Milford chronicle., 1883-09-14
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

! was killed and two fatally injured
The Harace Greeley farm at Chap
= paqua, New York, was sold at trustees
sale. Miss Gabrielle NJ Greeley bid il
in for $4,000. Hers was the only bid.
Serious damage to railroads have
resulted from the floods in the Rio
Grande Valley.
Dick Liddell, one of the notorious
Jesse James gang, has made full con-
fessIOn. The story reveals almost every
phase Of crime, captured trains, plum
dered banks and highway robberies in
plentiful profusion.
The strike of the Building Traders
Union against the nOn-society men
shows no signs of abatement. More
strikes are threatened unless the con-
tractors agree to the demands of the
union.
"A gold spike driven on the line of
the Northern Pacific road in Montana,
completed the cermony of opening that
line of railway between the Atlantic and
Pacific and the road is now open.
Half of the business part of the
town of Auburn, KY, was destroyed by
fire.
Six hundred Swedish proselytes to
MormOnism were brought over on the |
Nevada. The Health Officers of New |
York describe them as a very unsavory
lot
From Denver is reported the killing
Of two cowboys and a Mexican in a
quarrel over the ownership of COW.
In Alaska a number of Indians were
hanged by Lynch law for the murder
Of whites.
Two accidents, by which seven en-
ployees were injured, occurred on the
South Park and Pacific Railroad.
Great damage was done to shipping
on Lake Michigan by the gale on Thurs
day and Friday.
Nine prominent colored citizens t
have been appointed to represent Mis- l
souri, in the National Convention to be !
held at Louisville. {
The town of Deep Creek, on the t
Dismal Swamp Canal, was almost de- a
5troyed by fire. v
The United States Court in Mossa. ,
'husetts decided that there was no con
tructiye fraud in the relations of the
Jredlt Mobilier with the Pacific Rail. o
Dads. \
AT Havre De Grace, Nd, while .
POST of G. A. r. was giving an enter =
stand fell with 1000 women p
nd children on it, and many were ID
everely injured. Fortunately none
ere killed. al
An unknown steamer was seen to IN
NIX of Indian Harbor, n. F., and it is at
e!ieved that all on board perished. d
The New York Greenback State
onvention adopted resolutions favoring til
le establishment of a bureau of labor w
against aliens being permitted 10
obtain title to land or to manage at
merlcan railways; that prison labor tn
lould not come into competition with fr'
e product of honest mechanics toll" fla
hey also declare that both the old par
IS depend on sectional prejudice for mi
elr continued existence, thereby rem tn
ring either unfit to make or execute m,
VS. for the whole country; and that the ad
Hot box is the only place through 1
nch American wOrkingmen can strike YC
d obtain permanent relief from pres wa
t wrongs. A State ticket was nomi- M
ted, with Rev. Thomas K Beecher hal
Secretary of State.
Captain Stephen Whelan, a we'll
own sailing and fishing master, was the
It with his crew. by the capsizing of to
vessel on the coast of Labrador. ca
Forest fires are prevailing to an Gu
rming extent in New England. Whole Tn
cts of country have been devastated. Oh
e farmers have sustained great loss ati'
e locomotive and the small boy are to .
Lme. be
Nine lives were lest in the destruc. 2
OF the Cincinnati rag warehouse by rep
on Monday night. ava
Reports from the terrific storms on
Newfoundland Banks. with loss of IS II
ny lives and great destruction of seY'
perty, are given in dispatches from -
Johns, n. f. bro
There has been disastrous exnlo- hav
| in the Prattsville. Tenn, mines. A -
lber of miners were killed, but how Indi
e a number cannot yet be ascer- okb,
ed. by
The steam yacht Atalanta, with uls!l
jay Gould and his son George emu
i'd on board, ran into and sank the nave
Edwin Hawley in the North river, near
York, on Tuesday; no lives were coas f,o,
The telegraph companies have been tho tilo
sed permission to erect new lines OF all "a
or reset old lines on the streets Of ,,ooT
D. G. PeoL
A correspondent at the Pensacola hono
z Yard tells sad story of the out On lr'ii 4 +
k and ravages of the yellow fever 0H =
2.
1t is reported at Halifax, N. S., that "' =
'ean steamer, name as yet unknown, Drs-
'een discovered sunk on the Nova ''7.
osed tbot tbe vessel Went H., ~ 80 20 lie P