Milford chronicle., 1902-04-04
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. March u.

Thursday, March 27.
President Roosevelt has nominated
Perry N. Lyle for surveyor OF Gus
toms at Philadelphia.
Minnesota Prohibitionists yesterday
nominated Rev. Charles Seaman. OF
Minneapolis. for governor.
Moses Schwartz. who is wanted in
New York for forgeries aggregating
$4,000. was arrested in Philadelphia
yesterday.
The main building Of Dunn's chair
factory at Gardner, Mass, was burned
Yesterday throwing idle 500 hands.
Loss. $4,000.
Samuel Flower. paying teller OF the
Hibernia National Bank of New Or
leans. was convicted of stealing 1885,
600. and sentenced to five years il
prison.
Friday, March %.
The national house Of representa-
tives yesterday passed the army ap'
preparation bill.
Stephen Conkling, Of Emporia,
Kan, fatally shot his divorced wife
and then killed himself.
Governor Stone declined to respite
/ Milton Sheetz, who will be hanged
April 2 at Somerset, Pa.
| The conference of coal miners at
Altoona, Pa, agreed to continue last
years wage scale for another year.
1t is reported from Cairo, Egypt,
that nearly 1000 deaths from cholera
have occurred at Mecca since
March %.
Under the will of Banker George L.
Littleheld, Of Providence, R. l., Brown
University will receive 100000 at the
death of the widow, Mrs. Harriet NJ.
Littlefeld.
Saturday, March 90.
H. G. Bell, teller of the Riverside
Bank. New York, is missing. His
stealings will amount to $4,000.
1t is announced that Professor H.
H. Powers, OF the department of po-
liticaI science, Cornell University will
resign.
It is proposed in Kentucky to raise
T 500 600 by voluntary contributions &c
make an exhibit at the St. Louis ex
;, position.
Y The official estimate of the whea
y crop of New South Wales is tina. l,
100000 acres will yield 14,705,OOl
bushels.
DR.. Grin S. Sargent, one of the mos
e prominent physicians of Boston, die'
5. in a Philadelphia hospital from al
Ie overdose Of morphine.
Il Monday, March 81.
il There were 90 arrests in New Yor
. yesterday for violation Of the eXcis
:, law
, Miss Ada Mohosen, aged %, of Wi
liamsburg, N. Y, tried to kill herse
II; because she was not man.
n James Murphy, a steerage passel
e. ger on the steamer Umbria, jGmpe
overheard on Thursday last and wa
III lost
- The United States Philippine cor
:, mission fixed the government rate
III exchange in the islands at 1927 Me
So, lean silver for enc gold dollar.
We About 800 miners were locked o.
d. at the Derringer colliery of Coke Bro
is. & Co. at Hazleton. Pa, because thu
les failed to report for duty on Good H
day.
Tuesday, April I.
Yale and Harvard debating tear
will hold their annual debate at Ne
Haven on May II.
as J.. p. Morgan has given $4,000
nd the erection Of a deaconess' home
tn st. Georges parish, New York.
or In a freight wreck on the Macon a
.+s Savannah railroad, at Macon, Ga,
~ Hnemen were injured, two fatally.
az Secretary of the Treasury Shaw b
appointed Robert B. Armstrong,
der Chicago, to be his private secreta
lis vice c. V. Rich, resigned.
lne President Roosevelt sent to the s.
hat ate the nomination of Edward Fry
is New Jersey, to be assistant collec
rob of customs at Jersey City.
= Wednesday, April 2.
President Diaz opened the sprt
Ou' session of the Mexican congress
'ys- evening.
So City elections were held in ev
for town in Nebraska yesterday with
tenn exception of Omaha.
in The Point Breeze Driving Park.
.i,,n Philadelphia, was sold at auction
- - Anthony J. Hirst for 1900.
II ~ The Indian appropriation bill, CA
IT'S ing S9.415.SS9, was reported to
ave United States senate yesterday.
by The Chicago, Rock Island and
ems cific Railroad company will incre
idea its capital stock 25 per cent. or
and 100000.
10 The safe of the Bear & Long {
~ Coraranvr Of ifffg
men anu t Lu,,.D0l go apd soonritios vol
here a. GO ooo taken
in The large wanehouse Of the Peas
S to Gaulbert Paint and Varnish Co.
then Louisville, KY, were burned yes
king day. entailing a loss of 100000.