The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-02-15
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday. Feb. 2.

close down.
Insurgents captured an American
supply train near Orani, Philippines,
killing six soldiers.
Circuit Judge Taft, OF Cincinnati,
has been appointed chairman of the
new Philippines commission.
/ In speech at Bridgeport, Conn,
william J. Bryan declared the east
no longer the enemy's country"
| Delawarn's Re crular Republicans re-
fuse to deal with the Union Republ-
Nins until Addicks is repudiated
In the Spanish senate Count Al.
renas denounced unworthy generals
and an infamous government in the
late war"
Thursday. Feb. y.
FlaSmakers report remarkable de-
mand for the Beer flag.
c" -nany's epidemic of influenza has
G0,Ct0 victims in Munich alone
The customs and internal revcnac
receipts Of Manila in January agsre-
gate S557 COS.
! Venezuelan troops invaded Brazi,an
| territory, but were driven across the
| frontier after fight.
! The local fund for the Republican,
convention at Philadelphia is climbing
/ up to the 100000 necessary.
Susan b. Anthony announces that
| she Will retire from the presidency Of
the National Woman Suffrage assOcia-
tion.
Transports Pathan, Sherman and In
| diana arrived at San Francisco from
I the Philippines. On the Sherman are
| 70 invalided soldiers, and on tn" In
diana the bodies of 200 dead soldiers.
! Friday, Feb. %.
Richard w. Thompson. who was
secretary of the navy in Hayes cabi-
net, died at Terre Haute, Ind. aged 81.
At Ford River Mich, Chicago and
Northwestern train was wrecked by a
rear end collision. Nine killed and II
injured.
William +. Miller Of the Franklin
syndicate, Brooklyn, is in Jail in that
city. He returned voluntarily with an
officer
William Truesdale, hanged at Char
lotte, n. c., for killing his sweetheart.
was carried to the scdffold, weakened
by terror.
DR.. Steinitz, the noted chess player.
has been officially pronounced insane.
Friends will place him in a private
| sanitarium.
King Humbert has conferred on
Baron Fava, the Italian ambassador,
the Order of the Crown of Italy, the
highest in Italy.
H. C. Frick, former president of the
Carnegie Steel company, has decided
to go into court to ascertain the value
Of his holdings in that company.
Saturday, Feb. 10.
General John r. Lewis, prominent
in G. A. r. circles, died in Chicago,
aged 65. ~.
A trolley car accident in Reading.
Pa, deprived Motorman Irwin Price of
his left arm.
The firm Of p. d. Armour G. Co., of
Chicago, will be incorporated in the
near future, it is said.
G.. b. Barrow, who kidnapped Baby
Marion Clark. in New York, and was
sentenced to IA years, is insane at Mat
teawan asylum.
Allen Earhart, Is years old, commit
ted suicide by taking rat poison be-
cause he had been suspended from his
position in a Berlin (Pa.) hotel for
infraction of rules.
The deficit in the supply of native
coal in Russia Is estimated at 200. 900
tons. The government has already
given immense orders for Welsh coal
and is trying to place other orders.
Monday, Feb. IL.
The three saloons in Manila before
American occupation have increased
to 400.
San Salvador, Central America, has
been visited by serious fire. The
total loss is estimated at s100000
Richard Croker, whose leg was re-
Gently broken, can now walk with a
cane, and will 60 from London to the
Riviera.
G. b. Patterson, postmaster at Key
Republicans Of the First district for
congress.
Markley, Hogan and Taylor, Phila-
delphia's ballot box suffers, were SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment and
$500 fine.
The Republican congressional con-
vention of the Fourth Georgia district
nominated A. II. Freeman, of Green
Vile, for congress, and instructed ma
tional delegates for Mckinley.
Tuesday, Feb. 13.
Governor Roosevelt, of New York,
positively declares he is not a vice
presidential candidate.
White inhabitants of the Island OF
Martinique are threatened with death
by riotous plantation strikers.
An American company has obtained
valuable mining concessions in Rus
sia, the first granted to foreigners.
Amos Rusie refuses the offer of the
New York Baseball club to pitch this
season. He demands more money.
BY the sinking of the steamer Henry
NJ. Stanley at Cincinnati, after collision
with bridge, the steward was drowned.
Spring promises to bring renewal
of turbulence in the Spanish prov
inces. There are signs of a reawaken-
ing Of the Catalonian separatists agi-
tatOrs and strikes are on the increase