Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-12-21
BRIEF MENTION.


horse Monday at Port Jervis.
Oswald Ottendorfer, of New York,
Editor of the Stats Zeitung, died
last Saturday aged about "a years,
The fire departments will meet
Tuesday January ist, 1901, at the
Borough rooms to elect a chief and
two foremen.
Hon. WIN. j Bryan will start a
newspaper at Lincoln, Neb., called
"The Commoner, which will advo.
cate the principles of the Kansas
City platform.
Real estate agent Mosses Detrick
has sold the property of Kinzler,
corner of Ann and 9th streets, to
Nelson G. Palmer, of Passaic, N. J.. =,
for the sum of $4,150.
Christmas exercises will be held
In the Presbyterian church Tuesday
evening and in the M. E. church the
same night. The Episcopal church
will hold its services Monday night.
The remains of j. f. Pinchot,
which have rested in the vault of
the Milford cemetery, were remov.
ed on Tuesday and buried in lot
in the upper part of the same ceme-
terry.
James Hazen, Of Edgemere, Dela-
ware township, while skating on Sill
yer Lake last Sunday, broke through
the ice and but for timely aid render
ed by his companions would have
drowned.
In suit in Orange Co., N. Y,
brought by peach grower against
IA bee keeper for damage done his
fruit A jury has just rendered a
verdict in favor of the bees. They
can't bite a peach.
Invitations are issued by the ven
erable ex- -Prothonotary John c..
Westbrook and his estimable wife to
an cat Home' on Monday evening
Dec. 31st, in commenoration of the
fiftieth anniversary of their marri-
age.
The usual crop of drownings by
skating on thin ice is being record
ed by the papers. Three boys tins
week went through the ice near
Finesville, N. j., and worelost. Such
sport is about as fatal as thawing
out dynamite.
Last week was one of the most
disastrous to the British yet exper
fenced in the South African War
The number of casualties was near
ly 1000 besides suffering several Sc
we're repulses, and loss of many
men taken prisoners.
A military board of inquiry has
been this week investigating the
cause of death of Oscar l.. Booz, a
former West Point cadet, whose re-
cent death is alleged to have resulted
from the effects of hazing while he
was student at the Academy.
Pierre NJ. Mills has closed the con-
tract for the Crissman House, in this
Borough, and will take possession
about March 1st, 1901 He is an-en-
terprissng and active man with wide
acquaintance and will undoubtedly
make a success of his new venture.
A correspondent in the HawIey
Times says the Constitution is the
"Bullwork" of American liberties
etc. This is interesting information
and presumably should add to oul
reverence for that document, though
we don't know just how the anima
got his foot in it.
Frank Seitz and wife gave a re.
eeption to their numerous friends
last evening at "Villa Seitz, on up.
per Water street. 1t wasan elabor
ate affair, very handsomely gotter
up and largely attended by the elite
of the town. The couple expect
soon to go on tour which will en-
brace several Southern cities.
George Armstrong, who is hom'
from the Klondike for the winter
and expects to return next spring
brought home several nuggets ofgol,
from the claims he has staked HI
says the rock is good and shows $40
lars to a pan, which is considered pa,
gravel. His hopes of winning a for
tune are high and in this his friend
heartily wish he will suffer no disap
pOintment.
Port Jervis, it is said, will have
plant for the storage of congresses
air for the air brake freight cars
Pipes will be laid from a storage res
ervoir, into which the air will b
pumped by a stationary engine
/ through the yard so that trains ca
. be Immediately supplied in any par
of it thus avoiding the delay cause
by the locomotive pumping air int
the pipes of the train before it ca