The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-08-30
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday. Aug. -.


Is 202,7lS; that of St. Paul 1863 ,632.
1t is estimated that $4,000. 600 dam
age has been done by forest fires in
Colorado and Wyoming.
| Fifteen thousand women have signed
q petition against the woman suffrage
bill in Victoria, Australia
The Argentine Republic is preparing
60 subsidze a steamship line between
Buenos Ayres and New York.
George Gould, II is said. will furnish
the money to prevent the sale Of the
! Castellane chateau in France.
The engagement Of Queen Wilhel-
nina. Of Holland. to Prince Frederick
Adolf, OF Mecklenburg- Schwerin, is an
nounCed.
Commander Shaw, OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic. says he will en-
deavor to have Decoration Day changed
TO the last Sunday in May.
Thursday, Aug. 81.
Louis G. BornriCk was Yesterday
nominated for governor OF Wisconsin.
An anarchist meeting held in Berlin
was dispersed by the police. wAo ar
rested the speakers.
The Beers are giving the English
troops much fighting. and President
Kruger will not yield
/ BY the explosion of projectlle on 4
Russian battleship three marines were
killed and nine wounded.
There are 275, 900 Russian troops al
ready in the far east, or on the way
there by land and sea
| George II. iosmer, one OF the best
known oarsmen in the world. Is dead
At the Carney hospital In Boston
| In accepting the Populist nomination
for president al Topeka, Kan, William
J. Bryan declared that silver is still
an issue.
Friday, Aug. 20.
The population of Philadelphia Il
1928 ,697
Andrew Carnegie, who is in Scotland,
denies the report that he will stump
for Bryan.
The population Of the city of Cleve-
land. O., is ISL. 76S; Toledo l3l s. and
Columbus, 125,560.
In the Fitzsmmons-Sharkc fight at
Couey Island tonight Sharkey was
knocked out in the second rSund.
An investigation is demanded into
the recent race riot in New York by
colored men who are British subjects
The negro Peck, whose attempted
lynchinG for assaulting a little girl
caused the recent fatal riot at Akron,
O., was today sentenced to life i'm
prisonmcnt.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hutchinson is dead
and four of her children are in the hos
r''al at Atlanta in a serious condition
from eating ice cream which was made
In an improperly cleansed freezer
saturday, Aug. 25.
The population of St. Louis "a 575. .23S
Ey recent court decision all squat
tcrs On the 60-foot strip along Nome
Beach, Alaska, must vacats.
The steamer Mariposa brought over
5000 900 in specie from Sydney. Aus
tralil, to San Francisco, yesterday.
During a storm two little children OF
"harles Zupker, named Frlda end
Adele. Of Milwaukee. Wis. were killed
by bolt Of lightning.
Bethel Baptist church at Fairview,
Ky. built as "A memorial on the site OF
Jefferson Davis birthplace, has been
struck by lightning and destroyed.
Henry +. Youtsey, in Jail awaiting
trial for completely in the Goebel muir
der and who has been i'll, has become
worse and is reported to be in a SER
ious condition.
Monday. Aug. ~.
Hon. Charles DENLY, Democrat. er-
minister to CAina, has declared for Nc
kinley
The Vcsrer Goat club, Of PhIiadel-
phia, won The senior ei"h. Dared cham.
pionship in the Paris exposition race,
Congressman Charles H. Boutelle,
OF Maine, is rapidly recovering his
health at santarium at N'averly.
Mass.
After jauntily ordering and drinking
Q glass of whisky, Edward Sexton blew
out his brains in a barroUm AT White
Plains, n. Y.
While bathing at Portsmouth, N. H.,
Burt II. Kaufman, OF st. Louis, struck
his head against a gas bracket, fep
into the bathtub and was drowned
The bankruptcy report for Great
Britain for 1899 shows a decrease of
4Sl failures and G1,125,0OO in liabli-
ties as compared with the previous
year
Tuesdny, Aug. 2S.
The population OF Denver. Colo. is
49,, ,S59, against l06,713 in 1890.
Yesterdays baseball games: At Chi
cago-Chcago, q st. Louis. 1. Al
Brooklyn-Brooklyn, 8; New York, 2
During the last few days terrihS
thunderstorms have caused much dam
age in the districts Of Stuttgart, Leip-
sic and Rostock, Germany.
The population of Baltimore. as jus1
bulletined by the census bureau, II
sos 957, against 434 ,439 in 1890. This IL
an increase Of 74.5lS, or 17.15 per cent