The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-08-07
AWEEK's NEWS OoNDEHsED.
Wednesday, July 50.

Paul vandervoort, past commander
incAief Of the G. A. r., died at Puerto
Principe, Cuba. yesterday.
The new United States battleship
Maine will be given her official trial
August Is OF Cape Cod. Mass.
Four men we're seriously hurt by a
premature blast in the rapid transit
subway In New York yesterday.
Vincento Arena, a prominent Span.
lard Of Tucson, Ariz. was beaten to
death yesterday by five Mexicans.
De Noon Bros paint store at Pitts.
burg, Pa. and two other buildings
were destroyed by fire yesterday. caus.
ing q loss Of 100000.
Thursday. July 81.
Boer Generals Botha. DeWet and De-
iarey sailed from Cape Town. South
Africa. for England yesterday.
Three Berks county. Pa. postmasters
have been removed for conducting their
Offices in bar rooms of hotels.
In the Sayreton mines near Birming-
ham. Ala. a break in the roof caused
great mass OF rocks to fall and two
miners were instantly killed
James Ruddy. a brakeman Of Palo
Alto, Pa. was killed in wreck of
coal train on the Reading railroad near
Pottsville yesterday.
Postmaster l.. d. Zimmerman, of
Linnville. Warwick county, Ind, was
fatally shot by two robbers. who secur-
ed $500 in money and made their es-
cape.
Friday. August I.
Rev. Benjamin Sold, rabbi emeritus
of Oheb Shalom Temple, Baltimore,
died yesterday at Berkeley Springs
w. Va.
1t is said in Washington that flo
tilla of torpedo boats will assist the
army in the coming army and navy war
nanOeuvres.
The Patriot, the only morning news
paper of Harrisburg, Pa, was sold to
Mayor Vance c. Mccormick yesterday
by ID. A. Orr.
Reports from st. Petersburg say that
cholera is spreading rapidly in Man
churia and hundreds are dying daily,
the victims being mostly Chinese.
Saturday, August 2.
The official trial of the new battle.
ship Maine has been postponed from
August Is until September /.
Major j. M. Young, U. S. NJ. c. re.
tired died suddenly of heart failure at
his home at Baltimore yesterday
The safe in the postofiiCe at Niles,
O.. was blown open by cracksmen. who
secured $3.50 in money aud 1000
stamps.
Captain William Phillips, of the
Tenth Infantry U. S. A., has been ap'
pointed governor of the Island of Para.
qua, p. |.
The entire National Guard of Kan.
sas will take part in the manoeuvres
of the regular army at Fort Riley,
Kan, the latter part of September.
Monday. August q.
Canada is TO have steamship ser
Africa.
In street car collision at Elkin, H.,
yesterday, two cars were telesCoped
and 10 passengers injured, two of them
fatally.
]. Pierpont Morgan, who is now in
London. denies that he will retire from
active business on his return tc
America.
The German Army and Navy Asso.
citation of North America held their an
l., ~
terday and today.
While picking berries on the noun.
tains near Shamokin, Pa, Saturday
Mary McCollum was bitten by copper.
head snake and may die.
Tuesday. August S.
Secretary Of War Root arrived al
Carlsbad, Austria, yesterday. where he
will stay for some time.
Charles Vaughan, of Middlesboro
KY, was shot and killed yesterday by
Sheriff Wilson while resisting arrest.
The Edgerton coliery of the Temple
| Coal Company, near Scranton, Pa
shipped 80 cars of anthracite coal yes
terday.
Commander-n-chief Torrance, of the
| G.. A. r., has appointed committee
to erect statue in Washington o.
General b. f. Stevenson, founder Of
the G. A. r.
During an electric storm lightning
struck the house of Thomas Jansen
near Monticello, N. j., killing Janser
and shocking four other members o.
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