Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1896-03-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


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town Of Asperen. south Holland. destroy
ing a church and 40 other buildings.
Supreme Chancellor Richie Of the
Knights OF Pythlas has issued a proclama.
tion that the supreme lodge will meet In
Cleveland on Aug. 60
Seventy-one bodies Of victims Of the
Cleophas coal mine disaster at kattowitz,
Prussihn Sllesin. have been brought TO
the surface Fifty miners are still unao-
counted for.
william Davis, colored was sentenced
to life imprisonment In Dannemora pris-
on for the murder Of George Thnkard, a
19-year-old mulatto boy, at Elizabeth
town, N. Y.
Mrs. Mary @. Cunning, whose trouble
with her husband, the Rev. Dr. Josiah II,
Cunning, was recently aired in the SUI
preme court, Brooklyn, In n suit for sepa-
ration, has won her case. She gets n bill
Of separation and S8s a month alimony.
Saturday, March 7.
The firm OF Dan Talmage's Sons Of New
York one Of the largest houses In the rice
trade, has made an assignment.
Mrs. Frank Thomas, aged So years, was
instantly killed by train while picking
coal on the Erie tracks at Jersey City.
At Watkins, st. Lawrence county, N.
Il AnNOnAO hOuGutMu was kliltu NilllR
oiling n shaft Ho was caught in the shaft
and his clothes torn from his body.
Andrew J. Lorish, county Judge OF Wy
oming county, N. Y, suffered stroke Of
paralysis on a railroad train between War
saw and Attica and Is In a critical condi-
tion.
Fire destroyed the house of g. Clubhouse,
a carpenter, at Alma, Wis. The entire
family, consisting of Mr.. and Mrs. Old
house and five children, were burned to
death
r. g. Dun g. Co, the New York COM
mercial agency, report that the failures
for the week were ESQ In the United
States, against 234 last year, and SO in
Canada, against So last year.
Governor Morton has appointed DIR. Car
los Il. Macdonald. state lunaoy commits
sioner, as special commissioner to examine
as to his sanity Carl Feigenbaum, conin-
ed under sentence Of death in Sing Sing
prison for the murder OF Juliana Hoffman
in New York city.
Monday March o.
J.H. McVicker the we'll known theatri-
cal manager, died in Chicago.
Mrs. Minnie Demojean. an actress, died
at Kansas City Of pneumonia, aged 90.
State Examiner Jones Of Missouri is in
charge of the Farmers bank of King City.
Liabilities about sos, 900.
Justice Hisoook has appointed ". Iud-
son Smith and E. b. Judson, .Tr., reoelv-
ers for the Syracuse Street Railroad oom-
pany.
The Kinderhook and Hudson railway
was sold at auction at Hudson, N. Y, for
800, 900 to a committee representing hold
ers Of the first mortgage bonds.
Freeman r. Stewart, one Of the men
who met at Ripon, Wis and formed the
Republican party in that state, Is dead,
aged "a years. He was a native Of Madi-
son county N. Y.
Tuesday, March 10.
Hon. David K. Watson was renomipated
by tho Republicans for congress in tine
Twelfth Ohio district.
George II. Burrows. for many years su-
perintendent Of the western division Of tho
| New York Central, died in Buffalo.
The president has nominated the follow
ing postmasters: Charles ID. Deshler, New
Brunswick, N. j.. Daniel Randall, Me-
chanicsville, Pa.
Warehouse No. Of the Union Ware
house company at Louisville was destroy
ed by fire, together with its contents. The
loss Is about $3.50, 900.
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| Paxton, Hulett g. Davenport, proprietors
Of the Merchants hotel at Omaha, died of
consumption, aged 80 years.
The three children Of James Beausoliel
were locked in the house, a few miles
from PenetanRuishene. Ont, while the
parents went to see a neighbor. Shortly
after, the house was seen to be In flames,
and before assistance could be given the
bodies Of the children were burned to
crisp.
Chief Justice Charles Doe of the New
! Hampshire supreme court was stricken
with paralysis while waiting for a train in
the Boston and Maine railroad station al
Rollinsford Junction, and he died before
medical aid could be summoned. He was
So years OF age and was considered one Of
the mostable jurists In the United States.
Wednesday, March II.
Miller e. Kirby, malsters of Weedsport,
N. Y, filed a general assignment TO George
W. Nellis, an attorney Of Auburn.
William Brown Smith, pioneer of Syr-
aouse, and who was prominently connect
cd with It's business life, died at his homs
in that city.
The fight over the delegates at large be-
tween the Foraker and Mckinley factions
has been amioably settled, and the Ohio
big four will be Foraker, Bushnell, Hanna
and Grosvenor.
Fidel Tritschler, aged "a years, promi-
nent baker and member Of select council
of Allentown, Pa, murdered his wife and
then fred two bullets into his own brain.
He cannot recover.
During debate in the New York a.
sembly over a point Of order Otto Kemp
ner Of New York lost his temper and
/ struck several biowa at an aaaiatant ser
geant alarms who tried to make him take
his seat.
William q. Watson, superintendent OF
the Hudson river division Of the West
Shore railroad, who was shot in his office
last Thursday by Detective Clifford In
Weehawken, died in ROoseVelt hospital,
in New York. Clifford is in jail in Jersey
City.
Thursday, March IL.
Karl Weiss, chairman Of the Austrian
Kredit Anstalt, died in Vienna.
Twenty two countries have given notios
Of their intention to take part In the ex-
hibition to be held in Paris in 1900.
Mary Thesis, an actress, made three at
tempts to kill herself while in the prison
ers' pen in Essex Market police court.
Alembert Pond, aged "a, distinguish
cd lawyer and member Of the constitu-
tional convention OF 1863, died at Saratoga.
Thomas f. Murphy was appointed su-
perintendent OF Bellevue hospital, In New
York, at a meeting Of the board Of public
charities.
A c., b. and Q. train struck the car
riags Of Willis Blackman and killed In
stantly Carlos, his youngest SON, and
Samuel Russell, a negro coachman, near
Hinsdala lila