Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-10-03
AWEEK's NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday. September IS.


Andrew Carnegie visited King Ed
ward at Balmoral Castle. Glasgow, yes
terday afternoon.
An official statement of Germany's
finances for the last fiscal year show a
deficit of about s11, 100000.
Fire yesterday destroyed the Central
Hotel and several other buildings at
Shinnestown, near Clarksburg, W. Va.
Loss, $780, 900.
Mr. and Mrs. ]. J. Shrouder, of Ma
con. Ca, were shot and killed yester-
day by George Bundrlck in a quarrel |
over a pocket knife.
Will Mathies and Orlando Lester
were hanged yesterday at Oxford,
Miss, for the murder of two deputy
United States marshals last November.
Friday, September &c.
The Both annual meeting of the Ma
tional Association of Mexican War
Survivors was held yesterday at
Paris. KY.
Baldwin & Leveridge's department
store and anneXes at Marshall, Ia,
were destroyed by fire yesterday.
Loss, $125.OOO.
John Mitchell. president of the Mine
Workers Union, has accepted an invi-
tation to speak at a mass meeting In
Boston October II.
DR.. Samuel Houston, of Pennsylva-
MIA, was appointed chief medical ref
cree of the pension bureau, at Wash
ington, to succeed DR.. Jacob Raub, Of
Pennsylvania.
Saturday, September ~.
General Booth, commander-in-chief
of the Salvation Army, sailed from
r Southampton today for the United
; States.
Special agents Of the United States
department Of agriculture left Wash
ington for the south to investigate the
n cotton crop.
+ The United States comptroller of
= the treasury has allowed Kentucky
/ S12O,s6O as reimbursement of expenses
in raising soldiers for the war with
= Spain.
President Gompers, of the American
d Federation Of Labor. has issued a call
Y for the 22d annual convention of the
e. Federation, to be held at New Or
d leans on November 10.
It Monday, September 20.
Philadelphia coal dealers today ad
= vanced the price of anthracite to $1S
is a ton.
a John T. Koontz, of Bedford, Pa.
s, while cleaning a well fell to the bot
N tom and was drowned.
n Employees of the -four mills of Min
!. neapolis, Mimi, who threatened t
=. strike were granted an eight-hOur day
in William GOdeau, of Mobile, Ala
m was called from his home by unknown
l persons yesterday and shot to death
al Charles McDermOtt, of HazletOI
10 Pa, fell from the Pennsylvania Raj
- road bridge at Trenton on Saturda
bv and was drowned.
m Tuesday, September 80.
.ly Twelve hundred public schools, wit
III an attendance Of over $4,000, weT
II opened in Porto Rico yesterday.
a, Jacob RhynersOn, who was badl
los beaten by attendants at a private as,
Ium in Topeka, Kan, died of his il
GU juries.
tly The rolling mill of the Dupont POV
lo- der Works. near Wilmington, De
Of blew up yesterday No one was /
rm jured.
ub- The reported marriage of Quee
ub- Maria Christina, of Spain, to COul
us de la Escororu is declared to be fall
Re at Madrid.
Wednesday, October I.
Assistant Secretary of War Sang
witnessed the army manOeuvTes
Fort Riley Kan, today.
Secretary Wilson's estimate for d
~ ~. department of agriculture for the ne
EN-. fiscal year aggregates $4,000 900.
The Peoples party OF Pennsylvan
lay. has withdrawn its state ticket owl
to lack of money for campaign pI
nel- poses.
Jay, The vault and safe of the City Ba
p ~ at Fort Mill. s. c., we're dynamited
burglars early yesterday morning a
SO, 900 secured.
il OF Ludwig Braun, Of Richmond, Stat
dtn. Island, ~ Y. committed suicide
here Orange, Tex. where he went to
n IN cape prosecution and blackmall.
,.I The Pennsylvania capitol comm
lion sion yesterday made alterations in
n,Iv specifications for the new state hot
aces at Harrisburg and reduced the c
tract price to $3,5O5;656.