Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-04-05
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, March %.


Buffalo exposition is to cost $4,000.
Governor Davis, of Arkansas, signed
the anti-gambling bill yesterday, and
all gambling places in the state are
closed
The imperial insurance department
reports that 1000 600 persons are now
insured in Germany.
Eight thousand people died of the
plague last week in Bengal alone, in
Guiding Calcutta. Whole towns are
being deserted.
Ex-State Secretary Caleb Powers,
sentenced to life Imprisonment, and ,
James Howard sentenced to hang for /
the Goebel murder, have been granted |
new trials by Kentuckys court of ap- |
peals.
Friday, March %.
Mrs Nations lecture in Cincinnati /
last night drew a very small audience.
Ex-Governor Altgeld, OF Illinois, sup
/ ports the Republican ticket in Chi
/ Cages municipal election.
J. H. Willard and Governor Charles
H. Dietrich, Reput licans, were elected
United States senators from Nebraska.
Mrs. John r. Mcpherson, widow of
New Jersey former United States SEN
ator, died in New York.
A Constantinople dispatch announces
that nine men were scalded to death by
the bursting of a steam pipe on the
Turkish torpedo boat Shehab, at Sa-
lonica.
The Stove Founders association and
the MOlders Union of North America,
in joint session at Chicago, agreed
upon the same scale for the coming
year as the one in force last year.
Saturday, March 80.
Roland Reed, the actor, died in New
York from cancer of the stomach, aged
AZ years.
Attorney General Griggs formally re-
tired from the cabinet today to resume
his law practice.
Karpovitch, who killed Russia's min
, lister of public instruction, was SEN
fenced to 20 years penal servitude.
Governor Stone, of Pennsylvania is
sued a proclamation yesterday desig-
mating April y and 26 as arbor days.
Mrs Mary Ertel, who killed her par
amour, George Deges, on Dec. 81 last,
= was acquitted in New York yesterday.
A seat in the New York stock ex-
= change was sold yesterday for S55 000
J. which is S25,0 600 more than the highest
9 previous price.
g Monday, april l.
S The Oil City tPa) tube mill, closed
a by the trust, was reOpened today.
d Robert NJ Montgomery, Rep, was
elected supreme judge of Michigan.
II Medical Director w. T. Hord, of the
: navy (retireD, died in Washington
= aged 70.
d Twenty cotton mills in Fall River
y Mass, closed Saturday until April 6
" affecting 5000 employees.
y Squire" William McMullen, TO
, years well known in Philadelphia poll
tics, died in that city, aged n years.
10 F. H. Zabriskie, q years old, son o
o. a Princeton IN. j. clergyman, com
ii mitted suicide by shooting in Ney
a York Dependency.
10 The seventh annual meeting of tn
70 National Municipal League, and tn
IN ninth conference for good city govern
ment, will be held at Rochester, N. Y
,e on May 8, 8, 10.
of Tuesday, April ?.
he Count Tostoi, the noted polite;
81 writer, has been banished from Russi
J." St Louis is threatened with anotht
strike of street railway men.
DR.. Schleichter, the African travell'
lie and geographer, is dead in Berlin.
at For the first time in Havana's hi
tory. April begins without a single ca
II of yellow fever
RS Axel Douglass, a New York janito
rs. last night killed his wife and then sh
lis himself He will die.
re- The French training ship Duqua
ne with 300 French cadets, arrived at A
nS napolis to visit the naval academy.
~ George F. Baer, of Philadelphia, su
ceeds Mr. Harris as president of t
Reading railroad and allied propertiC
Tom L. Johnson, Dem, was elect
ar mayor of Cleveland, John L. Hink
he Dem, mayor of Columbus, and May
IN Jones was reelected in Toledo. r
10, publicans gained generally in Ohi
NC municipal contests.
ad- Wednesday, April 3.
vas J. Pierpont Morgan sailed from N,
the York for Europe today.
eu- The bill to authorize the calling
av- a Tennessee constitutional convent
le-. was killed in the state legislature.
vas 1t is announced that Prince Lol
Napoleon has arrived in Paris on
visit.
Il. An earthquake at Cape Kaliakra,
at the Black sea, March 81, destroyed
the lighthouse there.
ice. London's county council has decid
att to buy 225 acres of land on which
of build workmen's houses to accom-
Ter date $4,000, at a cost of e1 100000.
uld The bill appropriating 100000
the the construction of a hospital in
ued Adirondacks for the treatment of &C
req sumptives was favorably reported
I'M the New York legislature.
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