The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-02-08
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
wednestln y, Jan. 81.

prevailing disease.
Charles Franklin Dunbar, professor
Of political economy at Harvard COL
lege, died in Cambridge.
The population of Porto Rico is plac-
ed in the preliminary enumeration as
957 ,679. The last census, taken in 1887,
showed a population Of S06,7OS.
The electric plant and laboratories
OF the Bellaire tO) Steel works were
destroyed by fire. and 1000 men are
thrown out of employment temporarily.
During a tornado an express train
on the New Foundland railroad was
lifted OFF the track and deposited in a
bog some distance away. Fire destroy
ed the colonial mail for Canada and
the United States. Nobody was hurt.
Thursday, Feb. I.
Porto Rio is to have a delegate in
Congress-.
Roberts, Mennonite, rejected by
! congress. talks of suing for salary and
mileage.
The Naval Register discloscs the
fact that Schley precedes Sampson two
numbers.
The Republican national committee
decides that state conventions should
nominate all presidential electors.
House elections committee No 3, de-
cided in favor of seating WISE the con-
testant, for the Second Virginia con-
gressional district.
Senator Penrose yesterday introduce
ed a bill to make the proceedings of
| the Grand Army of the Republic a
part of the public records of the Uni
| ted States.
Friday, Feb. z.
David o. Watkins has been appoint
! ed United States district attorney foi
New Jersey.
Rev. Madison c. Peters, of New
York. is to join the Baptist church, as
he opposes infant baptism.
Fire in parochial school in St.
Louis resulted in the death of Sister
Stanislaus and little Mary Foley.
In Clamorganshire, Wales, young
woman has married her fifth husband
in IS months, the first four having
died.
Julius Schroeder is under arrest in
New York, charged with securing
loans aggregating $6S,000 on forged
Virginia bonds.
The Virginia Democratic legislative
caucus decided to order vote on the
question OF calling a convention to
frame new constitution tor the state.
Saturday, Feb. 3.
The vote OF trainmen on the Great
Northern Pacific railway has averted
the anticipated strike on that system
Mr.. Adelbert s. Hay. the United
States consul at Pretoria, left Lorenzo
Marques yesterday on his way to his
post.
George N. Wiswell, of Milwaukee,
has been selected as sergeant-at-arms
OF the Philadelphia Republican con-
vention. A
The conference Of miners and en-
ployers at indianapolis agreed on. u
wage scale, thus averting threatened
monster strike.
A partial strike OF coal miners has
broken out in the Wurm district of
Germany, and II Is thought this may
become general In that locality.
Walter l.. Farnsworth, the biGamist,
was seatenceu at Chicago to five years
Imprisonment and $1,000 fine, the ex-
treme penalty. He complains that the
papers charged him with having 40
wives, while he had "only eight"
Monday, Feb. s.
William Stanley Hazeltine, the ma
rine artist, died in New York, aged Ga.
Governor Poynter, Of Nebraska, will
fight the rich cattlemen's proposal to
rent government lend to the highest
| bidders.
Hon. e. J. Phelps, ex-minster to
England. i'll with pneumonia at New
Haven, is recovering.
Mrs. White, wife of the United
States ambassador at Berlin, is con-
fined to her bed with influenza.
Rev. Booker Fox, one Of the most
noted negro evangelists in the west,
died yesterday at Ottumwa, Ia., aged
104 years.
Fire in st. Louis destroyed nearly
four blocks, causing $1,5OO.OOO to $2.-
000, 900 loss. Fireman Charles Mappes
was killed.
Arthur Sewall, who was candidate
for vice president with Bryan, pre-
diets the Nebraskan's denomination
and defeat.
In Buenos Ayres Saturday 1O2 sun
strokes were officially reported, 80 be-
ing fatal. The temperature was 12O
| in the shade.
Tuesday, Feb. B.
It is reported in Peru that cabinet
crisis Is imminent.
South Carolina now ranks second in
the cotton mill industry.
The total number Of men available
| for military duty in the United States,
but unorganized, is 1O,343, $50; aggre-
Rumors Of trouble in the Venezuelan
| cabinet give rise to the fear that an
other revolution in that much dis
turbed country is impending.
A wreck on the Western New York
and Pennsylvania railroad Is miles
| from Buffalo resulted in the death Of
Engineer A. A. Parkhurst and serious
injuries to Fireman John Conley.
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