Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1897-02-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.



ship at the Montreal skating meeting.
The Republican members of the ways
and means committee decided to fix
the tariff on nails at half cent a
pound.
The British Niger expedition has cap
tured Bida, capital Of the Foulah tribe.
One British officer was killed in the as
sault.
A. L. Garford of Elyria, o.. was elect
ed president of the national board of
trade of cycle manufacturers at its
meeting in New York.
IT is rumored that Andrew Carnegie
and John D. Rockefeller have formed
an offensive and defensive alliance to
control the steel market of the world.
John. T. shayne of Chicago teie-
graphed to a friend in Washington that
his brother, c. G. Shayne OF New York.
had been selected by Mr.. Mckinley for
postmaster general.
FRIDAY. Feb. 12.
King Malietoa has offered amnesty to
Matafa and the other exiled Samoan
chiefs.
Richard Croker was asked to become
Tammany's candidate for mayor of
Greater New York.
The annual meeting Of the New York
Yacht club was held. ]. Pierpont Nor
gan was elected commodore.
Two employees of the library Of con-
gress were held for trial in Washing
ton, charged with stealing valuable au-
tographs from the library.
Chauncey M. Depew was elected
chairman of the board of control of the
Joint Traffic association at a meeting
held In New York. He succeeds the
late President Roberts Of the Pennsyl-
vania road.
Saturday, Feb. 13.
Captain General weyler has given
1000 900 francs to the Spanish war fund
in Cuba.
Robert M. Moore, past grand master
of Masons in New Jersey, died at his
home in Elizabeth, aged 57
The Greater New York commission
adopted the new charter after making
several minor amendments.
A wreck occurred on the Virginia
Central and Pittsburg railroad in
which eight persons ere badly Injured.
Secretary Herbert accepted torpedo
boat No 6, waving the usual formali-
ties on account of the vessels fine per-
formance.
Howard c. Benham, a private bank
er and prominent citizen of Batavia, N.
Y, was accused by a coroner's jury OF
poisoning his wife.
Governor Blacks bill to abolish the
capitol commission and complete the
building by contract was introduced in
the New York state legislature.
Edwin B. Aller a well known music
al composer and organist of Baltimore
committed suicide at the Hotel Staf-
ford. Laudanum was the means used.
Rev. Edward Hunting Rudd, late OF
the Presbyterian church at Albion, N
Y, has been called to the assistant
pastorate of DR.. Parkhurst's church in
New York city.
Monday. Feb. 10.
Notice of a 10 per cent reduction has
been posted at the works of the Penn
sylvania Steel company at Harrisburg
to take effect March 1.
Consul Iasigi, the sultan's represent
ative in Boston, was arrested in New
York on a charge of embezzlement. He
was remanded in Jefferson Market
court.
The regents of the university issued
protest against the bill permitting
the New York Law school to confer
degrees without regard to the regents
standard.
The works of the Richard Grant
company, dealers In cooperage supplies
In Jersey City, have been almost com
pletely destroyed by fire, entaillng q
loss of $50, 900.
General Maceo's dispatch chief, Colo.
mel Carlo, says the Spanish will not
permit Miss Barton to carry on Red
Cross work among the Cubans. ever
though Minister de LONE says she may
go to Cuba.
Miss Sophonisba Breckinridge, attor.
ney at law, Kentuclky's first woman
lawyer, filed her first suit in the Fay.
ette circuit court. She represented
Mrs. e. M. Swigert, who sues her hus.
band, Charles Swigert, for absolute di-
vorce.
Tuesday. Feb. 10.
The new minister from Belgium wa
received by President Cleveland at th,
White House.
United States Senator woloott arrived
In Berlin and conferred with leading Ger
man bimetallists.
lD0 VI William hOOfntf IOT XIII
ing his betrothed, Miss Rose Redgate, las
September was begun before Judge New
burger in New York.
President Elect Mckinley was conflneC
to his bed by cold and by advice of hi
physician declined to see any visitors Hi
condition, however, is not regarded as Sc
rious.
Alfred Dolphy, a cook, 46f years old
made murderous onslaught on his wifi
and her family in New York. He shot hi
wife twice. and she may die. A crowd wa
near lynohing him on the way to the sta
ton
A large bowlder was placed on the Con
solidatsd railroad tracks near New HaveI
and securely wedged in with ties, with tn
evident purpose Of wrecking train.
was discovered and removed with Difficult
~ just before freight train arrived.
wednesday, Feb. II.
] Mrs. Polly Cloud Graves Of Lexington
KY, celebrated her one hundredth birth
day.
The battleship Texas arrived in Calves
ton after remarkably fast run from New
York.
Bishop Doane Of Albany declared tina
Mormonism prevails in New York city Il
an alarming extent.
Cecil Rhodes testified beforC the parlia
mentary commission in London that b.
did not order the Jameson raid upon tn
/ Transvaal.
Alberto Tedeschi, an Italian barber, wa
strangled after desperate struggle il
his shop, at 3 Mulberry street. New York
by men who hoped to get his savings.
Three men attempted to rob Henry Ry
lands and his brother, Thomas H., of
satchel containing $1,000 at bridgeport
Conn. Two of the highwaymen were shot
one fatally. The other escaped.
United States marshals forced the doc
Of A. Ellinger & Co. s cloak factory il