Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-11-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK,

OF ner reSlueuce IN New ORR, 1--we stories,
to the ground. She received fatal informal
injuries.
Two mon were killed, one fatally, and
several slightly injured in wreck ON the
Martinsburg branch of tha Pennsylvania
railroad near Altoona, Pa. The dead are
W. Il. Good Of Henrietta, fireman, and j,
Q. Woodrng Of Tyrone, brakeman.
A terrific gas explosion occurred under
the sidewalk on Fifth avenue New York
city, and five story brown stone front
building, owned and occupied by Charles
II. Contoit millionaire, was part ally
wrecked, the damage being about 81 900.
jeff Ellis, the negro who commi L an
assault on Miss Prator near bnuoen,
Tenn, was lynched by a mob of citizens,
who formed procession and escorted him
to the scene of his crime. His cars and
fingers were cut off, aud he was otherwise
Eutiated and then banged to a telegraph
pole.
Friday, Oct. 49,
Tho venerable Edwin Palmer, d. D.,
arChdeacon Of Oxford, Is dead.
The Angiesca hotel at Anglesea, n. j..
a summer resort near Cape May was do
stroyed by fire. The loss is $40, 600.
West Brothers knitting mill at New
port, N. Y, was destroyed by fire. Tho
loss is estimated at S42, 900; insurance
S3S 600.
A heavy furry of snow and hail, the
first fall OF the season, accompanied by "A
strong wind, visited Saratoga and the
Adirondack foothills.
James Dixon, one OF the mon accused
of murder in connection with the boat
mems riot i'm Tunawanda, n. Y. few
days ago committed suicide by hanging
himself in jail.
The Smith 81 Wesson company OF
! Springfield, Mass, has notified its en-
| ployces that ON Nov. it will discharge
every man in its employ and turn the
work over to contractors.
An inquest was held over the body OF
JEFF Kills, who was lyncbed in Tennessee,
while it still hung to the telegraph pole.
A verdict of death at the hands of un-
/ known parties was returned.
| saturday, oct. 10.
Muller, Sohall & Co of New York ship.
ped slOO 600 in gold to Buenos Ayrcs.
! DIR. Abbie j. Seymour, the most promi
nent professional woman in Buffalo, was
| killed by West Shore railroad train.
Prompted by unrcciprocated affections
| Miss Nellie Easley, a handsome and cul
] NhiNu gbhllE ittNef gNttA5 ulAlg NblillllANboN
suicide at Mount Washington, Ky.
The steamer Gilbert of Saginaw, Mich,
colided with and sank the steamer Amer
lea Of Buffalo in Hay lake channel, neal
Sault ste Marie No lives were lost.
r. G. Dun q Co Of New York report
that failures for the week have been 2Gj
in tho United States, against 253 last year
and 46 in Canada, against 43 last year.
III.
diary, convicted of arson I'm the first de
gree in New York, was sentenced to 4,
years Imprisonment in Sing Sing prison
At Detroit two cars on the Rapid rail
way colided One car was crowded will
members of tho Detroit Christian Endeav
or societies who had been holding rally
at Mount Clemens, and number sustain
cd serious injuries.
Monday. Oct. III.
Lillian Butler, schoolteaoher at Len
OK, Mass, committed suicide by drown
ing herself.
David Gucmbach of New York wa'
killed on the Pennsylvania railroad tracks
at Trenton.
All the mines but three along the Yougf
river in Pennsylvania are closed by 4
strike against reduction in wages.
The extensive wine vaults ard residence
of Herman Keyser at Egg Harbor, N. j.
wero destroyed by fire; loss, $50, 600
John W. Maokay, Jr., the elder of the
two sons Of John W. Maokay, was acci
dentally killed in Paris by being thrown
from his horse,
The czar Of Russia has granted pen
sion of D. 900 rubles annually to Primo,
Lobanotf- Rostovsky, minister of foreign
affairs, for services rendered the state dur
ing his recent visit to France.
The newly constructed British battle
ship Victorious, 10, 600 tons displacement
was launched in the presence OF a larg,
crowd Of spectators at Chatham. The war
ship is the third vessel of her class pro
vided for by tho naval defense act of 1S9;
to leave the stocks
Tuesday, Oct. 22.
George Winter was burned to death IL
his cottage at Sag Harbor, n. Y.
william Landes, prompted by jealousy
shot his wife fatally and killed himself a
Hagerstown, Md.
Alfred Clymer was sentenced to b.
hanged on Jan. 16 1896, for the murde
of Bridget Doyle in Burlington, n. j.,
last December.
TIE Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern
passenger train ran over and killed Johr
Terlinde of Ivorydale, o., and fatal!
mangled Emma Burke.
Destructive prairie fires have swep
parts of four counties in western Kansa
and large scope Of country in eastern
Colorado, doing great damage.
DIR. Henry Reese, c. B., d. G. L., tn
English historian, who was for man,
years editor of the Edinburgh Review
died at Christ church, London, aged 50.
A train on the Panhandle railroad RAJ
into a wagon at Miller's Station, O..
demolishing the vehicle and killing tn
four occupants. Their names were Ed
ward Cogan, Samuel COgan, ST., Samue
Cogan, Jr., and John Campbell.
wednesday, Oct. 23.
Andrew jackson, a negro, killed Ma
jor Campbell at Middlesboro, Ky.
At FL Menzuleh and in its vicinity il
Egypt there we're 30 new cases Of choler
and l2 deaths from that disease
Governor Werts appointed Charles d
Dishler Of New Brunswick lay judge o
Middlesex county, vice Matthew O'Gor
man, deceased.
Miss Frances Willard was re-electe'
president of the National Women's Chris
tian Temperance union at the annual ses
sion held in Baltimore.
George Harvey, aged As, the foreman
of the scaffold builders on the IA stOr,
Guaranty building in Buffalo, fell from
the seventh story and was instantly killed
The Rev. DIR. Asabel Clark Kendrick
aged SO, ex-acting president and emeritu
professor of the University Of Rocheste
and Que of the founders of the institu
tion, died in Rochester.
The historic old Seven Stars tavern il
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