The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-01-29
\ WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday, January n.

/ WSouCSoayp SoUoofy
In a boiler explosion yesterday at
the Pittsburg Glass factory, at Elwood.
Ind, three men were fatally injured.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Lain. which grounded on a sand bank
near the rock of Gibraltar, was foated
yesterday.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the
Schaffer Piano Manufacturing Com
pany, at Chicago, yesterday, entailing
a loss of 100000.
A London dispatch says the report
| circulated in the United States that
an anthracite coal trust is being
| formed in Wales is incorrect.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to attend the bi-centennial
celebration of the birthday of John
Wesley to be held in New York. Feb
ruary 26.
Thursday, January %.
The internal revenue receipts for De-
cember, 1902, were S2G, G,743,S52, a de-
crease from December, 1861, of 81, ,069,-
062.
! Jacob II. Gallinger was reelected
United States senator from New
Hampshire yesterday.
| A bill passed both houses of the Kan
sas legislature yesterday providing that
a commission be appointed to investi-
| gate the coal famine.
The Good Roads convention at Al
bany. n. Y, adopted resolutions favor
ing the bill in congress appropriating
$2O,OO0,000 for good roads
The New Jersey board of pardons
commuted to life Imprisonment the
sentence of George Taylor, colored,
who was to have been hanged in Jer-
sey City tomorrow for murder.
Friday, January 20.
A bill to prohibit the kissing of the
Bible in the administering of oaths
was defeated by the Virginia legis-
lature.
The postmaster general has ordered
the establishment of free delivery pos
tai service at Cape May, n. j.,
March !.
Rev. Jean Skyles, of Gibson, Miss,
was sentenced to 10 years in the peni
tentiary yesterday for bigamy He
had seven wives.
The United Mine Workers Conven.
! t,2. IA session at indianapolis, yes
/ terday issued a letter of thanks to the
public for financial aid given them
during the anthracite coal strike
Saturday. January "a.
The house of representatives of the
Cuban congress- has appropriated $780,
600 to build capitol.
NJ. w. Savage of Minneapolis, owner
of Dan Patch. the famous PAGER, has
! insured the animal for $l12,000.
The fall of a bucket down shaft at
the Torr,rdale filter plant, near Phila-
delphia, y1s;orday fatally injured two
| wOrkmrn.
Samuel Bryan. woll-known
! fnancier {, Baltimore and Washing
ton died y ,crday of complication
Of diseasC
- Captai' rwood, of the British
steamer isle, committed suicide in
/ the cab. Ok his vessel at Savannah,
a., yesterday. ''-y1
Monday January 26.
General Miles reached Berlin Satur-
hours later.
An unusually large number of miners
are competing in the annual examina-
ton at Altoona, Pa, for positions as
foremen, etc.
John b. Scott, proprietor of the
Raleigh Hotel Atlantic City, N. j.,
Z died suddenly yesterday from a stroke
of paralysis.
A man named Shafler shot and killed
Richard Smith at Madison, Ind. yester-
day and when lodged in Jail tore his
clothing to strips and hanged himself.
Charged with the murder of his 4.
year-old adopted child Albert Jordan.
a rich farmer of Crystal Plains, Kan,
has been put in jail but mob violence
is feared
Tuesday, January 27.
Brigadier General e. M. Hayes was
retired yesterday and Col. Charles l..
Davis, Fifth Infanry, will be promoted
to the vacancy.
The 18th annual banquet of the Con-
federate Veteran Camp OF New York
was held at the Waldorf Astoria, New
York last night.
The banking house of Boughton,
Ford & Co; of Burton, O., made an as
signment yesterday. Assets, $500, 900;
liabilities, 100000
Two men were killed and one fatally
injured in freight wreck on the Will
lamsport & North Branch railroad, near
Williamsport, Pa, yesterday.
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