The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-02-01
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday, Jan. 20.

WiHs pTOuuct uealerS VIII exhibit at
the Paris exposition.
jeremiah Roach was given 20 years
for killing his wife at Jersey City.
Captain Sam Gale and a party of
hunters were fined 500 each for vio-
lation Of game laws at Atlantic City
The steamer Pennsylvania. which
leaves San Francisco for Manila Jan
%. will carry s1,S50000 to pay the SOL
diers.
Henry A. Hazen, a chief forecaster
In the weather bureau at WASHINGTON,
died from injuries received by fall
from his bicycle.
Thursdny. Jan. 23.
Samuel p. Meyers was hanged a.
Somerset, Pa, yesterday. for killing
Michael Karney and John Lenhart.
Judge Orrin N. Carter, OF Chicago.
announces his candidacy for the Re
publican nomination for governor OF
Illinois.
Citizens of Washington presented to
Commander Richard Wainwright. OF
the cruiser Gloucester, a sword of hon
or and silver service
BY an explosion of powder at Sum.
nersville, Pa, Patrick CosgriT and
Elmer Howard, quarrymen. were ter
ribly mangled. Howard died
Republican senators selected the fol-
lowing senate officers: Secretary, Hon.
Charles Bennett, of New York, SER
geant-at-arms, Hon. d. NJ Ransdall. Ia-
diana; chaplain, Rev. w. II. Milbun.
Fridny, Jan. 20.
The national house, by vote of 26S
to so. excluded Roberts, the Mennonite.
A bill introduced in the natiana,
house proposes to abolish the war
stamp act.
Lo Feng Lch. the Chinese amhassa-
dor to England, has been converted to
Christianity.
Dowager Duchess of Schleswic-Hol-
stein, mother of the German empires,
| died in Dresden from peurisy.
A Lowell tobacco firm sues the & =
ernment to" recover duty paid on to-
! bacco imported from Porto Rico.
Germanys naval bill was adopted
by the bundesrath yesterday. II car
, ries an annual expenditure of II ,0O0,-
VVV mar MS LOT 10 years.
Commissioner Peck refuses to rer-
nit the exhibition of a $4,000 golden
statue of Anna Held the actress. in the
American section of the Paris exposi-
tion.
saturday, Jan. -.
Trenton children carry boiled water
to school for drinking. Passaic water
being declared dangerous to health.
Most Of the French, papers hail with
keen satisfaction the announcement
that the British have abandoned Spion
Kop
1t Is stated in Kansas City that Web
ster Davis. assistant secretary of the
interior. is McKinley's choice for vice
president.
The transport Pennsylvania left San
Francisco with $1.5OO,0OO In gold coin
and a considerable sum in treasury
notes to pay soldiers in the Philippines.
An unarmed poh of several hundre I,
men took Convict Reynolds, who mur-
dered Captain W.. C. Rooney, In the
penitentiary, from the prison at Canon
City. Colo. and lynched him.
MOhuuy, jan. I'D.
Our export trade to China and Japan
has more than doubled in the past two
years.
Texas Populists declare that Bryan
would accept a Populist nomination
for president.
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst, of New York.
favors open saloons between certain
hours on Sunday.
In the first nine months of last year
$4,000 persons in the German empire
engaged in strikes.
Fred Lind, Victor Fredericksen and
Walter Grazesky, miners, were killed
by falling timber at Henley, Wis.
The late John Ruskin had given
away fortunes, and he lived on $5 a
day the last few years of mis- life.
French elections resulted in a prac-
tical defeat for Nationalists, only three
out of 30 senators being elected Many
generals were candidates, but only
Mercier and Lambert were elected.
Tuesday, Jan. 30.
The shah of Persia Is very i'll and
his physicians fear that he may not re-
cover.
The Spanish steamer Valle has foun-
dered off the Spanish coast, 13 of the
crew being drowned.
President Mckinley yesterday re-
ceived congratulations on the 57th an
niversary Of his birth.
Judge Kohlsaat, of the federal court
in Chicago, Yesterday rendered a de-
cis!on declaring the Illinois antitrust
law unconstitutional.
A Victoria (B. c. dispatch says the
Australian brigantine Ethel was scut-
tied and sunk nv her crov u,ho ,,,