The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-09-13
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


rara, Italy, charged with cUnspir!ng to
kill Victor Emanuel III.
The business portion of Cartwright,
Wis. a town Of 1000 Inhabitants, was
entirely destroyed by fire yesterday.
The autumn maneuvers of the Ger
man army will be attended this year
for the first time by representative
OF the French army.
William J. Bryan will stump Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Minnesota, New York, New Jersey,
Maryland and West Virginia.
The United States army transport
Lawton arrived at Seattle, Wash from
Nome with 220 passengers, two-thirds
Of whom are destitute miners return
ed at the expense of the government.
Thursday. Aug. 30.
The population of Wilmington, Del,
Is 76,50S.
The population Of Paterson. N. j..
Is 105,17l
Bresci, the slayer of King tIumbert,
OF Italy, was sentenced TO solitary i'm
prsonment for life.
The American rcd and mil mills at
Anderson Ind, shut down yesterday,
throwing $50 men out of employment
In the Corbett- Mccoy fight at New
York tonight Mccoy was knocked out
in the sixth round. Corbett gets $685.
900 and Mccoy $l0,0
Russian authorities at Vladivostock
have interdicted the sale of canned
goods in that city, excepting those re-
Quired for military use.
Luther Thompson, a negro charged
with horse stealing and attempted
criminal assault, is threatened with
lynching at Cedar Grove. Ala.
Friday, Aug. ~.
The G. A. Il. convention at Chicago
elected Major Rassieur, OF st. Louis,
ommander-in-chiei by acclamation
England's high court Of justice en-
joins picketng during strikes to in
duce non-unionists to refrain from
working.
In letter to Senator Sewell, of New
Jersey, Adjt Gen. Corbin defends the
army canteen as conducive to morality
and temperance.
Complete returns of the prizes won
by Germans at the Paris exposition
show 26l grands prix, 545 gold medals
and COS silver medals.
Andrew Coger, who on Monday night
shot and killed Horton Bryant, jani-
tor of an Amsterdam avenue, New
York, apartment house, was arrested
yesterday in Jersey City.
A cyclone that visited Mafeking on
Wednesday night did more damage
than the seven months bombardment.
One person was killed and two were
injured, and there were many narrow
escapes.
Saturday, Sept. !.
The Nicaraguan congress yesterday
approved the commercial reciprocity
treaty between Nicaragua and the
United States.
Panic in street car at Akron, o.,
caused by a burning fuse, resulted in
| the death of F. Bargetz, killed by
| jumping from the car.
Jesse w. Weik, eX-inspector of post
offices, is under arrest at Greencastle,
Ind, for continuing to use his In
spector's railroad pass.
A Pensacola, Fla, coal company
closed a contract yesterday for 100 600
tons of coal to be shipped through that
port to Fiume Austria.
| Louis Goodman. Russian pack
peddler, died at his home in Pittsburg
yesterday from the effects Of cold,
aged 106 years. He worked steadily
until he was l0i.
| Monday, Sept. 3.
The electric tramway system of San
tiago. Chile, was formally inaugurated
yesterday.
An effort is being made to have the
Headquarters of the Brotherhood OF
the Locomotive Firemen removed from
Illinois to Rochester, n. Y.
In Chicago yesterday three deaths
and one prostration occurred as re-
suit of the heat. The dead are Michael
Keefe, John Feely and John Walsh.
Another death, supposed to be due
to the bubonic plague, occurred In
Glasgow yesterday. There are SO cases
of the disease now under observation.
Robert A. Morris, of Ellicott City
Md, bit into peach in which bee was
concealed. The bee stung him In the
throat, swelling ensued and he choked
to death.
Tuesday, Sept. 4.
A case of the bubonic plague has
been officially reported at Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic.
Ex-Governor L. d. Lewelling, OF
Kansas, died very suddenly and unex.
pectedly of heart failure at Arkansas
City, Kan, last night
A London dispatch says that Mrs
Maybrick, sentenced to life imprison.
ment for poisoning her husband, will
be released in two years.
Mrs. Mollenhauer, daughter-in-law
Of the millionaire sugar reiner Of New
York, was waylaid by thugs and rob.
bed Of SIS in cash and $500 worth o.
diamonds.