Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-10-31
NEWS CONDENSED.
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Thursday, October %.
One man was killed and several in
jured in a collision on the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad near Pittsburg yesterday
in a dense fog.
During an anti-taX riot yesterday at
Val de Zorro, Spain, soldiers fired upon
the rioters. killing five and injuring
several others.
The United States monitor Wyom-
ing on her official trial trip exceeded
her contract speed by one knot. The
speed was 1919 knots.
The Norfolk and Western Railway
Company placed orders for 40 new To-
comotives with the Baldwin Locomo-
tive Works and the American Locomo-
tive Works.
Friday, October "a.
The Spanish government bought l.
100000 pounds of tobacco at Lynch
burg. Va, for shipment to Madrid.
over 10000 people attended the
American Royal Live Stock Show at
the Kansas City stock yards yesterday.
Postmaster General Payne enter
tanned President Roosevelt and mem
bers of the cabinet at dinner at
Washington hotel last night.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation to be present at the annual
banquet of the New York chamber of
commerce on December II.
Fire yesterday destroyed the dye
house and engine room of the Spring
tine Cotton Company, at Charlotte, S.
c., entailing a loss of 100000.
Saturday, October IS.
Conductor j. w. Turner and Brake
man J. F. Brennan were killed near Lit
tie Rock, Ark, yesterday in a collision
of freight trains on the Choctaw Rail
/ road.
I Booker Washington called upon
President Roosevelt yesterday and in.
/ vited him to visit the Tuskegee Insti-
tute at Tuskegee, Ala. on his south
ern trip this fall.
Archibald Clark, superintendent of
{ construction of the Western Union
Telegraph Company, fell dead yester
y day of apoplexy in the Erie Railroad
+ yard at Jersey City.
Monday, October n.
French aeronauts held a meeting II
Paris yesterday to prepare plans t.
compete for the St. Louis Exposition
prize of 100000.
Edward A. Utley, guest at the He
tel Lafayette, at Fayetteville, N. G.
while intoxicated, shot and killed tn
night clerk. He was arrested.
Adjutant General Corbin and Majo
General Young arrived Saturday
New York from Germany, where the
went to attend the army manoeuvrei
Catholic prelates from all section
of the United States participated
the dedication of the new cathedri
of the Sacred Heart at Dallas, Tex
yesterday.
Tuesday, October %.
- Christopher Norebeck, formerly
~ detective, of Minneapolis, MINI, WI
of sentenced to three years in the per
n Tertiary for bribery.
&c Three vessels were driven asho
,is along the New Foundland coast yestC
nd day during a severe snowstorm. The
,at crews were saved.
vs A report from Chicago says that /
arc tween 10000 and $4,000 colonists ha
gone into the far western states
the past two months.
Il The American section of the Al
ance of Reformed Churches throul
out the world held a two-days' sessi
mo in Philadelphia yesterday and today
- Diamonds valued at $4,000 We
,,'I stolen from the vaults of the jewe
- firm of Wechter & Weiman, of G
- cago. There is no clue to the robbie
i ,11, Wednesday, October 29.
49, Paul Berowsky, a miner, was Kill
by a fall of coal at the ShenandC
(Pa.) City colliery yesterday.
gu A Madrid dispatch says Premier
49, gasta will retire from the Spanish c
met next month on account of
health.
The Emperor and Empress of {
manw attended the Royal Theatre
~ Berlin last night and saw Sarah b
80 hardt in Fedora"