The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-02-01
MINERS WAGE SCALE KEYSTONE HAPPENINGS
News Items of Interest From All
Parts of the State.
COLLISION CAUSES EXPLOSION.
3iN Killed nnd Eight Injured in =
Singular Catastrophe at Ashiey-A
Raid ON Pb phi las Opium De ms.
Cattle Guaranteed.

Singular Catastrophe at Ashley-A
Raid on nPhiludcIphi las Opium Dens.
Cattle Qunrnntined.
WilkesbGrre, Pa, Jan. pa fearful
explosion OF dynamite occurred in the
yards of the Jersey Central railroad at
Ashley. a suburb OF this city, at 2
O'Clock last night. which resulted In
the killing Of six men and serious m
Juries to eight others. The dead are:
Frank Mclaughlin. brakeman. ged IS.
single; Peter Frey, engine wiper aged
lG; Michael Bird. brakeman. aCct 30,
single: Charles llaney. aged - and
two unknown tramps. Haney went to
the engine house to idle away tim" IN
stead Of attending night school. The en-
gineer lost control of a heavy freight
train coming down the mountain, and
at the Ashley yards the train dashed
into helping engine, which was sent
into ear containing 80 boxes Of dyna-
mite. Ten locomotives l' cars
were wrecked. the stacks the round
house and n portion Of the roof Ce-
molished. and a big water tank de-
stroyed. Nearly every window IN town
was broken. The loss is heavy
Pennsylvania cattle euarnutincd.
Be'lCfOnte. Pa. Jan. 30.-Thc farm
ers in Penn and Brush VALLEY, this
comfy, nave been pasturing q large
number of cattle on the Brush and
the Seven mountains. A few d8ys aga
the owners went to look after the cHt-
tie and found it was impossible to Set
near them, owing to the fact that a
number Of them acted as if they re
suffering from rabies DR.. JCil Rit-
ter, agent of the state live stock slni-
tary board is now here, and has found
the situation SO alarming that he has
placed under strict quarantine os"ry
farm in Miles township. A numl er of
cattle have been killed by his order.
Locked DuI for organizing.
Philadelphia, Jan. 30.-One hundred
engravers of the Keystone Watch Case
company were locked out yesterday
because, it is said they organized a
union some days ago. When II became
known in New York and Riverside, N
j.. that the men here were out the EN-
ployes of the Keystone's branches at
those places went on strike. The Of
rccrs of the company say that the men
were discharged because there was not
cnnl N work for them but admitted
thot there had been some labor trouble.
VI Ec> stands IL Chance 10 Recover.
HurtiE cdon. Pa, Jan. 90 After nine
days Of uninterrupted ur'' nsciousness
ex-Chief Clerk Jerre b. Rex, of the
Pennsylvania house of representatives,
who was paralyzed at his home here,
WAS able yesterday for the first time
:. recognize his friends and compre-
hend words addressed to him The
paralysis affecting his right side ana
tongue is still unyielding. II no fur
ther attack occurs, which however, Is
feared, his physician gives hope for
his partial recovery.
Death From Gas Asrhyxiation.
Hazleton, Pa. Jan. 29.-Gas escap-
ing from defective stove in the home
of Stephen Kandolf, Of Honey Book.
while all the members of the family
and six boarders were fast asleep,
caused the death Of Mrs. Kandolf aged
80 years and almost suffocated all who
were in the house The gas was de-
tected by two boarders who returned
home at o'clock in the morning and
awakened the household.
Rnidinp PhiIndclphin's Opium pcns.
Philadelphia, Jan. 29.-As result
of a tragic death of a young woman
last week in an opium den located in
Chinatown, the police at O'Clock this
morning started to clean out many of
the dens Thirty-nine Cinnamon. one
white woman and five white men were
caught in the raid. Thirty-nine China
men were held for trial as proprietors
and servants of the dens, one notori-
Gus white woman was sent to the
house of correction, and the Others
were discharged.
Claims II Was an Accident.
Wilkesbarre, Pa, Jan. ga fatal
shooting ARRAY occurred in the home
Of Kazimir Dudnew, at Duryea, yes
terday, The man was cleaning a gun
in the kitchen when, he claims. it was
accidentally discharged The load Of
shot entered the side of his wife, who
was seated in the next room. She
died in great agony two hours later.
The husband was arrested.
Crushed tn Death by Falling Tree.
Kane. Pa, Jan. ga falling hem
lock tree crushed Edward Reede and
his son to death. near here, Saturday.
The hemlock had lodged against q
beech tree. and they were endeayor-
ing to dslodge it, when the wind
swayed the hemlock from its position
and it fell on the men, killing both.
PENNSYLVANIA NEWS BREyITIEs.
Breaker boys who went on strike az
Plymouth returned to work at the old
scale
The Office Of the Harrisburg Patriot
was visited by fire. and the upper por-
tion completely wrecked. Loss cover
ed by insurance.
Superior Court Judge John l. Mitch
ell is suffering from stroke of paraly-
sis at his home i'm Williamsport