Milford chronicle., 1902-05-23
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, May d.

President Roosevelt mas appointed |
r. Russell Freed, of Montgomery coun- |
IT,, Pa, to be coiner at the Philadel-
phia mint.
The British cruiser Psyche will rep
resent Great Britain at Havana at the
Inauguration of the Cuban Republic
on May TO-
The National Association o. Piano
Manufacturers and the National AssO-
citation of Piano Dealers met in con-
yention in Baltimore today.
Adjutant General Corbin has re-
ceived numerous letters from all class
es of people in this country and in for
eign parts protesting against the
charge that the army were harsh and
cruel to Filipino insurgents.
Friday, May IS.
President Roosevelt yesterday re-
viewed the High School Cadets of
Washington, D. c.
A case of smallpox has developed
among the inmates of the Lebanon
county (Pa) almshOuse.
! Robert F. Baptist (colored), of Gal
way, N. H, former slave, has given
$1,000 to found a scholarship at the
f Tuskegee Colored Institute, at Tusl1e-
gee, Ala.
President Roosevelt issued an order
excusing all Civil War veterans in the
employ of the United States in Wash
ing from duty tomorrow to attend
General Rosecrans' reburial in Airing
ton Cemetery.
Saturday, May II.
Jacob Sleeper, of Massachusetts,
has been appointed first secretary OF
the United States legation at Ha
vana, Cuba.
Retail coal dealers in New York city
+ advanced the price of anthracite Goa
, 81 a ton yesterday as a result of the
miners strike.
President Roosevelt sent to the sen
ate yesterday the nominations of Her
bert G. Squiers, to be minister t.
Cuba, and Edward S. Bragg, consu
$ general at Havana.
e The steamer British Prince, whicl
: arrived in New York from Antwer
!. yesterday, brought 1000 tons of Be
gian potatoes, the largest cargo of pc
> tatoes ever imported into this couI
try.
Monday, May 10.
y Fatalities among the cholera victim
g of the Philippine Islands average
S. per cent.
i. Ed Boatman and Caroline Garnie
a of Menominee, Mich, were browne
:, by the capsizing of a row boat
" Scranton, Pa, school teachers pr
= scented a demand to the school boar
&c for an increase of $40 a month
P wages.
Of Thobald Chartran, who painted IL
Il portraits of Mrs. and Miss Roosevelt
Il. will be made an officer in the FrenC
!. Legion of Honor.
=. The state of Pennsylvania receive
= SPITE, $3.50 last year as tax on pc
sonal property, three-fourths being I
IS turned to the counties.
1c Tuesday, May 20.
ed The value of farms in Minnesota
". June /, 1900, was 5000 ,522, SI5, of wifi
raj II per cent. was in buildings.
=. Admiral Schley was the guest
honor yesterday at the annual pier
= of the Baltimore German Orphan as
lum.
he H. Clay Evans, ex-pension comm
b = sioner, will sail from New York
ng his post as consul general at Lond
te. on June 5.
n, President Roosevelt has accepted
:, invitation to attend the Harvard III
- versity commencement exercises
last week in June.
eI Colonels Abram A. Harbach q
ma William F. Spurgin were nominated
BE- President Roosevelt to be brigad
ltr generals in the regular army.
all Wednesday, May Fl.
ire The house committee on military
nj fairs reported a bill, providing a
tional prize for rifle competitions.
"" The Philadelphia relief commit
e' collected s15,671 for the volcanic s
ud ferers in Martinique and st. Vince
- The thirty-fourth annual convent
en- of the American Society of Civil
Ter, gineers opened in New York yes
i've day.
l. The senate committee on pull
buildings added 1885, 700 to the no
public building bill, making the t.
naa $2O,941,15O.
lett A. E. Justice shot and killed
wife and himself yesterday at Il
lille home, near Waverly, Tenn. Recel
cen Mrs. Justice brought suit for divo