The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-06-01
/ w WEEKS IS; i NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday. May "a.

A bis coal rate war is imminent In
The Ohio coal fields.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken to keep the proceedings of the
peace conference at The Hague secret.
b. F. Clark. United States consul at
Pernambuco, died on the steamer
Hevelius while hon:eward bound. and
was buried at sea.
George II. and Mrs Kinter, Chris
tian scientist3. and Mr. and Mrs. J. C.
Saunders, are unf. rrest at Buffalo,
charged with r.~S g the latter's
9-year-old boy t, .e Of neglect.
Thursdi v. Nav ~.
Senator Platt. Q: Now York. favors
the nomination Of Mckinley and Ho-
bart.
On his march to Malolos General
Lawton had 22 fights and captured 2S
towns.
Queen Victoria's S0th birthday was
celebrated In oil parts of the world
yesterday.
Colonel E. w. Cole, OF Nashville,
the richest man In Tennessee. drop
ped dead in New York hotel.
The striking grain and freight han
dlers OF Buffalo have resumed work
having gained nearly every point.
Colonel Summers, of the Second Ore
gon regiment. has been breveted brir,-
der general for bravery in the Philip
pines. -.
| Fridav, May 90.
! A white man and a colored woman
were killed during fire in New York
lodging house.
Still another unsuccessful attempt
was made yesterday to float the Ameri-
can line steamer Paris.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
he is not candidate to succeed J. H.
Gear. United States senator from Iowa.
Senor Castelar,. the famous Republi-
can and president Of the short lived
Spanish republic, died at Murcia, aged
&C years.
Later advices show that the Mos
quito coast Indians have refused to
surrender their rights to Nicaragua
and threaten to revolt.
saturday, Nav "T.
The president has appointed John c.
Twombley postmaster at Denver. Colo.
Rosa Bonheur. the famous animal
painter, died at Fontainebleau, France.
aged r.
An automobile Travelled from Chi
cago to New York. 107 miles, In 40
hours and minutes.
Fire at Coney Island swept 20 acres.
DESTROYING 200 buildings and causing
nearly $4,000 loss.
The Presbyterian general assembly
referred the case of DR.. McGih'ert. for
alleged heresy, to the New York pres
bytery
The Presbyterian general assembly.
at Minneapolis, adopted resolutions
urging an anti-polygamy constitu-
tional amendment.
Monday, May go.
A tornado in Hamilton count. Ne
briska. did 100000 damage.
1t is rumored In Rome that the pope
will create South American cardinal.
James Williams. colored convict at
Dannemora (N W prison, suicided by
setting fire to his cell.
Susan Grant, young colored wo-
man. was outraged and murdered on
a lonely road near Savannah.
Coal production In the United States
in 1898. 219,S35 1893 short tons, an in.
crease Of nearly 10 per cent over 1897.
1t now seems evident that the steam
er Paris, ashore on the rocks near Fall
mouth, England. is doomed to destruc-
tlon.
NearHardeevilie, S. c., the farm
house Of Jacob Solomons was destroy
ed by fire Solomons. his wife and
seven children perished.
Tuesday, May 80.
Tho Belgian government has rescind-
ed the interdiction upon the importa-
ton Of American cattle.
The Fifteenth infantry has arrived
at Manila. One man was drowned and
five deserted at Honolulu.
Marion Clark, the 1S-months-old
child kidnapped from her New York
home nine days ago, Is still missing.
Clotheslines saved 3-year-old Joseph
Frederick, who fell from the fourth
story window OF his home in New
York.
President Mckinley yesterday issued
the amendments to the civil service
rules, releasing about 1000 offices from
their operations.
BY the explosion OF a gasoline stove
at their Philadelphia home Mrs Serbia
and her 9-year-old daughter were
probably fatally burned.
Adrian Braun was electrocuted at
Sing Sing for the murder Of his wife,
whom he killed when she visited him
in prison, bringing him delicacies.
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