Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-02-02
BRIEF MENTION.
To-day is Caudlemas.

Chris. Leidel, Of Di'gman Tsp,
has been c1n6ued to his room this
week under the cure of a physician.
Mes. Thomas Nichols is not ia the
enjoyment of good health and has
been for some days compelled to
keep her room.
The National Bank of Port Jervis
it is said win resume business March
5th The stockholders will elect
officers March 1st.
Miss Emily Cornelius remains in a
practically unchanged condition and
but Slight hopes are entertained for
naterial Improvement. :
Manda G. " wife, of Elkanah
Custard, of Easton Pa. died at Phila
where she was visiting her son, Jan
18th Her age was 81 years.
Remember the illustrated lecture
by Rev. G B Carpenter on trip
to Greenland, next Thursday even
ing Feb. 8, at s D. m. at Browns
Hall.
Unclaimed letters for week ena-
ing Feb Sd in Milford office are
Ladies. Miss Eff Rudy; Gentlemen.
Geo. Cress, claimants will say al
vertised and give date of list
Charles Nobs, who spends hi4
summers IN his handsome residence
in Dlngman township, and the win
ter in East Orange N. j. has beru
for sometime quite i'll at the latter
place.
A new inmate came to the iail last
week but it is charged with nothing
more than being tiny infant AMI
will board with the Shoriffs family
probably for number of years if il
lives.
Oscar NJ Brink fell from scaf
fold at the BlD6 House, where h.
was worl5i& last Saturday and
bruised hHshoulder and wrenchc1
his anklg|which injuries have kept
him c26fined this week.
Judge Thomas NJ Clayton Of Dsl-
aware County died Tuesday aged
shout "a years, and the Same dav
Frederick W Gunster additional
law Judge of Lackawanna county
died at'Scranton aged about fifty
five years.
Mary Gown, of Wilmington, Del
testified at the herring last week
that James Pierce confessed to her
that he and his brother were the
murdersrs of Geo. B. Eyre and that
the motive was to procure money
for the proper observance of Christ
mas.
William Goebel Senator in Ken
tuclSy and contestant for the Gov
ernorship, was shot Tuesday at
Frankfort while walking across the
Capitol grounds TO the Senate Cham
her The bullet passed through his
right lung and the wound is prob
ably fatal.
Mrs. Frances j Rellam, of Port
Jervis, and Thomas Simons, Of
Greene Tsp, were married at Port
Jervis Friday Jan 26th by Rev. Nc
Kensie of the Reformed church
The bride is a sister of the Hon. g
M. Beebe former Judge of the
Court of Claims
p c. Rutan will open his bicycle
shop in Milford this spring as usual
and will have a number of new
wheels, besides all kinds of sun
dries. He will be here in person to
attend to repairs, and serve the pub
lie in the same courteous and salts
factory manner as formerly.
The taking of Spicn Kop by the
British, under General Warren, was
last week announced as a great vic
tory, but the next day they aban-
doned the hill as being untenable.
and as not being, as was stated, the
key to the situation at Ladysmith
In fact it seems the English had on
ly been caught in another Boer trap
A runaway freight train in which
was car loaded with dynamite
which exploded caused the death OF
six men badly injured six more, de.
molished ten engines and sixty cars,
shattered a round house, destroyed
three houses and damaged hundreds
of others and ruined tons of mer-
chandise, and entailed a loss of a
million Of dollars at Ashley, Thurs.
night Jan 20.
The New York Journal claims ex.
elusive credit for the exclusion Of
Roberts from the House. The Salt
Lake Tribune deserves the honor
of having aroused public sentiment
against him and of being a consis
tent and vigorous foe to polygams
long before Utah became a state
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