The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-08-14
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Wednesday, August 9.

Wednesday. August Z.
President Palma, Of Cuba, will give
his Arst dinner to foreign ministers
at Havana tonight
The 250th anniversary of the settle
ment of York, Maine, was observed
yesterday by . floral and historical
parade.
In . freight wreck on the Norfolk
and Western road. near PEBBLES, O.,
Brakemen Foley and Harvey Norman
were killed and three other trainmen
injured.
Contracts have been awarded for q
large addition to the Austin Hall Law
School at Harvard College, Cambridge,
Mass. for which 100000 will be ex.
pended.
Thursday, August 7.
The 32d annual convention Of the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of
America was held at Dubuque, Ia, yes.
terday.
Companies A. B, e and l, of the
Seventh Infantry. commanded by Ma.
jor Booth, arrived at Seattle, Wash,
yesterday from Alaska.
Senator Hanna addressed the Chau.
tauQua Assembly at Urbana. o., yes.
terday on Capital and Labor" He
will address the ChautauQua Associa.
ton at Lake Chautauqua. N. Y, on
the same question.
Friday, August 8.
Nebraska Prohibitionists yesterday
nominated full state ticket.
The main building Of the Presby.
terian Union Seminary at Richmond,
Va. was damaged by fire yesterday
to the extent of $1,000.
An explosion In an iron works near
Santander. Spain, yesterday, destroy
ed fve houses, killed IA persons and
injured many others.
Nearly 10000 delegates attended
the sessions Of the Negro Young Peo.
pies Christian and Educational Con.
gress at Atlanta, Ga.
The monument erected over the
grave of Nancy Hanks, mother Of
Abraham Lincoln, at Lincoln, Ind,
will be dedicated October l.
Saturday, August 9.
A Berlin dispatch says Emperor
William has decided to construct two
German submarine boats.
Major General Corbin returned to
Washington yesterday from the north.
west, where he inspected several mil.
itary posts.
Communication between Washing.
ton and Annapolis. Md, was estab.
lished yesterday by wireless telegra.
ply under the auspices OF the navy
department
The surviving members of the
Twenty-eighth Regiment, New York
Volunteer Infantry, dedicated a monu.
ment yesterday at Cedar Mountain
battlefield, Virginia.
Monday, August II.
William link, of New York, was
drowned while bathing at Akron, O.,
where he went to visit friends.
The Negro Young Peoples Chris.
tlan and Educational Congress at At
lanta, Ca, adjourned yesterday.
The fund for the Mckinley National
Memorial now amounts to about
| S325.0OO, one-half the sum needed.
With yellow fever aboard. the Ward
liner Vigilancia arrived at New York
yesterday from Havana and was sent
to quarantine.
Coal miners OF the Northern Colo.
RADIO district voted to assess each man
81 a week for the benefit of the strik.
ers in Pennsylvania.
Tuesday, August II.
The Commercial Law League of
America held its eighth annual con.
vention at Niagara Falls yesterday.
A trolley car at Dallas, Tex, yes.
terday struck a section crew, killing
John Crenshaw and injuring three
others.
William D. Castleberry. a lumber
merchant, of Cincinnati, O., was
found dead In New York hotel yes
terday.
The torpedo boat DeLong, built In
South Boston, Mass, was turned over
to the navy department yesterday af
ternoon.
The transport Meare sailed from
Manila for San Francisco with S92
enlisted men of the Fifteenth United
States Infantry.
The Vatican is informed that dur
ing the autumn and winter four Amer
lean pilgrimages will visit Rome fol-
the closing Of the Pope's jubilee.
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