A heavy snow-storm visited Pike
connty on Tuesday night a week. Six
inches of snow fell at Milford, and
over a foot in Lackawaxen Valley.
George TL Hoover, the boy who
killed his sister, near Sunbury, last
summer, has been sentenced to an
imprisonment of two years in the
Northumberland county jail
The Lehigh Valley Railroad Com'
pany has adopted a rule prohibitiug
presentations of any kind on the part
of the employes to the oScers of the
company.
Harry Aikcns has been lodged in
the Harriaburg jail on the charge of
attempting to pass counterfeit money.
Three hundred and sixty nine sol
diers' orphans will attain the age of
sixteen this year and be discharged
from their schools.
Thomas Moran, the Schuylkill
county miner who was killed by a fall
of coal near Minersvide a few days
ago, leaves a large family unprovided
for. Among them are an invalid wife,
a son who is a cripple aud a daugh
ter who is blind.
An Adam.stown, Lancaster county,
man beat his wife becaiue "'she would
not stuff the Christmas turkey with
old rye." He was taken to the Lan
caster county prison, and after being
there a few days wrote a letter to his
wife begging to be released, prom
ising to do better in the future. In
renlv she wrote him that she would
withdraw the snit if he would ab
stain from liquor entirely. He gave
the desired promise, and on hw re
lease from prison went directly to his
home.
Scarlet fever is depopulating Mon
toursville.
James Cross, a brakeman, was killed
by cars ia llirrisburg on Wednesday
Dight.
William Eocke, a prominent citizen
of Mahanoy ( ity, committed suicide
last Thursday evening by shooting.
Family trouble was the cause.
