The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-01-12
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

Phillipsburg, Dec. 31.-Perry Jones, oi
this place. for many years cashier OF
the Phillipsburg Banking company, and
since the founding of the First National
bank of Phillipsburg, cashier of that
institution, committed suicide last night
by shooting himself. one bullet enter
ed the stomach and the other entered
near the heart. Business worry sue
ceeding a run on the bank caused the
act.
Reading Dec 2S-Mrs. Jacob Herb
aged 3S years. residing near Eshbach
last night dislccated her lower Jaw
while yawning. Mrs. Herb lives alone,
is feeble and could not communicate
open. and she was unable to speak or
partake of nourishment until this morn
ing at 10 o'clock, when a neighbor called
to see to her wants and found her with
her mouth open. A physician was sent
for and the dislocation was reduced.
Mahanoy City, Dec. 2S.-Joseph Kel-
Ger was battered into a shapeless mass
of flesh and bones by falling 420 feet
down Tunnel Ridge colliery slope last
night. With another laborer he was en-
gagged timbering the slope on small
temporary platform. 1t became neces-
sary to visit the surface during their
labors and upon returning on car
Kelcer not waiting until the car stop
ped, leaped down toward the platform.
The sudden shock snapped several
boards in twain and he was precipitated
to the bottom.
Stroudsburg, Dec 2S.--As q result of
a disagreement between mah and wife
over the approaching marriage of their
20-year-od daughter Annie, Mrs. Caro-
line Newman, of Panpock, Pike county
left her home to look out for herself.
Yesterday Mrs. Newman was found
terribly injured on an Erie railroad
track nine miles from Milford. She was
badly bruised and was taken to a Port
JerVis hospital. There are three chill
dren in the family. Mrs. Newman had
been tramping it for some days and
gathering up pennies for Il living by
playing on street organ.
Norrstown, Dec 3t.-Wiliam Usher
n farmer residing near King Of Prussia,
was found dead entanGled in the shafts
OF his wagon late last night. He was 81
years old and served a meat route.
When the team returned to his hone
last night no particular attention was
paid at first to it. After he had de-
layed an unusual length of time be-
fore going indoors his wife discovered
his body entangled in the shafts with
his head upon the ground. The head
was beaten into an unrecognzable mass
by the continued kicking OF the horses
feet. He had been dead for some time
1t is supposed that he died from ap-
oplexy and fell forward.
Pittsburg, Dec. 3l.-J L. Davis. an
engineer on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
and Chicago Railroad. while passing a
water tank at New Waterford, o., was
struck on the head by a piece Of pipe
which projected from the tank. The
force of the blow knocked him from his
seat in the cab. His scalp was torn
from his right eye to the base of his
skull. There was no member Of the
crew who was about to take his place,
and he pluckily bound up the wound
with a bunch of waste and resumed his
position at the thottle. Weakened and
almost blinded by the pain the engi-
neer kept the train on it's course and
reached Alliance on time. Then he
dropped unconscious.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Dec. 31.-A surface
cavein caused rush of quicksand into
No. slope of the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal company at Wanamie yes
| terday afternoon. Two hundred men
were at work at the time, but all sue
| ceeded in making their immediate es-
| cape but eight. Two hours later five
of the eight made their way through
the sand, and shortly before 7 o'clock
last evening the remaining three men
came to the surface. The names of the
three men who were entombed for over
five hours are: William Williams, a
/ miner: Henry Brown, driver, and Joe
Zeloski, laborer. They escaped to one
of the breasts till the cave settled, and
then crawled through the sand to the
foot Of the slope. The air current was
not cut off. and the men were ap-
parently none the worse from their ex-
perience