Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-06-29
BRIEF MENTION.

towns Of the present hostile district.
There will be preaching at the
Sawkill school house next Sunday,
July 1st at 80, the weather per-
mitting.
A marriage license has been issu-
ed to William f. Major, Of Layton,
N j.. and Laura Wilson, Of Fair
field, Illinois.
The Chinese troops have gnined n
victory over the alliel ( rces, but
many missionaries heretofore sup
posed to be killed are safe.
It's desired that the sporting pub.
lie understand that the laws will be
vigorously enforced especially those
relating to violations of the Sab
bath.
John Wanamaker, ex- Post Master
General, is reported seriously Ill at
his home in Jenkintown, but hopes
are entertained for his recovery
His nilment is chronic.
Edwin Everhart, fast youpg man
If Scranton, is IN prision charged
with an attempt to procure the mur-
of his father because he refused to
longer furnish him with money.
Joseph II. Bromley, of Philadel-
phia, has just completed a handsome
and commodious house near Silver
Lake and several loads of furniture
for itpassed through town this week
Theodore William, the son Of Fred
erick Lockwood and wife, was
haptised last Sunday in the Episco.
pal church. -Four generations were
represented, the great grandfath-
er being VIM II. Emo.
A bull belonging to Henry Tissot,
being led along Water street last
Saturday evening, badly frightened
several ladies by his antics, ard one
was somewhat in jured by a fall in
her endeavors to run away.
The New York Journal says the
Investigation Of the ice trust in New
York by the Grand Jury this week
was a farce. The foreman was a
Tammany man and would not allow
any information to be brought out.
Thirty-five people were killed i'm "A
railway wreck last Sunday on the
| Macon branch of the Southern rail
way in Georgia. The train ran in a
washout, the wreck caught fire and
the whole train except the sleeper
was burned.
A Morris county farmer who raises
sheep told only the other day, with
in earshot of the ezra, that he had
just sold his wool clip, unwashed, for
% cents pound, adding that under
the Cleveland regime he sold his wool
for II cents.-Dover On. J) Iron
Era"
Hon. David B. Hill is one of the
Democratic Vice Presidential posi-
bilities and it may be that he will be
forced on the ticket because of the
necessity for the party to carry New
York. He is probably the strongest
man that could be named from the
Empire State.
Rev. Andrew J. Meyer, pastor o
the Minisink Reformed church, o
Montague, and Miss Lucia, a daugh
ter Of the late DIR. Henry Miller, o
B Albany, n. Y, were united in mar
. rige Thursday, June %. The cere
mony took place in the Fourth Re
formed Church, of Albany.
Q The commencement exercises of tn
East Stroudsburg Normal Schco
took place this week. The addres
/. was made by Ex-Governor Hon. Rob
. ert L. Pattison. There We're sixty
Q three young lady and twent-nine mel
graduates. William w. Ramsey wa
salutatorian and Laura b. Geiser val
/ edictorian.
J, More contributions to our institu
= tion of learning have been made un
! der the present administration thai
|. any other period in the history o
b the country. Education is receiving
+ its full share of the profits of pros
I, perity, and education will contribut
literally to the sentiment for goo
government.
The Chinese minister has propose
: an armistice, and that no NOR
s American troops be sent to China
T The request was referred to tn
II President who declined to conside
the proposition. Golfers at MOI
, folk were ordered to be in conditio
for Chinese service which indicate
that the trouble may be of long dul
alton.
J. Croker, the Boss of New Yor
?, Democracy, is violently opposed
+ trusts-so he says-and is virtuousl
% indignant over the turpitude of Ca
l' roll and Van Wyck in becomin
o. tentacles of the octopus an
~ compromising Tammany. He pr
90 poses to make an example of son
one, As Mr.. Croker holds 81
es shares of Ice Trust Stock he ma
=, ! x,rooIr his ,i0bfao,,e vr,,.a fI ~ homo