Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1895-12-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK,


Wulhbfs met Nb AltautA.
President Mayor of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad has resigned.
Seven Italian warships are TO convey
troops to the Italian forces in Africa
Hon. Albert G.. Houghton was elected
mayor Of North Adams, Muss., by an al
most unanimous vote.
The Southern Interstate Immigration
association has selected Nashville as the
next place Of meeting
At the meeting Of the New Hampshire
state grange N. J. Bachelder was re-eleot-
cd master for a third term.
Professor Antonio Carlo Napoleon Gal
lengH the Italian publlcist, died at Chep-
stow, Monmouthshire, England aged SO.
The Republican national committee has
selected the Lindel hotel in st. Louis as
It's headquarters, taking the main parlor
and ten rooms on suite.
Mrs. Latham, a washerwoman of Yon-
kers ~ Y, who recently sued Millionaire
John G. Havemeyer for $40, 600 damages
for malicious prosecution, obtained YER
dict Of $3.50.
Friday, Dec. 20.
The United States cruiser Marblehead
has arrived at Mersina, Asia Minor
At Johnsonville N Y, Hoag Faulk-
ner, prosperous merchant, committed
suicide by shooting himself.
Theodore N. Lambert was hanged at
Camden, n. j., for the murder of William
G. Kaiser in December, 1898.
Bridget Hastings, wealthy resident of
Btookline, Mass, was sent TO Jail for con.
tempt of court in refusing to pay a judg-
ment against hor.
At tho annual meeting OF the Rockland
County Agricultural society held at Ny
ack n Y, it YVES decided not to allow
gambling Of any kind at fairs.
Moses welcb, an aged farmer, who lived
with his son Charles at Wells village, Me,
was burned to death by FIRE, which also
destroyed the house and outbuldlngs.
Representative George ID. Meikleiohn
of Nebraska announces that he will not
be a candidate for re- e-eleotion to congress.
but will be candidate for the Republic.
an nomination for governor.
Charles w. Raymond, ex- president and
Edward M. Raymond, ex- -cashier of the
Middletown National bank, who were
charged with misapplying funds were
found guilty by a jury in the United
States district court in Philadelphia.
Saturday, Dec. 21.
The president has nominated Frank p.
Furlong to be postmaster at Hartford.
Charles d. Atwood, one of America g
foremost architects and designers, died in
Chicago, aged lG years
Sawyer Clark a. Co., bankers and
brokers Of Boston, have announced their
suspension on the Boston Stock Exchange.
The United States steamship Baltimore
is on its homoward bound trip from Yo-
kohama. The Olympia will remain in
| Chinese waters.
Edwin A. Hin of Connecticut has been
| appointed confidential clerk to Commits
sonor of Patents Seymour, vice John W.
| Street, resigned.
Two trains collidod on the Adirondack
railroad near Horseshoe pond, New York.
! Engineer William Brasser and f. Meyers
| fireman, were instantly killed.
! Alexander Sarti, an electroplater, con
victed of being concerned in the robbery
Ct 81 ingots Of silver in London, was sen
toncod to ? years imprisonment
Monday, Dec, 23.
The treasury gold reserve now stands
at S6S, 8il, $50.
The laeship Philadelphia has arrived
at San Francisco.
General James G. Veatch died at hil
AAs1fsfr - . moor county ~
Nine of the 12 prisoners in the county
jail at Marion, o., sawed their way ou
and escaped.
In Philadelphia Andrew Johnson anC
his four daughters were suffocated in {
fire at his home
The body Of John Leonard, aged 6
years, veteran, was found frozen in tn,
ice Of the canal feeder in Rochester.
Two persons were killed and several in
iured, two of them fatally, in head OF
collision on the Reading railroad at Phil
adelphia.
One of the three buildings of Spalding
jennings q Co. s steel works at Wes
Bergen, n. j., was destroyed by fire
Loss, 500, 600.
r. A. Ford, a oableman of the Southern
New England Telephone company a
Hartford, was killed by contact with al
electric light wire carrying z, 500 volts.
Tuesday, Dec. "a.
A bridge connecting the town of Eas
Hartford with Hartford was carried ava!
by ice,
Three persons were fatally injured il
an accident on the elevated road in Chi
oago.
by an explosion of gas at Schoenbur
gers rolling mill at Pittsburg eight mel
were burned, one of them fatally.
Attempts were made to steal the bod.
of Theodore Lambert, recently hanged 70
murder, from the cemetery at Camden
| n. j.
Five laborers were injured, one fatally
at the malleabe iron works in Dayton
o., being pinioned between the walls o
the building and car loaded with phi
iron.
David f. Hannigan, the slayer of Solo
mon Mann, who has been confined in tn
Hudson River State hospital pending al
inquiry as to his sanity, was released b.
Judge Brown.
Counsel for Maria Barberi, who wa
convicted Of murder in the first degree
has informed Governor Morton that il b
will commute the woman's sentence he
counsel will withdraw the case from tn
courts. Governor Morton has replied tina
he will not interfere in any way while tn
case is before the courts.
Wednesday. Dec. 25.
Perley Ellison and his family were muir
derod by Apaches in lower Pleasant val
ley, A. II.
John Russell Hind, IL D., f. r. S.