The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-11-05
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
Wednesday, October %.


at Honolulu from an operation for kid
ney troubles.
Fire at the Bay Shore Lumber Co.
plant at Marinett, Wis. destroyed g.
OJ0, 600 feet Of lumber valued at $780,
coo.
J. a. MarCouY and wife were chloro.
formed to death in their home at Lead,
S. d.. by burglars, who then ransack.
ed the house.
Three men were killed and five in
jured in an accident at the Canadian
Niagara Power company's plant at Nj.
agara Falls. Ont.
Two children of Albert Coleman,
near Bryan. Louisa county, Va, were
burned to death in a fire which de-
stroyed their home
Thursday, October 20.
Governor S. b. Dole, of Hawaii, has
been recommended to succeed Judge
NJ NJ. Estee, deceased, on the lla.
waiian federal bench.
General Nelson A. Miles has arrived
at Seattle, Wash, and denies that he
invested heavily in Texas oil fields
and intended to make that state his
home.
Andrew Lumpkins and Edward Far.
row, colored. were drowned in the Po-
tomac river. near Washington, by the
capsizing of boat in which they were
working -
George brewster, serving a nine
year sentence in the New Jersey State
Prison. at Trenton, committed suicide
by cutting an artery and then jumping
from a second.story window
Friday, October 30.
The sufe of the Florence Cotton
Mills at Forest City, N. c.. was blown
open by burglars and $1,000 In cash
stolen.
While playing with a rife. Flora
Porter, oged Is years, of Waldron. N.
Y. was accidentally shot and killed
by her brother. ...
William. Mitchell. aged 76 yeght no, d,
oldest npiVse o, Rv'.;.. = rIp.s. .Ls..
at Chester. Pa, dropped dead from
heart disease while at work.
Harold Johnston, of Washington, N.
j., was killed while coon hunting in
the mountains. He climbed a tree after
i coon and fell and broke his neck.
Saturday, October 81.
The submarine torpedo boat Plunger
was accepted by the government.
President Roosevelt has been elect.
ed an honorary member of the Ma
tiona Geographical Society.
In a shooting sCrapc at McKeesport.
Pa. between two Italians. Nicola Rossa
was killed. His assailant is in Jail.
By the tipping over of a derrick on
working car Of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad at Richmond, Va four
men were badly injured, two fatally.
Carl Mails, his sister Emma and
Nellie Olson We're drowned by the cap.
sizing OF boat while attempting to
cross the Wisconsin river at St. Paul,
Mimi
Monday, November 2.
Declared short In his accounts about
100000. James W. Johnson, agent of
the Whisky Trust. was arrested in st.
Paul, MINI.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Julian Potter, of New York, a nephew
Of Bishop Potter, United States con-
sui at Nassau, h. N. !.
All the furnaces of the Carnegie
Steel Company will be banked In the
district around Youngstown, O., be-
cause OF lack of orders.
Thousands of bushels of apples are
going to waste In the lower end of
York county. Pa, for lack of barrels
to ship them to the market
The silver statue Of Ada Rehan, ex.
hibited at the Chicago Worlds Fair in
1899, has been reduced to bullion at
Omaha, Neb. 1t was worth $4,000
Tuesday, November 3.
]. p. Morgan has been elected a
trustee of Columbia University, New
York.
Joseph Hirsh, aged 10 years, died at
his home at South Bend. Ind He was
born September 10, 1893, in New Jer-
sey.
The report of Treasurer Harris, of
Pennsylvania, for October shows bal
ance of s11,SS3994.91 in the general
fund.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt gave
a reception in the White House to the
sailors of the May dover. Luncheon
was served.
Admiral w. l.. Clpps, the newly
appointed chief constructor of the
navy, who succeeds Rear Admiral
Bowles, has assumed the duties of lis
new Office.
Savings Bank For CoIored People.
Richmond. Va. Nov. "a say! igs
bank for colored people, with a colnred
woman for its prauidaDt hos n, ,,,n