The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-02-19
I WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday, February II.


aged Is years
Fire yester1 completely destroyed
the plant o. Jte Ontario Mailing Com
pany, at Oswego. n. Y. Loss, $3.50, 900.
One person was killed and two 9TH
ers fatally injured in boiler explo-
sion in a foundry at Milwaukee. Wis,
yesterday.
The total resources of New York
savings banks on January 1 were ST..
191,327.573. and increase during the
year Of s59.762,949.
Gennaro Rubino, the anarchist who
attempted to kill King Leopold, Of Be-.
GUM, last November, was yesterday
sentenced to life Imprisonment.
Thursday, February IL.
George Geiss was instantly killed at
Wilkesberre, Pa, yesterday by stepping
in front of an express train.
Ansgar College, at Hutchison, Mimi,
was destroyed by fire yesterday. Over
200 students lost all their belongings.
By a collision of freight trains at
Port Clinton, Pa, on the Reading
Railway, yesterday Fireman II. H.
Yohe was instantly kiled.
The state convention of Pennsylva-
MIA school superintendent convened in
Harrisburg yesterday and selected Nor
ri,town as the next place of meeting.
The Kansas senate adopted resolu-
tion asking congress to call consti-
tutional convention to amend the con-
r,;,
tors may be elected by popular vote
Friday, February 13.
! A class of AZ was graduated yester-
day at the 18th annual commencement
of the Carlisle pa Industrial School
for Indians.
The sheet metal workers of Wilkes
barre, Pa. have made a demand for
an increase of wages and an eight
, hour workday.
While answering a telephone call
Theodore Dixon. of Wilmington, Del,
received an electric shock which rem
dered him senseless.
The Utah legislature held memorial
services yesterday in honor of Presi-
members wore carnations.
The home of James Lyons. at Lin
coin, Neb., was burned and his 5-year-
old boy and baby perished in the
flames. They had been left alone in
the house.
Saturday, February IA.
The Hotel Lawrence, at Washing
ton. ID. c., was damaged by fire yes
terday to the extent Of $4,000.
One man was murdered and three
others seriously hurt in a stabbing af
fray yesterday among Italians at New
Castle, Pa.
The Howard County Bank. at Nash
! villc, Ark, suspended payment yester-
day and its officers ask that re.
ceiver be appointed.
King Edward, Of Great Britain yes.
terday received William Marconi in
ventor of wireless telegraphy, at Buck.
ingham Palace, London.
Samuel Alcorn, retired farmer,
near Wilmington, Del, committed sui.
eide yesterday by cutting his throat
with a razor. He was afflicted with
melancholia.
Monday, February 16.
Falling into tub of hot water at
Shamokin, Pa, Frank Stankawicz, 3
years old, was scalded to death
Extreme cold during the past Is
days is reported from Dawson, the
thermometer being reported as low
as 66 below zero
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Miss Root,
daughter of Secretary Root, left Wash
ington last night for New Orleans to
attend the Mardi Gras festivities.
Rev. DR.. Francis Clark is in Denver,
Colo arranging for the Y. p. S. C. T..
convention in July, hoping to have a
larger attendance than in 1895 at Bos-
ton, Mass.
Tuesday, February II.
Postmaster General Payne is confined
to his apartments by an attack Of gout.
President Palma. of Cuba, yesterday
signed the naval coaling station agree
ment.
William J. Bryan yesterday delivered
an address before the Women's Demo-
cratic Club, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
William r. Trigg, president of the
. Richmond Shipbuilding Company, died
at his home at Richmond, Va, last
night aged 54 years.
Stepping out of the way of west
bound freight Charles Haight and wife.
OF Stroudsburg, Pa, were struck by a
fast east-bound freight on the Lacka
wanna railroad and fatally injured