The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-03-13
lWEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
wednesday, March 9.

"Wednesday, March 3
Australia produced 4.3s3.6s1. ounces
q gold last year. ssats
The Crescent Democratic Club. Of
Baltimore. Nd. celebrated its 30th An.
niversary last evening.
The Maryland senate passed . bill
70 authorize the admission Of women
- practicins lawyers in the state
court.
The United States senate yesterday
confirmed the nomination Of Benja-
min B. Brown to be collector Of Gus.
toms at Erie, Pa.
The United States cruiser Philadel.
phia sailed from Panama for Guaya-
quill. Ecuador, where she will show
the American nag for the nrst time in
several years.
Thursday, March &
There are more desertions from
German merchant vessels at New
York than at any other port.
The navy department sold the old
monitor Manhattan to Henry Hitner's
Sons, of Philadelphia, for $15,218.
Rear Admiral J.. A. Howell will be
retired on the 18th inst. Next to Ad-
miral Dewey he is the ranking ofiicer
Of the navy.
George Hettricl. of Trenton, N. j..
who killed John Kraus on Thanksgiv.
ing day, was sentenced to be hanged
ON April IA.
Negotiations are being made for op-
tions on candy factories in st. Louis.
Mo-, with a view to forming trust,
with $5,000,000 capital.
Friday, March 7.
The New York chamber Of com.
merce adopted a resolution urging the
maintenance of silver dollars on parity
with gold.
The Republican convention Of Sus-
quehanna county, Pa, nominated Hon.
Charles F. Wright for congress for the
Fifteenth district.
President Roosevelt has been invited
to deliver the principal address at the
G. A. r. Memorial day exercises at
Arlington cemetery. Washington, on
May 80.
A telegram received at the navy de-
partment at Washington from London
announced the death Of B. F. Stevens,
for rs years United States dispatch
agent there.
Saturday, March 8.
President Roosevelt yesterday
signed the permanent census bureau
bill.
The United States cruiser Olympia
is off Yorktown, Va. where she will
have target practice.
A man said to be Heber L. Bull. Of
Philadelphia, committed suicide in a
Boston lodging house yesterday.
Camden, N. j., is nearly free of
smallpox, having but II cases, all Of
whom are in the isolation hospital.
General julius ]. Estey, aged 81,
president of the Estey Organ com.
pany, died at his home at Brattleboro,
w., yesterday.
Monday, March 10.
President Roosevelt Oh Saturday
signed the Philippine tariff bill.
william Gosden, one Of the most
prominent young men Of Richmond,
Va, committed suicide by taking NOR.
phine.
Secretary Wilson, Of the agricul.
tural department, denied that he in.
tends resigning from President Roose.
velt's cabinet.
, Charles Foster Kent, Phi. D.. profes-
sor of Biblical literature at Yale Uni.
versity, surprised his class by strongly
favoring hazing.
The Philadelphia Base Ball club OF
the American League will play its
first exhibition game on April 3 with
q picked team.
Creditors of the late Archbishop
Purcell, OF Cincinnati, have appealed
to Rome for special collections in the
United States to wipe out his $6,O00,.
900 in debtedness.
Tuesday, March II.
Count Won Buelow, German imperial
chancellor, is i'll with influenza and
confined to his room.
The dispute between Germany and
Venezuela is nearing settlement, but
the terms are still a secret.
The postoffice department at Wash
ington received a conscience contri
button of $40 from a resident Of Rich
mond, Ind.
Fire which started in the kitchen OF
the home of Arthur Bouchard, at Ma
tame, Quebec, caused the death OF
Mrs. Bouchard and nine children.
In an explosion at e. c. Dupont dc
Nemours & Company's powder plant
at Keokuk, Ia, two men were killed
outright third will die and three
others are seriously injured.