The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-07-13
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

| Wilkesbarre. July 11.-Michael Maliss
| nd his sons William and Michael were
crushed by fall Of coal In No. COL
liery of the Pennsylvania Coal COM
pany at Pittston last night. The
younger Michael was killed and the
father and other son seriously injured.
| Harrisburg. July 11.-Ralph Bing-
ham. aged IA years, died last evening
Of lockjaw at his home In this city.
While playing with some companions
last Tuesday a frecracker exploded In
Bingham's hand and burned 1t slight
ly. Lockjaw set in Sunday. and last
evening the boy died.
Harrisburg, July 1l.-Albert Smith.
colored was hanged here today for
poisoning his wife There we're no reiig
ious services on the scaffold, this be-
ing Smiths desire. His paramour An
ME Winston, who poisoned her hus-
band, is serving 20 years In the pen.-
tentiary.
| Altoona, Pa. July lI.-F'ive persons.
were injured, two fatally, by an eXplo-
sion OF gas In the Loughman mines, at
Ehrenfeld, yesterday. They are Henry
| Hoyer, James Hoyer David Wallace
Joseph Wallace and Charles McClenan.
Henry Hoyer and his son James. aged
l3, died at the hospital. The eX-
plosion was due to a defective lamp.
carried by Henry Hoyer.
/ Philadelphia. July S.-A special
meeting of the Atlantic Baseball
League was held at the Hotel Han
over here yesterday The situation
that confronted the league through the
disbandment of the Paterson club was
discussed, and the Scranton franchise
was declared forfeited and the Pater-
son club dropped, the circuit thus being
reduced to six clubs The Richmond
club was awarded the championship.
A new schedule was prepared for
second series and a new championship,
the season to begin July 10 and close
Sept. 10.
Allentown. Pa, July I0.-Charles A.
Knauss, aged IS, shot and seriously
wounded Mrs. Edwin Diefenderfer, 26.
ye "a I'D, Saturday midnight, then shot
and instantly killed himself in Knauss'
fathers paint shop, to which Nnauss
he'd called Mrs Diefeaderfer They
had been Intimate sor TWO years. Nrs.
eteiderfer vas trying 70 breail up
tnauss' infatGatlon and refused to
elute with him. which made him tes-
rerate knaUSs was single Mrs.
Defenderfer has a husband and two
children. one Of whom is sick with
scarlet fever.
Philadelphia. July S.-Thomas Ash
worth 43 years former saloonkeeper
and lately United Gas Improvement
COZ pany employe was picked up dead
FROM the pavement In front Of 54l4
Nyaiusing avenue shortly before
Thursday midnight Ashworth was at
tackled by four drunken young men and
kicked into insensibility, Their names
are Elmer Wilson. John Kennedy, Al
bert Kelly and John Daily They are
under arrest, and Ashworths watcn
was found IN Kelly's possession. II ia
asserted that the gang went through
Ashworths pockets as he lay pros
trate.
Shamokin. Pa, July IA special
policeman of the Philadelphia and
Reading railway yesterday arrested
Arthur and Henry Henninger, Richard
Brightbill and Phrom Troutman for
tampering with the wires Of signal
switch at the Herndon branch OF the
Philadelphia and Reading company.
two miles west Of this place. The ages
OF the prisoners range from IA to II
years. Several Of the boys confessed
that they wanted to wreck a passenger
train. A brakeman observed them 1t
their dastardly work. ana i wreck was
thus averted.
Wiikesbarre Pa, July SIT now
looks as though the strike OF l.100 EN-
ployes OF the Lehigh Valley Coal COM
pany would be short lived. A commit
tee OF the striking miners waited on
General superintendent Lathrop yes
terday to ascertain II some compromise
could not be agreed upon. Superin-
tendent Lathrop said the company
would insist on The use OF safety lamps,
and that there could be no compromise
on that point. The COMMITTEES report
ed the result OF their visit to u meet
ing Of the strikers. and many OF the
latter signifed their intention Of re-
turning TO work.
} Pottsville, Pa, July ll.-An attempt
was made last night to wreck a PHIL
adelphia and Reading passenger train
near here, loaded with passengers from
, this place Kuskie McKuskie, aged 8.
William Auman and Robert Evans,
J years old, of Gilberton, were arrested
charged with the crime. They we're
J arraigned before Alderman McCool and
, placed under heavy bail. II is charged
that they placed a heavy brake shoe
and heel, weighing about l50 pounds,
on the track At place where the rail-
road embankment was very high. but
the front wheels Of the locomotive
!, pushed the obstruction away.
Philadelphia, July S.-A prominent
official close to President A. ]. Cassatt.
of the Pennsylvania railroad. denied
the published statement that the Penn
sylvania and the New York Central
railroads had entered a compact by
which the two systems had practically
become one. To reporter he said:
The story is too absurd to receive any
consideration. There has never been