The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-10-08

Wednesday, September 50.

Wednesday. September 50.
Robert r. West, Of Kentucky, has
been appointed auditor for the govern.
ment printing once.
Commissioner Of Pensions Ware has
returned to Washington from his sum.
mer vacation. which he spent in Kan.
sas.
James Owens. q plasterer. was killed
and three other workmen seriously In
5ured by a gas explosion on the roof
Of a New York hotel.
BY the capsizing Of his boat while
fishing at westport, Mass. Henry
Steers. a prominent New York bust.
ness man. was drowned.
Thursday, October I.
John W. Lii, a prominent Texas pol
itician, dropped dead in a New York
hotel from heart failure.
One of four Aobbers was shot and
killed in Chicago by Theodore Ray, a
private watchman, whom they at.
tempted to hold up.
Fire destroyed the Norfolk and
Western hotel, Il residences and nu-
merous smaller buildings at William
son, w. Va. Loss 100000.
Governor Murphy. accompanied by
several New Jersey officials, paid a
visit to the United States Military
Academy at West Point. n. Y.
II. Melville Hanna, brother of Sena-
tor NJ. A. Hanna, has given 100000
to the Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, O.. to found a chair in an
atomy and kindred subjects.
Friday, October 2.
Over 100 Pittsburg plumbers are on
strike for 80 cents an hour and an
eighthour day.
Plans have been approved by the
navy department for large new
naval prison at Portsmouth, n. H.
While stea!n,, ride on a freight
tram at Ua!on City, Ind. one tramp
was killed, two fatally injured and
five others seriously injured.
After being reconciled to his wife,
Barney Barnes, of Augusta, Ga, fired
a bullet through her heart and then
killed himself Jealousy was the cause.
A mass of human bones, supposed
to be the person who set fire to Jacob
Schar's barn, near Elizabeth, N. j.,
were found in the ruins of the build
Ing
Saturday, October 3.
Sir Thomas Upton will sail from
New York for London next Friday.
The French jewelry exhibit for the
ST. Louis fair already amounts to $4,-
100000 and includes a $5O0OOO pearl
collar.
Major General Corbin, adjutant gen.
eral of the army, is to be assigned to
the command of the department of the
east with headquarters at Governors
Island, N. Y.
The official trial Of the battleship
Missouri will take place on the 21st
inst. Captain Cowles, President Roose-
velt's brother-in-law. will be the first
commander.
Monday, October s.
Seven Cinnamon were arrested at
Cleveland, o., on a charge of trying
! to get into this country illegally.
While on his honeymoon in Niagara
Falls, N. Y. Herman Hooker, of Chi
cago, went insane and was taken in
charge by the police.
Because she was placed in the Chill
drens Home at Terre Haute Ind, -
year-old Anna Fans committed sui
eide by drinking carbolic acid
Colonel Leonidas w. Spratt, one Of
the surviving members OF the South
Carolina secession convention, died at
Jacksonville, Fla, aged So years.
A. Parent and J. Curtis were
shocked to death at Montreal, Can, by
the boom Of derrick they were oper-
atng coming in contact with an cleo
trio wire.
Tuesday, October 6.
Fifteen persons were injured by the
derailment Of trolley car on sharp
curve at Middletown, Conn.
Three small children of George
Hoether, of Caseville, Mich, were
drowned by the capsizing of row
boat.