Milford chronicle., 1902-02-21
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, February Is.

Inc MdICOul WHSleSS I6lSSIdpu
company. of London, has insured the
life of Mr. Marconi for $75O,OOO.
The seventh annual convention of |
the Pennsylvania State School Direc-
tors Association was held in Harris
burg.
Fire yesterday at Harmarville, Pa,
on the West Penn railroad, destroyed
$4,000 worth of property and for a
time threatened the entire town.
The Marquis Of Dufferin and Ava.
former governor general of Canada,
died yesterday at his residence at
Clandeboye, County Down, Ireland.
S S. Tilden, postmaster at Ray
mond, H., pleaded guilty to embezzle-
ment and was fined $3.50 and SEN
fenced to six months in the peniten-
tiary.
Friday, February IA.
Colonel John A. Polk, aged so, a
cousin of President Polk, died in Kan
sas City yesterday.
Fire destroyed half a block of bust
+ ness houses at Kimball. S. D., involv-
ing a loss of 100000.
Sixteen-year-old Agnes Tete, of
: Philadelphia, attempted suicide by
swallowing a large quantity of tur-
pentine.
+ John Young, convicted of the muir
r der of Washington Hunter at River
y side, N. J., was sentenced to hang on
: March 49,
In a rear-end collision between Bal
! timore and Ohio trains at Indian Har-
! Dor, Ind, Conductor Hunter and
e Brakeman Brice were killed.
g Saturday, February IS.
e In a street battle at Richmond, Va.
e Leslie Estill and Shelton Chambers
: were fatally wounded.
Secretary Long returned to his post
J. at the navy department after a visit
Y to his home at bingham, Mass.
d Peter Buschwah, a pioneer real es-
1t tate dealer of Chicago, was found dead
d in his room, with eight gas jets turned
!, on.
! The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing
le schooner Elsie NJ. Smith was wrecked
j off Cape Cod and two of her crew
d drowned.
lg The late Caroline S. Rathcone, o
n New York, beQueathed $4,000 to founC
~ a home for aged and infirm persons a
Evansville, Ind.
bit Monday, February II.
en- Andrew Payack, u years old, wa
a burned to a crisp while sleeping in
ne tin hut on a garbage dump at Pas
ns sale, n. J.
ve The apron Of Mrs. Virginia Sure
Of took fire from a stove and she wa
lie burned to death in a New York apart
ment house.
ed Charles NJ. Schwab, president of tn
or United States Steel Corporation, re
'ct turned from a two-months' visit to Ell
wv i rope yesterday.
(" Raymond Herlacher, Of Loganto1
,ts Pa, while shooting sparrows with
s.. musket, shot 12-year-old Roy Berr
cir through the heart.
Tuesday, February 1s.
m The cracker factory of Frank Goet
as at Manchester, Conn, was destroye
J.. by fire. Loss, $4,000
~ c. R. Mains, a prominent attorney
so San Francisco, was arrested for usin
ed the United States mails to swindle.
as The United States battleship Wi
ter consin, flagship of Rear Admiral Sils
Casey, left CallaO. Peru, for Acapulc
ar- Charles NJ. Schwab, president Of I'll
CHI, United States Steel Corporation, wi
Dr. deliver a lecture at Trinity Colleg
ere Hartford. Conn.
~ In a fit of deSpOndency John Griffit
a civil engineer. and wealthy, blew o.
feel his brains with a shotgun at his hon
, to in Jenkintown, Pa.
Wednesday, February 10.
APP Philadelphia's season of grand o
H. era closed last night with a perforl
ance of "Manru."
,na James R. Keene, of New York, ga
ace $4,000 for the relief Of the poor WI
y. suffered in the blizzard.
President Ellsworth, of the Ne
York senate, refused to introduce A
miral Schley to that body.
u The plant Of the Louisville Bolt al
a,S' Iron company was destroyed by fl
rott entailing a loss of 100000.
oci- The United States gunbOat Machi
hey sailed from Pensacola, Fla, yesterd
an for Havana to join the North Atlant
2 in squadron.
cling Charles L. Tiffany, aged 80 yea
anne senior member of the famous Ne
also York iewelry firm, died at his ho1
90 from pneumonia.