Milford chronicle., 1903-02-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
ThuraaaY, january 29.

The Maine legislature yesterday held |
exercises IN memory OF the late Thomas
B. Reed.
The Italian cabinet has adopted bill
providing a wireless station for mes
sages between Italy and South America.
The Kansas legislature yesterday
elected Chester 1. Long to succeed viii
liam A. Harris as United States sem
ator.
The torpedo boat fotilla which took
part in the naval manoeuvres in the
West Indies arrived at Norfolk, Va,
yesterday.
Friday, January 80.
An American chamber of commerce
was organized at Berlin, Germany,
last night, with 1O1 members.
Seven Cinnamon, said to have been
smuggled into this country, were ar
rested at Buffalo, N. Y, yesterday.
Chief Justice J. Brewster McCol-
lum. of the Pennsylvania supreme
court. is seriously ill at his home AZ
Montrose.
Levi Anlleny millionaire banker, Of
Walla Walla, was elected to the United
States senate yesterday to succeed
George Turner, of Washington.
Mr.. Bristow, of New York. intro
duced a bill in the house yesterday to
increase the salary of the president
of the United States from $4,000 to
100000.
Saturday, January 81.
last evening Mrs. Roosevelt gave
her usual Friday evening musicale at
the White House.
Mrs. Betsey M. Lewis, aged 101 years,
died yesterday at the Harrisburg Home
for the Friendless.
The sultan of Turkey received United
States Minister Leishman in private
audience yesterday.
The Maryland Telephone and Tele-
graph company was sold yesterday to
a syndicate for $4,000 ,00O
The Alabama legislature passed a
bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
or cigarette paper in the state.
James Tulloch, a Chicago manufac-
turer, choked to death while eating
supper yesterday. A piece of meal
lodged in his windpipe.
F. Monday, February 2.
Mrs. Adam Reichert, during a family
quarrel on Saturday. shot and killeD
her husband at Hazleton, Pa.
About 600 carpenters and joiner'
went on strike today at Wilkesbarre
Pa, for an increase of wages.
William ]. Bryan will attend th'
barbecue of the Jefferson-Jacllson-Lir
coin League at Columbus, o., Febru
ary u.
Former President Cleveland wa
elected first vice president of tn
Princeton IN. j. Fish and Game Pre-
tective Association.
The Chicago authorities began tn
& sale of coal to the public at cost, an
the demand became so great that OF
ders had to be limited to half to
each.
Tuesday, February 8.
The United States Supreme Coul
Yesterday took a recess for thre
weeks.
The Monroe Club. of Boston, ha
endorsed Richard Olney as the Dem'
cratic candidate for president.
w. D. Freedland, a business ma
from Clinton, N. J., dropped dead ye
terdav at Riverside, Cal, from a par
lytic stroke.
While returning from church Su
day evening Mary Williams, OF nc
man. w. Va, was shot and killed {
a discarded sweetheart.
Jordan Coy, a negro, was killed an
an Italian injured in the falling OF
scaffold in the Princeton IN. JJ VI
versity gymnasium yesterday
Wednesday, February 4.
The international conveI tion of Il
Epworth League will be he'd at u
troit. Mich, July 1919.
Fire destroyed six blocks in the pu
mess section of Middlebury, Vt, "
terday. Loss estimated at $l5O,oOO'
A bill providing for the abolishme
of capital punishment was introduce
in the New York legislature yest'
day.
By an explosion of nitro-glyceri
at Marietta o., yesterday Mrs Jol
Newell was killed and her two SO
seriously injured.
Charles C. Morris a cook aboard I
new battleship Maine, now lying
League Island Navy Yard, Philaa
phia. fell down an open hatchway a
broke his neck.