Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-10-16
NEWS or TIE va



until It surrendered ~ he Germari army
in January, 1871, die ct Tours, ince
Daniel g. Griffin ad +. ". Fl! iriohs,
gold standard oandi' e. for COVER ior and
lieutenant governor New Yer state,
were formally notifleu oe.1Fs. g meet
ing at Cooper Union, New York city.
In New York Miss Mary Titus was told
90 leave her boarding house or pay e16
she owed for board. She left Her land
lady opened her trunk and found $40 In
cash and check for $500. Miss Titus has
disappeared.
Chairman Danforth of the New York
state Democratic committee has received
Judge Wilbur f, Porter's formal accept
anoe Of the nomination for governor, In
which he declares himself to be fully in
accord with the platforms Of the national
convention Of Chicago and the state CON
vention at Buffalo.
Friday. Oct. 8.
George W. Morrison, former treasurer
of Rensselaer, county, was indicted at Troy
for mlsappropriating public money.
Count de Susini, once worth 50, 600, 900
and known as the king of cigarette max
ers, is penniless and i'll in the French hos
pital in New York
The New York State League Of Repub-
Ilcan Clubs held its annual convention in
Syrnouse and elected State Treasurer A.
d. Colvin president
In New York little Charlie Clauer set
his one-ye -year-old sisters clothes ablaze
while playing with fire and then watched
her burn to death without giving an alarm.
DR.. Carl r. Nitz of Chicago stabbed his
wife and then sat down TO watch her die,
making CHASTITY written comments on the
FL. N..l- L H.
be arrested, he shot himself, dying in
stantly.
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, a member Of
che Astor family, who defended those 40
oused of murder from philanthropio mo-
tives announced while smarting under
adverse rulings of the supreme court in
New York that he would retire from the
criminal bar
Saturday Oct. 10.
Governor Morton dismissed the charges
made against General Austin Lathrop, su-
perintendent of prisons
The Riff pirates plundered French ship
named the Corinte, off Athuoemas, and
carried away her captain.
Advlces from Berlin are that Prince
Bismarck is suffering greatly from neural
gia and Insomnia, and no longer receives
visitors
The ozar Of Russia, after reviewing TO-
600 French troops at Chalons, said at
banquet that Russia and France are "unit-
ed by unalterable friendship
Mayor Patrick Gleason of Long Island
City, N. Y, was served with summons,
secured by the attorney general requiring
him to show cause next Friday why he
should not vaoate his office, on the ground
that he was not a citizen of the United
States when elected.
The Fuerst Bismarck, upon its arrival
in New York, reported that she had en-
oountered the American line steamship
Paris proceeding eastward under one
screw, her starboard engine being disabled
She was able to make Ia knots an hour,
and no apprehensions for her safety were
felt
Monday. Oct. 1e.
Harry St. John, son of ex- Governor st.
John of Kansas, died Saturday In Okla
homa. He was under Indictment for muir
der of his WIFE
Charles E. Leonard, the father Of LII
lian Russell, the actress, died In Detroit
Saturday from the effects of stroke of
paralysis which afflicted him Aug 95.
A polite man, who posed as a book
agent or person desiring TO rent rooms,
stole $40 from Miss f. Hector and two
watches from Mrs. Dozier In New York.
A Mexican cable dispatch from Guaya-
quill Ecuador, says that inoendiaries at
tempted to burn the parts of the oity left
standing after the great oonfagration.
Many arrests have been made.
Superintendent Skinner of the state de-
partment of public instruction, New
York. who is president Of the National
Educational association and chairman Of
the executive committee of that body, has
issued a call for the thirty-sixth annual
meeting Of the association TO be held In
Milwaukee In the first week In July, 1897.
Tuesday, Oct. IS.
The queen has sent message Of oon-
dolenoe to the widow of the archbishop of
Canterbury.
Major Mckinley addressed two delega-
tions from the Pennsylvania coal districts
who visited him at Canton, o.
County Clerk Knopf was arrested at
Chicago charged with issuing 9, 900 fraud
ulent naturalization certificates.
A party of $50 Armenian refugees, ex-
ported to this country, will be settled on
the Salvation Army farm at Ramsey, N. J.
George Jessup and Frank Thompson OF
Brooklyn, while wheeling in New Jersey,
were held up and robbed by two masked
tramps-
Nicholas Muller, Jr., former Democratic
state committeeman from Richmond
county, died of consumption at Snug Har
bor. N. Y.
Mary Hepler, 80 years old, was run
down and perhaps fatally injured by a
truck at Broadway and Houston street,
New York. Police had to rescue the
driver, John Hunt, from a mob.
Two stylishly dressed women, who said
they were Mrs Theresa Jung and daugh-
ter of Portchester, N. y, were accused by
a store detective of shoplifting In New
York They were arrested and locked up.
Wednesday, Oct. II.
Candidate William Mckinley received
two delegations, whom he addressed at hit
home in Canton, o.
The steamship Spartan, from Boston
for Philadelphia, went ashore near An.
glesea, N. j.. and is likely to be a total
loss.
A Mexican cable dispatch from Guaya
gull, Ecuador, states that the national
convention has deoreed amnesty to all po-
litioal exiles
Candidate William J. Bryan made a
tour through Minnesota, from Minneapo-
lis to Duluth, making two addresses at
the latter place.
Prince Hilkoff Russian imperial min
lister of ways and communications, is In
Chicago. the guest Of prominent railroad
and other business men.
The marriage of Miss Mary Gwendolen
Caldwell, American heiress, to the Mar
quis de Merinville of the French nobility
will occur at Dresden Oct 10.
Mrs. Josephine Wilson, overcome by do
roaetfc troubfa took Dar{a araan at tha