The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-01-13
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday. Jan. 8.

John d. Rockefeller has donat $780,
900 to the University Of Chicago TO aid
in carrying out work already planned.
The trial Of Ell Shaw. at Camden. N.
j.. for the alleged murder Of his grand
mother. has been postponed until April.
A too rapid physical growth caused
the death Of Edwin r. Mason, aged Is.
Of BROOKLYN. He was six feet two
inches high.
A party Of men are searching In
Quicksands near Clearmont, Mo-. for
gold supposed to have been left in that
vicinity by Indians years ago.
Thursday. Jan. o.
The president named Francis c. Low
ell as United States district judge for
Massachusetts.
Samuel Fleming and Mrs. Sebastian
Koch were killed by a Lebanon Valley
railroad train near South Mountain. Pa.
A gun trap loaded with salt was
sprung by Joseph Dowd, at Orange,
N. j.. and he received the charge in
his hand.
Adolph Stroller. a hermit and miser.
who died recently In shanty near
Superior Wis, Is supposed to have
left 100000.
Friday. Jan. Z.
A law to tax aliens has been intro
duced in the New York legislature.
The Temple cup. the baseball trophy
has been returned to its donor. w. C.
Temple. of Pittsburg.
The Democrats of the Kentucky leg
islature have appointed negro as as
sistant cloakroom keeper
Sadie Sack. a young New York wo-
man, drank carbolic acid and died be-
cause her lover deserted her.
Captain w. L. Hall fell 600 feet into
the Great Leroi mine at Rossland. l.
c.. and was crushed to a jelly.
1t is said that Minister Angel may
be transferred from Constantinople tc
Pekin, and Charles Page Bryan sent tc
Turkey
saturday, Jan. y.
Ernest Hart. editor of the British
Medical Journal, died in London yes.
terday, aged So.
1t Is feared that the steamer Pellcar
has foundered In the Pacific with hel
As officers and men.
Martin Thorn's counsel will apply fol
a new trial on the ground that the jur,
consumed too much wine.
Over 400 convicts-men, women ant
children (white and black)-were SOLE
at auction at West Palm Beach. Fla.
John McCullagh. just appointed chic
OF police OF New York. says the polio,
4 Of hot ri 10 hab .
times.
Monday, Jan. 10.
| Sydney Glendenning the 2lst victim
Of the London (Ont.) disaster, died Sat
urday.
The Ohio miners convention at Co
lumbus will demand an increase OF L
cents a ton for mining.
The New York legislature Is consld
ering the plan to establish farm col
ony for vagrants, to cost 100000.
Moses p. Handy, the eminent jour
nalist and ex-commissloner to Paris
died at Atlanta Ga, Saturday. aged SC
Katie Marsh, a farmers daughter
near Carthage, Mo-. was blinded will
vitriol and assaulted by a tramp at he
home.
Rufus b. stillman, aged 70, who wa
serving life sentence for murder /,
Clinton IN. " prison. has been par
doned.
Tuesday. Jan II.
The Populists and Silver Democrat
of Alabama have practically poole,
their issues.
/ The postoflice department decides tha
postmasters cannot be required to casI
pension checks.
Henry Stacy Marks. the painter an
honorary retired academician, is dea,
in London. aged 50.
Hadley A. Sutherland. negro. wa
electrocuted at Sing Sing for the mur
der of his paramour.
The agricultural department Is in
vestigating the spread of the Mexican
cotton boil weevil in Texas.
With his gold tied about his body
Patrick Kearney. hermit. was foun
dead in his home at Pittston, Pa.