The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-07

YUKON country tnat MS ciain oH Si
Dorado creek will pan out $5OO,OCO In
gold nuggets this winter.
Lord Alderman and Henry Rivers
dale Grenfelt, in letter to the Lon
don Times. argue for the acceptance by
bimetallists of the Hicks Beach COM
promise.
Rev. r. ]. Kellogg Of Denversde,
Ills, Is building a parsonage under the
protection of n shotgun. The Car
penters' union has insisted that only
those neighbors who are union men
may help him.
Monday, Oct. I.
Sagasta has been chosen premier Of
Spain.
Major Lewis Gintcr. the cigarette
king, is dead.
A boy was killed in Keene. N. H., by
swallowing a bee.
General Neal Dow. the famous pro-
hibitionist. is dead.
Four were drowned at Hamilton. Ala,
returning from a party.
The German smperor's new naval bill
calls for 4l0. 0.000.0 900 marks.
Lily Langtry is going to devote all
her time to horse racing.
Lynchers at Osgood. Ind, were disap-
pointed by the escape Of their man.
NJ. Delyannis has not been chosen
premier Of the new cabinet In Greece.
He says he will overthrow II.
Ernest Hayden OF Springfield. Mass.
and an unknown companion committed
suicide by gas In a room at the Broad
way Garden. New York.
Saturday, Oct. ..
The Afridis attacked the British in
India only few miles from Peshawur.
A bad freight wreck occurred on the
Boston and Maine near Holyoke. Mass.
James Cunningham was run over and
killed by a trolley car at White Plains,
N. Y. al. ..
The danger OF the street car employees
strike in Chicago has not yet been
averted. ..a
Postal officials are consulting { In
Washington over the advisabilitt of
providing better mail service for the
suburbs OF New York. Philadelphia and
Pittsburg. t.. 20,
The consul generals of Guatemala to
San Francisco and New York. who ar
rived In the former city from home, say
the reports Of the war are greatly ,ex-
aggerated. ~,
Friday. Dot. I.
Isaac Bell, one of the oldest OF New
York's citizens. Is dead.
The Massachusetts National Demo-
Gratis named DR.. william Everett for
governor.
The pope has sent to President Nc
Kinley work'dcscrIptive Of the Appar-
lament Borgia.
The postofiice department has invited
the admission of designs for new stamp
canceling machines.
1t is reported at Columbus that John
r. Mclean has withdrawn from the
race for the Ohio senatorship.
The appeal Of the attorney general in
the matter Of the coal roads and the
antitrust act was argued before the ap-
pellate division of the supreme court at
Saratoga.
Thursday, Sept. 30.
Horatio David Davies was chosen
lord mayor Of London.
The treaty between the Creeks and
the United States has been signed
The foreign admirals prevented an
attempt Of the Turks to land troops on
the Cretan coast.
Governor Wolcott and Lieutenant
Governor Crane were renominated by
the Massachusetts Republicans
One man was killed In an accident to
the Boston express on the New York.
New Haven and Hartford railroad at
New Haven.
Mrs. Ormiston Chant says that the
Crown Princess of Greece told her that
Emperor William was the most cruel
foe OF the Hellenes.
Senator Wilson Of Washington said
that a scheme Of government for Ha-
wall had already been considered by
several senators.
Three sons of Thomas r. Morgan OF
Canton, o.. will contest their fathers
will on the gro,sld that a fourth son
used hypnotic influence over his ia
ther
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don News denies fhat either Germany
or Austria will intervene between the
United States and Spain in behalf of
the latter.
Wednesday, Sept. 80.
Forest fires In Wyoming have de-
stroyed at least 100000 feet Of timber.
]. Oscar Michaels. a prominent Re-
publican Of Camden, N. j., committed
suicide.
The Guatemalan insurgents are con-
centrating at Quexaltenango and will
soon be besieged.
Chandler Hale. son Of Senator Hale.
was married to Miss Rachael b. Cam
eron. daughter Of ex-senator Cameron,
at Harrisburg.
Proceedings to recover title for the
state to some 100000 acres In the Sara
nae region Of the Adirondacks were be-.
gun at Albany.
The brig Percy Edwards, which left
San Francisco last February with 100
South sea colonists. 10 now said to bs
engaged In the slave trade. ~
1t 10 announced al, Tsheran. Persia.
that Turkish Kurds were the aggrsssors
In the fighting on the frontier last Au-
gust and that 800 persons were massa-