Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1904-01-29
NEWS ITEMS

ana wife, a son.
BY an explosion in the Harwick
mine near Pittsbure 1856 miners lost
their lives.
Snow fell Tuesday TO the depth Of
about six inches, and Wednesday
the wind amused itself piling it into
drifts.
Some New York papers are giving
the Eric traits" because of its
suburban service, which Is claimed
to be rather unsatisfactory.
Last Sunday the weather was
intensly cold out in the North West.
In places the Thermometer registered
Ss below zero. Billiards also pre-
vailed.
The Milford Choral society will
have its flrst public rehearsal Tues
day evening, Feb, 2nd, at Browns
Hall General admission % cents,
reserved seats fifty cents.
Reports from several counties in
the state say that many quail are
being found frozen to death by the
severe cold. In some places steps
are proposed to restock by propsgat-
ing western birds.
The will OF Charles Higgins, late
of Lackawaxen, deceased, was
recently admitted to probate. He
gives $500 each to his wife, Elmer.
and daughter Mary, and 800 year
to his son Charles.
The ooroner's jury at Chicago in
the case Of the Iroquois theatre
disaster has placed the responsibility
on Mayor Harrison and charges
wilful neglect on the part of the
Department of Building Inspection.
Hon. Homer Greene of Honesdale,
who has been mentioned as a prob.
able aspirant for congressional
honors, is out with letter in which
he disclsims the intention of being
a candidate in the fourteenth dis
trict.
A resolution has been introduced
in the United States Senate to
authorize the committee on privi-
leges and elections to conduct an
investigation into the protest against
Senator Reed Smoot retaining his
seat.
In one township in Wayne county
the school directors by comparing
the list of children made by the as.
SCISSOR with the school report books
found that 23O pupils were left off
the assessors registry. That town.
ship needs one new official at least.
The Hatches Society of the Pres
byterian church met Tuesday even-
ing to decide as to holding the
annual supper Washington's birth
day. II was agreed to consult the
Ladies Aid Society as to the advisa-
bility of uniting with that organiza-
ton in thus commemorating the
day.
Daniel f. Winfield, one of the
Oldest engineers on the Erie, died at
MiddletoWn last Saturday. He was
born in this place about seventy-six
years ago and was a son of Henry
and Deborah Winfield. He was a
brother to the late Charles Winfield,
formerly a prominent lawyer and at
one time district attorney of Jersey
City.
The snow fall in this state Tuesday
ranged from inches to 2 feet in
depth. The ice gorges in Allegheny
and susquehanna rivers did great
damage. Railroad tracks we're sub
merged and trains greatly delayed.
The snow drifts in many places
blocked travel by rail and trains on
the Erie were from 4 to 10 hours
late.
Warren Wilbur Of South Bethle-
ham, it is said, will 10 candidate
for Congress in this district, and
that he will have the support Of
Hon. Howard Mutchler. It is freely
predicted, however. that She nexi
congressional delegation from thil
state win contain only one demooFal
and he will not be elected from
the twenty-sixth district.
Judge Martin in the Philadelphia
courts has decided in a case brought
under the sunday law that tn,
lagert for a society who buys a cigai
on Sunday in order to secure evi
ldence to convict the seller Of th,
loffense prohibited by the act, is no
performing such q work Of necessity
as the act permits, and that thl
buyer may be convicted Of viola
tion Of the Act OF 1894 relating Il
worldly employment on Sunday.
Domestic FroubIo
It Is exceDtional to fnd a famil,