Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-07-25
q WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
Thursday. July Il.

Pennsylvania Stenographers' Associa-
ton was held at Harrisburg, Pa, yes
terday.
Andrew Carnegie has given $1,000
600 to Clark University, Worcester,
Mass, on condition that like sum be
raised elsewhere.
Sinko Hattie, a wealthy New York
Japanese, has been appointed by his
government to study tea growing con
ditions in South Carolina.
The New Jersey board of pardons re-
fused a pardon to Walter McAllister,
who was convicted Of the murder of
Jennie Bosschieter at Paterson.
Friday, July 10.
Soft coal miners are so scarce in
the Altoona. Pa, district that opera
tors are advertising in the papers for
them.
In putting down a test well at Mt
Vernon, o., the Logan Natural Gas
Company struck gold in quantities as
saying S. a ton.
Secretary of War Root will sail for
Europe on the oath inst, expecting to
return to the United States about the
middle of August.
The Philippines will soon be made a
military department of the United
States army, and district commanders
will report to headquarters in Manila.
Saturday, July 19.
Secretary Hay left Washington yes
terday for his summer vacation.
which he will pass at his home in
New Hampshire
The Canadian Iron Molders' Union.
in session at Toronto, Ont. defeated
( a resolution to withdraw from the
American Federation of Labor
The Lion Department Store. Okla.
homa City, o. T., one of the largest
in the southwest, was damaged to the
extent Of $4,000 by fire yesterday.
Charles Newhouse, of Richmond.
Va, who disappeared in December,
1901, has been located in South Africa,
where he had been fighting in the Boer
army.
Monday July Fl.
General Chahee will sail from Ma.
Mia for the United States September
30.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
the principal business blocks Of Cadiz
Trigg county, KY, yesterday
Henry Appel and Maurice Small
were drowned yesterday while bath
ing in Miles river, near st. Michaels
Nd.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has
been summoned to Oyster Bay. L. L.
for a conference with President Roose
velt
The transport Sheridan reached
San Francisco. Cal, Saturday from
Manila, with nearly 1,4OO i'll and dis
charged soldiers.
Tuesday, July %.
Engineers yesterday began survey
ing near Cumberland, Nd. for th,
eastern extension of the Wabash rail
road.
Mrs. Peter Thoernich, of Reading
Pa, fell dead from heart disease dur
ing a fight between dogs in her HON,
Sunday evening".
President Roosevelt appointed Hugl
S. Suthon as superintendent of tn,
United States Mint at New Orleans
vice Boothby, resigned.
The torpedo boat DESTROYER Pan
Jones, built at San Francisco. Cal
has been delivered to the governmen
at the Mare Island navy yard.
Ben Watts, Albert Miller and Rober
Mclaughlin were drowned in the Obi
river near Auroro, Ind They were il
a sailboat which was capsized by
squall.
Wednesday, July %.
= Four stores and 40 residences wer
destroyed by fire at Brookside. Ala
yesterday, causing a loss of $4,000.
George L. Meyer, United States am
bassador to Italy, arrived in New YorI
yesterday on the steamer Kronprin
Wilhelm.
Herbert D. Oler a returned PhiIiI
pine soldier, was struck by a train nea
Baltimore, Nd, yesterday and instant
= ly killed
, The United States monitor Arkar
sas, now building at Newport News
Va, will be ready for her official tria
trip on August g.
The United States gunboat Marriott
sailed for Venezuela to investigate tn
situation in the Orinoco district. whic
: is reported critical for American il
terests.
! Mrs. Ellen Turley, of Madisonvill,
KY, shot and killed her 4-year-ol
child attempted to kill two other chi
: dren, and then fired a bullet into he
brain, dying instantly