The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-10-05
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
Wednesday. Sept. e..

! General Henry Heth, noted ex-Con-
federate chicftain and historian. died
in Washington. aged "a.
The English cricketers. led by the
Indian Prince Ranjitsinhji. are drawing
small audiences in Philadelphia
Our forces in the Philippines cap
tured Porac after II short engagement,
in which ten rebels were killed and five
Americans wounded.
A New York Central passenger train
collided with freight train at
Wheelers Bridge, N. Y. Three mer
were killed and several injured.
After fignting against his sentence
for two years, Millionaire william
Bradbury. of San Francisco, went to
Jail for "a hours for splitting on the
fioor OF street car.
Thursday, Sept. 2s.
The contributions to the Dewey
home fund to date amount to $43,OO2.
In great storm and landslides of
Sunday and Monday In India over 200
lives were lost.
Edward Bollerman and August Wei
CANT. painters, fell from a scaffold at
Hoboken. n. j.. and were killed.
General Funston. of Kansas, pre-
diets the end Of the Philippines war
by spring. and favors the iron hand
Of military rule"
Sam Johnson. a young colored man.
was sentenced to death ut Oakland.
Nd, for assault on little Annie Ker-
foot. near Hagerstown.
Friday. Sept. 90.
Mrs. Michael Walsh. OF Plainfield.
N. j.. was terribly sored by a COW.
The fercest September blizzard ever
known In North Dakota IL raging in
the Red River valley.
Daniel Tracey. of Nyack, N. Y. was
bitten by a copperhead snake, and had
q narrow escape from death.
1t Is reported that fully a thousand
people were killed by the earthquake
around Smyrna. Asia Minor. Two
thousand houses and two villages were
also destroyed.
saturday, Sept. 30.
The admissions to the National Ex-
port exposition at Philadelphia yester-
day numbered 1864.
w. F. McGaughey, 10 years old, died
In Muscatine, Ills. from injuries re-
ceiyed while playing football.
Soldiers in the Philippines will be
permitted to send packages as mail
matter without extra charge.
w. C. Lynn, first cousin Of Presi-
dent Mckinley, was killed by explod-
ing giant powder near Deadwood, s. ID.
At Paterson. N. j.. 19-year-old Will.
lam Badabad was killed while fencing
with knives with Richard Growney.
Henry Lubin, formerly a wealthy
Chicago druggist committed suicide to
provide $1,000 life insurance for his
mother.
Monday, Oct. 2.
F. L. Cowden, student of the East
man college at Poughkeepsie. N. Y.
died from injuries received in football
game.
Senator Hanna says the booming OF
Admiral Dewey for the presidency Is
an insult to the naval hero.
President Mckinley will be appealed
to In behalf of Cour d'Alene miners
imprisoned at Wardner for rioting. 1t
is alleged they are brutally treated.
Twelve masked men robbed the
Meade homestead, IL miles from Ports
mouth, O., and after fatally beating
one of the family tied the rest In their
beds and took $500.
Captain Watkins. ex-captain Of the
American liner Paris. will make legal
fight against our government inspec-
tors, who suspended him for two years
an account of the Manacle shoal wreck.
Tuesday. Oct. 8.
The enlistments Saturday were $50.
making a total OF 12.743.
At Pierrepont Manor. N. Y, Mrs. Lu-
cinda Clark and her aged mother we're !!
burned to death.
Connecticut town elections thus far |
reported show 101 Republican and 32
victories.
John Grouix. a Chicago balloonist.
became entangled in the ropes Of his
balloon and fell 100 feet, being terribly
mangled.
Ex-United States Senator James
Harlan, the only survivor Of Lincoln's
cabinet. is dying at his home in Mount
Pleasant. Ia.
The buoy marked "Andree Polar ex-
pedition" found at King Charles ISL
and is the one which the explorer said
be would drop II he passed the North
Pole.