Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-05-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


Huiltys
The American schooner Competitor
with a party Of Cuban filibusters and
arms and ammunition on board, was cap
tured by a Spanish guDboat of the coast
Of Cuba.
The commissioner Of immigration Of
New York received a letter from an accom-
plished Vienna beauty requesting him to
find suitable husband for her in this
country.
A rich vein of silver has been encounter
ed by New York and Pennsylvania pros.
pectors at South Canaan, Wayne county,
Pa. How extensive the lead is cannot
yet be nscertained.
The second trial Of Dr. J. C. Moore for
the alleged overissue of stock of the Man
chester Union (newspaper) company
while an officer of the company was be-
gun at Nashua, N. H.
Friday, May 1.
The New York state legislature ad-
journed.
The National Society of the Sons Of the
American Revolution met at Richmond.
Prompt measures were taken in Colora-
do cities for the relief of the homeless peo-
pie of Cripple Creek
Theresa KeDsington. who Is probably
driftwood in New York, is declared to be
heiress to 81, 600, 600.
William Herbert Coulson was instantly
killed by the explosion Of a gas cylinder
at his home in Jersey City.
Premier Meline of France made state.
ment of his policy, which met with the
approval of the French chamber of depu-
ties.
Two boys in the House Of Refuge, Ran
dall's island, New York, defled the keep
ers and were subdued by policemen, who
fired over their heads.
Louis c. Bloch, arrested at the Marl-
borough hotel in New York because some
articles taken from Senator Darbys room
were found in one recently vacated by
him, was honorably discharged.
Saturday, May 2.
Commissioner Roosevelt was re elected
president Of the New York police board. :.
Felix Quinonez alleged to be one of the
principal leaders of the Nicaraguan rebel
lion, has been captured and is now in
prison.
siglsmund de Kapi, a Hungarian Wis
count, pleaded guilty to forgery in general
sessions In New York and was sent to the
penitentiary.
identified as his wife the insane woman
found in Newark, N. j., who called her
self Elmina Durand.
A dispatch from Havana says It is prob
able that the fllihusters captured on board
the American schooner Competitor will be
convicted and shot.
Jennie Powell, a child, was burned to
death in Centerville Station, Sullivan
county, N. Y, and her mother was fatally
burned while trying to extinguish the
flames.
Judge Truax of the supreme court in
New York continued the injunction for
bidding the Lloyds Insurance companies
transacting business pending the issue Of
the attorney generals suit to forfeit their
charters.
Monday, May 4.
A general strike of the employees of the
Adams Express company Is threatened.
John Gallagher and John Summers OF
New York were drowned near BLACKWELL g
island.
Edwin f. Ubl, United States embassa.
dor TO Germany, was officially received by
the kaiser in Berlin.
Germany will shortly exchange repre-.
sentatives with the Transvaal without
consulting England.
Patrick johnson was suffocated to
death in a fire which occurred early at 349
East Thirty first street, New York.
A dispatch from Milan says that the
grand international race for 90, 900 lire
was won by Signor Rossi's Demone.
Ex- x-President Banigan of the United
States Rubber company will build a 81,
900, 900 factory in Providence and fight
the Rubber trust
Claude Falls Wright and Miss Mary X.
L. Leonard were married at theosophioal
headquarters In New York, a mysterious
mahatma presiding. The couple claim to
have been married 1000 years ago.
Tuesday, May 8.
Kate Stokes Stetson, widow of the lats
John Stetson, millionaire theatrical man.
ager, died suddenly in Boston.
New London, Conn, is preparing to
celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth an
niVersary of the foundation of the city.
Theodore Graham, managing partner OF
Young, Smyth, Field g. Co., Philadelphia,
disappeared. He had lost heavily in stocks.
De Witt Rodd, years old, was shot and
mortally wounded by his 11-year- old
brother Raymond at their home in Brook
lyn.
Captain Cbsrpeigne, a French army
officer, committed suicide in New York
because he failed to receive remittances
from France.
When Clarence Barnett, accused OF forg-
ing Southern Pacific railroad tickets, fail
ed to appear for trial in general sessions
in San Francisco, 1t was discovered that
he had been released by straw bonds
man.
Governor Morton opened the National
Electric exposition at the Grand Central
palace in New York. The pressure of q
key lighted the place. set the machinery
going and fired cannon in all parts OF the
country. Electric power transmitted from
Niagara falls operated small model Of
the falls, while a telephone brought the
roar of the waters clear across the state
to add realism TO the effect.
wednesday. May 8.
The flftieth anniversary of DR.. William
Henry Green, president of Princeton Tbeo'
logical seminary, was celebrated at Prince
ton, N. j.
The italian minister of the treasury
says that the oountry's financial condition
Is satisfactory. The deficit Of 1000, 00C
lire will be made up by increased revenue.
Bishop Potter, at the dinner of the
Church Association for the Advancement
of the Interests of Labor, in New York,
praised trades unions and the labor lead
ers of the day.
The mutllated body Of Teresa Carney,
former inmate Of the Doyers street mis-
sion, was found on the track OF the Long
Island railroad near Evergreen cemetery,
Brooklyn, where it had been run over by
a train.
A dispatch from Bulawayo says that
Earl Grey, administrators Of the British
South Africa company, in reviewing the
garrison at that place expressed the opin'
ion that the Matabele revolt has been