Milford chronicle., 1885-11-20
NEWS OF THE DAY
qENERAL ITEMa
CO.,
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A derrick ON which number Of men /
,,ore at work eli at Br0adalbin. N. T., killing /
Cbarlos Grant and seriously inJuring Ueofse
The dismembered body OF Gustaye Schra- /
,.o,, vino went over the Horseshoe Falls, NJ
AGRA in his skiff on Sunday, have been gain /
cred together and buried IN.
Three men were killed at HopkinsVile'
Ind by the explosion OF boiler
The death is announced OF ~ MiFion, FIonn
sharon. late United States Senator IRON on
Neva1a and one of the wealthiest men OF tne
Wess he was born in Smithheld, Jefferson
county Ohio, on January Q, 1892, and was ol
Quaker descent He went to san hIahSlsoo W. Sae,,
N an early day His name has iatey Oeen .
connected with noted divorce sult, ne Jtis getns
sued for a share Of his estate Dy 99iah '4'
Hill. who claims to be his WE
At BOSTON the Rev. Mr. Downes and MIs.
T'aher we're held for the Grand jury on tne
charge Of adultery. =
The lynebers in Edgefeld, S. c., we're IN,
dieted for murder, and thirty-one men lsi neiu
4, answer for the execution OF u4Sleaen' ..l
They comprise the leading citizons OF the seo-
-Gusie Evanson, lunatic' was sIIhnsiet I ~
60 1oath bv a fellow lunatic, in the asylum AZ
Jefferson, III. ,ao-
patrick Ford and Patrick Murphy, under
sentence of death for the murder OF OaptaiIl
Murphy, at New Orleans, nave oeeh ieSpi'0N
for thirty days. p.,,;,,ora
and Ohio Railroad, near Bluestone quarry
A., oynress train was thrown into the 4oughl-
ogbenv River and sixteen persons seriously NJ
One of the medical commission appointed
Ia examine into Riel's sanity has declared hlll
an undoubted lunatic -
smallpox is decreasing in the city OF Mon
treal but the disease Is SAID 70 DC lhcIe@siHs
in viiulence in the suburbs
Tbree workmen we're badly burned by
aoa explosion at POne Iron Works, village
near Reading, Pa. n,o
The funeral of John McCollough', the
actor. AZ Philadelphia, was attended by
large and brill ant gathering OF pIolessioiia'
celebrities from all parts OF the county
vessels Of the United States as prepared py
tho Commissioner of Navigation, shows as
riio,rs compared with the list OF the previous
fiscal wear: Total number OF Yessels-!tSoo3,
96 63O; 1885, 25.5l3; decrease, LIZ. salllhs
-1ss4, 1759s; 5sS' io'i jssS Ss'Is0S 70S
,locroase 4O5 Unrigged vesses-lSs4, 2,9Sl;
1885, 2,640; decrease, PSI
Tbe oonrtmartial at Fort Myer, which
tr;od oiohteen signal service men on cnafBes
oF insnbordination found all guilty and sen
.eneed them 10 be publicly reprimanded Dy TUE
Chief Signal Officer.
qhe viii of General Mcclellan was offered
for nrobate. He leaves his entire estate to his
wife with reversiOn to his two children upon
her death. William C. Prime is named as his
Literary executor.
While working at the ceiling Of public
l,uildinp in Montreal six men fell a distance OF
iiftv feet. Three were killed, the others serl-
ously hurt.
Typhoid fever threatens Montreal in ad-
ditiOn to smallpox.
Mr.. Charles ]. Osborn, the well-knoWn
Wor street operator, who retired from active
onerations on Change last April, died in New
York. He commenced life as q clerk, and
died worth S4000,OOO.
In the United States Court Of Jackson,
Tenn. fortv-twO m0Onshners were tried, and
~ except four were convicted.
In Fannin Texas, boy thirteen years ol
nge deliberately shot and killed his mother DE-
cause she scolded him.
-Arrests Of anti-Chinese agitatOrs have
heen made in Washington Territory Citizens
are forming rifle olubs to preserve order aftei
the troops depart.
Two seamien were lost from the schooner
r. B. King, wrecked In a gale on Lake Mleht
gan.
-Four men lost their lives by the breaking
down Of a scaffold ON which they we're work
ing at Keithshurg, Ill.
"A serious accident has occurred on thu
West Shore Road, about one mile west OF Lit
tie Falls, n. Y. Six passenger coaches RAJ
INTO ditch Mrs G. r. Platt, Of Rochester
wes killed, and Mr.. Platt seriously wounded
number Of other passengers were YER
badly hurt.
wAsBINGTOE NOTES
The annual report OF Third Auditor vii
liams shows at the beginning Of the fiscal yea
there were on file in that Office 81, ,4S7 unsettled
Afs,or IN, EQi nffT AKA. and dur
ing the year 1915 new accounts were :, celFeu
aggregating sos, ,6e2 ,O69, the total number Q
aesonnts on hand and. received being h3, ~
amounting to S193 729,553. OF these 10, y
were disposed Of, amounting to SISz,Sso, ~ w
aving at the close Of the year ~, OSl, coVerlh
the sum of S7l, l,50Ss6l7.
The report Of the Lighthouse Board, sui
mitted to the Secretary, asks for an appropria
tion OF 81 1885, $50 for the fiscal year
I,,doe AieCue. Solicitor Of the Treasury, il
his annual report to the Attorney General
states that during the fl ,cal year ended Jun!
so. 1885 2,903 suits we're commenced oI wiiel
so we're for the recovery Of $ls5, 5U5 from oe
fauitne public officers; 1913 were Tor the r.
coverv Of 81. .O6S. 90 on account OF violation
Of the postal laws; 80 were for the recovery Q
S55 74S on custom house bonds; l18 Weie 70
the recovery Of S15S73 for violations OF Gus
toms and navigation laws; SO were slll
against collectors Of customs aud others 70
refund Of duties and taxes, and !, ,646 were suit
involving 81 sO1, 766, in which the Unite'
States is q party or Is interested, making
total sued for Of S3, ,235, $50. OF the Who'll
number Of suits brought l,l70 were decided
ia favor Of the United States; 43 were ed
versely decided; $40 we're settled and dis
missed, and l,3i8 are still pending. The en-
lire number Of suits decided or otherwise dli
posed OF during the year. was 2,8l5i IN
amount FOR which judgments were obtaine
trcluedve Of DEGREES Gin rem was s6i9, 62t
aud tie entire amount collected from a
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