Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-12-24
AND STILL ANOTHER.

1t is now definitely settled that Auditor
General Mylin will make a fight for the
Republican nomination for governor He
has secured headquarters at the Lochiel
Hotel in this city aid several well-known
state officials will have charge of his cam
paign For the Democrats ex Governor
Pattison is being vigorously thrust into
the fight and it is altogether likely that he
will be that party's candidate. AS l said
in former letters, none of the aspirants can
secure anything like the strength that Col.
William A. Stone has already grasped, and
the early announcement of his candidacy
has indeed proven beneficial to him SEN
ator Quay has decided to have nothing to
do with the fight,an in an interview with
State Chairman Elkin 1 learned that the
stories afioat that have been credited to him
are fictitious, and that he has not ex-
pressed preference for any candidate.
IMPORTANT LAW POINTS
An important decision has been handed
down by Judge Simonton, Of Dauphin
county in which he refuses an injunction
applied for by the Consolidated gas COM
partment from chartering the Franklin
gas company. The court claims the Con
solidated does not have an exclusive fran
chise.
A great conspiracy case was disposed OF
in the Allegheny courts last week A
manufacturing concern succeeded in hay
ing several members of a coal firm who, II
is alleged, conspirod with gaugers and
weighers in the employ of the former to
gives short weight coal, convicted Now civil
proceedings for $4,000 are pending, that
being the value of the coal that the prose
cution claims it did not receive.
War has been declared on the various
trading stamp concerns doing business in
this state An act of assembly of 1895 il
authority under which the actions are
brought. The Supreme Court will be ap
pealed to, no matter what decisions are ar
rived at by the lower courts.
The pure food law is encountering oh
stacles. At Pittsburg last week Agen
Terry had bills against sixteen persons
who were prosecuted under the crimina
clause Of the act of 1897, before the grant
jury and all were ignored, costs bein,
placed ON the county. The commission
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same parties.
DEPARTMENT NOTES.
As predicted some time ago, Major Johl
W. Nesbitt, superintendent of the Stat
arsenal, has been appointed pension agen
at Pittsburg to succeed Captain Skinner
who has been elected superintendent 0
the Industrial Training School for soldiers
orphans at Scotland Major Nesbitt'
successor at the arsenal will be Lieutenan
w. r. Richardson, quartermaster OF tn
Eighth Regiment, who has been the al
senal foreman for the past three years an
" no did such effective work during th
HazletOn riot
Deputy Secretary Of Agriculture Hami
ton has sent letters to Common Plea
judges suggesting that every new highwa
be thirty-iiye feet wide and grade be hy
degrees or not less than three degrees.
Governor Hastings and Attorney GeI
eral Mccormick have arrived home after
ten days hunting expedition.
The annual meeting OF the State Boar
of Agriculture will be held here JaDuar
9th.
State Chemist Cochran is preparing
report in which be will dwell particular
on the impurities OF certain candies. Pr
ceedings will soon be instituted to supprel
the manufacture of candies that are detI
mental to the consumers health
WILL F. HESpRlcKsoN-