The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-03-08
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday. Feb. IS.


During fire in Clarion, Pa, ex-
Judge w. w. Marr dropped dead from
/ excitement.
Laborers in San Juan, Puerto Rico,
are on strike for an increase in wages.
from three to five cents an hour.
Suit has been brought against Frick
Coke company directors, charging them
with working in the interest of the
Carnegie Steel company.
Bishop j. NJ. Thoburn. missionary
bishop in India, is suffering FROM
nervous exhaustion. due to overwork
He will be forced to take long rest.
Swedish mail steamer Rex stranded
off Ruegen Island, Germany, and five
stewardcsses We're drowned in attempt
ing to leave the vessel.
Thursday. March I.
The national senate passed the bill
! providing territorial form OF gov
I ernment for Hawaii.
The Ohio house defeated woman
suffrage uill by 40 nays to 81 yeas. 1t
| required SO votes to adopt.
The Democrats in the Kentucky leg
| islature passed the bill ofieriu.; $780,
| 600 reward for Goebel's murderer.
Three children of Edward Friedncr.
/ aged Is months to years, were suf-
focated in New York tenement fire.
Joseph Clean. a farmer near Glue
! field, w. Va, objected to his dlugh
! ters suitor, Albert Marsh. He killed
Marsh, his daughter and himself
Lon Curry. one of the robrcrs vko
/ 4, 4, -
train at Wilcox. Wyo., last June, w's
killed while resisting arrest at Dod-
son, Mo.
Friday, March =.
| Cecil Leslie, connected with Brook
| lyn's Franklin syndicate, was captured
in Cleveland.
A bill to repeal New York's common
ed in the legislature
Laurence Rummell Is months old
pulled a lighted lamp on himself in his
Newark IN. j. home and was burned
to death
George w. Watts, Is years old. SEN
fenced at Baltimore to years i'm
prisonment for larceny, tried suicide
by hanging.
The bodies Of sc soldiers who died in
Cuba since the end of the Spanish war
were buried with military honors at
Arlington cemetery yesterday.
| Prof. Arthur c. McGiffert, of Union
Theological seminary. is to join the
Congregational church, thus averting
heresy trial by the Presbyterian gen.
eral assembly.
saturday. March >.
Membership Of the Methodist church
es Is less than two years ago.
Texas yesterday celebrated the 64th
anniversary Of Texas independence.
Near Wake, Va. boiler explosion
killed George Steurer and seriously in
| iured his two sons.
In quarrel over match w. l..
Adkins killed Edward Brooks, fellow
clerk in an Atlanta store.
A snOwstOrm which started Wednes-
day noon in Buffalo continued with
cut cessation until last evening.
Lee Slower. late colonel of the First
South Dakota regiment, has announced
himself as Republican candidate for
the United States senate.
The Guy V. Henry committee. at
New York. proposes to raise fund for
the generals widow to put her beyond
possible want.
Monday, March 3.
Archbishop John Hennessy, OF the
Catholic diocese of Dubuque, Ia, died
yesterday, aged rs.
Fire in cheap lodging house in the
Bowery, New York, resulted in seven
deaths and serious injuries to two
others.
President David Star Jordan, OF Le-
land Stanford university. predicts the
downfall of Great Britain in the com
ing century.
Rev. Daniel j. Hauer, the oldest
Lutheran clergyman in the United
States, celebrated his oath birthday an
niversary Saturday at Hanover, Pa.
Warrants have been issued for sew
eral men and boys at Mount Carmel,
Pa, who are charged with i'll treating
12-year-old John Fabo, until he be-
came crazed.
The British consular inquiry at San
J Francisco has found Chief Engineer
| MCDOudlu, Vi the tTdHspOTt MdHueHSe,
guilty Of negligence and drunkenness
and fined him $3.50.
| II. +. Seibert. who was mourned as
one of the victims Of the Johnstown,
Pa, food Of 1889, returned to his old
home, at Wilkesbarre. Saturday, after
| an absence of 16 years. He has been
in Australia.
| Morrl,
| General Joseph Wheeler and daugh-
ter have arrived at San Francisco
from Manila.
! Martin Gallagher died in New York
hospital, the seventh killed by the
Bowery lodging house fire.
Proposed increases in British taxes
makes the income tax virtually bear
half of the extra taxation.
The knights of the Royal Arch, in
cluding all engaged in the liquor busi-
ness, has $4,000 members, and is grow
ing.
Henry Ohlrogges and his brother
Richard were asphyxiated by gas in
their New York home. Henry is dead
and Richard may die.