The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1902-03-20
AWKEK's NEWS CONDENSED.
Saestnssday, March n.

The glass works Of GIL & Co. Of
Philadelphia, was totally destroyed By
iirs last night. The less is $4,000.
J. X. Oliver, . vell-known business
man OF Roanoke. Va. committed sur
eide in New York lodging house.
Margaret d. Stark. aged rs. was
killed by . fall from . second-story
window Of her home In Philadelphia.
City council Of Toronto. Ont. passed
q resolution barring American con-
tractors from bidding for municipal
work.
II was announced at the White
House yesterday that President
Roosevelt would not visit the Charles
ton Exposition until the second week
In April.
Thursday, March Is.
Southern lime manufacturers will
petition congress to remove the tariff
ON lime to Cuba.
Joshua wilbour. United States con-
sui at Dublin, Ireland, died at Ruther-
ford, N. j., yesterday.
The senate of the New Jersey legis-
lature yesterday passed a bill permit.
ting the use Of voting machines in the
state.
Frost leaving the ground caused a
four-story brick building in Chicago
| to collapse. The structure was valued
at $50.O00.
Fire caused by an exploding lamp
destroyed the home Of Marie Rank
son, Ishpheming, Mich, burned to
death her daughter and badly burned
her three sons.
Friday, March IA.
William ]. Bryan visited the ma
| tional house of representatives yes.
terday.
Mrs. Coils P. Huntington has given
Harvard College $250,000 to complete
the endowment of the medical school.
According to the United States cen,
sus report the cotton crop Of this
country in 1899 was valued at $685..
| 75S,171.
| Railroad lines east and west of
Chicago are likely to- become involved
1 in a rate war over the summer tourist
business.
The transport Sheridan arrived at
San Francisco from Manila with 81
sick, six insane, 1,1S9 short term men
and part of the Twentieth Infantry.
Saturday, March is.
]. P. Morgan G Co. deny that they
are negotiating a loan of S12,500,000
for the Chilean government.
! Dispatches state that 40 lives were
lost in the recent tornado and storms
that swept over Louisiana.
| Champion Bicyclist John Lawson
the Terrible Swede," died in Milwau
kee, last night of pneumonia.
Fire destroyed the barn of the st
Louis Transit company, together witt
70 cars, causing loss Of s125.00O.
BY her clothing catching fire from
stove, 15-year-old Stella Jarvis, oi
Camden, N j., was frightfully
burned.
Monday, March IL.
DR.. William Warren, professor o
music at Columbia University, New
York. died yesterday.
Senior Concha, the new minister from
Colombia to the United States, pre-
sented his credentials to the presiden
today.
DIR. Won Holleben, German ambassa
dor, gave theatre party Saturda.
night. having for his guests Presiden
| and Mrs. Roosevelt.
T Beginning April /, rural free deliy
cry will be instituted in Ewing town
ship, N. J. The route is "a miles lonl
y and will serve 200 farmers.
, After living three weeks with
' broken back, William Ramsey. Of VIII
Transport, died Saturday. He was In
r jured by falling through railroad
bridge.
Tuesday, March 13.
The United States supreme cour
= will take a recess Of two weeks from
r next Monday.
7 Three Italians were drowned in tn
+ river at Spring Valley, ILL.,, by thei
5 boat capsizng.
;, For abusing his mother, Georg
5 Boles, of Martins Ferry, O., shot an
killed his father.
The United States cruiser Alban
and gunboat Nashville are at VILE
). france, France, where they will rt
main for two weeks.
Fire destroyed twelve bushes
: places in the village of Shortsvillt
: near Rochester, N. Y, yesterda!
causing loss Of $4,000.
The New Jersey court Of errors ye'
terday refused a new trial to Samue
Van Stavern, convicted in Camde
!. county of numbering his wife.