Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-11-29
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, November q.

Thursday, November Fl.
Rev. Frederick Burgess, of Brook
Ign, was elected bishop Of the Protes-
tant Episcopal diocese of Long Island.
The vault of the Woodbury. Savings
Bank, Woodbury., Conn, was broken
into by burglars, who got away with
81, 500.
The National Grange, in session at /
Lewiston, Me-, wants congress to put I
a tax of 10 cents a pound on oleomar- I
garine.
In trying to escape a policeman,
Frank Gibson, of Altoona Pa, leaped
from the third-story window of a hotel
and sustained slight injuries.
Friday November %.
A Pretoria dispatch to The London
Standard says that a large number of
ex.burghers are joining the British
forces.
The American Tobacco company. has
absorbed the plants Of D. H. McAlpin
e. Co, of New York. The price was
s2,500,00O.
The jury in the case of John Consi-
dine, accused of the murder of Chief
OF Police Meredith, of Seattle, Wash,
returned a verdict OF acquittal
King Edward of England declares
that the audience ct coronation cere-
mony must be exclusively British, and
that no Americans will be admitted.
Saturday, November %.
Senior GamayO, Spain's former min
lister of finance. is dead.
The Bank Of Liverpool (Eng.) was
robbed by a trusted bOokkeeper Of
$850,OOO
President Roosevelt and family left
yesterday for a two-days' cruise down
the Potomac.
The condition of Queen Wilhelmina
of Holland is said to be more serious
than has been reported.
The Union Traction Company Of
Chicago was fined $50 for not provid
ing enough cars to accommodate the
public
George ZoIlinhoefer was indicted by
the grand jury in New York yesterday
for robbing the williamsburg Saving
Bank of 100000.
Monday, November IS.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs. AL
fred Gwynne Vanderbilt, of New York
last night.
Alexander X. Hamilton, aged 6
years, of Lock Haven, Pa, was hlle
by freight train.
Fire destroyed the felt plant O
julius De Long & Co., in Allegheny
causing a loss Of 100000
The American Federation of CathC
lie Societies will hold their conventio
in Cincinnati December 10.
The winter wheat crop in Kansa
this year was 90,O45,514 bushels
breaking last years record by nearl
13.50O,OOO bushels.
WI Ting Fang, Chinese minister t
the United States, will be the gue'
Of honor at the banquet of the Cor
: mercial club, Kansas City Mo-, D
cember 9.
y Tuesday, November &c.
8 Border outlaws murdered Lean
l. Elena, judge of the Alamo district,
. san DlegO, Cal,
i The convention of the Information
= Seamen's Union of America began
!, Buffalo yesterday.
IS The heavy gale continues unabat'
it along the New England coast, but ]
IS disasters are reported.
The Bradley Fertilizer Works,
O. North Weymouth, Mass, were q
y stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
ie John Best, proprietor Of Best
l.. Boiler and Engine Works. of Lancs
ID ter, Pa, died last evening, aged
r. years.
~ General Arthur Macarthur W
in speak at the annual banquet of t
Kansas City Commercial Club on I
~ cember 10.
Mt Wednesday, November q.
DIS Ex-President Cleveland, who is
he at his home at Princeton, N. J., W
1e be able to leave his room in Il
\. y, days. n
nv General Joseph Wheeler has p
a asented to the state Of Alabama t
first American flag that hoated oy
a Santiago.
ry Senator Lodge. of Massachuset
says he favors the Chinese exclusi
We act. and will introduce a bill for
extension.
he The switchmen's strike on the N
ed York, New Haven and Hartford II
road was officially declared off
vo- New York last night.
me Captain Bennett, OF the British 81
ur- Vera, which arrived at Philadelph
rescued the shipwrecked crew of
M schooner Standard, owned at Man
ba guam, N. ].