Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1898-03-04
BRIEF MENTION.


A salmon trout weigh ing nearly
thirteen pounds was recently taken
from the Lackawaxen river near
Rowlands.
L. Creter died at the home of his
father Louis Creter in Matamoras
Wednesday afternoon, of consump-
tion aged 10 years.
The opera of Priscilla was given
last evening at the Opera house in
Port Jervis and there will also be a
performance this (Friday) evening.
Scranton representative lawyers
were in Washington Wednesday TO
urge the bill providing for a central
federal judicial district in Pennsyl
vania.
Making maple sugar and 'lasses is
now in order. Gumble Bros, have
been taking orders this week for
the Greene township pure concen-
| UfaUeu sweetness.
Sheriff Martin took the stand
is his own behalf Tuesday and said
that he was struggling with the
strikers when the deputies began to
shoot without any directions from
him.
Preparatory services will be held
in the Presbyterian church this Fri
day evening, at 30 and the Sacra-
ment of the Lords Supper will be
administered Sabbath at 1O.30.
A meeting of the directors of the
Delaware Valley Lehigh and Hudson
Railroad was held at Stroudsburg
recently, and the line as surveyed
between that place and Matamoras
was adopted.
DeVoe's blizzard predicted for the
27th must have thought better of it
and concluded to let up. At all
events it did not materialize, and
the pesky thing and not the prophet
must be blamed for our disappoint-
ment.
Several Lafayette college students
have been suspended. Sophomores
for cruelty treating Freshman, and
two freshman because they would
not disclose who of them number
had issued posters against the Sopho.
mores.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad
company has resumed burning soft
coal on it's passenger engines be-
cause it is a few cents cheaper a ton
than anthracite of which it owns
several large mines. This is a step
to the rear.
In the Martin trial at Wilkesbarre
the defendants are producing evil
dence to prove that the strikers were
armed and aggressive, and terrorzing
the people, and that the shooting by
the Sheriff and his deputies was
done in self defense.
The Government will abandon the
project for relief of Klondikers as
no necessity for it now exists. The
war department has asked Congress
for authority to dispose of supplies
already purchased including the
reindeer just arrived from Norway.
The Crissman House is now light
ed with acetyline gas, plant having
been put in by the Malven Gordeu
Company of Port Jervis. This is q
grand improvement over kerosene
and will make that popular hotel a
still more attractive stopping place.
The Sheriff will sell March 10 a
large quantity of landin the lower
townships. These tracts We're Sc
lected by the late Jacob Ottenhei-
mer as being especially adapted for
a large game and fish preserve and
many of them have fine trout
streams.
The Rochester Club, of the Eas-
tern League, has signed a very
promising left-handed pitcher in
the person of Harry S. Angle, OF
Milford, Pa. We confidently expect
to see him take a position among
the top notch pitchers of the league
in his position-P. j. Gazette.
From several sections of this
district a wall goes out that Post
Office appointments are not being
made with sufficient celebrity to sat
isfy the aspirants and their. friends.
Why not assemble yourselves,
gentlemen, and not compel the Con
gresham to take all the burden Of
deciding between your conflicting
and perhaps meritorious claims?
Congressman Kirkpqtrick has re-
ceived and presented to the House
several petitions favoring legisla-
tion to prevent the admission OF
illiterate pauper and criminal classes
to the United States. Also resolu.
tions favoring the passage of the
bill to prevent ticket brokerage and
one nrotastin0 AGAINST the nassage