Milford chronicle., 1883-09-21
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

Of ting the dangers of Greely's position,
they do not look upon his case as alto.
= gether desperate. Mr.. Kennan thinks
it possible that Greely is on his way
. home.
By an accident on the Bee line road
IN Ohio brakeman was instantly killed
and others were severely injured.
State Senator Taylor, of New Jer-
sey, has written a letter declining to be
: candidate for the republican nOmina-
= ton Of Governor
d Several prominent naval officers ac-
D quiesce in the New York Hcraid's sug-
gestion that all our available naval force
/. should be sent to China to protect Amer
lean interests there.
; The dead body of man and the
carcass of a bear were found in the
woods in Michigan under circumstances
denotlng that terrible fight had taken
place between them, in which both re-
ceived their death wounds.
In Ohio one of a party of young
men, while endeavoring to interrupt a
camp meeting of colored people, fell !
over precipice 300 feet high and was |
killed.
-Junius Brutus Booth, the veteran
actor and manager, who has been i'll for
some days at the NasconomO House.
Manchester, Mass, of which he is pro-
pr1etor, is in a critical condition. He is
sinking so rapidly that all hopes of his
recovery have been abandoned.
Professor Swift, director of Warner
! Observatory, has discovered new comet.
The kidnapping of several young
boys by a half-breed ruffian named | {
Oglesby has caused much excitement in
Georgia and Alabama. A posse is in
pursuit.
The steamer Atlanta, of the Charles 2
ton line, for whose safety great fears L
were entertained, was disabled in the 1
recent gale, but weathering the storm a
was towed in a disabled condition to a
Smithville, N. @. All her passengers
were unhurt. 1
Barbara Miller, colored, was hanged ),
at Richmond, Va, Friday, for the muir 4
der OF her husband. Her accomplice y
had been hanged few weeks ago. .
"A miner at Butte city, NJ T., fell =.
down a mine shaft 300 feet and was n
to jelly, on Friday. "
The Postmaster General has issued AZ
an order fOrbidding the delivery of be
money orders and registered letters to 81
NJ. A. Dauphin, of the Louisiana lot
cry. 60
"A negro dwelling on the plantation fol
Il b. M. Bateman, near Byron, Ca, de
vas burned Friday morning and two
hldren perlshed in the flames. in
Princess Louise has donated a pic ca
ure OF her own painting to the Dominion be
NATIONAL Gallery rs a memento of her ins
asldence III Canada The picture is five cal
9et IN length, and is at present on ex- tri,
lbltlOn in Boston. in
Thursday afternoon a balloon in zee
hlch Professor G. A. Warner has been VII
taking aseensions near Pittsburg, Pa, les
ELAPSED when s, ,000feet above the earth. dis
r. Warner was enabled to get a firm by
old on the ropes and the balloon came da1
OWN so slowly as to land him on the =
'ound uninjured. pea
The Greedy relief ship Proteus was anG
pped in an ice pack at the entrance to
nlth's Sound on July %. The vessel in
aHuered, put her crew after perilOus der
OIeat ana dangerous voyage In whale Me-
ats across Melville's Sound reached
2 Yantic and were brought safely to Sc
Johns, n. F. Nothing was heard of sett
eely or his party 5C,o Jon
Lord LOrne, in a farewell address at
ronto, announces high admiration for
NADIA and prophesies for her a proud
ltlon among the great nations of the and
rid Groo ctl-C,
The New Jersey Gubernatorial Con- -
tion nominated Leon Albeit on the are I
Ond ballot. -
"A dispatch from Chatham, Ont. -
S the steamer Queen Victoria was over
ned to the waters edge on Wednes- the
about six miles down the river Mex
ames.
"A father and son in Texas, who state
ghly used an employee, were both soon
t by him, the son killed and the claim
ler mortally wounded. as to
Mr.. Hugh J. Hastings, proprietor disaf
ihe New York Commercial Aclyer-
=, died at his residence at Monmouth own
Oh, N. J :, on Wednesday evening, vesse
,,ooos rSSSe
Mr.. Charles J. Foster, the well -
w Vo, SPoESlng writer and editor Of the repul
. ~ I'm ptO|tS"'%'t, dled Wednesday marc
nlng at his home in Astoria, L. I, 7
"A Iresh disaster, accompanied by Euro
tS ol me, was added tuesday night to deter
nd On. " Railroad closes the sum "A
season. Either through the care. unkno
ness of an engineer or the use of de- Cham
We air brakes, the train which left persol
haitian Beach at six in the evening p
led into the North Shore locomotive the dc
unter's Point. The engine of the Rome
nc 4hoN Il. /