Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-03-14
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Thursday, March s.
There are more assertions from
German merchant vessels at New
York than at any other port.
The navy department sold the old
monitor Manhattan to Henry Hitner's
Sons. of Philadelphia. for s1s.21S.
Rear Admiral J. A Howell will be
retired on the 10th inst Next to AID
miral Dewey he is the ranking officer
Of the navy
George Hettrick. of Trenton N. j..
who killed John Kraus on Thanksgiv.
ing day, was sentenced to be hanged
on~April IA.
Negotiations are being made for op-
lions on candy factories in st. Louis,
Mo-. with a view to forming a trust.
with $5,OOO,O00 capital.
Friday, March z.
The New York chamber Of com
merce adopted a resolution urging the
maintenance of silver dollars on parity
with gold.
The Republican convention of Sus-
ouehanna county, Pa. nominated Hon.
| Charles F. Wright for congress for the
Fifteenth district.
President Roosevelt has been invited
to deliver the principal address at the
G.. A. R. Memorial day exercises at
Arlington cemetery, Washington, on
May 80.
A telegram received at the navy de-
partment at Washington from London
announced the death Of B F. Stevens
for rs years United States dispatch
agent there.
Saturday, March 8.
President Roosevelt yesterday
signed the permanent census bureau
BILL
The United States cruiser Olympus
is off Yorktown, Va, where she viii
have target practice.
A man said to be Heber L. Bull, o
t Philadelphia, committed suicide in
: Boston lodging house yesterday.
q Camden, N. J., is nearly free o
G smallpox having but II cases, all o
G whom are in the isolation hospital.
j. General Julius J. Estey. aged 81
p president of the Estey Organ com
e many. died at his home at Brattleboro
D Vt, yesterday.
Monday, March 10.
President Roosevelt on Saturda
f signed the Philippine tariff bill
n William Gosden, one Of the mos
+ prominent young men Of Richmond
l. Va, committed suicide by taking mo
g phine.
secretary Wilson, Of the agricu
o tural department. denied that he il
d tends resigning from President Roos
s. velt's cabinet.
n Charles Foster Kent. Phi D.. profe
d sor Of Biblical literature at Yale I'm
versity, surprised his class by strongl
favoring hazing.
,e The Philadelphia Base Ball club
70 the American League will play i
# first exhibition game on April wit
ID picked team.
Ii Creditors OF the late ArchbishC
ID Purcell. of Cincinnati. have appeal'
n to Rome for special collections in Il
Il United States to wipe out his $1,000
st poo in debtedness.
ne Tuesday, March II.
st Count Won Buelow, German imperi
chancellor, is Ill with influenza al
confined to his room.
Tx The dispute between Germany al
s. Venezuela is nearing a settlement, b
ne he terms are still secret.
It. The postofice department at Was
IN ington received a conscience cont
I'd button OF $40 from a resident OF Rio
IT, inond, Ind.
n Fire which started in the kitchen
he the home OF Arthur Bouchard, at n
he tame, Quebec, caused the death
he ldrs. Bouchard and nine children.
D. In an explosion at E. c. Dupont
lJemours & Company's powder pla
on st Keoiuk, Ia, two men were kill
ITO outright, a third will die and thu
Ks others are seriously injured
he Wednesday, March II.
he The glass works of Gill & Co.,
es. Philadelphia, was totally destroyed
nd fire last night. The loss is $4,000.
led ]. X. Oliver, a well-known busin
on man of Roanoke, Va, committed {
lev eide in a New York lodging house.
a. Margaret D. Stark, aged 76, Y
is killed by fall from a second-st
YER window of her home in Philadelpl
City council of Toronto, Ont, pas
a resolution barring American c
Ing tractors from bidding for munici
cid work
i've The safe in the bank Of Bozmar
YER Waters, at Poseyville, Ind, was bic
,ss. by robbers and s1S,50O in mo
the stolen.
I've 1t was announced at the WI
Drn House yesterday that Presid
uly Roosevelt would not visit the Char
hat ton Exposition until the second W
ter III April.
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