The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-10-02


Association held its annual meeting at
Harrisburg yesterday.
The wholesale price in New York OF
egg, stove and nut coal. anthracite. has
been advanced to $13 ton.
Fire caused by defective insulation
yesterday destroyed the clothing store
Of Louis Saks, at Birmingham, Ala
Loss, $3.50. 900.
Boer generals, who are now In Hol-
land. received word yesterday that
Izak. the 13-year-old son Of General
De Wet, is dead In South Africa.
Charles J. Coe. Of Jersey City, was
appointed receiver of the American
Electric Vehicle Company. a New Jer-
sey corporation, with 100000 author
lied capital.
Thursday, September Is.
Andrew Carnegie visited King Ed
ward at Balmoral Castle, Glasgow, yes
terday afternoon.
An official statement Of Germany's
finances for the last fiscal year show
deficit of about $11. 10000
Fire yesterday destroyed the Central
Hotel and several other buildings at
Shinnestown. near Clarksburg. w. Va.
Loss, 100000.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. J. Shrouder. Of Ma
con, Ca, were shot and killed yester-
day by George Bundrick in quarrel
over a pocket knife.
viii Mathies and Orlando Lester
were hanged yesterday at Oxford,
Miss, for the murder Of two deputy
United States marshals last November.
Friday, September 20.
The 30th annual meeting Of the Ma
tional Association Of Mexican War
Survivors was held yesterday at
Paris. Ky.
Baldwin & Leveridge's department
store and annexes at Marshall, Ia.
were destroyed by fire yesterday.
LOSS. $125,OO0.
John Mitchell. president Of the Mine
Workers Union, has accepted an invi-
tation to speak at mass meeting in
Boston October ~.
DR.. Samuel Houston, Of Pennsylva.
MIA, was appointed chief medical ref.
cree Of the pension bureau, at Wash.
ington, to succeed DR.. Jacob Raub. OF
Pennsylvania.
Saturday, September ~.
General Booth, commanderin-chiei
Of the Salvation Army, sailed from
Southampton today for the United
States.
Special agents Of the United States
department OF agriculture left Wash
ington for the south to investigate the
cotton crop.
The United States comptroller ol
the treasury has allowed Kentucky
$12O,S60 as reimbursement Of expense.
in raising soldiers for the war with
Spain.
President Gompers, of the American
Federation Of Labor, has issued a cal
for the 22d annual convention Of tn,
Federation, to be held at New Or
leans on November 13.
Monday, September 20.
Philadelphia coal dealers today ad
vanced the price Of anthracite to 81,
q ton.
John T. Koontz. OF Bedford. Pa
while cleaning a well fell to the bot
tom and was drowned.
Employees Of the -four mills Of Min
neapolis, Mimi, who threatened I,
strike, were granted an eight-hour day
William Godeau, Of Mobile, Ala
was called from his home by unknown
persons yesterday and shot to death
Charles McDermott, Of Hazletor
Pa, fell from the Pennsylvania Raj
road bridge at Trenton on Saturda
and was drowned.
Tuesday, September 80.
Twelve hundred public schools, wit
an attendance Of over $4,000, wer
: opened in Porto Rico yesterday.
Jacob Rhynerson, who was badl
, beaten by attendants at private as.
lum in Topeka, Kan. died of his IL
, juries.
The rolling mill of the Dupont Pow
der Works, near Wilmington, Del
blew up yesterday. No one was II
jured.
The reported marriage of Quee
, Maria Christina, of Spain, to CouI
de la Escororu is declared to be falls
q at Madrid.
While temporarily insane, R. S. D
g. Wis, of La Center, Wash, set fire
= drug store and his own store an
/. was burned to death. Both building
z were destroyed. ..r
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