Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1909-03-05
BRIEF MENTION

bere AiiisrauRh, who was MOI
suited in his action against the Erit
for damages. has bean granted a neY
trial which will begin March i3.
The head NJ the dog supposed tC
have rnbies sent from here for exam
ination has been heard ir IN Th,
brain ander microscopic sxam.nn'i nj
did not show characteristics of the
disease, bnt tests arc being uIndC
with rabbits to fully dctermiue.
Mrs. Lucy P. King is spending the
week IN town.
Peter r. Pickelle hss had a phone
placed in mis- residence.
Mrs. J. a. Van Etten has returned
home after visit of several weeks
in New York and vicinity.
Madame L Russell GARNER is
building Garage on her lot on upper
Hartford street.
o. J.. Rowland Esq. Of Honesdale,
was in town Wednesday, He is re.
covering from had attack OF rheu-
matism.
hon w. A. Efdman of Strouds.
burg, was here ON legal matters this
week.
Bert Millspaugh, who was badly
injured in q wreck on the Erie in
1905, and who brOt suit for dainagts 8
in the U. s. court, was nonsuitOd las,
Saturday az Scranton. Nj spnugh
since the accident has been so crir-
IL d that he has worn wooden Gus.
ing to keep his spine in place
President Roosevelt gave n fare
we'll luncheon this week TO his tennib
cabinet among the members Of
which was Clifford Pinchot.
The Italisn who killed two Of his
countrymen near Middleiown recent
iy, has been arrested in New York
and when brot up to GUshen was
taken frUm the train below that sta
tion and brOt up in an automohile to
prevent lynching. He would seem
20 deserve short shrift.
A jury at Pittsburg this week con.
victed three councilmen of conspir.
acy. The case arose out of bribery
in street paving contracts.
Edward Shepherd, whose vita died
this week is In feeble health and his
son Carleton is suffering with pner :
monia.
A robin snow came Wednesday
night aud nearly six inches Of the
beautiful covered the earth and the
trees were heavily loaded.
Jerry Leahy. who had ARA nged 10
leave Grey Towers, where he has
been employed number of years,
has concluded not to change and will
remain.
Mains will be laid by the Milford
Water Company thru 9Th and 9th
streets in the Boro this spring.
Hon J. ID Riddis of Washington
who has suffered for several months
from rheumatism. does not improve
and is now prevenied from attending
to his work in the Navy Department.
His many friends here will hope that
bi' affliction may pass away.
The telephone from DiDgmaD Z
Ferry will be extended this week
from Ardtornish farm to accommo.
date Mary Smith, VanSant Hood,
Calvin Cron and the Misses Layton.
Measles IN Delaware have gener.
ally spread and few have escaped.
Lehman has hundi ed dogs in
quarantine. The township is afflicted
too with scarlet fever.
-Four of the jurors in the CarmaC
murder case can neither read moi
write" says the Baltimore Sun.
Well, If there is to be any ''unwrit
ten law" argument sprung in thai
trial, they ought to be able TO judge
1t as well as any one else.
Wonder what Mr.. Bryan think:
of the prediction by those Hous'
Democrats that ''the Office OF Secre
tary Of State probably will be helC
for eight years by its next incum
bent.
The governments "corscienc,
fund" originated iu 1911 1t is no
thought, however. that all the peo
pie With guilty consmenoes have
been enrolled as yet,
Mr. Knox is one Of the few meE
who can point with pride to reduc
tion in salary.
The prohibition wave is spreading
Even Niagara is going dry.
Mr.. Taft's speechrs do not bristl,
with picturesque phrases, as do Mr.
Boosevelt's-nor do they provok,
the picturesque phrases of others,
PittsburR has man who leads
triple life. We snppOss this will Hov
bscome quite a fad among eertail