The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-11-09
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wedneaday. Nov. I.

Sir Thomas Upton left New York
for England today.
General Maxine Gomez Is to write
q history of the Cuban wars.
Fire In Montreal hotel resulted In
the death OF two men and woman.
A robber murderously assaulted the
express messenger on Missouri, KAN
sas and Texas train at Denison, Tex.
and robbed the safe Of $4,000.
Daniel Kelley was parboiled in
boiler which he was cleaning. other
workmen In Jersey City factory hav-
Ing closed him in unwittingly.
Thaddeus Durff proposed to Miss
Maud kimion while they were out row.
ing Leavenworth, Ind. She refused
him. He upset the boat and swan
away, leaving her to drown, bue she
was rescued.
Thursday. Nov. 2.
Our army subsistence the past year
cost $27,O546 646
Admiral Dewey has been elected
commander of the Naval Order of the
United States.
An explosion of -four dust in Chi
so6o sauoSu NuC NoildDSS vi Il SlA
building. Four men were killed.
General Funston will prosecute the
Monitor, a Catholic paper of San Fran
cisco, for charging him with desecrat-
ing churches.
General Hughes, commanding the
Kisayan district. in the Philippines
reports that the Island of Negros has
not been so quiet for 20 years.
Mrs. ]. Rush Branch was found dead
In her home in Chicago with bullet
in her heart. 1t is believed the body
had lain in the room for week.
Friday. Nov. 3.
Over 10000 able bodied Spanards
have arrived in Cuba since January.
The admissions to Philadelphia ex-
port exposition yesterday numbered
20.917.
Italiana are being imported by Brit
ish Colombians to take the places Of
striking miners.
At Coney Island tonight James ].
Jeffries and Tom Sharkey fought rs
vicious rounds. Jeffries got the de-
cision.
Frederick Hardy. q years old, son
of a wealthy phosphate mine owner
Of Tennessee, was found murdered and
robbed in the bay at Keyport. N. J.
saturday, Nov. 4.
At the powder works IN Etna, Ind.
500 pounds Of dynamite exploded, kill
ing two employees.
James w. Johnson, Of Marydell. S. c..
was shot and killed by two Of his
nephews in the presence OF his wife.
A tax of two cents a bunch on ba-
nanas has been levied by Nicaragua.
Americans control the export trade.
Right Rev. Louis De Goesbriand, for
many years head OF the Catholic
church in Vermont. died In Burlington,
VT. aged 80.
General Hernandez. the leader OF the
new revolution in Venezuela. was
routed from San Casimiro by the gov
ernment forces
General Ignacio Andrade, ex-presi-
dent OF Venezuela, arrived at St. Thom-
as. w. l.. and will proceed to San Juan
de Porto Rico.
About $500 members of the Dewey
family will hold a reunion In New
York In January or February to greet
the admiral and his bride.
Monday, Nov. q.
Divers found $4,000 in gold in the
wreck OF the Spanish torpedo boat de-
stroyer Pluton, at Santiago de Cuba.
Tho defeat of the Peruvian rebels un-
der General Durand, at Huanaucoa,
means death blow to the revolution.
Because she lost her position as
janitress Of Lock Haven (Pa.) school.
Mrs. Louise Smith horsewhlpped
School Director Adams.
The house committee on constitu-
tional amendments. Of the Georgia leg
islature, has recommended a measure
tC practically disfranchise the negro.
The reported drowning Of Engineers
Frank B. Clarke, OF Fulton, N. Y. and
o. c. Mimmack. Of Washington, ID. c.,
in the Machuca Rapids, Nicaragua, has
been confirmed.
Tuesday, Nov. ..
The admissions to Philadelphia's ex-
port exposition yesterday numbered
1882. ~
1t is announced from London that the
Samoan question has been practically
settled.
Count Won Moltke, aide-de-camp OF
the emperor OF Germany, has been
granted divorce.
The transport Ohio, which arrived at
San Francisco from Manila, brings news
Of shortage Of food in Guam.
James B. Corey, a wealthy coal
operator Of Braddock, Pa, and once
candidate for governor, proposes the
raising OF a 500, ,0OO, 900 fund by 1,OOO,-
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