Milford chronicle., 1902-07-04
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. June %.

Thursday, June Is.
Henry King, cOlored, was sentenced
to life Imprisonment at Atlanta. Ga.
yesterday for murder during a race
riot.
BY an addition to the treaty between
Mexico and the United States the
crime of bribery is added to the list
of extraditable CAGES.
Frank P. Sargent, recently appointed
commissioner general of immigration.
yesterday took the oath of Office and
entered on his new duties.
Lady Pauncefote, widow of the late
British ambassador to the United
States, and her three daughters sailed
for England yesterday on the st. Paul
The board of governors of the New
York stock exchange forwarded to the
London exchange a message rendering
their sympathy for the stricken king
Friday, June 27.
President Roosevelt arrived in Wash
ington this morning from his New
England trip.
The navy department has ordered ex-
flotilla, now at Norfolk.
DR.. William ~ Fisher. of Washing
ton, was killed by falling down an ele-
vator shaft at the Columbia hospital
John Archer, the negro, who assault
ed Mrs. Cora Wanner, Of West Chester
Pa, last Tuesday, was captured by
armed men near Green Hill.
nj. ..ooo,.I- Of AJ,o
ceedings in the case of Major Waller
was received at the war department
yesterday.
Saturday, June %.
About 1900 Canadian troops sailed
from South Africa for home Yesterday
The tenth annual session of the In.
ternational Sunday School convention
was held at Denver. Colo.
The new tube mill of the Sharon
(Pa.) Steel Co. will start September I
and give employment to 1000 men.
Senator Hanna will introduce a res.
olution in the senate, providing for n
congressional investigation of the On
ban postal frauds
A caucus Of Democratic congress.
men last night condemned the Renub.
lican party for not providing a reci.
procity treaty with Cuba.
Monday, June 80.
President Roosevelt Saturday night
signed the isthmian canal bill
Her dress igniting from a lamp. g,
year-old Mary Voniski, of Mahanoy
City, Pa, was burned to death.
Rev. J. Wilbur Chapman opened the
National Young Peoples Bible Confer
ence at Warsaw, Ind, yesterday.
Frightened into jumping from fast
running trolley car at PeekskiH, N. Y.
Arthur Dulin was instantly KILLED.
The annual convention of the Penn
sylvania Christian Endeavor Societies
will be held in Pittsburg, July 8. 9
and 10.
Miss Leila Jenkins of Norristown.
Pa, was admitted to the Montgomery
county, Pa, bar Saturday. She is the
second woman to be admitted.
Tuesday, July /.
Congress passed 1851 private pen.
sion bills during the present session.
The Dawes Indian commission made
1857 allotments of lands to the Semi.
mole Nation in Indian territory.
The senate yesterday passed the bill
giving Rear Admiral Schley the pay
and allowance of a rear admiral on the
active list OF the navy.
Mrs. Emma Powell, of Cleveland. o.
shot and instantly killed her husband
John H. Powell Jealousy over a sec
ond woman was the cause
Wednesday, July 2.
Over 1000 tents will be used by the
encampment of the National Guard OF
Pennsylvania at Gettysburg, July L
to 10.
It is reported in st. Louis that Kine
Menelik, Of Abyssinia, desires to visit
the Worlds Fair to be held at St. Louis
in 1904.
Thirty-five chair manufacturers me
in Greensboro. N. c., yesterday anC
formed an association for mutual pro
lection"
Forty-one new cases of cholera wer,
reported in Manila, P. l., yesterday, thu
largest number in one day since thu
outbreak.
Congress passed a resolution pro
viding for the erection of monument
: at Washington to Generals Francs
Nash and William Lee Davidson
heroes of the Revolution.