The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-10-13
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
wednesday, Oct. 8.

Wednesday, Oct. 8.
Forty thousand people witnessed tn
launch Of the battleship Illinsis ct
Newport News. Va
Al Somerset. Kan. three men were
suffocated in q well which they had
just constructed with the aid Of dyna-
mite.
Ell Shaw. who was acquitted Of the
murder Of his grandmother In Camden.
N. j.. 10 now on trial charged with
killing his mother.
Four masted schooner Sarah L. Pal.
mer was lost Off South Carolina's
coast. Captain Whittier and seven
others were drowned.
Before the war investigating COM
mittee General Wheeler strongly de-
| Tended the war department against
charges Of mismanagement.
The transport steamer OLDHAM re-
turned to Santiago with fire In her coal
bunkers. The soldiers on board dis
munition from proximity to the fire.
Thursday, Oct. q.
Colonel William J. Bryan has rejoin-
ed his regiment at Jacksonville.
The recent storm of Georgia's coast
swept Buffers Island, drowning 100,
mostly negroes.
The cruiser Boston and gunboat
Petrol have left Manila for China, to
protect American interests.
1t is considered certain that General
Maxine Gomez. despite his declination,
will be elected president of Cuba.
General Ernst. with the Sixteenth
Pennsylvania and Third Wisconsin. has
been ordered home from Porto Rico.
Hospital ship Missouri and transport
Panama arrived at Newport News, Va.
with 527 sick soldiers. including men
from the Sixteenth Pennsylvania.
Senator NJ. s. Quay, his son. r. r.
Quay and C. II. Mckee. of Pittsburg
were held in $1,000 bail for trial In
Philadelphia on a charge OF misap.
propriating state moneys.
Friday, Oct. Z.
Prince Napoleon Victor chief OF tn,
French imperialists, will abdicate ir
favor of his brother Prince Louis.
The will OF the late Ex-Secretar,
Bayard shows that his estate Is valued
at only $4,000.
Eudora Guilford. Harry Guilford
Rose Drayton and Albert II. Oxle,
have been indicted at Bridgeport, Conn.
for completely in the murder of Emm,
GILL
The socialist convention at Stuttgart
Germany. declared that the empero
deems 1t right to throw down tn
gauntlet, and we have the courage L
take 1t up
N. l.. Weatherby commodore of tn
Troy Yacht club: Stephen w. Mallory
OF Troy; Mrs. Nellie Breslin, widow
of Waterford. and Miss Lizzie Savage
, also of Waterford. were drowned by tn
, upsetting of a yacht near Troy, n. Y.
saturday. Oct. y.
, Hon. Sherman Hoar died at his hom
, In Concord. Mass. last night.
General Fitzhugh Lee will take hi
, command TO Havana the latter part q
this month.
= Soldiers of Russia, England and Ger
= many have arrived in Pekin to protec
: the legations.
Ex-Mayor A. Oakley Hall died las
night OF heart failure at his New Yor
home, aged 73.
, The evidence before the war invest
gators continues to show that report
of neglect were unfounded.
A General Graham and l0,50O soldier
4 from Camp Meade will participate |
s Phfladelphia's peace jubilee.
n Senor Quesada, representing the CT
n bans in Washington. declares tha
n starvation is ravaging the island
Volunteer Major Generals Coppinge
Hawkins and Kent and s6 brigade
generals have been ordered honorabl
discharged.
Monday. Oct. 10.
Major General Lawton Is comm
:, home from Santiago on account OF
health.
~ Admiral Miller, who raised the AmeI
r lean flag at Honolulu. has returned
A San Francisco.
+ Senator Hanna announces that
It has no present intention OF resignin
e the craftsmanship OF the Republica
II national committee.
Thomas Greenway, a private soldie
Z escaped from the guard house at Fo
|. Slocum. near New Rochelle, n. Y. n
t. fusing to halt. he was shot dead.
q Howard Clark, a fugitive murdert
). from Louisville, was pursued with h
q girl, Hattie Mahoney, to the Indian
c side Of the Ohio river. They fired ON II
a officers and both were killed.
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