Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-15
NEWS OF The WEEK.


20 have engaged 10 go TO Cuba and fight
in the insurgants' cause
Grace ohuroh congregation Jersey City,
Is rent asunder over a church entertain
ment In which girls In tights took part.
The Boston athletes who took part In
the Olympic games arrived in New York
on the steamship Lain and were heartily
welcomed.
Il Is reported from Brussels that Aubrey
Beardsley, the English artist, is suffering
from a lung complaint which Is likely 20
terminate fatally.
Robert Fullerton's son made a scene At
George Gould'a office, in New York, be-
cause a letter Of Jay Gould, written In
1854 and offered for sale to George Gould,
was taken from Fullerton without pay
ment being made.
Friday, May 8.
Vice Admiral Sir Robert O'Brion Fitz
Roy, X. G. b., died In London.
It was semioffioially denied that Italy
will permanently abandon the town Of
Adigrat, Abyssinia.
II. H. Holmes, the story Of whose crimes
has been told and retold, was hanged in
Philadelphia, and with his last breath de-
MED that he ever murdered anybody.
Mr.. Cham berlain, colonial secretary, de-
olared in the house Of commons that no
communication had passed between him
and Rhodes since the latter had left Eng
land
The seventh biennial convention Of the
Ancient Order OF Hibernians closed in
Auburn. Resolutions supporting the cause
of the Cuban insurgents and asking gov
ernment aid for prisoners in English pris-
ons charged with political offenses were
adopted.
Saturday, May 0.
Spaniards report another victory over
Maceo in Pinar del Rio.
An expedition, possibly the one carried
by the Bermuda, safely landed in Cuba.
The superintendent of the jamaica m
" schools was arrested on a charge Of
excluding oolored children.
Mrs. James j. Hearne was beaten into
Inconsistencies bound and gagged In
her home In Jersey City by a robber
Fanny McGee was arrested at 466 West
Twenty sixth street, New York, charged
with sbducting a boy from Negaunee,
Mich.
A dynamite cartridge exploded in the
rear of a saloon in Stapleton, N. Y,
where 1 3 persons sat without causing So
rious injury. Buildings were shaken and
many persons shocked.
Julia Gross, a domestic in New York,
was severely burned, her apron taking
fire from gas stove She ran out into
the street, where John O'Brien saved her
life by tearing of her CLOTHES.
Frank Andrews and man who gave
his name as John Doe, but who the po-
lice say, Is lie Roy Andrews assistant
manager Of the Association For the Pre-
vention of Fraudulent Auctions, were ar.
rested In New York on the charge of con-
splraoy.
Monday, May IL.
Three lives were lost and nearly $780,
900 worth of property destroyed in a fire
in Ashland, Wis.
The death is announced in London OF
Mrs. Whistler, wife of J. N. MON. Whis-
tier, the we'll known artist.
Emperor William celebrated the TWEEN
ty-fifth anniversary of the treaty of Frank
fort by paying high tribute to Bismarck.
Two women are contesting for the right
TO be called the widow of Luis Edward
Acosta, a Spaniard, who died in New
York last week.
The steamer Laurada succeeded in start
ing from New York for Cuba with large
amount of munitions of war aboard foI
the insurgents.
James e. Bennett, schoolmaster Of
Sound Beach, Conn.,, attacked by an armed
highwayman, saved his life by soorching
on his bicycle.
Missionaries and traders on the Solomon
and other islands In the Pacific ocean were
massacred by native cannibals and the
mission stations sacked by the savages
Colonel Frank K. Hahn, vice president
and general manager of the Manhattan
Elevated railway of New York, who had
been at the sanitarium at Clifton Springs
for medical treatment for the last two
months was run over and instantly kill
ed at that place by freight train on the
New York Central railroad. 1t is believed
that he placed himself in front of thG
train with suicidal intent
Tuesday, May 12.
Governor Morton signed the act provid-
ing for the greater New York.
An order was Issued by the British ad
miralty for the dissolution of the fyin(
squadron.
A force Of Indian troops is to be sem
from Bombay for service with the SudaI
expedition.
Maude O. Williams, daughter of prom
| inent resident of Stonington, Conn, hai
been missing from her home for more thar
a month.
The Democrats Of the Fifth Massachu
setts district in convention refused to in
struct for Russell. One of the delegates
declared for Hill.
The case Of Mary Alice Fleming, charged
with the murder of her mother, Mrs. Eve
| lyn Bliss by poison, was called in genera
sessions in New York.
The indictments against ex-Police Cap
tain ]. X. Price of New York was dis
missed by Justice KeoRh on District At
torney Fellows motion.
Rachel and Mary Brewer, aged mAideI
sisters, we'll known in Methodist anC
charitable circles In New York, died with
in three hours Of each other. The las
words of each were an anxious inquiry a
to the welfare Of the other.
wednesday, May IS.
Justice Alton B. Parker of Kingston
N. Y, decided that the Albany police bill
was unconstitutional.
The British home office has refused Il
reopen the case of Mrs. Florence May
brick, the convicted muderess.
President Cleveland presided at the I'M
yelling Of the bronze equestrian statue O
General Winfield SCOTT Hancock in Wash
ington.
Mrs Edward Robbins of Brooklyn fount
two love letters in her husbands pockets
She has sued for a divorce, naming al
aged widow as correspondent.
Princess Christian of SohlssWig- Hol
stein, daughter of Queen Victoria, was
at her own request, appointed q patronss
Of the New York School Of Applied De
sign For Women.
An unidentified man, who Is thought L
be Leon Deverre OF Bridgeport COMMITTEES