The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-09-04
AwEEK's NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday, August n.

aboard, arrived at Annapolis last
evening.
The first message over the new tel.
egraph line between Seattle. Wash,
and Valdez, Alaska, was received at
Seattle yesterday.
The Culver Lumber Company, OF
Kansas City. Mo, was placed in re-
ceivers' hands yesterday. Liabilities
are $25O,0OO and assets estimated at
$3.50. 200.
Albert Waller, conductor on a New
York, Philadelphia and Norfolk train,
was fatally shot yesterday near Del.
mar. Del. while attempting to eject
q negro from the cars.
Thursday, August %.
The Pennsylvania State Camp, P. o.
S. of A., will meet in Lancaster next
year.
The navy department yesterday ac-
cepted the torpedo boat destroyer Trux-
ton, built at Sparrow's Point, Md.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoffice at Ridgetop, Tenn, yesterday
and secured $500 in stamps and other
valuables.
Despondent over losses caused by the
coal strike. Ephraim Luezhover, a sa-
loonkeeper of Shenandoah. Pa, killed
himself yesterday.
The harness mandatory and sew
eral other buildings at Judyville, Ind,
belonging to John F. Judy, were de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $780,
900.
Friday, August 20.
The torpedo boat destroyer Barry
made 2S.12 knots an hour in her Off.
cial trial yesterday.
Frank Smith. colored lad, aged II
years, was drowned at Atlantic City,
N. j.. yesterday while bathing.
Engineer Dan Carey and Fireman
Lee were killed yesterday in wreck
on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Railway near Terre Haute, Ind.
Ex-Secretary Of the Treasury John
G. Carlisle delivered the annual ad.
dress before the American Bar Asso-
citation at Saratoga, N. Y, yesterday.
Secretary of State Hay has ap.
pointed Thomas r. Dawley, Of New
York, United States delegate to the
International Coffee Conference, to be
held In New York in October.
Saturday, August 80.
Congressman X. c. De Graffenred,
of Texas, died Of apoplexy last night
at a hotel in Washington, ID. C.
Charles Mallory. an amateur bicy.
clist, who was thrown from his wheel
in race at Atlanta, Ca, died from his
injuries yesterday.
Masked robbers held up street car
at Spokane, Wash, yesterday and
robbed the passengers, one of whom
was Chief Of Police Reddy.
1t was announced at Havana yester.
day that letters had been received
from Greece. Austria and Brazil, recog.
nizing the Cuban Republic.
Statistics published by the Russian
minister of justice show that 1851
murders were committed in European
Russia last year, an average Of over
20 a day.
Monday, September I.
Over 10000 men participated in the
Labor Day parade at Kansas City, Mo-,
today.
A trolley car at Kansas City last
night ran down carriage, instantly
killing two men.
The annual convention of the Ma.
tlonal Letter Carriers Association was
held at Denver, Colo. today.
Murdered by robbers. the bodies of
Mr.. and Mrs. Britton Lewis were found
in their home at Gainesville, Fla,
Saturday.
The bark City Of Papeta, loaded with
$4,000 Goldfish. was badly damaged by
fire while lying at her dock at San
Francisco.
During dense fog the stee .rer Char.
lotte collided Saturday off West Point,
Va, with the schooner Annie n. Har.
ris, killing two sailors on the Harris.
Tuesday, September 2.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway has
6iNCh oil Vi utl III Ol HCW
w. j. Bryan was the principal
orator in the Labor Day celebration
at Lincoln, Neb., yesterday.
The 18th annual convention of the
Polish Singers Alliance of America
was held in Chicago yesterday.
A steam launch containing ten young
men capsized yesterday in the Hudson
river near Albany, N. Y, and two men
were drowned.
The customs receipts at Havana for
the month of August amounted to
$735,SS5, decrease of S133,S4O for the
same month last year.
While alone in his Office, Alver f.
Ives, manager Of an ice company at
Rivere, Masss., was fatally shot by
thieves, who ransacked the safe.
Killed For Stealing Grapes.
Rome, Sept. "A Dominican lay