Milford chronicle., 1902-07-11
AWBEK'S NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. JULY 3.


Thursday, July 8.
According to the United States cen
sus report there are 279,719 farms in
Ohio. valued at $1,O36, 615,1 SO, of which !
IS per cent. is in land.
A. B. busch shot and killed VIII |
Woods at Metropolis. H., during |
quarrel. Woods accused busch of In
sulting his sweetheart.
Captain G. W. King, of the Min
neapolis detective force, was sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary for
being an accessory to a felony.
The Photo Engravers' Union has
been expelled from the American Fed.
Grafton of Labor for breaking faith
with the International Typographical
Union.
Mrs. Harriet Avent, cook for A. NJ
Clary, Of Jacksonville, Va, was found
unconscious. wiwth her skull fractured.
Her husband is charged with the
crime.
Saturday, July 5.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has ordered 100000 tons Of steel rails
for 1908.
The Texas Prohibitionists' state con
ventiOn met yesterday and named
full ticket.
Joseph Mortified, treasurer Of the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.
was struck by trolley car and killed.
One hundred workmen employed by
the Spedden Ship Building Company, at
Baltimore, struck for an increase in
wages.
General Lloyd Wheaton reached Chi
cago, ILL.,. from Manila. where he will
reside, his retirement for age being set
for July Is.
The keel of the battleship Nebraska
was laid in Moran Bros. & Company's
ship yards, at Seattle, Wash, yester.
day, before a great crowd.
Monday, July 7.
The goth national convention of the
North American Turnerbund opened
in Davenport, Ia, yesterday.
Canned salmon poisoned Henry
ARMS and seven children at Pittsburg,
Pa, and one child may die.
cloudburst at Ellisport, Idaho
swept away II or more houses and
flooded the country for miles.
Forty-eight passengers of the Ward
line steamer Esperanza from Havana
were put in quarantine at New York
Saturday.
Laborers in the coal mines of the
Altoona district refuse to work less
than six days a week, claiming the
miners are disObeying the four-day
order.
President Roosevelt has decided t.
spend the greater part of the summer
at his home at Oyster Bay, N. Y.
where he will transact all immediat,
public business.
, Tuesday, July 8.
Mary S. Knowlton, aged 70 years
was killed in a runaway accident at Ar
lington, Mass, yesterday.
Walter Arnold and an unknown com
panion were drowned while swimming
in the Maumee river at Toledo, o., yes
terday.
E Louis Botha, the Boer general, vii
spend the summer at Lapanne, a Bel
gium summer resort, where his wifi
! has taken house.
=, Richmond P. Hobson, hero Of tn
Merrimac, delivered the opening ad
' dress at the WinOna Chautauqua, a
u Warsaw Ind, yesterday.
Queen Alexandra yesterday ente
n tanned 10000 London servants and pr,
t scented to each guest a box of choc,
s late and a silver gilt brooch.
Vice Chancellor Grey, Of New Jersey
issued an injunction restraining tn
Glass Blowers Association from inter
fering with the operation of the G. v
Jonas glass works at Minetola.
Wednesday, July 9.
The mercury reached los degrees
Il Metropolis, H., yesterday.
Il Philip Joseph Fitzalan- Howard, Ea
Is of Arundel and Surrey, died in Londo
1t yesterday.
o The fifth annual convention of Il
r Luther League of America opened la
evening at St. Paul, MINI.
% In a fight at a church in Janold's Va
-: ley, w. Va, Peter Hendricks was killt
and several others fatally injured.
&c The fishing smack W. Young WI
d wrecked yesterday ten miles below A
n lantic City. The crew was taken Off
)r The treasury department has begU
in active preparations to erect the L
6 public buildings throughout the coui
W try authorized by the late congress.