Milford chronicle., 1902-02-28
AWEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED
rhnrsdav. February 20.

William b. Fasig, Of Brewster, N. |
Y, well known horse dealerf Of the
Fasig-TIpton Co., died yesterday.
Robert McCaw, of PHILADELPHIA, Sc
curedaa verdict for $4,000 damages
against the Union Traction company
for he loss Of a leg.
Til president sent to the senate
yesterday the names Of Captain Philip
H. Cooper and Captain George H.
Wadleigh to be rear admirals.
H. H. Marteson, who confessed to
embezzling $4,000 from the First Ma
fional Bank of Great Falls. Mont, ID
now alleged to have taken $17S,000.
Anthony ]. DrexeTs yacht Mararita
has been chartered for two months by
Mr.. Alexander, of the New York Yacht
Club. The consideration is $4,000.
Friday, February Fl.
Pope Leo yesterday entered on the
25th year of his pontificate. He was
the recipient Of congratulations from
all sides.
Two Italians were killed and three
injured, near Pittsburg, Pa, by being
struck by train on the Pittsburg, Vir-
ginia and Charleston railroad.
William Thomas Spencer Went
worth itzwilliam, sixth earl of Fitz-
william, one of the wealthiest of Eng
lish peers, died in London yesterday.
Charles Denglers, a well-known
restaurant keeper, of Trenton, N. j..
died from fall in a saloon. He struck
/ his head against the bar and fractured
his skull.
Saturday, February %.
Johns Hopkins University, at Baltl-
more, celebrated its quarter centennial
anniversary.
It is announced that King Leopold
Of Belgium, will make a short tour OF
America the coming summer.
The annual convention of the So
ciety of the Children of the American
Revolution, at Washington, closed yes
terday.
A gas explosion in a building of TIL
Rochester Gas and Electric Compan!
destroyed the structure and caused {
loss Of $4,000.
The Ohio house of representative
has placed itself on record as favorin
the election of United States senator
by a direct vote of the people.
Monday, February "a.
The Illinois auxiliary of the McKiI
ley Memorial Association has receive
$3O,616 in contributions.
James McGlashen and an unl1now
woman were found dead in a roomin
house in Detroit. They were sufft
Gated by Illuminating gas.
Charles E. Dalton, secretary-trea
. urer of the Metropolitan Guarant
Company, of Cleveland, o., shot an
j killed Maurice Kratz in a bar rool
fight
!, While cleaning a chute at No.
! colliery of the Lehigh Coal and Nav
cation company, at Tamaqua, Pa
) John Wall was caught in a revolvi1
/ wheel and instantly killed.
Tuesday, February Is.
William Emerson Richmond, be
& ter known as Billy Emerson, Il
y famous minstrel, died of consumptiC
in Boston.
/ The plant of the Tupelo Cote
e Compress company, at Tupelo, Mis-
e with zoe bales of cotton, was d
n stroyed by fire. Loss, 100000.
d General Presley NJ. Guthrie, form
E. adjutant general of Pennsylvania, al
s. one of the best-known military M
of the state, died in Pittsburg yest'
day.
King Edward of England will ha
10 assigned to Miss Alice Roosevelt
place among the wives Of ambasi
IN doris to witness the coronation ceI
y, mony.
"a Wednesday, February 26.
"a George P. Kurtz, city treasurer
e Cleveland, O., died yesterday of t
e phoid fever.
g. The Empire City race track,
SIS Yonkers, N. Y, was sold at public So
40 for 100000.
= The ninth conference of the forei
mission boards in the United Stat
Ie and Canada opened in Toronto yest'
- day.
~ Parties out walking at Benham, TIE
. found the body of a young girl &C
cealed in a hollow stump. She b
- been murdered.
- The transport Rosecranz, with
- Third Battalion of the Twenty-seco
10 Infantry, from Manila, arrived at S
10 Francisco yesterday.
"a Mrs. James F. Reagan, of Wo
county, Ky, was found in a tave
he with her throat cut from ear to e
Che oboroad baT husband with on
mi hitting the deed after a quarrel.