The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-10-29
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
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$780, 900 worth of property.
A terrific storm at Mazatlan, Mex.
killed 16 persons and injured many.
The property damage was heavy.
A call has been issued for meeting |
Of the National Afro-American Repub- |
lican League at Washington d. c., De-
cember ii and Is.
The 55 bishops OF the Protestant
Episcopal church in the United States.
Canada and the West Indies held
conference in Washington.
The Detroit (Mich) board Of COM
merce adopted a resolution favoring
Canadian reciprocity and urging
Joint high commission to negotiate
treaty.
Thursday, October %.
The Superior Wis, postoffice was
broken into and robbed of over $4,000
in stamps and cash.
The Delaware and Hudson Railroad
company has announced that it will
lay off 200 men, or 10 per cent. of the
working force.
Howard Elliott, of st. Paul, Mimi,
has been elected president of the
Northern Pacific railroad, vice C. b.
Mellen, resigned.
s. L. Morse, owner of the Indianap-
oils Und) Evening Sentinel, fell from
third floor window to the pavement
and was instantly killed.
The 11th annual conference of the
American Sunday School Union was
held in Chicago with over 600 dele
gates present, including 100 mission
aries
Friday, October %.
The widow of Rev. Charles II.
Spurgeon, the noted Methodist minis.
ter. died in London.
Hawaii is to be represented at the
st. Louis Worlds Fair by building
of typical Polynesian architecture.
The town of San Miguel, Cal, was
visited by fire that nearly destroyed
the town. The loss will exceed 1925.
600.
The Pennsylvania German Society
held it's 18th annual convention at
Lebanon, and elected DR.. ]. S. Stahs,
of Lancaster, president.
Charles S. White, one of the best
known journalists in northeastern
Pennsylvania, contested with the
Wilkesbarre Leader, died after \
weeks illness.
Saturday, October "a.
;,tD ha
Of the Deutsch Jewelry Company, at
Cleveland, o.. and stole $4,000 worth
of diamonds.
Secretary of the Navy Moody ar
rived at Hampton Roads on the Dol
phin and visited the Norfolk, Va,
navy yard for the first time.
A boat containing five Hungarian
laborers was swept over the Spring
dale dam, near Pittsburg. Pa, and four
of the occupants were drowned.
The navy department will rush work
on the cruiser Chattanooga, which was
towed to the Brooklyn navy yard from
the shipyard at Elizabethport, N. J.
Monday, October 2e.
Five Italian laborers repairing the
tracks of the Erie road at Ramapo,
n. V, were struck by an express train
and killed.
/ Cincinnati, O.. is making elaborate
arrangements for the National w. c.
. T. [. convention. which meets there
November 13 to IS.
For cmbezzling $4,000, Albert w.
Deibel, former paying teller of the
City National Bank at Canton, O.,
was given five years in prison.
Terribly cut and riddled with bull
/ let's the dead bodies of Mrs. Annie
/ Holcomb and her 17-year-old daughter
were found dead at Jasper, Ga, with
no clew to the assassins.
Tuesday October y.
The banking firm of S3ogging &
Workman, at Sheridan. Orc. was rob.
bed of $4,000. The safe vas blown
open with dynamite.
In a drunken fight at Cleveland, O.,
one man was fatally stabbed and six
others badly injured by knives and
clubs. a number of arrests were
made.
Lieutenant General Young, chief of
staff, has returned to Washington from
Fort Riley, Kan, where he inspected
the troops engaged in the war ma.
| noeuvres.
The Twentieth Century Club of Bos-
ton. has started a movement to raise
funds to relieve distress in Macedonia,
which resulted from the insurrection
They expect to raise Sl,0000OO.
GENERAL MARKETS
Philadelphia, Pa, Oct. 27. - Flour
was steady; winter superfne, S3@
320; Pennsylvania roller, clear, $3.50
! Q3.7O; city mills, fancy, $475@ $40.
Rye -four was quiet at 1926 per barrel
Wheat was firm; No. Pennsylvania
red, new, S3& @S4c. Corn was firm
No. 2 yellow, local, 54@5i1sc. Oats
were quiet No. 2 white, clipped
431ac.; lower grades, 42lac. Hay was
steady: No. ! timothy, s16@16.50 for
large bales. Beef was steady; beef
| hams. S2Om2l. Pork was firm; family