Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-10-11
Pennsylvania NEWS IN BRIEF.

John Casagno, an Italian, while in
toxicated, jumped from a Delaware and
Hudson train at Scranton and was IA
tally injured.
The police have been asked to find John
Ford, who disappeared mysteriously from
Parsons on Thursday last
The IIutztown silk threading mill will
be started up this morning under a new
management, after a long idleness.
DR.. G. Z. Hill, of Scranton. is organiz-
ing a company to build a trolley road
from Scranton to Lake Ariel, distance
of % miles
The epidemic of diphtheria which has
prevailed in East Berlin for the last
month is on the decline. The public
schools. which have been closed for sew.
sral weeks, have been reopened.
John Sebas. of Plymouth was sand
bagged on Saturday night and relieved
of his pocketbook, containing s11. Two
young men named Barton and Jacquish
are accused of the crime.
The cornerstone Of a new brick ediflce
for the st. Paurs Colored Methodist EpIs-
oopal Church, on Fulton street. above
Third, Chester. was laid at o'clock on
Sunday afternoon with appropriate cere-
monies.
The 18th anniversary of the Western
Salisbury Lutheran and Reformed Church
ut Allentown was observed. A free din
Ter was served to the several thousand
isitors by the members of the church.
At the services Of the Pennsylvania
| Conference of the Mennonite Brethren, In
! Christ Ebenezer Church. Bethlehem, Rev,
! W. W. Zimmerman, of Easton, and Rev
/ E. T. Shick, of Girardville, were vested
with elders orders.
! A company recently organized in
Bloomsbury will build an electric railway
from Berwick to Nanticoke. The line will
be 20 miles in length, and will pass
through Beach Haven, Hurlooks, Hicks
Ferry and Shickshnny. connecting with
/ the Wilkesbarre road at Nanticoke.
Having been on duty continuously fol
! IS hours. Flagman John Gallagher, of the
| Buffalo and Susquehanna railroad, wheT
sent out to flag a train on the Sinnema.
honing branch. fell asleep on the tracks
! A passenger engine threw him down al
embankment. He cannot rocover.
PhiIadelphia, Oct S.-Flour steady
winter superfine. s2.15d2SO; Pennsylvania
roller, clear, S2.5Oq3.l5; city mills, extra
$2.4OG2.65. Rye flour slow, at S2.6Oa2 81
per barrel Wheat steady; No. 2 red
spot, uG1Bc. Corn strong; No. vel
low, local. 6Sc. Oats quiet No. 2 white
clipped, 421ac.; lower grades, 3764Oc
Hay in good demand; No. 1 timothy
$16G17 for large bales. Beef firm; bee
hams $19.50Q20. Pork steady; family
| $3.50 Live poultry quoted at 1112Gl2c
for hens, Sd9c. for old ROSTERS. Dressed
poultry at 1312c. for choice fowls, 7G71Rc
for old ROSTERS. Butter steady; cream
cry, 22d2Sc. Eggs firm; New York ant
Pennsylvania 21c. Potatoes firm; Jer
seys, 4UH5Oc. per basket.
Baltimore, Oct. S.-Wheat frmer; 500
and the month, ua4G1%c.; southern. b!
sample. 60GI2izc.; southern. on grade 6SI
d72lkc. Corn firm; mixed. spot and tn,
month, 59Md595sc.; southern white anC
yellow corn. 60G6Sc. Oats firm; No.
white, 391a94Oc.; No. 2 mixed. Ss1ac. Ry,
dull and easy; No. 2 nearby. Soc; No
western. SEC. Hay quiet and steady; No
! timothy, $l6d16.5O Butter firm and un
changed; fancy imitation, lSqlslkc.; fame!
creamery, 22d23c. Eggs firm and un
changed; fresh. 10000, -