The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-03-03
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
WcdnesdRN. Feb. ~.

"wednesday. Feb. aJ.
Senator White. of California. will de-
cline re-electi)n IN because OF business
engagements.
Ignetius ponnelly. the veteran north
western journalist and politician. was
married at Minneapolis to Miss Marion
Hansen. aged 22.
The Congregational ministers of Kan
sas City, Mo. criticized General Booth
and his Salvation Army. one OF them
characterizing 1t as ''the most absolute
despot'sm on earth"
The house OF Postmaster Baker, col
ored. at Lake city, $. c.. was fired by
Il mob. who killed tie postmaster and
his infant child and dangerously in
iured his wife and two daughters.
Thursday, Feb. 81.
Richard Allen. a robber. and Tom
Holmes. murderer, both negroes. were
lynched by a mob at Maytield. Ky.
British ship Asia was wrecked on
Ground Shoal. near Nantucket. Mass
Eighteen We're lost and three rescued.
Henry Williams. negro, shot and
killed Ethel Gray. white girl. at Oak
land, Cal, and then committed suicide
Ex-Mayor w. ]. Piero, of Massllon,
o., is under arrest for alleged compile
ity in the robbery Of the Massilon post
office.
An avalanche at South Quebec. Can
ada. engulfed two houses under a cliff
Lewis Angrr and two children AMI
Mrs. King were killed.
Friday. Feb. 50.
The Spanish cruiser Vizcaya len
New York harbor for Havana direct
Experiments will be made in rural
free mail delivery in Burlington county,
n. j., and Bucks county. Pa.
Mrs. Daniel Manning was electcc
president OF the Daughters Of the
American Revolution by the Washing
ton convention.
DR.. Gatling. who IL experimenting
the construction of a big gun at Clevo-
land, thinks the coast defenses are not
what they should be.
The interior department has decided
that 1t must be shown that penstoner
was addicted to drink at the time ths
injuries were sustained before his PEN
son can be annulied.
SATURDAY.. Feb. go.
The Kentucky house has passed the
sweeping anti-Cigarette bill.
Floods and avalanches have patty
destroyed the mining town of Monte
Cristo. Wash.
In the fight between Tommy Ryan and
George Green at San Francisco Last
night. Ryan won In is rounds.
/ Acting President Cooper, OF Hawaii
/ advises caution at home. lest annexation
! lot rIth S,lI
The governments receipts from sale
Of public lands during the past ten yeaS1
were upwards Of $50. .00O, 900, and the e.
/ penses nearly G.0O0.0O
Chairman Walker Of the house com
mite on banking and currency. appear
to be antagonistic TO the bill prepared
by the Indianapolis monetary convention
Monday, Feb. as.
I During a fire at Kalamazoo. Mich
! chemicals in a laboratory exploded
killing six firemen and fsur others.
! C. II. Lawrence, OF Leomlnsten.
Mass. Is dead. the. third victim Of .
boiler explosion on an ice harvesting
plant.
The 5Oth anniversary OF Cailtoruia's
statehood, in 1901. will be celebrated
by another midwinter fair at San
Francisco.
Six sailors and the daughter Of Cap
tain Wilhelmensen, OF the Norwegias
bark Herman, died Of yellow fever ii
Para, Brazil.
The Cedar Rapids Ga) postmaster
spent an anxious eight hours keeping
watch on $1,000, 900 in gold. being trans,
ferred from Japan to New York
Tuesday, March l.
IL is stated authorttatively that 10
river and harbor bill will be reported
at this session OF congress.
General w. B. Taliaferro, who was
commander OF the Virginia troops dur
ing John Browns raid, is dead.
william Warren jumped into 4 shat
low Turkish bath at New York ans
was killed by striking upon his head
Should the next California legisla-
ture be Democratic, Governor Budi
will be a candidate Of United States
senator.
Cyrus E. Breeder, the defaulti1g
cashier OF the Bethlehem (Pa) bank
was sentenced TO seven years in the