Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-06-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday May %.

Thursday, May 29.
Florian Aust, of Wilmington, Del,
choked to death yesterday while eat
ing a piece IF meat
The congressional cOnferees on the
public building bill agreed to an APP
preparation OF $4.5OO.OOO for New York
city
Attorney General Knox is confined
to his bed with a very heavy cold,
which is slowly yielding to treat
ment.
During a quarrel in Louisville, KY,
Archie James. a negro cut John
Blacks throat with a razor, killing
him instantly.
The United States collier Hannibal
sailed yesterday from Norfolk, Va. for
St. Vincent with a cargo of coal and
lumber and a large amount of provis-
ions.
Friday, May 30.
Atlantic City's new bicycle coliseum
was opened for the season last night
with fine racing program.
Wednesday nights heavy frost al
most entirely destroyed vegetation
and truck patches in the vicinity of
Altoona, Pa.
H. Clay Evans, the new consul gen.
eral to London, paid his farewell visit
to President Roosevelt yesterday. He
will sail for London June 4.
The senate committee on military
affairs authorized a favorable report
On tho hin IN rofgro Conoro1 DALI
with the rank of lieutenant general.
Senator Plat, of New York, intro
duced a bill in the senate yesterday,
making train robbery a felony and
providing the death penalty for the
Offense.
Saturday, May 81.
Representatives of first class post
Offices in Pennsylvania met in Harris
burg yesterday and formed a state or
ganization. =
While temporarily insane Mrs. Rose
Fieginow of New York, killed her
daughter by asphyxiation and then
committed suicide.
The grand stand at Hawthorne race
track Chicago. was burned yesterday
afternoon shortly after the last race
was run. Loss. SIS, 600,
Brigadier General William F. Spur
gin has been retired, making two va
cancies in the list of brigadier generals
in the United States army,
Monday, June 2,
The new French chamber Of depu.
ties opened yesterday,
The Yaqui Indians in Arizona are
still on the warpath.
Russell Sage has so far recovered
from his illness that he is expected to
be out today.
Baron Eichhi Shibusawa, one of the
richest merchants of Japan, is now in
San Francisco. He is making a tour
of the world.
Mrs. Di Cesnola, wife Of General
Louis Palma Di Cesnola, chief direc-
tor of the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, died at her home in New York
yesterday of heart disease.
Tuesday, June 8.
Frank P. CarpOOn, of Boston, a trav.
cling salesman, was found dead in bed
in a Philadelphia hotel
Kate Quinn. II years old, was found
dead in field last night near Scran-
ton, with her head badly battered.
Rev. William J. Reid, DID, yesterday
resigned as clerk of the General AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church.
The first of the military exercises
which form a part OF the annual ex-
aminations Of the corps of cadets were
held at West Point yesterday.
The American Congress of Tubercu.
losis began its third annual meeting
yesterday in New York in joint session
with the Medico-Legal Society.
Wednesday, June 4.
Captain e. w, Watson, of the United
States navy, has been retired with the
rank of rear admiral.
A call for the National Farmers
Congress, to be held at Macon, Ga.
| beginning October Z, has been issued.
The house committee on commerce
! yesterday decided to report favorabIy
the bill creating a department of com,
merce.
According to the United States cen
sus bureau, there were 223. 72O farms in
New York on June l, 1900, valued al
$SSS,134,1SO.
Coal dealers at Baltimore, Md. re
port that there is hardly a weeks SUD
ply of anthracite coal in the city and
a coal famine is threatened.
Senator Quay introduced a bill in
the United States senate appropriat
ing $4,000 for the purchase of add
tional land for the Gettysburg Ma
tiOnal Park.