The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-05-04
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
wednesday. April go.

There Is talk OF sending colored-
troops to hght, the Filipinos. =.
Senator Frye OF Maine. says he viii
vote to- seat MS. Quay in the senate.
Governor Tunnel. OF Delaware, will
not appoint United States senator to
succeed Gray. s.
Russian intrigue in Corea bids fair
to make that country practically Rus
sian province.
Arrangements are being perfected
for transatlantic cable connecting
New York and Ems, Germany.
An explosion of benzol at Fleer's
chewingi gum factory, Philadelphia
killed two men and destroyed over
100000 in property.
In Camden. N. j., Edward Oswald
killed his wife Mary and 6-year-old
daughter Gussie. then cut his own
threat, but will recover. Another child.
9-year-old Edna, was saved by neigh
Dor.
Thursday. April 81.
Count Hohenwart Gerlachstein. ex-
prer''o- Of Austria. died in Vienna.
aged 5J.
A man named Herman, on trial at
Breslau. Germany. is charged with 20
murders.
Our soldiers and sailors in the south
generally took part In the observance
Of Confederate memorial day.
United States Judge Kohlsatt. at
Chicago. decided that Chinese actors
cannot be excluded rs laborers.
Joseph Smalley and Daniel Lane,
we'll shooters. were blown to frag' ,ents
by an exploding torpedo near Bradford
Pa.
At Philadelphia Or. Bernardv testi-
fed that the late William NJ. Sincerlv
was a confirmed drunkard for months
before his death.
Mark l.. Davis. member OF Della
wares legislature, was indicted charg-
ed with trying to purchase n vote for
Addicks for senator.
The widow Of President L. s. Grant,
his son, General Fred Grant. md his
grandchildren took part in Thiladel-
phia's unvei,ing Of an equestrian statue
of the sold!er-statesmaa.
" Friday, April 2s.
The president issued proclamation
ratifying the extradition treaty with
Mexico.
Twenty-Five customs inspectors have
been suspended at New York for ac-
cepting tips"
Robert Goelot the New York mil
l,onaire. died on board Of his yacht
at Naples.
In the international Sunday school
convention at Atlanta (0a.l separate
sections are provided for whites and
blacks. -
The bill to prohibit acceptance Of
passes by public officials and political
convention delegates passed the Wis
consin legislature
Ernest b. McNair. treasurer OF the
Wilmington (Del) Savings Fund 80
ciety. confesses to embezzling $4,000.
He made the loss good.
Dead soldiers brought from Cuba
must all be inferred in Arlington
cemetery to prevent exposure Of the
bodies and danger Of infection.
Saturday. April 60.
The Phoenix Bridge company. Of
Phoenixville. Pa. has contracted to
build 12isteel bridges for use In Rus
sia.
Cyclone which swept Kirksville, Mo-,
destroyed many houses. and made 200
homeless. Thirty-three dead bodies re-
covered.
Mrs. Anna E. Georre. charged with
killing George Z. Saxton. Mrs. Nc
Kinley's brother, at Canton. O.. was
acquitted.
Mrs. Adams witnessed the hanging
of Tom Robinson (colored) at Hills
boro, Tex, for assaulting Mrs. Adams
daughter Mary.
Henry r. Sloane, the wealthy New
York society man. was granted an alb
solute divorce yesterday. Last night
Mrs. Sloane was married to Hon.
Perry Belmont.
Monday, Nav I.
President Kruger says the gold out
put Of the Transvaal In 1898 was f16..
240. $50.
The bodies Of Colonel Egbert and
Captain Gregg, killed at Manila. were
landed at San Francisco.
Our exports OF manufactured goods
for March aggregated $36.O25, 1913. a 25
per cent increase over any previous
month.
Prairie fire, swept by a cyclone, burn
ed a strip Of 20 miles. a mile wide. In
Nebraska. Two persons and many cat
tie burned to death.
An excursion train jumped the TRACK
while speeding around a curve near
Rochester, N. Y. Two men were killed
and SO persons injured.
Hon. Lewis Baker, ex-minister to
Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Salvador,
and noted Democratic journalist,
died In Washington, aged CT.
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