Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-04-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thur.aat. AprII ..

from william Snucker, VINO ~ od years old.
London sympathizers with Armenia
urged the British government TO step In
TO prevent the expulsion OF Christians
from Turkey.
Fort Guiana would blow the British
warship Cordelia out OF water, Venezuela
newspapers threaten, II she tries to sail
up the Orinoco.
Children Of f. G. Havemoyer OF New
York have given a $3.50, GOO chemical lab
oratory to Columbia university as a mem
orial of their father.
The broadway tabernacle, one Of the
most wealthy and fashionable churches in
New York, decided by a vote Of lao to
100 TO accept the resignation Of DIR. Hem
~ A. Stimsen as pastor OF that church.
The opinion is expressed by many por-
sons in Washington qualified to judge
that the Cuban belligerency resolutions
passed by congress will have the force of
law II the president does not veto them
within ten days.
Friday, April 10.
DR.. McLean's Berclair won the Tennes-
see Derby at the Memphis races.
Senator Quay announced that he would
not withdraw from the contest for the Re-
publican presidential nomination.
Captain General Weyler has commuted
the sentence Of Jose Rogue who was to
have been shot Wednesday, to imprison-
ment for life
Gardner Williams, an American charged
with having supplied arms to the uitland-
ers Of the Rand, was committed for trial
in the Transvaal
Father Strezeski Of St. Stanislaus', a
Polish Catholic church, in New York, was
accused of assault by a parlshioner, but
the complaint was dismissed.
Comptroller Eokels addressed the Mary
land bankers convention in Baltimore
A resolution declaring for the gold stand
ard was unanimously adopted.
William f. Daley barber, was locked
up in the East Thirty y-ffth street station,
in New York, charged with attempting to
kill his wife. He shot at her four times,
and three bullets took effect
Saturday, April IL.
It is reported in Ottawa that Sir Charles
Tupper, before entering the next cam
paign, will join the Roman Catholic
church. Mr.. Belley, the Conservative
member for Chicontimi, has sent letter
to his constituents to this effect.
In quarrel between negroes In Wash
| ington Bryant Mackall was stabbed and
died instantly. Thornton Derrell is under
arrest.
@. A. Combs, colored, who was born in
1884, died at his home in st. Paul at the
unusual age Of l12 years.
John Jaffrey, the dean of the customs
service, died suddenly in New York of
heart failure. Mr. Iaffrey was appointed
to the customs service by Collector Odell
in 1885,
A dynamite bomb was exploded under
a hotel at Lithonia, Ga, where nonunion
laborers were stopping. The building was
badly wrecked, but no one was fatally in
jured.
Joseph Banigan, a rubber merchant of
Providence, has made gift of $25 600 to
the new ST. Francis Xavier convent, a
Catholic institution of that city.
Charles Decamp and his 10-year- old son,
also named Charles, of Bellevue, KY,
were drowned by their skih striking a
barge in the Ohio river
Monday, April IS.
The discovery Of valuable mineral In
New Jersey was announced.
banquet was given in Venice in hon
or of the German emperor and empress.
MoKinley's managers claim to have 9l5
of the 496 delegates so far elected to the
St. Louis convention.
hAPoiiihShtS WIN n AuJo ~ NoW iOAh
agreed with Edison's theory that the rays
are Identical with sound waves.
King George of Greece entertained the
men who took part in the Olympic games
In Athens at banquet In the palace and
made most appropriate address,
The committee appointed by the New
York State Bar Association to formulate
plan for permanent tribunal for the
settlement OF international disputes com
pleted It's task.
Insurgent Leader Antonio Maoeo sent
word to General Weyler, 1t is reported
that he is 1s miles from Havana waiting
FOR him. Jose Maoeo ana Perez OuDan
senelHis, r1-,h nLI sAiu W ha'o Oe'n "ouNO'''
!" Tuesday, April IA.
The obieotions of Mavor Strong and
Mayor Wurster to the greater New York
bill were read in the senate at Albany.
Field Marshal Yamagata of the Japan
ese army arrived in New York after hav-
ing been received by the governor at Al
bany.
Ex- Governor William e. Russell OF Mas
saohusetts was orator of the day at the
jefferson anniversary celebration at Month
cello, Va. He spoke strongly in favor OF
a gold standard.
A bomb addressed to President Roose-
velt of the New York board OF police com
missioners, primed with powder and fixed
up with matches and sandpaper, was in
tercepted in the postoffioe
Secretary Carlisle was ordered by the
District Of Columbia supreme court to
show cause why he should not deliver 81,
500, 600 Of the new bonds to William
Graves and assooiates in NeW York