The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-08-10
IA WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
Wednesday, Aug. .

L
turers is being perfected.
| Hail storms In North Dakota and
Minnesota destroyed many miles of
crops.
A train wreck on the Northwestern
road. near Boone. Ia, killed four men
and injured IA.
| J. II. Mckinley, cousin Of the presi-|
dent. was arrested at Fitzgerald, Ca,
for threatening a neighbor.
General Ludlow has suppressed theI
Havana newspaper Ell Reconcentrado. /
declaring It an obscene sheet.
| Policeman O'Brien. OF New York,
who robbed man injured by an elcc-I
trio car. was sentenced to four yearst
and three months IN Sing Sing.
Thursday. Aug. q.
Iowa Republicans renomnated l.. n
Shaw for governor.
The amount Of cash so far received
for the Dewey home fund is sl735s.
Land on Chestnut street, PhiladeI-
phia, was sold for over $1,000 a front
foot.
In a battle on the Island OF Cebu.
Philippines, the Americans were again
victorious.
Maryland Democrats nominated a
straight gold standard ticket, headed i
by John Walter Smith for governor.
Four armed highwaymen at Cory, !
! Pa, destroyed an arc light, and in the
darkness held up 500 people coming
from a wild west show. They escaped. ,
Friday, Aug. I.
General Alger, on returning to De |
troit, was given a flattering reception. /,
The number of enlistments Wednes-
day were 3S4. making a total of 3 ,0G3. .
Engineers on the Brooklyn elevated
road have had their wages cut nom
$3.50 to $3.50 a day.
Free delivery postal service will I've
established at Crawford and East
Orange, N. j., Oct. l.
The yacht Shamrock left England
yesterday to cross the Atlantic and
endeavor to capture the Americas cup
At least six people were killed by
| Wednesdays cyclone in southern
Maryland and the damage to crops was
enormous.
At Garfield Park, Chicago. Major
Taylor, the colored cyclst, rode a mile.
paced by a steam motor, in 1:22, the
best record.
Judge d. w. Shackelford received tho
| Democratic nomination to succeed the
late Congressman r. p. Bland from the
Eighth Missouri district.
saturday, Aug. s.
Pennsylvania will yield about As per
cent Of full crop Of apples this season.
Harry Stocker Philadelphia line.
man, was shocked to death on an cleo
trio light pole.
Three Philadelphia grocers were ar.
rested on the charge Of selling oleomar-
garine as butter.
II is said that thousands of Texas
goats have been slaughtered and sold
In Kansas City, Mo-. for mutton
Lieutenant Colonel Barnett, OF the
Tenth Pennsylvania volunteers, has
declined the proposal to elect him colo.
mel Of the regiment.
Led by. DR.. Seldom Grove, an elderly
physician. a New York crowd burned
William Waldorf Astor in eflgy for
becoming British subject.
Four masked burglars bound tho
woman inmates of DR.. Parkinson's
home. near Wellsburg. w. Va. AID
stole $10.50O in government bonds.
Mopdav. Aug. Z.
The bubonic plague has made Its re-
appearance in Calcutta
Whites are driving negroes out Of
Paragould. Ark. and race war ia
imminent.
Hundreds of new coke ovens are be-
Ing built In the southern part of Fay
ette county, Pa.
President Mckinley has purchased
the Canton cottage where he first be-
gan housekeeping.
A leading Cuban merchant OF Ha-
vana declares universal suffrage would
mean black republic.
Generals Toral and Pareja, tried by
court martial at Madrid for surrender
ing Santiago, were acquitted.
A mob OF 80 masked men tore down
a Mormon church at Chattanooga and
chopped the timber into small pieces.
Postmaster Gordon, at Chicago, de-
nies that Admiral Cervera is to be in
vited to the postoffice corner stone lay
ing in that city.
United States Commissioner Tripp
and German Commissioner Sternberg
arrived at San Francisco from Samoa
British Commissioner Elliott returns
home via Australia
Tuesday. Aug. 2. "
President Of the Spanish senate Mar
shal Martinez de Campos predicts q
ministerial crisis in November.
1t is said in Michigan that General
Russell A. Alger has abandoned the
idea Of running for the United States
senate.
1t is stated that the insurgents In
the Philippines demand $1,000 900 for
the release Of the Spanish prisoners
held by them.
At Toledo last night Officer Langen-
derfer killed Patrick Meade, who was
beating him badly. Meade had bitten
of the officers ear.