The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-05-18
j. WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
wednesday, May 10.

Christian scientists and similar heal.
ers."
At the disarmament conference Amer.
lea and England will stand together for
international arbitration in settling
disputes.
Filipinos who arrived at San Fran
cisco for exhibition in a New York
dime museum. claiming to be actors.
were excluded.
1t Is officially declared in Washing
ton that Italy is taking vigorous meas
ures to prevent Italian criminals from
coming to this country.
The Toledo (O.) council voted to sell
n street railway franchise to the high
est bidder, defeating Mayor Jones
municipal ownership scheme.
Thursday. Nav II.
Hon. George Earle. first assistant
postmaster general under President
Grant, died In Washington last night.
The commissioners from the United
States, Great Britain and Germany are
in Samoa, and marines have been with
drawn.
William N. Boggs, defaulting teller
OF the Dover Del.) bank, was SEN
fenced to six years Imprisonment and
$6,500 fine.
Kang Yu Wei the Chinese reformer,
had long interview with Sir Wilfred
I.aurier, the Canadian premier, at Of
tawa yesterday.
Iowa's supreme court decides that
note or account for moneys involved
in board of trade deals cannot be col
lected at law In that state.
Whites and blacks OF Albany, Ga.
town Of 5000 inhabitants, suspended
business to attend the funeral OF f.
w. Mccarthy. prominent negro.
Mrs. Anna George. recently acquit-
ted of a charge OF killing George Sax
ton, at Canton, O.. lectured in Steuben-
vile. o. Only IA paid to hear her.
Friday. May I2.
General Otis cables to Washington
his belief that the Filipino insurrec.
ton is nearly ended.
The Catholic knights of America.
in convention at Kansas City Mo-, de-
cided to admit women to membership.
Senator Mcmillan, OF Michigan, de-
nes Secretary Alger's statement that
he tMcMillan) had agreed to retire in
Ayers favor.
An effort is being made to bring
about a reunion of Federal and Con-
federate soldiers Of the civil war at
Evansville. Ind.
Near Howard City. Mich, Joseph
Harvey murdered his wife, his uncle,
Robert Pierson. and his grandmother.
and wounded his father-in-law, John
Legenslayer, and his own 3-months-
old baby. Then he made fake at
tempt at suicide.
Saturday, May l8.
A tornado struck the Hondo MEX
ico) coal mine section. killing "a and
injuring 40.
The Pana Qlls.) mine troubles ended
in compromise, employers recogniz-
ing the union.
George II. Hayden, ex-bank examiner
OF Illinois, was convicted at Chicago
OF misconduct In Office.
Two apprentices on the British war
ship Comus, who deserted at Halifax.
were stripped and lashed.
Admiral Dewey, responding to inyi-
tations for banquets, etc, declares hts
health requires rest and quiet.
The Sons OF Confederate Veterans,
at Charleston, elected Walter T. Col
quit, son Of Georgia's ex-governor. as
ommander-in-chief, he defeating Rob-
ert f. Lee, Jr.
Monday, May 10.
A monster mass meeting in Mime
apolis adopted resolutions strongly up
holding McKinley's Philippines policy.
Plummer S. Page, the street railway
magnate Of Scranton. Pa, dropped
dead yesterday from the rupture of a
blood vessel in the head.
Luigi Minotti, 45-year-old Italian.
outraged 5-year-old Nellie Cabasa at
Bridgeport, Conn. Nellie's 1S-year-old
brother Clement killed Minotti.
Reconstructed board Of regents OF
Kansas State Agricultural college an
nulled an invitation to Colonel w. j.
bTydu " uciltcI tuc SOLuIueuCelucll
Grafton.
Donald Mclean, q western railroad
promoter, fell over the balustrade OF
the Palmer House, Chicago. to the
stone tagging two floors below, and
was killed.
The schooner Nelson foundered In
Lake Superior Saturday, and nine per-
sons were drowned, including Captain
Haghney's wife and child. The cap
tain escaped.
Tuesday, May 10.
The cause Of much Of the distress
In this country is the over education
of the masses, declared c. P. Hunt
ington in a speech at San Francisco.
George d. Scott, manager Of John
D. Rockefeller's estate at Tarrytown,
N. Y, committed suicide by shooting.
President Mckinley is opposed to as
sembling congress in extra session un-
less some unlocked for contingency
arises.
The New York health authorities
propose to stamp out hypnotism as
well as Christian science and all kim
dred practices.