Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-02-14
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. February 6.

Einn., contributed $685. to the McKin-
icy memorial fund.
An explosion in the Lance mine at
Plymouth, Pa, badly damaged the in
side workings. None of the employees
were injured.
The price of stoves was advanced
by the Southern Stove Manufacturers
Association at a meeting held in Chat
tanooga, Tenn.
dered a Chester policeman and was
nearly lynched, was placed in the
Eastern Penitentiary for safe keeping.
Friday, February z.
James Egan, who served under Adj
miral Farragut during the civil war,
died at Joliet, ILL.,, yesterday.
The senate yesterday passed a bill
appropriating $2,5OO,OOO for a post
Office building in New York city.
Armstrong Hensley was hanged at
Erwin, Tenn, yesterday for the muir
der of his 6-year-old stepdaughter.
Mary Miller, 81 years old, of Phila-
delphia, committed suicide at her
home by swallowing carbolic acid.
Captain Richmond P. Hobson was
the guest last night Of the New Haven
Comm Business Mems Association
at their annual banquet.
The Brown University Corporation,
of Providence, R. l., accepted John D.
Rockefeller's gift of $4,000 for the
erection of a social and religious
building.
Saturday, February 8.
The Orinoco Steamship Company
capital $1,O0O,000, was incorporated at
! Trenton, N. ].
/ Count De Lucenay, of Calcutta, In
dia, was sent to jail in default of bail
at FL Paso Tex, for perjury.
The Red Wing Sewer Pipe com
pany's plant at Red Wing, S. D., was
destroyed by fire. Loss 100000.
Fire destroyed the Vendome Hotel
at Minneapolis, Mimi, causing a loss
of $4,000. Many guests had narrow
escapes.
c. M. Cole and Henry Reynolds were
killed by the breaking of a scaffolt
on which they were painting the in
terror of building at Atlanta, Ga.
Monday, February 10.
The International Woman Suffragt
Congress will convene in Washington
next Wednesday.
The Centenary Methodist EpiscOpa
Church, at Lebanon, Pa, was damaget
by fire to the extent of $4,000.
The Stationary Firemen's Union, 0
the anthracite coal region, will hol
their convention at Nanticoke, Pa, o.
March /.
) The Filipino junta of Hong Kong
: China, has flooded Manila with pan
phlets expressing sympathy at tn
, death of President Mckinley.
: A street motor dashed into ClevC
, land and Pittsburg freight train g
ing at full speed at Cleveland, O., an
five men were seriously injured.
+ Tuesday, February II.
Ground was broken at Princeton,
J., for the new s25O,OOO gymnasium fo
Princeton College.
1t is reported that ex-Secretar
Gage will assume the presidency {
+ the United States Trust Company,
l New York.
e The battleship Illinois, to be tn
flagship of the reception squadron I
: meet Prince Henry, left Newpol
B. News for New York.
r Andrew Carnegie sent a check fl
s 100000 to Stevens Institute of Tee
r nology, in Hoboken, N. J., to endo
, the laboratory of engineering.
General Fitzhugh Lee lectured la
4 night on Peace and War in the Uni
s. ed States and Cuba" before the N
# tiOnal Union Organization of Chicag
n Wednesday, February IL.
Three business blocks of Allianc
= o., were burned yesterday. Loss, $6(
= OOO
+ More than 400 houses were d
$ stroyed by fire at Canton, China, ye
Il terday
s. The national convention of railroa
re commissioners met in Charleston,
e c., yesterday.
Fifteen men were injured, five sci
n ously, in a dust explosion at mine N
:, 5, near Bon Air, Tenn, yesterday.
~ Indianapolis, Ind, has been desi
"a mated as a regular inspection point f
cavalry horses purchased for the Br
ish army in South Africa.
I, A yellow rainfall at Manch
q. France, was found to contain miner
matter composed Of carbonate of c;
in cium and lime sulphate and chlorate
of The American Peace Society of Be
his ton sent a petition to congress fave
n ing independence Of Philippine Islam
when they can maintain a staple &c
as eminent