The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-07-13
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
wcdnerdny, July 5.


Queen Kapiotani, widow of King
Kalakauna, died in Honolulu. aged IS.
General Horatio G. Wright. hero
of the civil war. died in Washington.
aged 7s.
The, agitation in Belgium against the
electoral reform bill has forced the
government to withdraw the measure.
The Fourth was loyalty celebrated
IN our now possessions. In Manila
America" was sung by children OF
Spaniards, Filipinos and Chinese in a
curious mixture of dialects.
Thursday. July q.
( Bishop John =. Newman, OF the
Methodist church, died in l,ew York,
aged 73.
The execution of Catlett Upton. a
murderer, was witnessed by his wife
and five children at Chattanooga. Tenn.
The. American delegates at The
! Hague have succeeded in securing
vote which will create a special con-
ference to consider private property az
sea ir time Of war.
A cyclone near Ainsworth, Neb, de-
stroyed several farm houses. Mrs.
Lockmille, who had escaped to her cell
lar. went out To save he: son and was
killed. The son escaped
Friday, July I.
General Joe Wheeler has been Or
dcred for war duty in the Philippines.
Robert Bonner, the well known pub
Usher of the New York Ledger, died
in that city. aged 75.
Mrs. May Wright Sewall IVES chosen
president OF the International Women s
Congress, succeeding the Countess Of
Aberdeen.
In a triangular race of 30 miles sailed
off Sandy Hook between the yachts CO.
lumbia and Defender Columbia won
by 3 min. SO sec.
An alleged plot of General Gomez to
invade San Domingo, kill President
Heureaux and have himself proclaimed
dictator is published in Havana.
Ex-King Milan. while driving in Bel
grade, was shot and slightly wounded
in the back by an anarchist named
Knezevic, who was captured.
Saturday, July y.
The miners of the Blairsville, Pa,
coal region have gone on strike.
The Portuguese house of peers yes
terday adopted the commercial con-
vention with the United States.
Emil Smith has confessed that he
and Sigmund Bresche murdered Mar
tin Meier, the wealthy Chicago recluse.
Secretary Alger declares he has
formed no alliance with Pingree and
has no intention OF leaving the cabinet
Head on collision between trolley
cars near Akron, o.. resulted in one
dead, two fatally and five seriously
hurt.
In the Henley regatta the diamond
, sculls were won by b. II. Howell, the
American student Of Trinity Hall
/ Cambridge.
. Thomas Ashworth. an ex-saloon
2 keeper OF Philadelphia. was kicked tc
( death and robbed by four young hood.
). lums, who were arrested.
). Monday, July 10.
A cooperative city is to be estab
lisheA on the banks Of Lake Erie neal
|. Toledo.
4 Helen Lersch. of Trenton. 3 year,
old. was bit by a kissing bug" Bloot
poisoning ensued and the child died
: William Reinhard, his wife and fv,
Q children went driving near Columbus
: o. All were killed by a train excep
= 14-year-old Clarence.
BY the explosion Of boiler on th'
Moran oil tract, near Oil City, Pa.
James McCray was killed and JohI
Turk seriously injured.
Major Edward M. Hayes. of tn
. Fourth cavalry. succeeds Colonel Henr.
a Wagner, retired. In command OF tina
= regiment, at San Francisco.
:, A carriage containing William M
Diem and Miss Lizzie PreQuesel wa
struck by a train last night at Buffalo
Il and both we're instantly killed.
= -. Tuesday. July IL.
Charles Mali, for the past 36 year
= Belgian consul in New York, died II
!. that city yesterday.
! Cuban bandits kidnapped Guiterre
Cells, a rich Spanish merchant Of Sal
70 Cristobal, and are holding him for
ransom.
= A Pretoria (TransvaaD dispatch say
= five artillerymen we're killed yesterda
!. by the explosion OF a powder maya
" zine in Magatoland.
I, The United States government ha
! declined to arbitrate the Austria-Hun
q garian claim for damages for tn
n deaths resulting in the Lattimer (Pa.
!, riots.
q General Otis cables that he has abou
II 1000 veteran volunteers for re-enlist
! ment. They will form the nucleus TO
lS the Thirfy-sixf and ThirfY-aeYent]