The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-11-02
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday, Oct. 2S.

General Cipriano Castro, who as
sumed the reins of government at Car
acas, Venezuela. has named severely
anti-Andrade cabinet.
Four years ego Councilman J. l..
Reilly, of Cleveland, O., stopped d
runaway horse In Austin, Tex. saving
the life of John Wallace, wealthy
farmer. Wallace has just died, leav-
ing Reilly $4,000.
Thursday. Oct. 90.
Grant Allen, the well known author.
is dead in London.
Michael Davitt has resigned from the
British house of commons.
Russia has opened the Siberian gold
fields TO foreign exploitation.
Folty-three high Russian officials
are to be court martialed for fraud
and corruption at Sevastopoh
Hungarian miners employed at the
Milnesville Pa) coliery struck be-
cause one miner had been deposed
from the mines to the strippings.
The St. Louis Worlds fair committee
still needs nearly s1,000000 to CON-
rletc the s5,O0O,0O0 subscription to
carry out the plans of the exposition
Friday, Oct. -.
Sir Henry Irving and his theatrica!
company reached New York from Lon
don.
An industrial school for Cuban sol
diers' orphans is to be established in
Santiago.
The admissions to Philadelph'o's ex-
port exposition yesterday (Le nan
day. numbered 23,292.
A train crashed into crowded
trolley car at Detroit, killing Con-
ductor Schneider and injuring % pas
sengers, two fatally.
The Chicago board of education will
insist on an inspection of every child
for diphtheria and scarlet fever before
1t is admitted to the public schools.
The total number of immigrants ar
irving In this country during the year
ending June 30 last was 3l1,715, an
increase of S2.4l6 over the preceding
year.
saturday, Oct. 2s.
Florence Marryatt Mrs. Frances
Lean, the well known authoress, died
in London yesterday.
While all Is quiet in the cowboy
and Mexican feud on the border, the
authorities fear another outbreak at
any time.
While Tammany ratification meet
Ing was In progress a crank. armed
with marlin spike, threatened to kill
Richard Croker.
e. o. Osgood. Of Angelica, N. Y. was
blind when he was married so years
ago. but surgical operation has Just
restored his vision. v
The cruisers Marblehead and Detroit
will be sent to Panama to protect
American interests In view OF the ex-
listing revolution In Colombia.
The foreign ministers to Venezuela
have decided not to recognize the
Castro administration until so directed
by their respective governments.
Monday, Oct. 80.
General Fitzhugh Lee declares that
the Cuban people are not yet fitted for
self government.
Rear Admiral Crowell, at Havana,
will succeed Schley as president of the
naval retiring board.
A new commercial treaty Is being
negotiated in Madrid. the war having
vitiated the old treaty.
Upsetting a lamp in her barn, Mrs
Edna Vanhorn. of Lanesboro, Pa, was
burned to death in the building.
Herbert Cole. 1S-year-old schoolboy
is dying at Winona, Mimi, from frac-
tured skull received in football game
George M. Lee. son of General Fitz-
hugh Lee, has been appointed first
lieutenant In the Thirty-ninth in
fantry.
Walter Griffin, Of Winsted. Conn,
deserted from the Thirty-fifth volun-
teers at Vancouver to return home and
see his bride. but was arrested. and is
likely to be shot.
Tuesday, Oct. 81.
The New York fire department has
added searchlights to its appliances.
Princess Isabelle of Orleans and her
cousin, Prince Jean Of Orleans, were
married in London yesterday.
William H. Webb, the shipbuildel
and philanthropist, died in New York
yesterday, aged SO. Heleaves $40. 900 900
In battle with Zanzibar cannibals
ex-United States Consul Mohun killed
300 savages and lost nine of his Eu
ropean forces.
1t is now feared that the missing
clipper, Cyrus Wakefield, from New
York for San Francisco, has been lost
in the Pacific.
Captain James Crandell, an old yacht
skipper, was drowned in New London
harbor in a collision between his sloop
and schooner.
The Chicago express, east bound, on
the Pittsburg and Western railroad
ran into an open switch near New
Castle, Pa. The engine was overturned
and George Holiday, the fireman, was
killed