Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1901-02-08
BRIEF MENTION.

Thursday Feb. IA Is st Valentines
day
The ground hog saw his shadow
Feb if he came ont.
Several parties from here enjoyed
sleigh ride to Dingman's Wednesday
night,
Robert f. Hill was hanged at
Camden, ~ j., Tuesday for the
murder Of his wife last June.
A supposed mad dog rar amuck
in Altoona asst Monday, and before
he was killed had bitten six persons.
1t is reported that copper ore has
been found in Monroe county and
that a company has been organized
to work the mine.
The centenary of the installation
of John Marshall as Chief Justice of
the Supreme Court was observed
with fitting ceremonies Monday
The silk mill girls in and around
Scranton are on strike demanding
higher wages. The number idle
now is about twenty five hundred.
Harry Dewitt, who has been in
Philadelphia hospital for an oper-
alton on his leg is rapidly recover
ing and is expected home next week.
Mrs. Carrie Nation, when attempt
ing to wreck a saloon in Topeka,
Kansas, last Monday, was arrested
on a charge of disturbing the peace,
and led away to Jail.
A good deal of this talk about the
future of the Democratic party tends
to confirm the suspicion that the
Democratic party IS future is behind
it.-Chicago "Times- Herald" "
We infer from the current CON-
ment ON the specific for the treat
ment of the diseased Democracy
that it is going to be well shaken be-
fore taken.-Boston Herald.
A scrap occurred Saturday night
just outside the Borough limits in
which "chawin and gougin fig
ured as part of, the amusement until
one of the parties hollered "nuff ~
The bills providing for fifth
court in Philadelphia and one de-
priving District Attorneys of the
power to stand aside jurors in GRIM
inal cases have both passed the
House.
Contracts for carrying mails have
been awarded to Robert Findlay
from Milford to Port Jervis for 1890, /
to Harry Morgan from Milford to
Dingmans for S497 and to Charles
Travis from Milford to Sawkill for
$3.50.
Pierre NJ. Mills expects to assume |
proprietorship of the Crissman House
about Feb 18th. and J. r. Thornton
will at the same time open the Dim
mick House, which has been closed |
for several weeks while refitting was
in progress.
The Pennsylvania railroad now
has engines numbered as high as
1860 and will build enough this year
to bring the number up-to-date.
This will be the only road in the !
world having engine numbers cor
responding with the year dates Of |
this century.
The saloon smashing of Mrs Ma
tion, in Kansas towns, is quite geu-
erally approved by the societies of !
the w. G. T. u in the country, and
in fact the citizens of Kansas and |
officials in Topeka where her most
-ecent raids have been made do not
appear to discountenance her acts.
In setting and distributing type
compositor's hand travels on an av-
erage IL miles a day. Leaving Sun
days and holidays out of account,
this means about 3, 900 miles a year
More than half the deaths among
cOmpositors are due to lung diseases.
In the course of his lifetime an aver
age man gets through about $500
miles Of reading matter.
Porter township failed to make
nominations for this spring election.
She so unanimously Democratic the
citizens probably think they can ap-
portion the ohicesamong themselves
to their own satisfaction and save
the expense and trouble of going
through the form of an election.
Lehman failed to make Republican
nominations so the Democrats there
have an easy pace to reach the goal
of their ambitions.
Jacob Kleinhans, who occupies
the chair of Modern History in the
Maryland University at Baltimore,
Nd, is staying with his mother at
Blooming Grove, and last week Wis
tied friends in Hawley The pro-
fessor is now recovering from the
effects of an attack Of tvphoid fever