The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1903-02-12
. wErn'o NEWS CONDENSED.
Wednesday, February q.

Wednesday, February a.
The international cOnre ton Of the
Epworth League will be he'd at De-
troit Mich, July 1919.
Fire destroyed six blocks In the bus-
mess section Of Middlebury, Vt. yes
terlay. Loss estimated at $15O.Ooe.
A bill providing for the abolishment
Of capital punishment was introduced
In the New York legislature yester.
day.
by an explosion Of nitro-glycsrine
at Marietta. O.. yesterday Mrs. John
Newell was killed and her two sons
seriously injured.
now battleship Maine. now lying at
League Island Navy Yard, Philadel-
phia, fell down an open hatchway ani
broke his neck.
Thursday, February 8.
About 100 men were caught yester-
day by the New York police in raid
nd i--..l --7enbling house In West s1st
street.
General Miles yesterday was the
guest Of Colonel Cody in London,
where the Wild West Show is being
given.
Senator Lodge yesterday introduced
a bill authorizing the erection in Wash
ington of monument to John Paul
Jones, at a cost of $4,000.
The Pennsylvania legislature yester-
day passed a resolution for the appoint
ment of a commission Of 80 to repre-
sent Pennsylvania at the st. Louis
Fair ana appropriating $780, 900 for tho
erection of a building.
Friday, February 6.
Former United States Senator Henry
L. Dawes died yesterday at Pittsfeld,
Mass.
The French cruiser Tage, Admiral
Rivot, has arrived at New Orleans and
will remain l5 days.
Twelve houses at Norristown, Pa,
were unroofed by the violent wind
storm Of Wednesday night. No one
was injured.
The annual convention Of the Repub-
lican State Editorial Associations In
the United States will be held at Wash
ington February rs and o.
A resolution was introduced in the
U. S. senate yesterday to appoint Sen
ator Quay a member Of the board of
managers of the National Soldiers
Home to fill vacancy.
Saturday, February 7,
Secretary Moody yesterday accepted
Captain r. P. Hobson's resignation
from the navy.
Hardie Henderson. formerly a we'll
known base ball player, was struck
and killed by trolley car at Philadel
phia yesterday.
Burglars dynamited the safe in the
postofiice at Mainville, Columbia
county, Pa. yesterday morning. They
secured about $50.
The Philadelphia and Reading Rail
way Company yesterday declared 0
semi-annual dividend Of 2 per cent. or
the first preferred stock.
President Woodrow Wilson, oi
Princeton University, was the guest
Of honor last night at the 18th annua
banquet of the Princeton Alumni AS
sociation Of Maryland at Baltimore.
Monday, February 9.
The funeral Of the late Congressman
]. M. Moody was held Saturday a
Asheville, N. C.
William Jennings Bryan will lecture
in Carlisle, Pa, for the benefit of tn.
Y. M. C. A., on February %.
The Kansas has instructed its sen
ators in congress to vote for the Cubal
reciprocity treaty and the Panam;
Canal bill.
Sparks from his pipe fell into {
powder keg and John Gallow wa.
blown to shreds in q quarry at Heller
town, Pa.
A mob took Lee Hall, colored, from
the Jail at Wrightsville, Ca, Saturda,
and lynched him, for the murder O
Sheriff Crawford.
Tuesday, February 10.
COLONEL Charles B. Davis, OF the Fifti