wind were increasing, with mist and rta
the Yanariva proceeded. The second offe'
Of the Vile de st Nazaire is among the ~
cued, who will be taken in charge byih
French consul at Glasgow.
According to the list Of the crew oil tie
Vile dc 81. Nazaire originally published The
''second captain" was Pierre NuoaII and Toe
first lieutenant Andre de Audreis. Nuoil
is probably the officer rescued by tho lili'
riyB.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
CUBAN GOVERNMENT.
How the Funds for Carrying On the War
Are Raised.

As the Cuban patriots have never obtained
very much pecuniary assistance from this
country or from any other, many people
have wondered in what way they meet the
expenses that are incurred in the revolution
AIRY war. 1t is by lawful taxation that they
procure such means rs are necessary. Their
Government holds possession Of the greater
part Of the territory OF the country, and, like
any other Government, It imposes taxes for
CIVIL and military purposes. There are as
SCISSORS and collectors in the service OF its
Treasury, who perform their duties in the
ordinary manner. Heavy fines also are fire.
quently imposed upon those among tho in
habitants who violate such rules as are
established In the various provinces by the
General-ln-Chief, under the authority OF the
republic. 1t is likewise 10 be born in mind
that a little money goes a long way in this
case. The patriot army is not an expensive
one; it fights without pay, and most OF it,
wants are freely provided for by the people
of the districts In which the detachments of
it are employed. Money is needed by the
revolution mainly for the purchase of arms
and military supplies.
The tubans have a government of their
own.w which administers public affairs, enacts
and e%nforces laws. and takes charge of the
revolutionary finances. The civil officers OF
the Government are men Of ability. no less
faithful in the performance OF their duty than
the military officers.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
NOTE OF POLITICS.

The secretary OF the interior has appointed
rs agents for the prosecution of claims be-
fore that department james Allen, Wheel
ing, W. Va. Gilbert +. Axline, GAINESVILLE,
Ohio.
The board OF directors OF the maritime ex-
change at Philadelphia passed n resolution
asking President Mckinley to retain Eugene
ton.
Theodore +. Swaze, OF New Jersey, has
been appointed chief clerk OF the treasury
department at Washington. Mr.. Swaze had
held the same Office under President Ar
thur.
The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-04-01
MINERS APPEAL TO THE PUBLIC.
National Commmittee Issues a Circular
Asking Sympathy.

The National Executive committee Of the
United Mine Workers issued an appeal to the
public for sympathy and financial aid. The
circular describes the miners rs being reduc-
ed to miserable poverty, and quotes a Pitts
burg paper to the effect that miners child
rem are seen driving dogs away from garb-
age and eating 1t themselves, In the mining
regions there. The committee, by name.
blames the New York and Cleveland Coal
company and It's president and directors,
whose names are are also given for bringing
about the demoralizing condition Of the Goa
mining business. The miners announce
that they are determined to end this state OF
| affairs at once. and TO that end solicit aid.
The circular is Endorsed by President Samuel
Gompers,