The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1901-01-03
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday, Dec. 20.

Portland, Ore, and Manila will be in
operation by Feb. &c.
There are 10000 lepers in the Phil
ippine islands, and they will be iso-
lated.
The Old Town bank. OF Baltimore.
has gone into the hands OF receiver.
1t is said depositors will be paid in full.
W. Irwin Shaw, recently appointed
consul general to Singapore, commit
ted suicide in Philadelphia hotel. III
health.
In the Chester valley hunt, near
Philadelphia H. l.. Wilbur, aged AZ,
son Of the chocolate manufactures, was
thrown from his horse and killed.
Thursday. Dec. 81.
Thirty-six persons are in convention
at Chicago awaiting the second COM
ing Of Christ on Jan. 3.
The Independent glass combine, re-
Gently organized, will on Jan advance
the price on all window glass Is per
cent.
Delaware Democratic legislators
agreed to unite with the regulars" II
necessary to defeat Addicks for United
States senator.
Governor Roosevelt refuses to honor
the requisition of Governor Sayers for
Rockefeller and other Standard Oil
magnates for violating Texas anti
trust law.
Capt Hank" Half, who sailed the
Defender successfully against Valkyrie
III in 1895, has been selected to sail
the Boston yacht in the contests for the
honor of defending the Americas cur
this year.
Friday. Dec. %.
Honolulu is about to have a temper
ance crusade led by the w. c. T. U.
A corner in beans is the latest nov
city in the Chicago market. 1t is be-
ing engineered by the Albert Dickin-
son company.
Exploding dynamite killed six rail-
road builders at Baker Camp, near
Durham, w. Va, and seriously injured
several others.
John M. Murray, a merchant OF
Wadesboro, N. c., was shot by Pear
eagle, a 17-year-old youth, and died
from his wounds.
John w. Foster, formerly secretary
Of state for the United States, is in the
City of Mexico, on business for the
Mexican government.
Prosecuting officers of the state o.
Missouri adopted a resolution to recon-
mend the passage of law making kid
naping a capital crime.
The governments of Chile and Ar
gentina have signed protocol agree
ing to take no aggressive action con-
cerning the disputed territory Of vi.
TINA EsperanZa in Patagonia.
Saturday. Dee. 30.
The marriage of Queen Wilhelmina
has been set for Feb. Z.
The Pullman fortune has increased
from 5000, 900 to $15,000,000 since the
magnate's death.
The Chilean cabinet crisis has end
ed, Senior Juan Antonio Orrego hav-
ing accepted the premiership.
Storms on the British coast in the
past two days have resulted in many
wrecks and the loss Of over so lives.
The Peruvian government has is
sued decree directing that the new
customs tariff shall come into force
May /, 1901.
About 100 people employed in the
steamery of the Continental Tobacco
company at Louisville are on strike for
increased wages.
Monday, Dec. 81.
A Z per cent cut in wages has been
made by the wire trust at its plant in
Worcester Mass.
Telegraphic reports from all sections
Of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and north
ern Missouri report heavy snow storms.
Among the passengers who arrived at
New York yesterday from Havre was
M. Cambon, French ambassador at
Washington.
Col. Willcocks has cabled the Brit
ish government that the Ashanti re
bellion has ended, all Of the rebel chiefs
having surrendered.
Hiram Hitchcock, the last Of the
founders Of the Fifth Avenue hotel,
New York, died at the hotel yesterday
from penumonia, aged 6S.
Tuesday, Jan. 1.
The municipal treasurer of Bejucal,
Cuba, is short in his accounts $1,000,
and has been missing for several days.
The severest weather known this
winter is now spreading over Germany.
At Koenigsberg the mercury is at zero.
1t is learned that Maggie Hoel, who
mysteriously disappeared ten days age
from Pueblo, Colo, eloped with man
named John Watson.
j. r. Davis, living in the suburbs OF
Brunswick, Ca, shot and killed his
wife Sunday night, mistaking her for
q burglar.
Emperor Nicholas and President
Loubet this morning exchanged New
Year kilograms, with wishes for the
prosperity Of the friendly and allied