The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-03-12

Wednesday, March 4


lision on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad near Huntington, w. Va.
yesterday.
Arbor Days in Pennsylvania will be
observed on April and II, in accord
ance with Governor Pennypacksr's
proclamation.
Dave Johnson. one Of the best known
bookmakers in New York. says he lost
| S1.000,000 in the last few years, and
will quit the turf for good.
The Olive Stove Company's plant at
Rochester, n. Y, was completely de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000. 0se
employe was fatally burned.
Thursday, March S.
Six persons were hurt, two seriously,
! in a collision on the Manhattan Ele-
waited Railroad in New York yester-
| day.
| Fire of unknown origin yesterday
! destroyed the four-story tobacco ware
house of NJ. Abenheim & Co., at Farm
vile, Va. Loss, $4,000.
| Robert B. Armstrong, formerly pri-
! vate secretary to Secretary Shaw, yes
! terday took the oath of office as as
sistant secretary of the treasury
A spark from a miners lamp fell
into a keS CT powder at Big Mountain
colliory at Shamokin, Pa, yesterday,
causing an explosion in which two
miners were horribly burned.
In a bloody fight near Huntersville,
Ala, yesterday between the Taylor
boys and Buckleys. one person was
killed and three others seriously in
iured.
Friday, March 6.
The playing season of the American
Base Bail League will open on April
20. with Philadelphia at Boston.
A person whose identity is not re-
vealed has given Barnard College. New
York, s1,000,O0O to purchase land ad.
joining the college.
The carpenters strike at Wilkes.
! barre. Pa, was declared off yesterday.
the men returning to work today They
| received an increase in wages and an
eight-hour day.
Owing A. the refusal OF the cngi.
noors 80 abide by an agreement with
the manufacturers, % hat factories in
DanbUry. Bethel and New Milford,
Conn. closed Yesterday.
Saturday, March 7.
Fire on the water front of Fair
Haven, WASH, yesterday, destroy
$l50.Uo0 worth OF property.
While blasting coal yesterday in a
collicry near Wilkesbarre, Pa, vii.
liam }. Nolan was instantly killed
The planning mill of Billmyer &
Small, at York. Pa, was damaged by
fire yesterday to the extent of $l5, 1000
Secretary of State Hay and wife
have gone to Thomasville, Ga. to visit
their daughter, Mrs. Payne Whitney
and infant daughter.
Captain Wilias \. Winder, one of
the most prominent government Off.
cials in the west. died at Omaha, Neb.,
yesterday. He was a brother-in-law
of Admiral Dewey,
Monday, March 0.
The cruiser Chattanooga was launch.
ed Saturday afternoon at Elizabeth,
NJ. J.
Saturday was the hottest March day
in Atlanta, Ca, since 1873. The TEN.
perature was 72.
General William Booth, founder of
the Salvation Army, sailed from New
York for London Saturday.
A strike in the Illinois soft coal
fields has been averted by the Miners
Union and the operators signing q
wage agreement for one year.
Edwin l.. Breinig, farmer, of
Egypt, Lehigh county, Pa, scratched
his hand with pin recently, and yes.
terday died in great agony from blood
poisoning
Tuesday, March 10.
The general officers of the w. C. T.
U. have selected Cincinnati as this
years convention city.
The .Iorth Carolina general assembly
has appropriated $4,000 for an ex-
hibit at the st. Louis Exposition.
Emperor William. of Germany, yes
terday received President Francis OF
the st. Louis Exposition, in audience
Joseph |. Williams, who served four
years as mayor of Cape May, N. j.,
died at his home there yesterday, aged
rs years.
The post office at Elizabeth, Tenn,
was entered by burglars early yester-
day morning and $500 in cash and
stamps were stolen.
William Smith, of Manchester, Conn.
slashed his wife three times with a ra-
zor and then took a dose of laudanum
The woman may recover.