The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-05-28
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
WedresdaY. May 20.

lngs and in!uring two people,
Ell Encle. an aged farm lahoror,
suicide by hanging in q
Son near Marietta, Pa. lie was mel.
anCholy.
Frank plumlcy of Vermont, has
been appointed umpire for Great Bri
tain and the Netherlands in the arbi.
tration at Caracas.
The Southport National Dauk. Of
Southport, Conn, has been closed by
national bank examiner, owing to the
cashiers defaloatiou of 100000.
Thursday, May q.
The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge OF
Odd Fellows decided to hold its next
meeting at Easton.
The S1th annual convention of the
Philadelphia conference Of the African
Methodist Episcopal church was held
at Harrisburg, Pa
Dr. Thomas G.. Morton. a distin-
guished Philadelphia surgeon, died in
Cape May, ~ j., hotel of cholera NOR
bus after an illness Of two days.
Eleven men who interfered with the
transit of United States mail during the
street car strike at New Orleans last
October have been convicted on the
charge of conspiracy.
Friday, May %.
The business portion OF Dunkirk, O..
was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss
of s15O,o0o,
Louis Ellis and Richard France
were drowned at Dublin, n. H., while
out rowing.
The 4Sd general assembly of the
Southern Presbyterian Church was
held at Lexington, Va.
Mrs. Thomas Counters and Margaret
Morris were struck by lightning and
killed at Huntsville, Ala.
The navy department has awarded
the Gas, Power and Engine Company
OF Morris Heights, \. Y, the contract
for one of the new gunboats.
The Hamburg.American liner Penn
sylvania arrived in New York with
2,72S stcerage passengers, the largest
number ever brought over by a single
vessel
Saturday, May %.
The navy department has accepted
the torpedo destroyer Dale. built by
the Trigg Company. of Richmond, Va.
The Italian government will send a
commission to South Africa TO see If
conditions there are suitable for Ital.
ian immigration.
Mrs Mary Curry, widow of the late
DR. J. l. NJ Curry, former United
States minister to Spain, died at At,
lantic City. y. J.
Captain W, Bainhridge-Hofg, U. S.
y. retired, died at Washington. He
was the author OF several standard
works on naval tactics.
A building in Brooklyn, n. Y. occu.
pied by Frank Jenner & Co, manriact-
urers OF freproof flooring, AID eight
other buildings were destroyed by ere.
'ilai's''lk lump sum rosi 7s
Brooklyn bridge was formally opened
for public use.
While cleaning an empty vvolver"
at Shenandoah, Pa, young Peter Dill
man was probably fatally shot.
T. W Eilenherger's planning mill and
thousands of feet Of lumber at North
Water cap. Pa. were destroyed by
fire. Loss 100000.
Twelye-year old Howard X. Jones
had congenital disiocation OF the hip
cured by the Lorenz method at the
Ashland. Pa. hospital
Pres.5en, Gumpers, of the Fedora.
t.s- % labor, addressed the textile
strikers al Lowell. Mass, and prom.
ised them substantial aid
tuesday May ae.
The l0Oth anniversary Of the birth
Of ralph Waldo Emerson WIS celebrat-
I'd yesterday.
burglars blew open the safe in the
pcsJUfiice at Bowie, Tex. and secured
Sl.7U0 IL stamps and cash
Two persons we're burned to deatL
and another fatally injured in 4 fire
hich destroyed boarding house al
Barre Vi
Genera john + Weston, chief com
missary OF the United States army is
seriously i'll a. John Hopkins hospital,
Baltimore Md
The $50 .OOu.Q00 estate OF IT, late B.
T. Jones. the Pittsburg stesl manu-
facturer is divided among his widow
and four children