The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-01-11
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED


county, Ala, ended In a compromise.
Colonel A. L. Mcintyre, ex-congress-
man. from Georgia, died at Thomas
vile. Ga.
Ex-Governor Bradley is the choice
II Kentucky's Republican Legislators
Tor United States senator.
The grand jury at Concord, N. H.,
refused to indict Senator Gallinger for
alleged violation of civil service laws.
Kentucky's Democratic legislators
nominated J. c. S. Blackburn for Uni
ted States senator. insuring his elec-
ton.
Thursday. Jan. 4.
British steamer Borghere foundered
of Cape Finisterre, and 20 were
drowned.
The death is announced in Rome OF
Count de Benomar. Spanish aEbas-
sador to Italy.
A powder explosion near Lake Lin
den, Mich. blew two men and four
horses to atoms.
Tennessee's Democratic legisla .c~s
selected Governor McLaurin for Tie
long term for senator.
Fourteen soldiers made insane by
service in the Philippines have been
sent to the asylum at Washington.
Extraordinary precautions have been
taken to prevent the spread of bubonic
plague in Hawaii. Transports will not
step there.
Friday, Jan, 8.
Our Philippines army, now $500,
will soon reach 65,000
Chinese routed French forces near
Wang Caun, killing 30 Frenchmen.
Mississippis Democratic Legislators
chose United States Senator w. v.
Sullivan for the short term.
st. Louis officials will enter legal pro-
test against Chicago's alleged pollution
Of the Mississippi by the drainage ca
nal.
The steamer Queen Adelaide brings
news to Victoria, b. c.. that the steam
er Rio Maru foundered Off Omai Cape.
She struck submerged rock
The Philadelphia grand jury re-
turned true bills of Indictment against
Deputy Coroner Salter and eight cleo
ton officers. charging them with ballot
frauds.
Saturday, Jan. q.
The Lawton relief fund amounts to
$45,721.
DR.. w. A. Hammand, formerly sur
geon general Of the army. died in
Washington.
One man was killed and two others
fatally injured by breaking chain in
the Homestead (Pa.) steel works.
Two women were burned to death in
fire early this morning In a New
York tenement on East Ninety second
street.
Pietro Puize stabbed Frank Segila tn
death last night In New York saloon,
as the result Of quarrel over a gam
of cards.
A falling evator at the Illinois
Steel works in Chicago killed three
workmen: Joseph Middle, Joseph Sock
and Ignatz Granak.
The American exhibit at the Paris
exposition will be- several times larger
than Great Britain's and as large as
Russia's and Germany's combined.
Monday, Jan. 9.
A new cotton mill, with a capital OF
5000, 900, Is to be located at Honea
Path, S. C.
The clothing Of Mrs. Catharine Rip
pard, Of Wilkesbarre caught fire from
a stove, and she was burned to death.
In a quarrel over the ownership of a
knife, Willie Daggs, years old, shot
his 12-year-old sister Lena dead at
Evansville. Ills.
Near Uniontown, Pa, the home of
William Scott was destroyed by fire
and his three sons, aged IL to 16, burn
ed to death.
The trustees Of the estate of the late
Cornelius Vanderbilt have paid to Yale
college the 100000 bequest left to that
institution.
James Gray, nurse in Philadelphia
hospital, accidentally bathed Henry
Smith. a patient, with carbolic acid
instead Of tincture Of larkspur. Smith
died, fatally burned.
Tuesday, Jan. D,
The Sunday closing crusade in Chi
cago Is having its effect.
Alfred e. Burr, editor OF the Hart.
ford (Conn.) Times, is deaL.
Miss Johanna Lynch was burned to
death In New York apartn ent house
fire.
The Virginia Coal, Coke and Iron
Is to start new coke furnaces
In Virginia.
The bonds purchased under the offer
Of the secretary OF the treasury of Nov,
Is, 1899, amounted TO $19, 800, $50.
General Greedy. chief signal officer of
the army, is improving from the in
juries inflicted Sunday night by q
drunken man.
c. M. Nelson, a Swedish farmer of
Kearney, Neb., was murdered by his
son, who buried the djsmembered
corpse In barn.
Two members Of the Chicago Saliva
ton Army were badly injured in a
hand-to-hand fight with two men who
had disturbed their meeti az.
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