Milford chronicle., 1901-10-25
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. October Il.

Booker T. Washington, of Tuskegee,
Ala, dined with the President last
evening.
EdgewoOd Inn, a summer hotel on
Lower Saranac lake in the AdirOn-
dacks, was burned.
All litigation over the will of Jacob
s. Rogers, the eccentric Newark mil
lionaire, has been settled.
Somerset will be the next meeting
place of the Association Of Directors
of the Poor of Pennsylvania.
The first annual meeting of the In
ternational Missionary Conference of
the Christian Church began at Piqua,
o., last night and will continue in SEES
sion four days.
Friday, October is.
The quarantine at Naples has been
abolished. and that city has been Off
cially declared free from the plague.
Officials of Shreveport, La, claim
great injustice was done their city by
the report of the United States cen
sus department regarding the death |
rate there.
The National Council of Congrega- /
land, Ne, favoring the appointment
of a committee of seven to consider
the plan OF publishing a systematic
and graded work for Sunday schools.
1t was stated in New York upon the
authority OF his relatives that Edward
Stokes, who killed Jim Fisk, is not in
a dangerous condition. He is i'll, but
not seriously, and is able to go out
driving.
Saturday, October 10.
The Presbyterian Synod of Pennsyl-
vania, in session at Pittsburg. decided
to hold its next meeting at Dubois.
Attorney General Knox, Justice
White, of the supreme court, and Hon.
Wayne MacVeagh dined with the
| President last night.
Funeral services over the remains of
the Duke of Alva were conducted yes
terday at St Josephs Roman Catholic
church in New York city.
At Wilmington, Del, last night,
Jack Bennett, of McKeespOrt, got the
decision over Charles McKeever, Of
Philadelphia, in a 15-round bout
Sydney R. Tabor, of Lake Forest,
ILL.,, was elected president of the Amer
lean Humane association, vice Francis
H. Rowley, of Brookline, resigned.
Monday, October Fl.
Senator Hanna starts on a two
weeks campaigning tour Of Ohio today.
The 17-day strike on the Chicago &
Southwestern Midland railroad is
ended.
DR.. B. M. Duggar, department Of
agriculture expert, goes to France at
once to study mushroom raising.
The government brealwater at the
Portage Ship Canal, Mich, was com
pleted at a cost of 1925, 900.
The Marine Guard at the Pan-Amer.
lean exposition will be transferred tt
the exposition at Charleston, N. c.
! The perjury charge against james
Callahan, connected with the Cudah!
9 kidnapping case, will be pushed a
, Omaha, Neb.
5 Tuesday, October %.
u Miss Nellie Mccormick, daughter o
4 former Attorney General and Mrs. Nc
Cormick, was welded at WILLIAMSON
= TO Joseph II. cochran.
4 James w. Wood, who drew the car
y ital prize in the Lawton land distric
g at the FL Reno lottery last Angus
and settled a claim valued at nearl
e $4,000, is dead of typhoid fever.
The Marquis Ito's party has in
y tiated a strong movement to owe
throw the cabinet Important polit
cal developments are anticipated.
- The directors OF the Mercantil
" Trust company, of Boston, have vote
- to increase the capital stock of th
- company from s25OOOO to $500, 900.
Andrew Carnegie has given ESQ
each to the churches at Irvine an
- Castle Douglas, the money to go t
~ wards the purchase of organs in til
~ churches.
10 Wednesday, October %.
:. State Congress Of Daughters of tn
Revolution opened in Harrisburg t
- = day.
~ Slight earthquake disturbance
~ were felt in various towns in Port
~ Rico.
% ~ Mrs. Isaac Bond of Newark, N.
~ was killed on the railroad at Plat
Il field, N. j., last night.
M Andrew Carnegie has accepted Il
- nomination for lord rectorship of
Andrews University, in London.
Marquis Ito, former premier of ]
pan, declares he knows nothing
nv the movement against the Japane
,v ministry.
al The textile workers at Fall Rive
n Mass, asked for a 10 per cent. j
ia crease in wages, to take effect
~ November 4.