The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-02-10
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday. Feb. g.

Weouesuoys rem. q.
The president has named George M.
Powers. Of West Virginia. as commits
sioner of fish and fisheries.
The Alvord House at Gloversvilie, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire. Three men,
q woman. a girl and q boy were cre-
mated.
Thomas L. Thompson, ex-congress-
man and ex-minister to Brazil. COM
mitted suicide at Santa Rosa, Cal. by
cutting his throat.
In the contest for United States sem
ator from Tennessee Thomas b. Tur-
ley. now holding Senator Harris seat
by appointment, was elected.
Thursday, Feb. 8.
Thousands Of sheep have perished
from cold and starvation in western
Wyoming.
George II. Earle. receiver Of Phila-
delphia's failed bank. expresses the
opinion that no one need lose anything
The report that Great Britain had
on the demand Of Russia, backed
down" on the question OF making
Talien-Wan a free port Of entry, Is
officially denied.
At meeting OF over 400 PENNSYLVANIA
business men in Philadelphia Senator
Quay's methods were denounced, and
Hon. John Wanamaker was urged as a
candidate for governor.
Friday, Feb. 4.
At points in Maine and Vermont yes
terday the temperature was 40 degrees
below zero.
A h ha
chronic invalids has been introduced in
Ohios Legislature.
Colonel Rend, who testified before the
Ohio senate trust committee, said he
thought the senate trust might bear
investigation.
Governor Bushnell. of Ohio, says that
he was forced into the anti Hanna
fight because he was told that he must
support the senator. Now that 1t ID over
he harbors no malice.
Saturday, Feb. 8.
One of the passenger trains caught in
the blizzard on Long Island was stuck
In the snow for two days.
The immigration bill will bo taken up
in congress with caution. owing to the
political antagonism 1t may arouse.
Seven men were killed and 36 others
injured in q collision on tn Glasgow
and Southwestern railway. near Troon.
Scotland.
Private letters received at San Fran
cisco tend to contradict the story of
Captain Ray. u. 8. A., that no new pla-
GERS have been discovered along tfs,
Yukon.
Monday. Fob. z.
BY the fall Of roof during Q fire In
Boston six brave fremen were killed
and four injured.
Unless the telegraph and telephone
wires in Chicago and placed In sub
ways by March they will be cut down
by the city.
Highland Park hotel at Augusta, Ga.
the famous winter health resort, was
destroyed by fire yesterday. There were
no fatalities.
Bricklayer John Purdy fell eight stor.
les from a building In West Thirty.
eighth street. New York city. but es.
capped death.
A cow derailed a train on the st
Louis. Iron Mountain and Southern
railway. at Hematite. Mo-. resulting In
the death Of Engineer Francy and Fire.
man Childs.
Tuesday, Feb. 3.
Two hundred buildings have been de
stroyed by fire at Manila, Phllippin,
Islands.
Lord William Nevill will be tried n
London on Wednesday on an indict
ment charging forgery.
The Austrian government has CLOSED
all the colleges until March q. owing t
the disorders among the students.
Michael Varrish. who died in Bridge
port. Conn. is believed to have beer
poisoned by horse meat sausages.
De Wolf Hopper and John Philiy
Sousa are going to Europe to Civ,
American comic opera and band music
Several women tainted during tn,
services in Poughkeepsie church, ant
. panic almost ensued among the con
uraUatipn