The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-03-02
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
"Wednesday. Feb. 22.

"wednesday, Feb. sc.
Our military officials in Cuba are show.
ing marked courtesy to Cuban General
Gomez.
Robert +. McKisson was renominated
as Republican candidate for mayor Of
Cleveland.
The Reading Pao Iron company has
voluntarily advanced wages of its 1000
employees.
A plot to extermnate all foreigners in
and about Manila was checkmated by
General Otis vigilance.
The first message OF President Loubet
to parliament has greatly strengthened
the French republic.
Thursday. Feb. 23.
Lord Charles Beresford. of England,
predicts that China will be bankrupt in
four years.
The khalifa is advancing on the Nile
with 10000 troops against the Anglo
Egyptian forces.
The Spanish-Amcrican war passed
without II single execution of a soldier
for military crimes.
Th" French court of cessation, il is
Sulu. VIII uHuul tut CouNl'tloI VI l'ItA
fus without retrial.
A young woman was found dead in i
New York hotel asphyxiated by gas. Her
escort had left her shortly before.
The body OF G. Il. Mceks the first
American soldier killed in the Spaash
war. arrived at Clyde. o., from Key
| West.
| Commissioners from Ncgros 1land,
one of the Philippines, have a Surcd
General Otis Of allegiance of that island
to the United States.
Friday, Feb. 81.
| Ex-Statc Treasurer Benjamin !. Hwy
wood, of Pennsylvania, died ut Lis how"
in Sharon, aged 30.
Filipinos started several fire. in Man
lila and caused great destruction of prop
crty. Our troops arrested 1JD
A delegation OF Kickapoo Indians il
| Mexico are endeavorng to arranhr fc:
the emigration of their tribe to that
country.
The bill reviewing the grade OF adj
miral OF the navy, intended for lear Adj
miral Dewey, passed the national house
with shout.
Edward Weaker, Democrat. defeated
fer mayor Of Reading, Pa, by JS votes,
will contest the election Of his Rcpub-
can opponent, A. II. Laucr.
The funeral of the late President
Faurc in Paris, was a brilliant tribute.
President Loubct and cXPrcsidcnt CAST
mir-Perier walked in the funeral pro.
Cession.
Saturday, Feb. 2j.
The national senate passed the river
md harbor bill by 30 TO 3.
The entry into Havana of General
Mamimo Gomez, escorted by United
States troops. aroused the widest en-
thusasn.
Admiral Dewey ,clcgraphcd to Wash
ington that, 'for political reasons" the
battleship Oregon should be sent TO
Manila ut once.
Congressman Johnson, Indiana Re
publican, declared in a speech that the
senate was coercrd into ratifying the
peace treaty.
The Hamburg American line steamer
Bulgaria, supposed TO have been lost at
sea Feb. s, arrived at Ponta Delgada,
Azores Islands. Several passengers were
injured during the gales.
Monday, Feb. 81.
Ex-Congressman Levi Maish, of Penn
sylvania, died in Washington, aged 62.
Premier Dupuy is acting cncrgctically
in suppressinc monarchist activity in
France.
Secretary Aigcr has abandoned his
proposed trip in a government vessel tc
Cuba and Porto Rico.
Since the close OF the war the immi
grafton Of Spanards to this country has
increased 100 per cent.
The report that Admiral Dewey has
had a collision with the German nava
commander at Manila il without foun
dation.
Charles Frohlein and Harry Morgan
boys of 16 and 10 years, were killed by
an explosion in fireworks factory nj
Granitevillc, s. l., where they were en-