The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-06-22
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
wednesday, Juno II.


Ulysses S. Grant (3d) is among the
Vest Pointers graduated yesterday.
Italian General Giletta was arrested
lr Nice. France, with plans of the for
tifications upon him.
Baron Christiani, who assaulted
President Loubet at the Auteuil races
June 4. gets four years imprisonment.
The Old Dominion steamer Hamil-
ton ran down and sunk the German
steamer Macedonia of Long Branch.
All rescued.
Thursday. June Is.
Congressman :. P. Bland died at his
home In Lebanon, Mo-, aged g.
The Oregon Volunteers and First
volunteer signal corps left Manila for
home yesterday.
Philade!phia's ststve Of benjamin
Franklin, presented by ]. C. Straw
bridge, was unveiled yesterday.
Edward Gray, a negro charged with
burglaries In st. John Parish, La, was
lynched after acQuittal by the court.
Before the Industrial commission H.
0. i.vemeyer, the sugar maguate, de-
clared the tariff "the mother OF all
trusts"
Alaska Indians, starving because the
prospectors have frightened away the
game that was their natural food, now
threaten to massacre the whites.
Pennsylvania Democrats made these
nominations: Supreme Judge, S. l..
MestreZat Of Fayette; superior court
Judge, c. J. Reilly Of Williamsport;
treasurer, w. 7. Greasy OF Columbia
Friday. June 10.
Harvard college will confer the de-
gree of ILL., ID. on French Ambassador
Cambon.
Fifty thousand delegates are ex-
pected at the coming Christian En-
deavor convention in Detroit.
The first formal meeting Of the
Venezuelan arbitration comillssion
was held in Paris yesterday.
Rear Admiral Pierce Crosby, retired,
one of Farragut's active officers in the
stirring sea fights of the civil war.
died ut Washington last night, aged Is.
| William Hall (coiored), serving a
tive year term for rolb!ng Il railway
car at Hagerstown. Nd. committed
suicide by strangulation In the Bal
timore penitentiary
saturday. June II.
According to the police census Chi
cngo's population is now g,0SS.043.
Explosions in mine at Glace Bay.
Cape Breton, resulted in the killing of
II miners.
Bellamy Storer, our minister TO
Spain. was formally received by the
queen regent yesterday.
United States Consul Johnson. M
Annoy. reports that the plague has
broken out there.
A general strike In the buildings
trade Of Berlin threatens to spread oil
over the empire.
Monday. June 10.
Americans and Brltons will erect q
monument TO the men who fell recently
in Samoa.
The reigning duke OF Sake Cobura
and Gotha. Prince Alfred of Edin.
burg, will abdicate this year.
Jim Jeffries and Tom Sharkey have
been matched for rs round fight
which will take place about Oct. 20.
BY an explosion OF two pounds OF
powder with which they were playing
little Harry and Arthur Horn, O,
Exeter. Pa. were terribly burned, and
one Of them may lose his sight.
The suburban handicap at Sleeps.
head Bay on Saturday was won by
Imp in 206 As. with Bannockbum sec.
ond and Warrenton third. Banastar
the favorite, boltod at the start, and
came in last.
Tuesday, Juno IL.
Crazed by Christian science, three
members Of one family are confined
in an insane asylum at Elgin. Ills.
Town boomers OF Mountain View. O
T.. stole postoGice building from Oak.
dI.e and set It up In their own town.
The failure Of artesian wells in tn,
Cobar mining district OF West Austria
Tia has caused several deaths Of thirst.
General Joubert, Of the Boer army. /!
said to have made campaign plans fol-
the taking Of Cape Town in the event
Of war with England.
| The dominion government has disnI