Milford chronicle., 1883-03-02
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL rrKlLa

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give full dress rehearsal Of the Passion
Play before several hundred people. A
his new theatre in New York City. Befor
the play had proceeded far he wa
arrested by Captain Williams, and gav'
$500 bail. The authorities appear deter
mined that the play shall not be brought
out
The Warren line freight. steamer
Glamorgan, from Liverpool for Boston,
was lost in mid-ocean, and her captain
and six of her crew were drowned. The
steamer Republic rescued the remainder,
forty-four in all, but lost one OF her own
men, The disaster took place about 45O
miles from jamestown.
A woman in Ottawa, Ont, while de-
mented poured oil on her clothes, and
with a match burned herself to death.
Superintendent Jasper of New York,
saws there should be a drill in ''rapid
dismissals" in all public schools every
few days.
Five patients of the Western Luna
tic Asylum at Staunton, Va, were killed
by taking medicine supposed to be
poisoned. The patients dropped dead
in their tracks Immediately upon taking
the doses. Several others are expected
to die The medicine had been poisoned.
-The Augustinian Society, an instltu-
tioD formed to receive del oslts OF no
man Catholics in Lawrence, Mass, has
failed under similar conditions as marked
that Of Archbishop Purcell, IN Clncln-
natl. The depositors numbered about
zoo most of whom were working people,
and tbe amount of their deposits was
$40. 1000. Mortgages to the amount Of
e11O,O0O we're held so that the losses will
rot be total. One Of the causes OF the
disaster is found in the fact that In 1877,
the society tneu having debt OF SI5O,-
600 began a new church, adding to the
debt $500. 900, and using the money OF
the d d.positors to meet the obligations.
Tbe priests of the Society, in their dis
courses Sunday, promised that the
money intrusted to their savings lnstitu-
tion should be paid.
Thomas Duse. a stowaway on the
Glamorgan, from Europe, was detained
by Captain Irving, of the Republic, on
suspicion of being concerned in the
Phoenix Park murders. The British
Consul has taken charge of the case.
A large gang of Arkansas couvicts !
have been employed in repairing the
levee near Helena. On Saturday they
disarmed their guards, killed planter
and escaped. They broke up into small
gangs and scattered, and made an at |
tempt to reach the uplands. Should |
they succeed in doing this their escape
will be easy.
Dismal accounts of the desolation
caused by the Ohio floods continue to
come in. The low farming lands as the
waters recede reveal sad pictures of
ruined homesteads, farms and crops, and
much suffering will follow. The New
York Herald fund for the aid Of these
sufferers already exceeds $4,000.
The ship carpenters and calkers on
the Delaware River have given notice
that if their wages are not raised by April
23d they will strike work for 50 to 1925.
An oil deposit Is soid to have been
discovered in Saratoga County, n. Y.
AT Milford, Mass. thirteen school
'hildren We're thrown from a double
Jmner sled which struck a tree and
learly all of them were picked up un-
'onscious. A number Of them were
injured.
The prisoners in the Penitentiary at
Jefferson City, No, made preconcerted
ttempt at escape Oh Friday, by a revolt
ma setting tine shops on fire. The loss
~ fire amounts to $500, coo, but not
prisoner escaped. The revolt broke out
ust as the prisoners had finished
Gting and were returning to the shops.
The man who planned and directed the
eyolt, John B. johnson, a safe-blower
y record, was sent up there for twelve
ears from Shelby county, in last No
ember, ON conviction for highway rob
cry. The revolt was quieted by calling
4 troops.
Fire Marshal Sheldon, of New York,
elieyes the fire in the German Catholic
chool was started by lighted match i
lrown into the closet by girl. =
"A murderer in the Jail at Newaygo, :,
lich., died from terror, imagining the
oise of a party in a neigh boring house
, be that of mob about to lynch him. q
Ellis Craft, one Of the Ashland (Ky.)
Tderers, was convicted at GraysOn, q
le jury fixing the punishment as death. u
"A new comet has been discovered IL
hich promises to be a brilliant one. 1t IL
in the constellation Pegasus. u u
The Rev. Dir Paul A. Chadboune, Il
resident Of the Massachusetts State Ag-
cultural College, died in New York City
4 Friday. DR. Chadbourne went to ID u
ew York to attend the funeral Of =,
,-Govemor Morgan, and was taken i'll N N
! the train. u u
One thousand marks have been sent Of
ON Germany in aid of the sufferers in fa
e Ohio Valley. II IT.
The bill prohibiting the manuiac- be
re of hats in the New York State al
ison passed the Assembly. er
"A dispatch from Hong Kong says of
e United States steamer Ashuelot has
EN- lost in the Asiatic storm; eleven of Pl
e crew were drowned The Ashuelot he
rated as an iron vessel, with paddles, W,
rrying six guns of 786 tons burden ci,
d 1870 displacement. She has been tn
road for some time. She was a double an
der. nm
The New Jersey Senate concurrent Pr
solution to adopt a prohibitory amend tn
ent TO the State constitution came to a CT
al vote in the House of Representa- sts
res and was defeated. ru
The Maine Central Railroad Com Nj
ny was indicted, tried, convicted of de
and fined So, 900 at Bangor, rig
e. as
There has been very little loss Of
tile on the Plains during the present Gnri
lsOn. 'Oi
The Board of Education of Chicago 'o'
s ordered an inspection of every public ~,
lool with a view to provide every Du