The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-04-27
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
wedne,di Aprii 10.

AT tne rama llllS.D election the main
Issue was union labor, and union la
Dor won.
1t is believed that the war invcsti-
gators report will not sustain General
Miles charges.
II is believed tia all volunteers who
desire to return from Manila will have
opportunity by June l.
BY the wreck of the fishing schooner
Eliza. of Beverly, Mass, Captain Hop
kins and 10 sailors drowned.
Wealthy and prominent Filipinos are
endeavoring to arrange truce be-
tween the Americans and Aguinaldo.
New United States ministers: A. II.
Hardy, to Greece; to Persia, w. =.
Lord; to Portugal. ]. M. Irwin; to Del
gium Lawrence Townsend.
Lieutenant Gilmore and Is men OF
the cruiser Yorktown were captured by
Filipinos on the east coast Of LuZon.
p. l.. and are still held by the enemy.
In sentencing riotous Wheeling (W.
Va) strikers to 80 days imprison-
ment and $50 fine Judge Jackson de-
clalel public sympathy with strikers
conceived in anarchy"
Thursday, April go.
Ex-Congressman Hilborn, Of Cali
fornia, died in Washington, aged g..
Speaker Reed has entered a New
York law firm. and will retire from
congress.
In hurricane which swept the
northeast coast Of Queensland, Aus
tralia, over 400 were drowned.
w. NJ. Mcfarland, ex-secretary Cf
state, is on trial at Des Moiroi. Ia,
charged with stealing state funds.
James P. Taliferro, prominent ex-
Confederate and merchant, was e.cCCcd
United States senator from Florida.
President Mckinley has heen in
vited to Scranton. Pa, on Sept. U.a-
Dor day.. and has accepted condition
ally.
/ United States Senator Jones, of Ar
kansas, denies that he will resign the
chairmanship OF the De.aucrat!c nI-
tional committee.
Friday, April II.
Our government officials hope TO
avoid further increase III the army.
The Mexican senate adopted the new
extradition treaty with the United
States.
Yale university will send a crew to
row against Annapolis naval cadets on
June 3.
Congrcssmea Hepburn and IIender-
son, of Iowa. are candidates for Speaker
Reeds place.
1t will soon be necessary to resume
the free distribution of food IL San
tiago, owinS to the general poverty.
The report of the court Investigating
charges against officers of the Seventy
first New York regiment declares Lieu
tenant Colonel Smith Ctltain White
and Major austin guilty of cowardice
and Incompetence.
SATURDAY,. April 90.
General George W. Davis succeeds
General Henry as military governor of
Porto Rico.
Court Secretary Roonocke was sem
fenced in Berlin to two years i'm
prisonment for lese majestic.
Edward Zikmond (white) and Horace
Scott (colored) fought a duel with
ptchforks in Chicago. Scott was killed.
Congressman Cannon and Hopkins,
of Illinois. and Hull, of New York. an
nounce their candidates. Tor the speak
crship.
Two more skirmishes between our
troops and rebels near Taguig, Philip
pines, fought yesterday, resulted in
two more victories.
The steamer Whitney, of the Morgan
line, was wrecked off Cape Canaveral.
on the Florida coast. Mate Phillips
and nine men were drowned.
Andrew Freedman, Croker's business
partner, and Abraham Himmclwright,
of the Roebling company. defantly re-
fused to answer questions in New
Yorks investigation.
Monday, April 81.
DR.. Nicholas Sem is being doomed
for the Republican nomination for
governor of Illinois.
William Burdick's body was blown
to fragments by exploding nitro-glycer-
inc at Bradford, Pa.
The fiscal year 1898 was our banner
export year, the exports reaching ST.
10,291 ,913; imports, s616,049,054.
A Spanish prisoner recently released
by Filipinos declares the rebels are
we'll supplied with arms and ammuni-
tion.
Dr. B. e. Patton, probably dying at
Terre Haute, Ind, declares he was
poisoned by his wife. He is her fourth
husband.
The funeral of Congressman s. T.
Baird, of Louisiana. took place in
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taken to Bastroy. La.
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