Milford chronicle., 1902-05-16
AWEEK'S NEWS CONDENSED


inurSoayI May o
A cable dispatch from Pekin says
the dowager empress of China is in
sane.
A report issued by the census bu
Teau yesterday on ship building shows
q capital of 1852, FOL invested.
Professor Albert B. Stewart. A M,
of Lewisburg, Pa, is to be professor
of Latin at Colgate Academy, Hamil /
ton, n Y.
Labor unions at Middletown, N. Y.
and Portland, Me-, voted to abstain
from using western beef for period
Of 80 days.
Severe earthquake shocks occurred
yesterday throughout the French and
Danish West Indies, and much damage
is reported.
Friday, May g.
Secretary of War Root favors estab-
fishing a general army post at Buffalo.
N. Y, embracing all branches of the
service.
The auditors of Wilmington, Del,
have begun an investigation of the
/ financial transactions Of the old board
of health.
Striking dyers and deputies at Lodi
N, j., had a pitched battle yesterday,
In which several were injured and
many strikers arrested.
The war department has decided to
sell nine OF the vessels in the United
States transport service and to ulti-
mately abolish the service.
Saturday, May 10.
President Roosevelt yesterday
signed the oleomargarine bill
President Roosevelt yesterday sent
to tho senate the nomination Of Eu
gene +. Ware, of Kansas, to be com
missioner Of pensions.
While driving across the tracks o.
the West Jersey Railroad at Berlin
N. j., yesterday, Frank Carano wa:
struck by a train and killed.
While having her teeth extracted
by dentist, the wife of CHILEAN Con
: sui Juan A. Perira, at Oakland, Cal
was seized with spasms and died il
the chair.
Strong protests from Boer club
have been received by Attorney Gen
. eral Knox against the further suppl
of horses and mules from this countr
e for the British army in South Africa
p Monday, May II.
e Thirteen persons were killed in
i landslide at Marcia, Italy, yesterday.
Cardinal Martinelli, the papal dele
gate to the United States, sailed 70
Rome Saturday.
8 Jesse Stone. lieutenant governor {
n Wisconsin, died last night at Waite
:, town. Wis, from cancer of tn
t. stomach,
/ While in a fit of delirium. Harr
a Kincaid, of South Bethlehem, Pa,
smallpox patient, committed suicid
by hanging himself,
u The Blue Ridge coal breaker of I'll
oil Ontario and Western Railroad cor
pany, near Scranton, Pa, was
as stroyed by fire yesterday
:. Tuesday, May 10.
10 Postmaster Samuel l.. Burroughs.
q portsmouth, Va, is missing. and h
- accounts are short $500.
II Miss Helen Gould has given S.
T. as a nucleus for a $4,000 home f
United States sailors at Norfolk, Va.
il ]. Pierpont Morgan spent one d.
in in Berlin, .ermany, last week, ste
ss ping at a hotel incOgnitO.
&C. The extensive planning mills, lumb
i, sheds and dry kilns of the SOuthe
a. States Lumber Company. at Muscog,
Fla, with 100000 feet of lumber, we
IS destroyed by fire.
at The Italian cruiser Calabria h
", been ordered to Havana to represe
At Italy at the Inauguration of the M
,as Cuban republic.
Wednesday,, May IA.
The condition of Queen Wilhelmil
Of Holland, is so much improved IL
10 the physicians will issue no more b
III letins.
At a special election Wilkesbar
ars Pa, decided to issue S81, 900 in bonds
di- construct a conduit along a SIN
he stream, which menaces the city.
es The house committee on military
zee fairs ordered favorable report on
- bill to retire Surgeon General Ste
" berg with the rank Of major general
gu Governor Murphy, of New Jers
NJ issued an order for a special election
the Fourth congressional district,
bed elect a successor to the late Congre
ms man Salmon.
Captain Richmond P. HObson, of
90, United States navy, delivered an
dress and presented the diplomas
-, the graduating class Of the Maryl;
'"e Medical College, at Baltimore,
ives evening.