Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-12-27
lexis NEWS CONDENSED
Wednesday. December IS

wednesday, December 10.
Bill Hanrahan knocked out Marvin |
Hart at Louisville, KY, in less than
one round.
Miss Eleanor Ludlow, of Cincinnati, |
denied that she is to wed Captain
Richmond P. Hobson.
After an attempt to blow the safe in
Citizens Bank at Lebanon, Ind, burg
lars marked it 20. X"
Major Isaac p. Brown, of Cory, Pa, |
announced his candidacy for secretary !
of internal affairs on the Republican
ticket.
Secretary of War Root sent to con-
gress estimates of $4,000 900 for bar
racks in the Philippines outside of
Manila.
Thursday, December 10.
Pennsylvania Division of the League
of American Wheelmen met in Phila-
delphia yesterday.
Three children of Mrs. James E.
Ewing, of Canyon City, Colo, were
burned to death in their home.
John NJ. Shappell, of Philadelphia,
has been appointed temporary grand
master of records of the X. G. E.
The plant of the Snap Hook and
Eye company, at South NOrwalk,
Conn, was burned out last night.
John D. Rockefeller has offered
$15O,OOO to wellesley College, Mass,
on condition that like amount is col
lected.
Lee D. Mills, manager Of the South
ern Mutual Investment company, at
Phoenix, Ariz., embezzled $4,000 from
the company.
Friday, December 20.
The State Bank at Gothenburg,
Neb., was closed by the state banking
board.
General Arthur Macarthur, U. s.
A, attended banquet in Kansas City,
No, last evening.
) Ex-United States Senator ]. H.
; Berry, of Arkansas, was badly in
jured by a fall on the ice at Newburg,
Mo.
Charles P. Chipp, formerly a book
=, keeper in the comptroller's office in
: New York, was arrested, charged with
I larceny.
= The president yesterday sent to the
r senate for ratification a new eXtradi
r ton treaty between the United States
e and Belgium.
/ Saturday, December 81.
y Mrs. Ella Davis and her baby were
= found STozen to death at Sedalia, Mo.
Cherokee Indians at Tulsa, l. T., arr
, suffering from pneumonia and small
} pox.
y Five business buildings at New Lon
i don, Conn, were Quilted by fire. Loss
100000.
The annual meeting Of the Intercol
legiate Golf Association was held il
It New York today.
+ Benjamin Elliott and Peter Kennen
p berg were killed by fall of ore at tn
~ Caledonia mines, near WATERFOWL, Ky
: Monday, December %.
> Justice David McAdam, of the Me-
. York supreme court, died yesterday.
The First Congregational Church c
/ Springfield, o., was destroyed by fir
d Fire destroyed five business built
lie ings at Huntsville, Ala, causing a los
te of 100000
g The Shawmut, 11,000-ton freigI
= steamer, was launched at BaltimoI
- on Saturday
y Mrs. Roosevelt held her second pul
he lie reception in the White House O
in Saturday afternoon.
" Mrs. Elizabeth Dale, charged wit
m poisoning her child at Hoboken, N.
-, was released on bail.
- Jacob Beck, aged 40, committed 81
p eide at his home in Nazareth, Pr
by shooting, on being told he was q
incurable sufferer from tapeworms.
Tuesday, December "a.
Ia The postofice at Ridgeway, Te1
was burned, with all it's contents.
~ There are bids of S77,5OO each f
- five seats in the New York Stock E
" change.
J" Andrew Carnegie has offered to gil
Is $4,000 to Nyack, N. Y, for a libra
an building.
u Hon. William c. Case, ex-speak
%. of the Connecticut house of represe
tatives, died at Hartford.
10 One man was killed and anoth
=. wounded in a fight at a railroad dep
u at Dalhart, Tex, yesterday.
X Yale University received a gift
to 100000 from Herbert K, Melissa
Nv and Ernest Smith, of New York
sit The 21st annual banquet of the Ne
,r. England Society of Pennsylvania w
IN held in Philadelphia last evening.
The Baltimore and Ohio railrOi
~, will make extensive changes in t
III operating department on January 1.