Milford chronicle., 1903-10-02
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, september q.


The l50th academic year of Column
bia University New York, opened with
large attendance of students.
Governor Pennypacker and many
other Pennsylvania state officers at
tended the Allentown, Pa, fair.
The Erie railroad station at Great
Bend, Pa. was wrecked by burglars,
who blew up the safe. The robbers Sc
cured nothing Of value.
Mrs. Emma ConneH, of Landenberg.
Pa, while driving to the Wilmington.
Del, market, was stricken with apo
plexy and died in an hour.
The Baltimore convention Of the
Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd Eel
lows refused to grant to the Rebekah
branch cf the order the right to es-
tablish 4 death and funeral fund.
Friday, September 25.
A proclamation has been issued
designating Friday, October 16, as Ar.
Dor Day in Pennsylvania.
Two railroad men were killed in
head-on collision on the Cleveland and
Pittsburs road near New PhiladeI-
phia, o.
One man was killed and two fatally
injured by being knocked from a freight
car by bridge on the New York Cen
tral Railroad near Buffalo. n. Y.
Fourteen of the Il -four mills of The
Pillsbury-Washburn, the Washburn-
Crosby Company and the Consolidated
Milling Company at Minneapolis nave
been closed down by strikes.
Saturday, September 26.
The International Peace Conference
will meet in st. Louis next year.
Sherman Stevens, a negro, was
hanged at Wedowee, Va, for the lnur-
der of his father.
Richard S. Howse, formerly trainer in /
King Edwards stables. died at Denver. |
Col. of consumption.
Two lives were lost and several in
jured in a fire which destroyed the
Hotel Brunswick at Buffalo, n. Y.
Curtis Jett. convicted at Cynthiana.
Ky, of numbering James Cockrnl, has
been sentenced to hang December Is.
Six indictments have been found
against six members of the Detroit,
Mich. board of public works for con
spirecy to desraud the city.
Monday, September %.
A negro was lynched at Thomas
Vile. Ca. for criminal assault on a
small white girl.
Mary Maloney, aged 10, of Water
bury, Conn, under arrest for arson,
confessed to starting five fires in "a
'ours for revenge.
Over 10000 900 pieces Of mail were
in the year ending June 80
BY the dead letter Office s4S,634 in
money being found in them.
Charged with forcibly putting eie at
,clc-ed men aboard a Russian bark as
iailors, Harry Oleson and Jack John
icn are under arrest at Savannah, Ca,
A reunion of nonresident natives of
North Carolina will be held at Green's
Doro, October u and Is. Delegations
rom many northern states will attend.
Tuesday, September 2e.
Commander E. NJ. Hughes, U. S. N,
ttached to the Aslatic fleet, died in a
ospital at Yokohama, Japan.
In collision between a runaway ca
lie car and a wagon in Chicago one
ersOn was killed and 16 injured.
Nearly 800 horses are entered in the
Exhibition OF the Louisville CKyO
Iorse Show Association. Twenty-six
-ates and Canada are represented.
The cornerstone Of the new Frances
. Willard National Temperance Hos
ital at Chicago was laid with impos- !.
lg ceremonies. The building will cost
10000.
An explosion at the Connell Powder
ills at Shamokin, Pa, wrecked three
lildings and fire that followed de-
royed three mere. No one was injur-
l. Loss. $4,000.
Wednesday, September 80.
Robert R. West of Kentucky, has
zen appointed auditor for the govern.
ent printing Office.
Commissioner Of Pensions Ware has
turned to Washington from his sum-
er vacation, which he spent in Kan "
s.
James Owens, a plasterer, was killed =
ID three other workmen seriously in M
red by a gas explosion on the roof '-
a New York hotel.
By the capsizing Of his boat while
hing at Westport, Mass. Henry
eers. a prominent New York busi-
IS man. was drowned.
A Chesapeake and Ohio express
lin was wrecked near Montgomery.
Va. and several persons injured.
e rails spread and five cars left