Milford chronicle., 1903-06-05
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
ThursdaY, May e.

and two others seriously injured in a
tenement house fire in New York.
Harley J. Howe. the famous scale
manufacturer. died at Rochester, N.
Y, Of heart disease, aged SO years.
An explosion wrecked the powder
mill near Terre Haute Ind, and killed
one man and fatally injured three 9th
ers.
General Greedy. chief signal officer Of
the United States army, who is in Lon
don attending the International Tele-
graph conference, was presented to
King Edward.
Friday May 29.
It is said the saving deposits in Chi
cago banks have passed the 100000
600 mark.
D. w. Miller, of the Aetna Coal
Company. was run over and killed on
the railroad near Chattanooga, Tenn.
Emperor William has presented the
New York Yacht Club with a cup to
be known as the emperor's cup, to be
competed for some time next fall.
Frederick Munich, who on Tuesday
was eleced grand junior warden of
the Knights Templar of Pennsylvania,
died in Philadelphia Of pneumonia.
David Rogers returned to the home
of his brother, Aaron Rogers, at
Franklin. Pa, after an absence of 80
years. He had been mOurned as dead.
Saturday, May 30.
Fire destroyed 60 buildings at
Mariesville. near Montreal, Can, en-
failing a loss of over 100000.
S. B. Stillwell, president of the
Pennsylvania Fisheries Commission,
died at Scranton aged SO years.
Two laborers were killed and six
injured in a freight wreck on the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Waverly,
N. J.
By dropping a lighted lamp, which
set fire to her clothes, Mrs. George G.
Grothe, of York, Pa, was burned to
death.
Five men we're terribly burned by
an explosion of gas in a mine near
Wheeling. w. Va. It is believed they
are all fatally injured.
Monday, June I.
In a collision between trolley cars al
Charleston. Mass, ten persons were
injured. two fatally.
The Sioux colliery at Shamokin. Pa.
resumed operations, giving employment
to over 400 men and boys.
While demented by i'll health Frank
Emmett, a prominent cotton broker,
killed himself with a pen knife at New
Orleans.
All the grand officers of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen have been
reelected. p. II. Morrissey being again
the grand master.
The book case and Office speciality
manufacturing plant of the John DAN
ner company at Canton, o., was de-
stroyed by fire Loss, S15O.OOO.
Tuesday, June 2.
Attorney General Knox has gone to
Pittsburg to meet President Roosevelt.
The planning mill of Oeman & Bio
houn, at York, Pa, was destroyed by
fire. Loss. $4,000.
War department officials are search
ing for Lieutenant T. E. Murtagh who
disappeared from Cienfuegos, Cuba, 10
days ago.
The Berlin Branch Railroad with its
franchises was sold by Sheriff Base
hoar. at Gettysburg, Pa, to the York
Trust Company for $4,000.
The total receipts of the government
for the month of May were S44.113,9G9
and the disbursements $4G,5S6,956,
leaving a surplus of s3,526,973.
Wednesday, June 3.
The Pennsylvania Eclectic Medical
Society held its annual convention at
Allentown.
The new cruiser Tacoma was
launched at the Union Iron Works, at
San Francisco.
Mrs. Roosevelt has returned to
Washington from Groton, Mass, where
she visited her sons al school
Professor ]. P. Lesley, the famous
geologist of the University of Penn
sylvania, died at his home in Milton,
Mass.
The United States geological survey
during the coming year will investi-
gate the mineral resources of Hawaii
and Porto Rico.
Governor Pennypacker of Pennsyl-
vania, has appointed William S. Nee
han, of Philadelphia, chief Of the de-
partment of fisheries.