Milford chronicle., 1883-11-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
aKNERAL THMs

Two men were hanged on Friday
one for murder and the ther for arson
Governor Cleveland, of New York
has commuted the ten years sentence o
a man convicted of robbery to five years
The boiler of the Coal Bluff Mine
Ind, exploded, killing one man and in,
IuEing twelve more.
-Four men were killed and several
others badly injured by the bursting
of boiler in a saw mill at Jackson, Pa.
BY the telescoping of a car by To-
comotive, near Otter Greek, ILL.,, seven
persons lost their lives and eight were
seriously injured. The bursting of the
boiler of the locomotive Immediately
after the accident made it the more hor-
rlble, as a number of the killed were
burned to ashes.
"A west bound Rock Island train
with party of excursionists from St
Paul and Minneapolis, met with a seri-
ous accident by which two passengers
We're killed and six others badly injured
"A convention called by the Com
missioner of Agriculture to consider the
contagious disease of domestic animals
met in Chicago. 1t was universally de-
MED that any vestige of the disease exists
west of the Alleghanies and it was ad-
mltted that it does exist in parts of New
Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Marv-
land and Virginia. 1t was determined
to call upon the government to stamp
out the disease, as local laws failed to do
so, by the appointment of inspectors. /
The Swine Breeders Association also de- !
manded government protection of ex-
ported hog products.
- The Erie, Champlain, Oswego.
Black River, and Cayuga and Seneca
canals of New York will be closed on
December 1, 1888, unless sooner closed
by ice.
The excursion steamer Yates was
burned on Kenka Lake.
Senior Juan Valera is the successor
of Senior Barca as Spanish Minister to
Washington.
Mrs. J. Fl. Eldred, aged p years,
was found dead in a pork barrel at North
Petersburg, N. Y, with her feet pro-
truding from the barrel.
"A petition is going about for the
removal of Surgeon General Hamilton. !
Gold has been discovered in the !
province of Quebec. :
The sensational reports respecting
he removal Of the remains of Abraham }
lincoln from the sarcophagus are Off
tally pronounced untrue. l
Nearly hundred iewelry stores in =
he small towns throughout the United ]!
States have been plundered during the Is
'ast year by burglars and the stock Y
tolen. PlnkertOn's detectives have ar u
ested Gilbert YOst, "Bid" Houlihan.
feorge Burgess, Charles H. Mayhon
nd John Moore, the leading spirits in n
he successful gang. The cracksmen y,
evised a new and simple way to force n
pen safes.
The bill striking out the word F
male from all election laws passed the n,
ouncil Of Washington Territory Legis-
iture by vote of IS. It passed the T..
,wer house by Is to II majority. Gov. ~
ewell will sign the bill, and in sixty n,
ays it will become law. ~
The official vote for Mayor in Brook. i;
y, N. Y, was as follows: Low. 40 p .,
"a; Hendrix, 1901, and Leigh. $40. " "
ow's plurality was 1 1913. His major. ~
y was ], ,494. ~
"A farmer named George Shan. liv.
g in Tuscarawas county. Ohio J.,
his wife and six children. ~. I'D
Judge Ramsey rather startled the qu
ourt of Queens Bench, in Canada. and Cl
e country generally, by denouncing
e Judiciary of the Province as SO wa
'edful ofreform that he will notsit at an
ira term ordered by the Honorable in
mister of Justice. This created a nu
nsatiOn. ST
The announcement from New York.
at the visible supply of wheat shows of
lecrease caused an advance in the prices laI
wheat, corn and provisions in Chicago. ha
rther advances are expected. pri
In Cleveland, Ohio, John Wapfen.
rman, aged A, died from the effects
too much whisky, on wager, and )
en- still under the influence Of whisky beI
drank fifteen glasses of liquor. con
In Petersburg, Colorado. Peter lm'
en, who lived alone, was visited bv JUS
guised men who whipped him until spe
cd came, and then placing his feet in mai
nre literally roasted them, to make VII
tell where his money was hidden. I
y secured 5000 and left. Olsen will iud
and
81, just
n, endasgers the city. mac
A riot occurred at Youngstown spe,
0, after midnight of Wednesday Il
man was fatally shot and a police nam
was seriously injured. Stir
The loss of barge and her crew of O
n men is reported from the north Hon
shore OF Lake Ontario. ittl,
q. Newton Rowell, who shot John 'rlai 4i
Lynch, of Utica, whom he found II