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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-09-21


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Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-09-21

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cure throat and lung troubles witt
one minute cough cure.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-09-21
COD LIVER OIL

with that awful taste, is like
the proverbial rose with a
thorn-a good thing with a
draw back.
1t is prescribed for wasting
diseases, general debility,
coughs, chronic colds, con-
sumption, etc. and we are ex-
pected to make it as palatable
as possible.
Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-09-21

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California Lemons.

New York, Dec. 15.-Importers of lemons will have an analytical test made to show the relative quantity of citric acid contained in the imported fruit, as compared with the California product This is the latest develop ment in the controversy between inn porters and handlers of domestic lem ons by the Earl Fruit Company, and which showed, according to the claims of that company, that the domestic fruit contained a larger percentage of citric acid than imported lemons. I'm porters, it seems, are by no means sat isfied with the Earl test, and accord ingly will make a counter test.
 Mr. P. Saitta, large importer said he had Krone Bros, of this city, se- lect twelve lemons as a representative California production and also twelve Sicilian lemons from a representa- tive importation. These MT. Siatta said had been given to an expert chem ist to make an analysis ''in order to secure a perfectly fair and impartial test" as to the relative amount or citric acid contained in the '-0 lots.
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She Once Killed a Colored Lad.

New York, Dec. 14.-A Washington dispatch to the World says that the engagement of Miss Elizabeth Moore Flagler to Dr. w. G. McKeen of Ba- deck, Cape Breton, is announced by her mother. The marriage will take place in June. Miss Flagler is a daughter of Brigadeir General Daniel w. Flagler. at one time chief of ord nance of the army.
 In August, 1895, Miss Flagler was the victim of most unhappy occurrence. She shot a negro boy, Ernest Green, employed in one of the departments, killing him instantly. Green had been breaking the branches of pear trees in the grounds surrounding the Flag Ter residence in Washington. Miss Flagler warned the lad to desist, but he did not heed her. whereupon she fired a revolver, simply with the in- tention of frightening him away. Miss Flagler immediately surrendered her self to the chief of police and was ex- onerated by the coroner's jury. She was subsequently, indicted anS -ried the following February. She was con- victed of involuntary manslaughter and sentenced to three hours impris- onment and $500 fine. This sentence was carried out. She has since then been living in retirement at Cape Bre- ton.
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They Are Easily Upset.

'T remember once of hearing of fel- low who, coming uninjured out of a railway wreck, worked like demon to assist his less fortunate fellow passen- gers," said a railway official. "All the time he was at work, however, he held one hand to his collar, and, when it was over, one of his companions discovered that he was holding tight to his necktie, which he had been in the act of tying when the collision occurred.
 People act very queerly when they are, or think they are, In danger.
 q know young girl who had learned to swim quite well, and one day she tried to swim across a river. There were plenty of people about and the dis tance was not great, but when she was half way across someone called out: How deep Is it? She let her foot down and, of course, found she was out of her depth. Instantly she lost her nerve and sank. She came up once, tried to scream, but the water choked her, and down she went again.
 "A man, realizing that something was wrong, jumped in, clothes and all, and pulled her out. He was none too soon. for she was unconscious when he pulled her up. It was the sheer fright of knowing that she was out of her depth that caused 1t all, as otherwise there wasn't the slightest danger."-Cincin- nati Enquirer.
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French Consul Shoots Himself

San Francisco. Dec. 15.-Paul An tonic, the acting French consul at this port, who shot himself through the head at 571 Ellis street late last night, is dying at the French hospital. There was considerable mystery over the af- fair due to the presence of a woman in the room at the time. The wo- man was arrested and tonight the po- lice succeeded in clearing up the mys- tery, at the same time uncovering a skeleton in the unfortunate mans life.
 The woman was formerly the wife of a man named Poseuer, and was known on the tenderloin at Belle Poseuer, Belle Davis and several other aliases. She was violently in love with An tonic and after two years Induced him to marry her secretly. She became jealous and nagged him continually on the street. at his office and home. threatening to publish their marriage although he told her if she did so he would lose all his friends and his position. She continued to quarreI with him necessarily, although all ways ready to fawn on and caress him the next moment.
 Last night she went to his room with him after an unusually violent quarrel. There the quarrel was re- newed and when he threatened to end all with a bullet she taunted him with being fool and a coward. He took a revolver from the drawer, loaded it and placed the muZzle against his head She sprang to grab it but was too late He sent the bullet into his brain.
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Headquarters in Los Angeles.

President Mckinley has been asked by the Californians to make an or der in effect reviving the department of Arizona for the army, which was incorporated with that of Colorado, with headquarters of the new depart ment at Los Angeles. A long state ment. setting forth the advantage of creating this division of the army in Southern California has been sent to the president, and by him to the war office, where it is now being examined by those who have in charge that branch of army economics. During the visit of former Governor Markham, he has taken part in the arguments in favor of the plan, and Congressman Waters has visited the president to urge action. In addition to this pres sure, the chamber of commerce and the Merchants and Manufacturers association of Los Angeles have been asked to take part in the fight.
 The establishment of headquarters at Los Angeles now would not mean, necessarily, the stationing of any sol diers there. There are not enough men in the country to garrison the posts, and while there would be located there a general officer, the greatest ad- antage would be that it might lead to establishing camp for the recuper- ating of soldiers returning from the Philippines.
 When the army is increased so that it will be possible to regarrison posts in the southwest a headquarters at Los Angeles will be of the greatest ad- antage as a distributing point, as it would have an advantage over both San Francisco and Denver.
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Chinese Are Denied Citizenship.

Honolulu, Dec. "A treasury ruling in the matter of Chinese citizenship has created excitement and surprise among the Chinese population here. It declares that the Chinese who were naturalized citizens of Hawaii did not become American citizens by virtue of the provisions of the territorial act Section of that act declares that "all persons who were citizens of the re- public of Hawaii on August 12, 1899, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States"
 Under this section Chinese citizens of the late republic were supposed to be American, and they were allowed to vote. The question arose here when some of the supposed American cit izens wanted to leave Hawaii for the United States. Collector Stackable wrote to Washington and received the new ruling on the 20th of last month. The number of Chinese affected by the ruling is small, but they are, for the most part, wealthy merchants.
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GENERAL NEWS ITEMS
Covering Every County and Many De.
 partment Subjects
FOR INTERESTED READERS
Who Enjoy their Information in a Con. densed and Filthy Form and are too Busy to Read Long and Useless Re- ports of Space Writers.

New York, Dec. 15.-Oswald Otten- dorfer editor of the Staats Zeitung, uled at his home in this city today.
 London, Dec. 15.-Judgment for e25O was entered in the Queens Bench Court today against the Duke of Man chester for wines and cigars supplied by a city merchant. The claim was not contested.
 Of the 13.0O7 arrests made by the Paris exposition police only forty-four were Americans. Surely this is an ex- hibit deserving a gold medal since none of the other nations did as well except Denmark and Polynesia Marysville Appeal.
 New York, Dec. 14.-Cornelius L. AlVord Jr., the defaulting teller of the First National Bank, was arraigned before Judge Thomas in the criminal part of the United States Circuit Court today and pleaded not guilty. The trial was set for December 26.
 Seattle, Wash, Dec. 15.-The United States army transport Kintuck sailed for Manila this afternoon with 504 horses and 311 mules for the Philip pine service. besides 1900 tons of mis- cellaneous army supplies. She will touch at Honolulu and there give the animals rest.
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Not Tramps but Robbers.

St. Louis, Dec. 15.-Five unidentified men, garbed as tramps, who asked shelter in caboose at midnight last night, overpowered the village mar shal at Brighton, H., locked him in a cell, and then broke into a bank and two stores. They attempted to get in to the vault of Blodget Bros., in which there was a large amount of money but were unsuccessful. although the strong box was partially wrecked by several explosions of dynamite.
 Failing there, the robbers entered the general store of B. Butler, where they broke into the safe and secured $100. Soon after Buffers store was discovered on fire. A loss of several hundred dollars resulted. The rob bers escaped on a handcar.
 When the marshal was liberated he organied a posse and started after the robbers with bloodhounds.
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IN THE OIL FIELDS.

The Pacific Uuion Oil Company, which started to drill last Tuesday on it's well four miles north of this city, is said to have struck vein of oil at depth of 75 feet.
 After a temporary shut down, oc- casioned by a defective boiler, the Grown King Oil Company has begun drilling on it's well in the Piru district. The hole is about 100 feet down.
 The Ramona Oil Company operating in the Piru field is down 700 feet and was yesterday putting in the 5-S ca sing. There is considerable gas com ing out of the hole and a fair showing of oil has been encountered.
 The Puente Oil Company has a force of men putting up a new still which it received sometime ago for it's re- finery at Chico. Trouble has been ex- perienced in getting men, particularly bricklayers, for the work. There ap- pears to be no available men in the the country.
 Steam was got up in the engines of the Rincon Crude Oil Company on Saturday and the drill was started on it's downward course. The machinery worked splendidly, and the outfit is regarded by experts as one of the best ever erected in that part Of the county. For a week or more but one shift a day will be run. but after that time the fires will not be allowed to go down and the drilling will be continuous.
 According to the Oil. Paint and Drug Reporter, the first authentic discovery of crude petroleum in Arizona has been made eight miles south of Stafford in the artesian well district The oil was found by O. c. Scarborough, who was drilling for water at the depth of about 700 feet. The oil rose a consid- erable distance in the piping and was declared the pure article. Scarborough continued his drilling with enthusiasm. Passing quickly through the oilbear- ing stratum, he lost the oil in a strong flow of artesian water that spouted above the pipe He will continue drill ling in the hope of striking a stronger flow of petroleum.
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Her Boy Was Changed.

Private Edward -, wounded be- fore Johannesburg, returned home on sick leave a few days ago, and a lady interested in the family called on the mother, whose only child he Is. To the visitors dismay the woman, who had been so brave during the weary weeks of waiting, burst into tears. They've gone and took away my boy" she said at length. "Last October e went off full of is fun, pullin' Krooger's whis- kers and the like O that nonsense, and now, now of sudden, 'e's got a man good and kindlike, as e wasn't never afore; but I'm empty fer my little lad, wot the army's took and left in Afriky. Seems just the other day is father give i'm the strap fer mixin' treacle with the blackin', and now we can't neither of us find tongue fer to talk easy with 'im."-London Evening News
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Young Hero at Keswick.

Keswick, Dec. 16.-Keswick has a twelve-year- hero. He saved the lives of three children last night, and in doing so nearly lost his own. Rob ert Riley rescued from burning house Bertha Moss, aged 8; Henry Moss, aged ,, and Jesse Moss, aged 2. They are the children of w. s. Moss, a black smith.
 Young Riley is a brother of Mrs. Moss, and for some time has made his home with the Moss family. Last night MT and Mrs. Moss went to the theater, leaving the four children at home asleep. The lamp was turned down in the room where the Moss children slept. Young Riley was sleep ing in a room adjoining. A little be- fore 10 o'clock he was awakened by the light and roar of flames. He was quick to grasp the situation. He reused Bertha, the eldest, and carried her out. In the daze of her freight she insisted on going back to the burning house to get her mothers pocketbook.
 Finally he made second dash into the building and brought out Henry Moss unharmed, although the bed on which the child lay was ablaze. The third and last trip was the hardest of all. The room was full of smoke and fire, and in it unconscious lay the pet of the household, Jesse. Throwing a blanket over his head, he made a last lash and brought out young Jesse. Both were burned, and the baby may die.
 Today $100 was raised with which to buy some appropriate testimonial to give to young Riley for his heroism.
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Sweet Fish

Among the queer experiences of fish, ermen the following should have a place:
 A man was fishing for perch in one of the lakes of Maine. He stood near the dam, and was fishing below. He noticed an old barrel lying on it's side in several feet of water.
 On examination he found that it was an old molasses barrel, lying so that he could see the bung-hole.
 Out of curiosity he dropped his hook through the hole. Immediately there was a great commotion inside the barrel, and the fisherman knew he had caught something. He was so sure of this that he walked half a mile to get a saw, and then sawed a piece out of the top of the barrel, and drew forth 4 three-pound trout.
 The fish must have gone into the barrel when small, and lived there ever since.
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Jury in Jessies Morrison's Case Dis
 charged.

Eldorado, Kan, Dec. 14.-Jessie Nor risons trial for the murder of Mrs. c. Olin Castle, whose life she is charged with having taken because of her love for Castle. ended at noon today in a hung jury.
 Although the jury did not agree on a verdict. the result of their '"'ihera- tions came near being an acquittal. Almost before the case had been dis cussed by them, nine jurors voted for acquital and three for conviction, the three holding out for manslaughter in the fourth degree, the punishment for which ranged from six months in jail to two years in the penitentiary. The jurors had been out since Tuesday morning and for the last three days, realizing that they could not reach a verdict. they had waited patiently for their discharge.
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FRIGATE SINKS OFF MALAGA.
Loss of a German Training Vessel with
 Many Lives.

Madrid, Dec 16-The German train ing frigate GneiSenau has foundered off Malaga, northeast of Gibraltar. Pri- vate dispatches say that forty persons were drowned.
 The Gneisenau, which was built at Dantzic in 1879. was an iron vessel, sheathed with wood. and had dis placement of 2856 tons. She was 245 feet inches in length and 45 feet Il inches beam, having a mean draft of 19 feet inches and a coal capacity of 400 tons. Her armament consisted of fourteen 59-inch Krupp breech- loaders, two 3.4-inch quickfrers, one boat or field gun, and seven torpedo tubes. Her complement was 461, and she was used for training boys.
 Later.-The Gneisenau foundered at the entrance to the port of Malaga, where she was about to take refuge from the terrible storm prevailing.
 A large number of the cadets can be seen from the shore, clinging to the rigging. They are shouting and signaling for help. The captain and many of the cadets have been drowned.
 It is believed that forty who left in one of the ships boats, and have not been seen since. are lost. The total loss is now thought to be no less than 140. Forty of those saved are badly hurt
 The training ship had been at Ma laga since November 1, practicing with guns of large caliber. At 10 o'clock this morning a review of the cadets was in order The wind was violent, and instructions were given to stoke up as rapidly as possible. But already mountainous waves had struck the ship, snapping the anchor chains. She was driven helplessly toward the port
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tne ryplcal American child, on the other hand, it is liable to intensi fly natural or acquired eXcitability. A too Jealous teacher may make nerv- ous babe in a kindergarten still more nervous. It may be tension where there ought to be relaxation. Its excitement, fraught with charm for the child at the indictment to worry or sleeplessness. There is a reaction against the kinder garten on the score of its premature concentration of immature intelligence and its aggravation of a naturally az gravated nervous organization.
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Fight for the Inner Harbor.

While the river and harbor bill is not ready to be reported, there is fear that the bill will come out of commit tee without an appropriation for the inner harbor at San Pedro. This was stated by member of the committee, but friends of the harbor have not giv- en up hope.
 Congressman Waters had an inter view with Chairman Burton of the committee, and expressed the hope to- night that there might be compro- mise by putting the work under the continuous system and giving it about $50,000 this year.
 This was the plan by which the i'm provement of San Diego was insured. According to information tonight, while the total sum for the harbor will be $267,OOO, there will be in this bill only $5O,OOO for this years work.
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The fact that the population of Ari- Eona has increased 104.9 per cent in ten years in significant. It points to a great future, under the growing system Of Irrigation, which is turning much of the territory into a garden of Eden. Arizona produces oranges, figs, al- monds, pomegranates and other semi- tropical fruits. It has the largest fig orchard in the United States, and in every portion of the territory where Irrigation has been introduced the des- ert has been made to blossom and bear abundantly. This part of the great Southwest, says the author of "The Conquest of Arid America" bears a striking resemblance to the land of Egypt, except that the irrigation is not natural, but must be forced. With the methods now known and which are con- stantly being improved, Arizona will doubtless become one of the most fa- vored spots In the United States. in- stead of being, as she once was. the mott dangerous part of the great American desert"
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Close of the Century.

Washington, Dec. 15.-It is learned at the papel legation that coincident with the closing of the nineteenth cen tury every archbishop and bishop in the United States, as well as elsewhere is ordered by Pope Leo to pontificate publicly at a midnight service in his cathedral, provided there are no i'm pediments to interfere with the pro- gram. At Baltimore, Cardinal Gibbons will conduct the commemoration rites. and in Washington, Archbishop Mar tinelli has promised to officiate as eel ebrant of midnight mass at St. Pat rick's church.
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Two Women are Held Up.

Santa Barbara, Dec. 15.-While Mrs. E. M. Pyle and her daughter, Mrs. An na McNealy, of this city, were return ing home from a shopping trip, short ly after 30 o'clock this evening, they were stopped by highwayman near their home. up town, who demanded their money. Mrs. McNealy. in res ponse to the command, gave up 80 cents.
 Mrs. Pyle not understanding why they were stopped, asked what the trouble was. The robber commanded her to keep silent, and then abruptly took his departure, without stopping to secure the contents of Mrs. Pyle's purse which contained SIP. This is the first hcldup which has occurred in this city for a long time.
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Ar9ued With Mob.

Jackson, Miss. Dec. 15.-At West vile this afternoon a daring attempt
 was made to lynch Charles Haverson, a young white man confined in the jail under sentence Of death for mur dering a prominent merchant named Ammons several months ago. Tie mob was composed of nearly :hDu- sand persons.
 The sheriff and other citizens made earnest appeals for the life of Hav- erson, and the mob finally agreed 10 disperse on condition that if the Su- preme Court should grant a new trial and a change of venue the people would be given notice when Haverson was to be taken from the county.
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The romance of travel and the TO. nance of industry, so to speak, are cu- riously blended by the statement that the Sultan of Johore has contracted for an electrical plant to cost nearly a million dollars. The name of Johore, little state at the tip of the Malay Peninsula, has the very flavor of "the storied East" But is there anything in the Arabian Nights" more truly wonderful than the fact that such a plant will transmit the power of five thousand horses ninety-eight miles over three copper wires the size of lead pencil? It Is said that the first experi. ment in thus transmitting power was made at mill In Rhode Island which was about to be abandoned as inacceS- sible, when some one suggested stretch ing a wire from a dam five miles away. The plan succeeded. Other millmen, miners, lighting companies and munich palities adopted it. A single corpora ton engaged in the manufacture of power-transmitting machinery will build more than six million dollars worth this year. This shows record breaking" development, for the first years business of the same corporation in 1893 was only one-fftieth as large. The Sultan's great plant, which will carry the force of a cascade to the gov ernment gold-mines, ninety-eight miles away, marks development in still an- other direction. The greatest distance over which power is now regularly transmitted is about eighty-three miles from Redlands to Los Angeles, Cal, where it runs a street railway, lights the streets and performs other service. It Is true that power can be thus trans mitted to almost any distance. As the distance increases, however, so does the expense, until in the end 1t becomes cheaper to produce the same power from coal. Here Is an economic prob- lem which the progress of electrical de- velopment will probably solve. Few things are really impossible in an age that has harnessed Niagara!