Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-01
-ws OF THE WEEK.

tnC8 70 make ueuonbbrdblOu IN IhVor OF
Maceo.
The United States battleship Massaohu-
setts in its run from the Delaware capes to
Cape Cod proved even faster than the bat
tlsship Indiana.
Corporation Counsel Scott Of New York
has advised the police that hotels to come
within Raines law limits, must keep open
regularly for guests.
william II. Dieffenbuch and other cred
itors Of the old New York, Lake Erie and
Western Railway company have sued to
Get aside the recent foreclosure and reor-
eanization.
Esteile BurmeIster OF Philadelphia, a
demented stenographer, who created dis
turbance by ringing William X. Wander.
bilt's doorbell, New York, was committed
TO Bellevue hospital
Friday. April "a.
United States Minister Willis arrived
at San Francisco from Honolulu.
Mayor Strong of New York sent the
compromise school bill TO Albany with bis
approval
At the Hebrew Orphan asylum in New
York a memorial bronze in honor Of the
late Jesse Seligman was unveiled.
The Bourgeois ministry of France re-
hlNueus EEo8lueub rhufo lmmeulhNely &c
eepted the surrender Of the portfolios
Louis p. Hermann and Charles Pus.
talka, wife murderers, we're killed by cleo
tricity in the state prison at Sing Sing
Edwin Booths portrait, the gift of the
New York Players club was placed in tine
memorial theater at Shakespeare's birth
place.
Testimony favorable to Superintendent
L., 10.
the Home for Children at White Plains,
M Y.
J. S. Casey, an ex- Fenian, who in 1878
was sentenced TO I've years imprisonment
for treason. died at Mitchelstown, County
Cork, Ireland.
Saturday, April 25.
Mrs. Joseph Cooking and her sister,
Miss Daisy Miller, were murdered In Hill
Top. Md.
The second anticoal trust bill has passed
the New York senate and Is now in Gov
ernor MortOn's hands.
The Venezuela boundary commission
held meeting In Washington and decided
10 send an agent to The Hague to search
the Dutch archives.
Louisiana went Democratic at the re-
cent election by "a, 600 on the face of the
EBbuEubV bub AunlOAlhlb UnhEko lEaul anu
say they will seat PharF as governor.
Booth. Tucker, commander Of the Amer
lean Salvation Army, issued a statement
urging the Darkest England" plan as a
good one to apply in the slums of New
York.
Justice Patterson of the supreme court
Of New York, appellate division all asso-
cistes ooncurring, declared the Raines
| liquor tax law constitutional. An appeal
will be taken.
Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer won a suit
against the collector Of the port Of New
York as to the duty ON some antiquities
which he imported from France, but a
penalty Of SO, 900 was imposed for under
valuation.
Monday, April FL.
The Theosophioal society of America
opened Its convention in New York, elect
ing Ernest I. HarRrove president.
Fourteen-y year-old Arthur Hagerman
shot his playmate, Stanley MoDermott, in
an empty cottage at Asubry Park.
Missionary Knapp. in good health, was
handed over by Turkey to the United
States consular agent at Alexandretta.
Mrs. Gaudefroy, who was born in
| O'BFien's castle. Ireland, and was rich
and petted In her youth, died in the New
Haven almshouse
| A conference of New York state Repub-
loan politicians decided that no measures
| supplementary to the greater New York
| bill should be passed at Albany.
Rapid fire guns, arms and ammunition
have been taken on board the Bermuda at
Jacksonville, Fla. The vessel will at
sempt to land her warlike cargo in Cuba.
Secretary Olney has made an attempt
| to bring about a settlement of the Anglo
Venezuelan boundary dispute by arbitra
tion. The administration has intimated
to Lord Salisbury that the United States
commissions report will be adverse tc
Great Britain.
Tuesday, April es.
The cruiser Newark arrived at Hampton
Roads after four years cruise.
A celebration In honor OF General
Grants birthday was held at Galena, Ills.
The New York presbytery had a lively
debate over the licensing of candidates fol
the ministry.
The burning Of Cripple Creek Is thought
70 have been the work OF gang who de-
sired 10 rob bank in the excitement
Governor Morton signed the bill abol
ishinR school trustees and investing the
board Of education with additional power
The sum of ts5, 900 was subscribed al
the theosophioal convention In New fork
city for the founding Of school OF oc
cultism.
James J. Bush, cashier of the broker
Elmira IN. ~ National bank, was in
dicted after three attsmpts and placed un
der arrest
Six suits have been begun in New Yorl
by three persons who claim they are enti
tied BY reason Of kin to part OF A. I
Stewards estate.
A dispatch from Havana says that tb'
destruction Of property In the western to
baoco districts has been enormous ane
that suffering among the people is on th'
increase.
wednesday, April go.
The New York court OF appeals granted
nsw trial to Vincenzo Nino, convicted
before Recorder Goff Of wife murder.
Lieutenant Colonel Ludlow attacked
che plans Of the Nicaragua canal promoter
and reflected upon the work of Engineel
M0nooal.
Arthur Mayhem, the negro, was con
Vieted OF murder in the first degree fo
killing Stephen Powell at Hampstead, n
T., In March last.
II waa reported that the Rev. Dr. Jane
I.oWis Parks Of Philadelphia had beeI
called to succeed Bishop Satterlee as rec
tor Of Calvary church in New York.
Governor Morton nominated DAME
O'Laary OF Glens Falls, N. Y, for stat
factory inspector, and Captain J. II
Barker Of New York for assistant factor