The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-06
!. WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday, March 60.


The government has abolished military
postoifces in Cuba.
Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor, gave
q successful test Of telegraphing without
wires from the French coast to England.
| II, the ruins of the Armour curled hair
works, in Chicago, destroyed by fire Oh
Monday evening. Eve dead bodies wcrc
found.
Ex-Secretary Sherman. who was taken
| i'll while touring about Cuban ports, has
returned to his Washington home, still
seriously i'll.
A movement is on foot to make Rich
ard Olney, eAsccretary of state th'
| Democratic candidate for the presi-
dency. He is an imperinlist. hut opposes
annexation of distant islands.
Thursday. March 30.
! Drigadicr General u. w. Flarler,
| chief Of ordnance. L. s. A., died at New
port News, Va.
The Santiago Indcpcndcncia. discuss
! ing American war reports, says we 'lie
like Srnniarls."
Lieutenant Bell. British officer with
the Belgian troops in the Congo Fro
State. was killed and eaten by savagrs,
Ex-senator Gray, OF Delaware, has
been sworn in as Tinted States circui,
judge of Pennsylvania. New Jersey and
Delaware.
The United States cruiser PhiiNd"l-
phia and the British cruisers Por' 1sc
and Royalst shellcd Samoan VILLAGES Il"
suppress an uprising Of MataafG's fol.
lowers.
During test of 10-lnch hrccch
loading rife at the Sandy Hook N. J.i
proving grounds the gun hrrS' it,
brecch. Henry W. Murphy, rccor,iin.
clerk. was killed.
Before the war investigators Ma ior
Black testified that General Ea'rn, dis
cussing soldiers complaints against re-
friGerated beef, said: Damn them
they have no right to refuse it. 7 coz
slider it the hest beef in the United
States. and. damn them. Id have mad"
them take it,
Friday. March, ~.
The heaviest snow storm in Years !.
raging in the southwest.
Porto Ricans generally favor being
made into territory, with American OF
ticials.
A report OF Moscows chief of police
shows that socialism is becoming n power
in Russia.
The scarcity Of farm labor in Ger
many makes big demand for American
farming machinery.
Pennsylvania pure food commission
is making fight against "cmbalmcd
beef from the west.
| Lorenzo V. Peck. so years old, ex-
cashier Of Futonvillc On. " bank, was
sentenced to five years for stealing ban;
funds.
The river steamer Rowcna Lee was
sunk ut Cnruthcrsvi!lc. Mo-, and five
were lost. The dead are: Mrs. Edna
Chamberlain. passenger. Charlottesville:
George Kruchlcr, mail clerk Memphis:
unknown chambermaid; two negro roust-
abouts.
Saturday. April I.
The union bricklayers OF Philadel-
phia are on strike for higher wages.
California's governor signed the bill
legalizing 20 round boxing contests.
During March $50 companies were in
!
have 81 Iii. 10000 capital.
Before the beef investigators 1t was
testified that Secretary Ager advised
Eagan to try the refrigerated beef.
Owing to the passage Of the Rector
antitrust law, all the leading insurance
companies are leaving Arkansas.
Miss Jane Fuller. daughter of the
chief Justice, is to be married in Wash
ington April II to Nathaniel Francis, Jr.,
of Boston.
DR.. Samuel J. Kennedy, convicted in
New York OF numbering Dolly Rcy-
nolds, was sentenced to be clectrocutcd
the week beginning May ~.
Monday, April 3.
A furious snow storm is reported rag
ing in South Dakota.
Bandits are being captured daily in tn"
province of Santiago dc Cuba.
Foreign business houses lost over ST.
600, 900 by the destruction of lloilo.
The Kansas City, Pittsburg and Gulf
railroad has been placed in the hands Of
receivers.
Count de Villagonzalo, former Spanish
ambassador to Russia, has been ap-
pointed Spanish ambassador to Great
Britain.
Rear Admiral G. c. Carpenter ire
tired committed suicide by shooting at a
sanitarium in Boston. He was vic
tim of nervous disorders.
Miss Mary Wilton, Nassar graduate,
committed suicide by poison at her home
in Wichita, Kan. when she read that
her affianced husband had been killed
at Malolos.