The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-04-16
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday, April 8.

general auditor OF the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company.
In the election for aldermen at De-
lott. Wis, organized labor swept the
city, electing every man on their ticket
An engine on the Cincinnati North
ern Railroad exploded at Van Vert, O.,
killing one man and injuring four
others.
State Treasurer Briggs. Of New Jer-
sey, has received contribution
to the conscience fund OF $l25. The
letter was dated Philadelphia ard
signed II. C. Marion.
Thursday, April 9.
The strike at Rogers Brothers silver
factory, at Wallingford, Conn, has
been declared off, the men returning
to work on the old conditions.
The armored cruiser West Virginia
will be launched at the yards of the
Newport News (Va) Shipbuilding
Company on Saturday. the 18th In.
slant
Senator Clark. OF Montana, offers
to build SO miles of street railway in
Los Angeles. Cal. and charge three.
cent fares if the city grants him the
franchise.
Professor f. s. Eggers, head of the
department of German at the Ohio
State University at Cincinnati, com
mitted suicide by shooting while de-
spondent from i'll health.
Friday, April 10.
Hilary Bell the famous dramatic
and musical critic, dropped dead ii
New York from heart failure.
Assistant Secretary of War S1r y'r
reviewed the Seventh Cavalry anl
Third Battery Artillery at Chica!Gau "a
Park.
Governor Pennypacker, Of Penn ".
vania. has signed the bill fixing the
minimum of salary of school teaCavrs
in the state at S35 per month.
The Virginia house Of delegates he-
voted to remove from the bench Judge
C. J. Campbell Of Amherst county,
who cowhided Rev. Crawford, of the
Anti-Saloon League.
Reuben Zimmerman and r. Wankc.
Of Scranton, Pa, and F, J. Leonard,
OF Philadelphia, have applied to tie
Canadian parliament for power to op-
crate telegraph and telephone lines
in Canada.
Saturday, April II.
o. r. Wharton. of New Haven, IA,
committed suicide by shooting in a
hotel at Huntingdon. He was despCn-
dent.
A jury at Woodbury., N. j., acquitted
Peter Brandt. charged with the mur.
der of his brother William during a
quarrel over the ownership OF poultry.
It is positively denied in Washing
| ton that Mayor Seth Low, of New
| York, has been considered In connec.
ton with American ambassador at
| Paris.
President Loubet, of France, may
| visit England as the guest Of King
| Edward 1t would be the first visit of
the head of France since 1855, during
the Crimean wa-. ---
Monday, April 10.
| Henry NJ. Rogers, of the Standard Oil
Company is said to be very sick man.
A sl0,000,000 iron and steel plant will
be built at Brunswick, Ga. by the Mo-
hawk Valley Steel Company
Colonel J. E. MacGowan, the veteran
| editor-in-Chief of the Chattanooga
Times, died at hospital in that city.
| Jimmy Bryant, said to be the most
notorious all-round crook in the coun-
try, has been arrested by the Memphis,
Tenn, police.
Funeral services were held over the
body Of Rear Admiral Belknap at Bos-
ton, Mass. The body was taken to
Washington, D. c.. for interment
Tuesday, April IA.
The Havana Street Railway have
begun collecting fve-cent fares in
American money.
William S. Smith, a ro:ed confol
crate general, died at HUI ..ngdon, "
Va. aged 10 years.
A hurricane at Blocton, Ala, wreck
ed a number of houses and caused
damage estimated at $4,000.
| Secretary of the Navy Moody has
returned to Washington from an ex
tended cruise in the West Indies.
While temporarily insane Franh
Hush. Of Erie, H., shot his wife tc
death on the street and then killed
himself.
| Rear Admiral Belknap, U. s. N.
who died at Pensacola, Fla, last week
was buried with military honors q