Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-07-18
. WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, July 10.


Simon Freeman, Of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
committed suicide by jumping from
bridge into the Susquehanna river.
A mast 40 feet high, for the wireless
telegraph station at the Annapolis
Naval Academy, was placed in position
yesterday.
Corporal Samuel Boyd, formerly or
derby to Admiral Dewey on the Olym.
pia at the battle of Manila Bay was
killed by train at Magruder, Md.
]. c. BentOyer, a ranchman of Car
bon county, Montana, was given a pat.
ent for flying machine yesterday. RE
has challenged Santos-Dumont for
race.
Friday, July II.
The June receipts of the so largest
postofices in the United States show
an increase Of S572, 822, or IA per cent. |
The Glass Bottle Blowers Associa- !
ton of the United States and Canada
donated $4,000 to the striking anthra-
cite miners.
Edwin Gallagher, of Scranton, Pa,
was killed yesterday afternoon by fall
ing down an elevator shaft in the
Tribune building.
Professor Charles w. Eliot, of Har-
ward College, was elected president of
the National Educational Association
at their convention at Minneapolis,
MINI.
Saturday, July 70.
The first rain storm since last Oc-
tober occurred at Albuquerque, N. NJ,
yesterday.
A Vienna dispatch says the Sultan
! is considering the suppression of all
American missions in Turkey.
Postmaster General Payne left
Washington yesterday for his home in
Wisconsin to spend the summer.
Ex-President Juan Jiminez, of San
Domingo, who was recently deported
from that country, arrived in New
York yesterday.
The Mine Workers Union and Ala
bama coal operators yesterday agreed
on a scale of So cents for mining and
uniform pay for laborers.
Monday, July IA.
One hundred and fifteen Boer officers
left Bermuda Saturday for New York
General Thomas ]. Morgan died yes
terday at his home at Yonkers, N. Y.
aged 81 years.
While cleaning a target rifle Satur-
day, Brent Yates, a business man Of
Hiawatha, Kan, killed himself.
A mass meeting of Catholics was hell
at Grand Rapids. Mich, last night t.
protest against forcing the friars GU
of the Philippines.
Paris green used too freely on a pa
tato patch nearly caused the death o
Mrs. Thomas Scott, her two daughter
and a son, at Mt. Carmel, Pa, they hav
ing eaten some of the tubers.
Tuesday, July IS.
The national meeting of state banl
examiners will be held at Detroit
Mich, July 20.
Many families are rendered home
less at Argentine, Kan, by the food il
; the Missouri river.
A Paris dispatch says that y RUNE
gamblers committed suicide at Mont
Carlo during the past few days.
The battleships Kearsarge, Alabam
:. and Massachusetts, which have bee
laid up for repairs at the New Yor
!, navy yard for some time, put to Sc
0 today.
s 1t is expected that Minister WI wi
T not leave Washington for his new DO.
in China for some time, as the ne
d minister Liang Cheng Tung, will NJ
e take up his duties until August.
t Wednesday, July is.
: Nineteen men deserted from I'll
i United States warship San FrancisC
n at London yesterday.
: Isaac Smith, colored, was killed
a riot between whites and blacks
Orangeburg, S. c., yesterday.
e The 49th annual convention of IL
IS Grand Lodge Of Pennsylvania Coo
T. Templars was held at Pittsburg.
e William s. Hartley, editor of Il
1t New York Clipper, died at Atlant
-e City yesterday of Bright's disease.
IS It is said Queen Wilhelmina of HI
Y. land is convalescing very slowly, al
d there is great anxiety concerning he
If The convention of the Glass Bot
Blowers Association at Atlantic CT
adjourned yesterday to meet in CT
cinnati next year.