The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1899-03-23
ITEMS OF STATE NEWS.

Harris Durg Marcn Sl.-COvernOr STONE
set the date yesterday for the execution
Of two murderers. One is James A.
Clcmmer, convicted OF the murder Of
Mrs. Kaiser. at Norristown, and the
other is Jonas Preston. Jr., Of Chester
county. Both men will he hanged on
nia. =.
.t'n.aa. "a, March 1S.-Three men
W, irst"r Is lillcd and six others in
j"r"f - 10" cNulHsian oc boiler ut Joha
.,,n..'r's ssW'1h yesterday at Minnie
81. & d. We .'":i are = ,iIn Shcss, Da-
vid ',sy.'"~ 81, vc'"r Wink. Tree OF
g." iHia""I 20 - ,ro'.c'lF die. These art
.IoEa ~. .'uyd"r ..pracc ScigcI and
James Whit IA. Hhc cause OF the ex.
plosicn is Il rl"strry.
l'itlshurg, March Gov. J. Fitzgcr-
nld, u clerk in the distributing depart
mcnt OF the Pittsburg postotIlcc since
1895, was arrested by Postotlicc Inspcc-
tor w. w. Dickson, charged with steal
ing money letters. He was caught in
the act. and it is understood made Il full
confession, though he could not say how
much he had purloined. This makes
fourth arrest in the same depart nt
within n year and the fifteenth in he
Pittsburg postofllce since 1891.
Hollidaysburg, Pa, March 21.-The
Blair county Republican convention met
in the court house here yesterday. The
candidates for state offices had no APP
position. They are: State treasurer,
Milton Alexander, Lancaster; judge OF
supreme court. John Stewart, Chambers
burg; chairman of state committee, Gen
eral w. II. Koontz, Somerset. Three
Quay delegates to the state convention
were elected. The new county commit
tee will be controlled by the friends Of
Senator Quay.
Allentown. Pa, March 20.-Owen
Kern, hotelkccpcr at Ccdarville, whom
| Frank Krause his hostlcr, shot through
the right lung on March 3, when krausc.
while madly jealous and intoxicated.
killed his swecthcat, Maggie Guth AMI
wounded Mrs. Kern, died Saturday from
his wound He was 80 years OF age and
leaves wife and two small daughters.
His father, Moses Kern, deceased, was
steward Of the Lehigh county almshous"
position which his brother. $. A. j.
Kern, fills at present.
Bradford, Pa. March 2t.-llcnry
| Sendhcim, a wealthy retired merchant
of this city, committed suicide last even
ing at his home in this city. For over n
year he had been blind. His son. Phil
Sendheim, was n member of the Astor
battery in Manila, and is now at home.
The young man had an army revolver in
| his room, anu this the old man succeeded
in finding. After supper he went into
the parlor, sat in a rocking chair.
smoked Il cigar and then. pressing the
revolver against his right temple, fired
n 3G-calibcr bullet through his brain.
He died instantly.
Pottsvillc, Pa, March 21.-A wagon in
which were William A. Beach, one OF
the proprictors OF the American Tea com.
pany, OF Pottsville, and an 1S-year-ola
lad named Herbert Sands, was struci:
by Philadelphia and Reading railroad
train at New Philadelphia yesterday af-
ternoon Beach sustained injuries from
which he died an hour afterwards. Sands
has his left leg broken, besides other in
juries. He may die. 1t is thought that
owing to the high winds they did not
hear the whistle OF the engine. Both
horses were killed. Homer Brobst, a
9-year-old schoolboy, while picking coal
at Palo Alto. was run over by train
Of cars and cut in twain.
Harrisburg, March 21.-The house last
evening unanimously adopted concur
rent resolution creating II commission Of
three senators, five members and seven
others, to be appointed by the governor.
who is requested to invited the Penn
sylvania state board OF taxes, the Penn
sylvania Legislative Labor League, the
Pennsylvania Bar association and the
Patrons of IIusbandry. each to suggest
| representative of their respective
bodies to examine. consider and report
as to what changes. il any, should be
made in the laws and policy OF this COM
monwcath relating to combinations OF
| capital for business purposes, whether
the same he known as corporations,
trusts or otherwise.
Norristown, Pa, March 21.-.Iohn G.
Kratz, aged 4S years, shot and killed his
9-year-old son Milton yesterday at their
home Mt Bclfry, five miles from here,
and then committed suicide by shooting
himself. Kratz had been living retired
on his farm for some time, but made
daily visits to Philadelphia, where it is
said he speculatcd largely IN stocks. He
returned shortly after 2 O'Clock yesterday
afternoon and said to his wife that he
had lost everything he had except the
farm. When Milton came home from
school after o'clock he called him to the
wOOdshed to help him sharpen n knife.
When the boys mother went in search Of
them she found the bodies on the floor,
the father cutching n revolver.