The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-08-23
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.



Wednesday,. Aug. =.
The immense floating drydock bought
at Havana from the Spanish govern
ment Is to be located at Pensacola, Fla.
Charles A. Towne is out in letter
formally declining the Populist nomi-
nation for vice president. II is believ-
ed the national committee will name
Stevenson.
Frederick MerriCk is under arrest at
Hugo. Colo, on suspicion of being one
of the men who robbed the Union Pa
cfic express and killed w. J. Fay. of
California.
In the International yacht races for
the Seawanhaka cup. on Lake st.
Louis. the Canadian defender Red Coat
defeated tn. Minnesota. OF st. Paul,
three times, retaining the cup another
year.
Thursdny. Aug. -.
A Boer plot to capture and shoot
British officers in Pretoria was dis
covered. The ring leaders are in prison.
Minnesota Republicans nominated
Robert NJ. La Toilette for governor
and renominated the present state Of
ficers.
In the Havana custom house the
number of Cubans employed exceeds
the Americans as follows: Cubans, COZ +;
Americans, 50.
The invalds in Gen. MacArthur's
Philippines army are: Sick IN hos
pitals. 3,755; sick in quarters, LOST;
percentage, S.Oi.
The gross postal receipts at ~ &C. ilc
largest postollices for the month -
July aggregated S&.33S,6S3. net H.
crease of s253,392 over July, lNJ9.
Rev. Cyrus Hamln. u. D.. former
missionary to Turkey, and an" e.: II,
most famous men in the c'n'.ag %
tional ministry, died at Portland, NJ,
yesterday.
Fridny. NuE. 10.
The income of jonn u. Rockefeller,
the Standard Oil magnatC, l.. 80 OU9,-
600 a year.
Henry Hoffman died at East Butler,
Pa, Wednesday evening, aged 100. He
never used tobacco or liGGor ia any
form.
George Welsh and William Roberts,
colored walters at the Hotel Imperial.
Atlantic City. were found dead in bed
/ and the gas TUNED on.
Governor Roosevelt will start on a
Pacific coast stumping tour next
month, going through West Virginia.
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky.
saturday. Aug. II.
Djcvad Pasha, the former grand
vizier of Turkey. died in CONSTANT
nople yesterday.
The next Pennsylvania state fair will
be held in Wilkesbarre, the necessary
funds having been raised.
Miss Flossie SHETLAND, a prominent
society belle of Fredonia. n Y. was
drowned yesterday al Put In Bay while
bathing.
Two train robbers were surrounded
in a house near Goodland. Kan, and
killed. Several OF the pursuing party
were wounded.
Lord Russell OF Killowen, lord chief
Justice OF England, died yesterday at
his residence, Cromwell House, Ken
sington. aged 81.
Mr.. Herbert Putnam, librarian o;
the United States congress, Is In Ber-
lin arranging connections for an ex-
change Of books with European IL
braries.
Monday, Aug. IL.
Filipino Col. Grassa has surrendered
lSl rebels and guns to Col. Freeman Of
the Twenty fourth infantry.
Chinese Minister WI Ting Fang. at
Washington, has expressed his inten-
tion of never returning to China.
BlasTrujillo, one of the most promi-
nent cigar manufacturers in Tampa.
Fla, committed suicide Saturday
evening.
During the maneuveIs OF the French
feet of Cape st. Vincent battleship
collided with a torpedo boat Fifty per-
sons were drowned.
On Saturday Mrs. Sheng. wife OF tho
first secretary OF the Chinese legation,
gave birth to boy. This is the first
Chinese baby OF the Celestial diplo-
matte class to be born in the United
States.
Tuesday. Aug. II.
The Fifteenth United States infantry
has arrived at Nagasaki, Japan.
Baron Won Stumm Halberg, the dis
unguished conservative stateman, Is
suffering from cancer OF the stomach.
The New Foundland legislature has
been dissolved. a general election be-
ing ordered for October and bitter
campaign is expected.
The Evening Post. a local Populist
paper OF Lincoln, Neb.. says that
Chairman Marion Butler will take the
stump for Mckinley.
Lorenz Schwsitz, OF Breslau. has
been appointed to the post OF public
executioner for Prussia. He is re-
tired business man and well to do.
DR.. H. J. Costello, a well known
physician Of Philadelphia, suicided at
his hotel. at Eagles Mere, yesterday
afternoon by hanging himself to