Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-08-29
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED,
Thursday. Auaust Il.


The Bridgeport (Pa.) Tube Works /
were destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss.
$4,000
The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge, /
Knights of Pythias. will meet next year /
at Carbonate.
Lieutenant General Miles left Wash
ington yesterday to inspect the forts
along the New England coast.
Charles Schwab, president Of the
United States Steel Corporation, sailed
for Europe today on the French liner
La Lorraine.
A dispatch from Rome says it is
probable that Bishop Blenk, of Porto
Rico. will be appointed apostolic dele
gate to the Philippine Islands.
Friday, August %.
A Berlin dispatch says Count Won
Holleben. ambassador to the United
States. will be recalled shortly.
Fire at Hazelhurst. Miss, yester.
day destroyed several stores and a
large lumber yard. Loss, $4,000.
Daniel Stewart was run over and
killed at Seaford, Del. yesterday
while attempting to jump on a train.
The heaviest storm in years passed
over Greenville, S. c., yesterday
/ Several houses were demolished and
many others unroofed.
A bronze memorial statue of the
late Governor Roswell P. Flower, of
New York, will be unveiled at Water
town. N. Y, September l.
Saturday, August %.
Three persons were seriously in.
iured yesterday in a railroad COLI
sion at the Grand Central depot in
New York.
The Kansas Middle-of-theRoad Pop
ulists held their state convention at
Topeka today.
William ]. Bryan announced yester-
day that he would make very few
speeches outside of Nebraska in the
fall campaign.
Forest fires on the Green Horn
mountain range in Colorado were ex-
tinguished by rain after destroying
much valuable timber.
About 1900 girl cheroot makers
Of the American Cigar Company at
Richmond Va, went on strike yester
day. because too many cheroots are
thrown out as bad and not paid for
Monday, August %.
A Paris dispatch says Sarah Berrr
hardr is writing a novel entitled THE
Sadness of Growing Old"
While laughing, Thomas Garrett fell
out of a naptha launch and was
drowned at st. Joseph, Mich, yester-
t day
Two boys. inmates of the Orphans
Home at Charleston, S. G., were
drowned in the surf Saturday while
bathing
Professor ]. W. jerks, special com
missioner of the United States in the
Orient for the war department, ar
t rived at San Francisco yesterday
: from a years journey throughout
Asia
Tuesday, August 26.
The First National Bank Of Aber
deem, s. D., was robbed Sunday OF
$4,000. There is no clue to the robbers
Emperor William of Germany, on
board the imperial yacht Hohenzol
Tern, will visit Italy early in Septem
f Der.
l One person was killed and many in
lured in a wreck on the Southern
Railway near Harbins. S. c.. yester
day.
a James Grier, of Huntingdon, Tenn.
killed Miss Maud Thompson yester
day because she refused to elope witt
7, him.
; Emilio Terry, who resigned as Gu
: ban secretary of agriculture, refused
: to reconsider his action, and will sal
o for Paris, He predicts a great future
for Cuba.
o Wednesday, August q.
The United States training shil
; Chesapeake. with $50 naval cadets
aboard. arrived at Annapolis LAS
i evening
: The first message over the new tel
egraDh line between Seattle, Wash.
and Valdez, Alaska, was received a
Seattle yesterday.
t The Culver Lumber Company, o
u y Kansas City Mo-. was placed in re
y celvers hands yesterday. Liahilitie
! are S25O,OOO and assets estimated a
: $65O,OOO.
. albert Waller, conductor on New
: YORK Philadelphia and Norfolk train
: was fatally shot yesterday near De-
s mar. Del. while attempting to ejec
a negro from the cars