The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-10
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wetine-day, Mnrch 2.

"Wednesday, March 2.
Tho Turkish press censors suppressed |
the news, OF the attempted assassina- |
ton q King George Of Greece.
A terrific hurricane has devastated
New Caledonia. doing great damage
to shipHng. A French gunboat was
sunk ofd the Loyalty Islands.
Adam Weaver. who killed a deputy
constable and wounded a constable at
Bursonvee. Pa. spent Sunday night
US lodgF in the Portland. Pa. lookup.
There yin be no relief expedition
sent to te Klondike. The war depart
ment announces that the project has
been abdnioned for the reason that
no necessity now exists for such relief.
Thursday. March 3.
SENATOR Johnson, at Trenton. intro
duced twp bills to reform the election
law of N{w Jersey.
Prince Albert, heir apparent to the
throne of Belgium, is en- route to this
country, where he will make an extended
! tour.
c. )tain G. L. d. Dimond. OF San
Francisco, who on May will be lO2
years old. Is about to start on a pedes-
trian trip TO New York.
Six alleged widows have laid claim
to the estate Of James Henry White
legge, formerly well known lawyer
of New York. who left property valued
at about $4,000.
| Friday, March 1.
Military Cadet +. Marko is under ar
rest at the West Point academy for
misquoting Scripture.
Isaac Levin committed suicide IN
4 New York on the eve, OF his weddins
because his funds had run low.
Over 5000 900 tons of United States
merchandise In bond were shipped
through Canada during the year 1897
General Wesley Merritt. after an in
spection. says the gulf coast Is fairly
we'll protected. with improvements still
going on.
A young Paris student. crazed by the
Dreyfus case, and imagining himself
Count Esterhazy committed suicide by
throwing himself from a window.
saturday. March 8.
The coal miners of the Northern dis
trict Of Colorado threaten to shut down
every mine there.
The candidacy of L. s. Grant for
United States senator is being pro-
NOTED in California.
A Japanese tramp was picked up ct
Poughkeepsie. N. Y. where he said he
had come east to blow up Spain.
OF the s4.24O government employees In
the classified service list 54.253 would
be exempted by the operation OF the
Evans bill now pending
Martin G. Nails. who had been
threatened to be shot for alleged de-
sertion from the Confederate army
and who was supposed to be dead
was found In a hospital at Montclair
N. j., by his daughter.
Monday, March. :
Tramps In the Lehigh county Pa.
Jail live on bread and water and are r..
quired to carry pig iron.
Mrs. Nellie J. Peterkin, of Paterson
N. j.. has been sentenced. at Boston. Il
five years for killing Mrs. Katherin,
Murphy ,r,-.- ..
United States Senator Mills, of Texas
has withdrawn from the race for re
election. which leaves the field to Gov
I ernor c. A. Culberson.
+ The condition Of General Rosecrans
who Is lying Ill at his ranch near Lo
Angeles, Cal. Is slightly worse. thouEl
his physicians say there Is hope of hi
recovery
:. Tuesday, March y.
Two men are dead and two other
: dying from the effects OF drinking WOO,
alcohol at Moose Lake. Mont.
Mounted customs inspectors now pa
troll the boundary lipe between Wash
: ing7on state and British Columbia.
George S. Cralle. an alleged notoriou
pension swiniler who is wanted Il
several states. has been arrested Il
. Kansas.
Friends OF the late w. G. Ferris ar
Investigating the story that a Pittsbur
undertaken is holding his ashes for un
paid expenses.
! Hugh j. Jewett. of Maryland. a We
known railroad man. and once men
, toned as a Democratic presidents
candidate. died at Augusta, Ga