The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-02-13
AWEEK's NEWS OoNDEHsED.
Wednesday. February Z

In . hotel at Albany, N. 4.
Burglars entered the postofice at
Canal Winchester. o.. and secured
$500 worth Of stamps and $50 in cash.
The Dowie-Stephenson suit for re-
ceivership Of the Zion lace industries.
at Chicago, has been settled out Of
court.
NJ. A. Emluck, Of Carlisle. Pa, has
been appointed an aide-de-camp to
Commanderin-chief Terrence. Of the
G. A. R.
Heater Turner, Of Scottsville, KY.
shot his brother James dead. but not
before James had struck him on the
head with q hatchet, inficting fatal
injuries.
Thursday, February 9.
The school children Of Minneapolis.
Mimi. contributed $685. to the McKin-
ley memorial fund.
An explosion in the Lance mine 1t
Plymouth, Pa, badly damaged the in.
side workings. None Of the employees
were injured.
The price of stoves was advanced
by the Southern Stove Manufacturers
Association at a meeting held in Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
Albert West, the negro who muir
dered Chester policeman and was
nearly lynched, was placed in the
Eastern Penitentiary for safe keeping.
Friday, February 7.
James Egan, who served under Ad.
miral Farragut during the civil war,
died at Joliet. ILL.,, yesterday.
The senate yesterday passed bill
appropriating $2,500.00O for q post
office building in New York city.
Armstrong Hensley was hanged at
Erwin, Tenn, yesterday for the MUIR
der OF his 6-year-old stepdaughter.
Mary Miller 81 years old, Of Phila-
delphia, committed suicide at her
home by swallowing carbolic acid.
Captain Richmond P. Hobson was
the guest last night Of the New Haven
Comm Business Mems Association
at their annual banquet.
The Brown University Corporation,
of Providence, r. l., accepted John D..
Rockefeller's gift Of $4,000 for the
erection of a social and religious
building.
Saturday, February 8.
The Orinoco Steamship Company,
capital $1.000,000, was incorporated at
Trenton, N. j.
Count De Lucenay, of Calcutta, In.
dia, was sent to Jail in default of bail
at Ell Paso, Tex, for perjury.
The Red Wing Sewer Pipe COM
pany's plant at Red Wing, s. D., was
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
Fire destroyed the Vendome Hotel.
at Minneapolis. Minn.. causing loss
of $4,000. Many guests had narrow
escapes.
C. M. Cole and Henry Reynolds were
killed by the breaking Of scaffold
on which they were painting the in.
terror of building at Atlanta, Ga.
Monday, February 10.
The International Woman Suffrage
Congress will convene in Washington
next Wednesday.
The Centenary Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Lebanon, Pa, was damaged
by fire to the extent of $1,000.
The Stationary Firemen's Union, of
the anthracite Goa! region, will hold
their convention at Nanticoke, Pa, on
March 1.
The Filipino junta of Hong Kong,
China, has flooded Manila with PAM
phlets expressing sympathy at the
death of President Mckinley.
A street motor dashed into Cleve.
land and Pittsburg freight train go
ing at full speed at Cleveland, o., and
five men were seriously injured.
Tuesday, February II.
Ground was broken at Princeton, N.
j., for the new s250,OOO gymnasium for
Princeton College.
1t is reported that ex-Secretary
Gage will assume the presidency of
the United States Trust Company, OF
New York.
BY the bursting Of a steam pipe in the
engine room of the Nicollet Hotel,
Minneapolis, Minn., three men were
badly burned.
The battleship Illinois. to be the
flagship of the reception squadron to
meet Prince Henry, left Newport
News for New York.
Andrew Carnegie sent check for
100000 to Stevens Institute Of Tech.
nology, in Hoboken, N. j.. to endow
the laboratory of engineering.
General Fitzhugh Lee lectured last
night on Peace and War in the Unit
ed States and Cuba" before the Ma.
tional Union Organization of Chicago.
GENERAL MARKETS.
Philadelphia, Pa, Feb. 10.-Flour
weak; winter superine. $2.6542.90;
Pennsylvania roller, clear, $3.25Q3.60; [;
city mills. extra, 32.90Q3.15. Rye flour
steady, at $32593.35 per barrel: Wheat
steady; No. 2 Pennsylvania, red, 87Rc
Corn weak; No. 2 yellow, local, 66h 4
&c. Oats firm; No. 2 white, clipped,
61c.: lower grades, 47c. Hay weak;