The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-01-18
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
wednesday,, Jan. 10.

LOulSc ASdSSel, u rIeHCu 6UNcTHcSSs
who murdered her illegitimate child,
was hanged at Newgate. London. yes
terday.
Ina prize fight at New York Terry Nc
Govern, of Brooklyn. defeated George
Dixon. featherweight champion for
nine years.
The handsome New York residence
of Joseph Pulitzer Of the New York
World. was gutted by fire. Mrs. Jel-
lett. housekeepcr, and Miss Montgom-
cry, nurse. were suffocated.
The refusal of the Transvaal gov
ernment to allow the United States
consul ct Pretoria to represent British
interests is regarded at Washington as
a violation of civilized custom.
Thursday, Jan. II.
General Felipe Berriozabal. Mex
ico's minister Of war, is dead
Several new cases of yellow fever
have broken out at Vera Cruz, Mex.
A conference of anti-imperialists
will be held in Philadelphia on Feb. %
The trial of the Legislative bribery
cases at Harrisburg has been postpon
ed until March %.
Rev. Aloysius Schyns, head of the
Order of Alexian Brothers in this
country, is dead in Chicago.
Toxic, Japan, is undergoing thor
ough house cleaning, in view of the
threatened invasion Of the plague.
Julia Morrison James. the actress
who killed Frank Leidenheimer on the
stage at Chattanooga. Sept. %, was ac-
Quilted by the jury. She will lecture.
Friday, Jan. IL.
In storr, and tidal wave which
swept the Japanese coast Dec. "a
nearly GOO lives were lost.
State Senator William Goebel. Of
Kentucky, Is to marry daughter of
United States Senator Blackburn.
Both Secretary Root and ex-Secre-
tary Bliss announce that they are not
candidates for the vice presidency.
William Brown, colored who killed
his wife in Philadelphia over a year
ago. was hanged in Moyamensing
prison yesterday.
Colonel Billiards. Thirty-ninth in
| fantry, in fight with Filipinos near
Calambia, killed "A and captured 60.
American loss, one killed and two
wounded.
| saturday, jim. 13.
The fund for the relief Of General
Lawton's family has reached over $780,
900.
Prof. James Martineau. the eminent
Unitarian theologian, died in London
yesterday. aged 95.
Frederick Kratter, the absconder who
was arrested in this country. tried to
commit suicide after reaching CracOw.
Poland.
Mr.. w. W. Ogilvie the millionaire
miller OF Canada. fell dead on the
street in Montreal after attending a
meeting of the directors Of the Bank of
Montreal. t
Mrs. b. A. Price, the mother-in- law
Of Attorney General Griggs, died ct Mr..
Griggs' home inPaterson. N. j.. yester-
day afternoon, aged sc. She came from
Ohio to visit her daughter some months
ago, and was taken Ill.
Monday, Jan. 10.
| The United Mine Workers conven-
tion at Indianapolis will demand in
creased wages.
Our agricultural exports from 1894
to 1898. inclusive, had an annual value
of $663. .536,201.
| Frank Dore, who killed his wife and
a girl near Murphysboro, Ills, got 4d
years in the penitentiary.
Dread of hydrophobia drove Frank
Conrick, secretary Of the Builders and
Trades Exchange, at Chicago, to com.
NIT suicide by shooting.
| Louis August, the soldier of Fort
Monroe, Va, who killed Annie Bene-
dict. his sweetheart, was sentenced to
1S years in the penitentiary at Norfolk
James House, Of Blue Mound. Ills.
while being treated for alcoholism at
st. Louis nearly killed Albert Dehrin
his nurse, and leaped two stories to
death.
Tuesday, Jan. 10.
| John J. Albright, OF Buffalo, will
present to the city 100000 art gal
lery.
The condition of Governor Nc
Laurin, of Mississippi, Ill with penu-
monia, is critical
Between Jan. and there were
new cases Of bubonic plague in Homo
lulu, total Of %.
Thomas Egleston, professor of min
erology in Columbia university, died
In New York, aged 68.
An ordinance in Chicago's council
offers 5000 reward for every highway
man or housebreaker killed in the act.
Marion Manola Mason, the comic
opera singer, has filed suit for divorce
from her husband, John Mason, the
actor, on statutory grounds.
Charles E. Macrum, formerly United
States consul at Pretoria, left Port
Said for Naples on board the steamer
Koenig yesterday on his way home.
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