Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-09-05
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.


Thursday, August %.
The Pennsylvania State Camp, P. o.
S. of A., will meet in Lancaster next
year.
The navy department yesterday ac-
copied the torpedo boat destroyer TruX-
ton. built at Sparrows Point, Md
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postofice at Ridgetop, Tenn, yesterday
and secured $500 in stamps and other
valuables.
DespOndent over losses caused by the
coal strike. Ephraim, Luezhover, a sa-
lOonkeeper OF Shenandoah Pa, killed
himself yesterday.
The harness mandatory and sew
eral other Buildings at Judyvilie, Ind.
belonging to John F. Judy, were de-
stroyed by fire yesterday. Loss, $780,
000
Friday, August 29.
The torpedo boat destroyer Barry
made 2S.12 knots an hour in her Off
cial trial yesterday.
Frank Smith. a colored lad. aged II
years, was drowned at Atlantic City,
l
Engineer Dan Carey and Fireman
Lee were killed yesterday in a wreck
on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois
Railway near Terre Haute, Ind
Ex-Secretary of the Treasury John
G. Carlisle delivered the annual ad-
dress before the American Bar Asso-
citation at Saratoga, N. Y. yesterday.
Secretary Of State Hay has ap-
pointed Thomas R. Dawley, of New
York, a United States delegate to the
International Coffee Conference. to be
held in New York in October.
Saturday, August 80.
Congressman R. c. De Graffenreid,
Of Texas, died of apoplexy last night
at hotel in Washington, D. c.
Masked robbers held up a street car
at Spokane, Wash, yesterday and
robbed the passengers, one of whom
was Chief of Police Reddy.
It was announced at Havana yester-
day that letters had been received
from Greece, Austria and Brazil, recog-
nizing the Cuban Republic.
Statistics published by the Russian
minister of justice show that 1851
murders were committed in European
Russia last year, an average OF over
20 day
Monday, September I.
Over 10000 men participated in the
Labor Day parade at Kansas City, Mo.
today
a trolley car at Kansas City last
night ran down a carriage, instantly
killing two men.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Letter Carriers Association was
held at Denver, Colo, today
Murdered by robbers, the bodies of
Mr. and Mrs. Britton Lewis were found
in their home at Gainesville, Fla.
Saturday.
The bark City of Papeta, loaded with
$4,000 Goldfish. was badly damaged by
fire while lying at her dock at San
Francisco.
Tuesday, September 2.
W. J. Bryan was the principal
orator in the Labor Day celebration
at Lincoln, Neb. yesterday
The 18th annual convention of the
Polish Singers Alliance of America
was held in Chicago yesterday.
A steam launch containing ten young
men caDsized yesterday in the Hudson
river near Albany N. Y, and two men
were drowned
The customs receipts at Havana for
the month of August amounted to
$7S5,SS5, a decrease of $133,84O for the
same month last year.
While alone in his Office, Alver r.
Ives, manager of an ice company at
Riyere, Mass, was fatally shot by
thieves, who ransacked the safe.
Wednesday, September 3.
The Wisconsin Democratic state
convention was held today at Milwau-
kee and full state ticket named.
Over $1,OOO,OOO worth of opium was
brought TO San Francisco yesterday
by the Japanese liner Hong Kong
Maru
In a collision on the Rock Island
Railroad yesterday near Birmingham.
No, four trainmen were killed and
three seriously injured.
Fire early yesterday morning COM
pletely Quilted St. Luke's Hospital. at
Jersey City, N. j., and all the inmates
escaped in their night clothes.
The torpedo boat destroyer Paul
Jones. built by the Union Iron Works,
of San Francisco, was accepted by
the navy department yesterday.