Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-04-10
NEWS or THE WEEK.


uated between Milford and Elenor, O..
exploded, killing W. r. Fitzwater and
Earnest Martin, employees.
Ten persons were burned to death in
fire which broke out at 36 Union street,
Brooklyn. There were IL persons In the
house at the time. They were Italians.
The ninety seventh annual New York
conference of the Methodist Episcopal
church opened with an all day session IN
the auditorium Of the Union Methodist
church In New York city.
Senator W. E Chandler, in a letter TO
Senator Lodge says that the Mckinley
men tricked him into cuwardly surren-
der to their plan for n joint Endorsement
OF presidential candidates at the Concord
convention. He claims that the delegates
are for Reed.
Friday. April 3.
The resignation of First Lieutenant
Lawrence ID. Tyson, Ninth infantry, has
been accepted, to take effect April 15
Professor J. B. Cummings, for 80 years
an instructor in the department of science
OF Westminster college, New Wilmington,
Pa, is dead. He was 90 years old
The following have been appointed ca
diets at the United States Military aoade-
my; Joseph g. Kay of New Brunswick,
N j. Robert Roth OF Ashland, Pa. James
W. Furness Of Philadelphia.
Governor Morton sent to the New York
state senate the nomination of Henry S.
Holden of Syracuse to be fish, game and
forest commissioner, vice Henry H. Ly-
man, the recently appointed excise com
missioner.
Otto Kempner, accompanied by Judge
Albert Hessberg, appeared before District
Attorney Burlingame in Albany. and ask
ed that he cite Speaker Fish and Repub-
lican Leader O'Grady to appear before tho
grand jury and answer the charge of vio-
lating the penal code in intimidating and
restraining the freedom of the legislature
during the passage Of the Raines liquor
tax bill.
Saturday, April 4.
Secretary Herbert has gone on weeks
visit of inspection to the North Atlantic
squadron at Hampton Roads.
Charles b. Rouss of New York asked
Nicola Tesla to pass 100, 600 volts through
his head in the hope that IL will cure bis
blindness.
Cuba's sugar crop dropped from 1, ,O0O,.
900 tons to 10000 or less The tobacco
crop is greatly diminished, and the other
products are practically unobtainable.
Six of the crew of the British steamship
Oxus. at anchor in New York, attacked
the officers and six of their comrades and
fought for 20 minutes before being over
powered.
The raid on the Cooper Union hotel in
New York resulted in the arrest of man
and his daughter and several other re.
spectacle persons. The police warrant did
not authorize the arrest of guests of the
house.
Assemblyman Andrews of New York
has introduced bill providing for refer.
endum Of the proposed Greater New York
charter to a vote of the people. The bill
is believed to be the index of desperate
attempt to defeat the project
Monday, April 9.
Ernest Ange Duez, the painter, died in
Paris.
The opening games Of the seven hun.
dred and seventy sixth Olympiad begin
in Athens, Greece. 4
By the burning of the training stables
at the Buffalo Driving park 20 valuable
horses were burned to death.
The Sunday closing provisions of the
new Raines liquor law were enforced
throughout the state of New York.
A serious disturbance was created in
Barcelona theater by cries OF "Long live
free Cuba" Two arrests were made.
Congressman Henry Clay Miner and
Actress Aunie O'Neill were married in
Brooklyn and went south on their wed.
ding tour.
Cardinal Gibbons issued an appeal,
signed by himself and Cardinals Logue OF
Ireland and Vaughan of England, for a
permanent arbitration tribunal
Tuesday. April !.
The first Republican mayor of Harris
burg in nine years was inaugurated.
&C. L. Magee gave s100, 900 to the oity
Of Pittsburg for a geological garden.
1t is denied that the Rev. Mr. Knapp,
an American missionary, has been ex-
PEELED from Bitlis.
The Albany police bill was recalled
from the governor by the New York state
legislature to be amended.
The Rev. DR.. Lanahan of Baltimore Is
sued book reviving charges of fraud in
the Methodist Book Concern.
Chairman Hinkley of the New York
Democratic state committee said the DEM
ocratic state convention will probably be
held on June 2S in Saratoga.
The Holland society of New York de-
cided TO erect a statue of William the ST.
lent, the location to be chosen later.
The New York Methodist Episcopal oon-
ference unanimously adopted resolutions
asking that congress pass the nonsectarian
Indian educational appropriation bill
The board of aldermen of Mount Yer
non, N. Y, have found City Clerk PeasS
guilty Of misappropriating city funds to
the amount Of more than $4,000. He has
been removed and his successor appointed.
Wednesday, April 8.
Ex-President Harrison and his bride ar
rived in Indianapolis.
Edna Whitmore. 22 years old, Of New.
ark, N. j.. killed herself by taking carbol-
10 acid because her mother drank to ex-
cess.
Commissioner Booth Tucker and his
wife we're welcomed" at an enthusiastic
meeting in Carnegie Music hall. in New
York.
Mamie and Johnny Timothy, juvenile
thieves of Jersey City, were found to have
committed upward of a score Of highway
robberies and burglaries.
The Page Pavey compromise school bill
removing trustees In New York city from
office has passed the assembly and now
goes to Governor Morton,
1t is stated that Secretary olney has
asked Lieutenant General Schoheld, re-
tired, to give him information as TO the
military situation in Cuba.
Fire, supposed to have been Of incendi-
airy origin, destroyed 16 stores in Yonkers,
n. T., and drove the tenants of upper sto-
ries into the snow in their nightclothes.
President Vreeland of the Metropolitan
Traction company of New York wrote to
President Mahon Of the Amalgamated As
ISOLATION of Street Railway Employees,