The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-07-24
. WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday, July 10.

AT LOnuOn yesterday.
The 49th annual convention Of the
Grand Lodge OF Pennsylvania Good
Templars was held at Pittsburg.
William S. Hartley, editor of the
New York Clipper, died at Atlantic
City yesterday of Bright's disease.
1t is said Queen Wilhelmina of Hol
land is convalescing very slowly, and
there Is great anxiety concerning her
The convention Of the Glass Bottle
Blowers Association at Atlantic City
adjourned yesterday to meet In Gin
cinnati next year.
Thursday, July II.
The third annual convention of the
Pennsylvania Stenographers' Associa
ton was held at Harrisburg. Pa. yes
terday.
Andrew Carnegie has given s1,000
900 to Clark University, Worcester
Mass, on condition that a like sum be
raised elsewhere.
Sinko Hatto, wealthy New York
Japanese, has been appointed by his
government to study tea growing con
ditions in South Carolina.
The New Jersey board of pardons re-
fused a pardon to Walter McAllister
who was convicted of the murder OF
Jennie Bosschieter at Paterson.
Friday, July 1S.
Soft coal miners are so scarce In
the Altoona. Pa, district that opera
tors are advertising in the papers for
them.
In putting down a test well at Mt
Vernon, O., the Logan Natural Gas
Company struck gold in quantities as
saying S. ton.
Secretary of War Root will sail for
Europe on the oath inst, expecting to
return to the United States about the
middle of August.
The Philippines will soon be made q
military department of the United
States army, and district commanders
will report to headquarters in Manila.
Saturday, July 10.
Albert d. Carmany, of Lebanon, Pa.
has been appointed a bank examiner,
vice u. w. Rlley, resigned.
Secretary Hay left Washington yes.
terday for his summer vacation,
which he will pass at his home in
New Hampshire.
The Canadian Iron Molders' Union
in session at Toronto, Ont, defeated
a resolution to withdraw from the
American Federation of Labor.
The Lion Department Store, Okla.
homa City, o. 7. one of the largcg>
in the southwest, was damaged to the
extent of $4,000 by fire yesterday.
Charles Newhouse, of Richmond,
Va. who disappeared in December,
1901, has been located in South Africa,
where he had been fighting in the Boer
army.
Monday, July 81.
General Chaffee will sail from Ma.
Mia for the United States September
80.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the principal business blocks of Cadiz,
Trigg county, KY, yesterday.
Henry Appel and Maurice Small
were drowned yesterday while bath.
ing in Miles river, near st. Michaels,
Md.
Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw has
been summoned to Oyster Bay, /. l.,
for a conference with President Roose.
welt.
The transport Sheridan reached
San Francisco. Cal, Saturday from
Manila, with nearly 1.iOO i'll and dis.
charged soldiers.
Tuesday, July %.
Engineers yesterday began survey
ing near Cumberland, Md, for the
eastern extension of the Wabash rail.
road.
Mrs. Peter Thoernich, of Reading.
Pa, fell dead from heart disease dur.
ing a fight between dogs in her home
Sunday evening,
President Roosevelt appointed Hugh
S. Suthon as superintendent of the
United States Mint at New Orleans,
vice Boothby, resigned.
The torpedo boat destroyer Paul
Jones. built at San Francisco, Cal,
has been delivered to the government
at the Mare Island navy yard.
Ben Watts, Albert Miller and Robert
Mclaughlin were drowned in the Ohio
river near Auroro, Ind They were in
a sailboat, which was capsized by q
squall.