Milford chronicle., 1903-08-21
A WEEKS NEWS cONDEKsED.
Thursday, August 10.

thursday august io'
The International Typographical
Union has decided to meet next year
IN St. Louis.
John Lang and John Meyers, miners.
were killed by a premature explosion
of dynamite in a mine at Iron Noun
tain, Mich.
Frederic Mac Monnies of New York,
has been selected to design statue
of General Mcpherson. to be erected
in Washington D. c.
Isaac Markley. a wealthy farmer OF
Marshalltown, Ia. charged with wife
murder and out on $4,000 bail, COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
Z. E. Johnson. bookkeeper for the
Commercial Bank. of Duluth, Mimi.
has been arrested, charged with en-
bezzling $4,000 of the banks money.
Friday, August IA.
The first bale of South Carolina cot
ton was sold at Augusta for 20 cents
per pound.
The Pennsylvania Fraternal Order
of Eagles decided to hold next years
convention at Reading.
Patrick McHenry, Of Newark, N. j.,
is under arrest at Cheyenne, Mo-,
charged with numbering a miner.
Two white miners are dead and
three seriously injured as the result
of an explosion in a mine at Coal City,
Ala.
Milton Gregg was struck by an eX-
press train on the Pennsylvania Rail-
road near Lancaster, Pa, and instant
ly killed.
Saturday, August is.
Crops and property in Davis county,
KY, were damaged to the extent OF
$4,000 by a hailstorm.
The government has withdrawn from
entry 10000 acres of public land in
Colorado, to be used for irrigation.
G. r. Creighton was arrested in New
York for forging notes for $4,000 on
the law firm of Townsend & Wardell.
The first meeting of the Alaskan
boundary commission will be held Sep
ten1ber 3 in the British foreign Office,
London.
II S. Faulkner, former member OF
the St. Louis house Of delegates, was
convicted Of perjury in the boodline
investigation and sentenced to three
years Imprisonment.
Monday, August ~
In a rear-end collision Of trolley cars
at Kansas City Is persons were in
jured, two fatally.
Bee Washington, negro, was Iynchec
at Line Store, Miss, for numbering
Stanley Wood. a white man
An international exhibition of Amer
ican horses will be held at Louisville
Ky. September IS to October 3.
The. nnsyIvania forestry commits
sion viii place a stone tablet at Graf
fensburg IN honor of Thaddeus Stevens
A. Merle Henburg, aged IA years, o
Dushore. Pa. fell into a ''N' cog gear
ing at the Bernice breaker and was III
orally ground to death.
Tuesday, August 18.
Twenty-Five Chinamen were arrested
near Ogdensburg, N. Y. for unlawful!
crossing the Canadian border
Receivers have been appointed TO
the oliver Refining Company, OF Nor
folk Va. Liabilities, $272,OOO; assets
S37O,625.
Miss Maude Crofton aged a. hans
Cd herself with a shawl strap at Ia
richard Grundy Sanitarium at s.
Dennis. near Washington, D. G.
charles Elow and James Scanlon
? Pennsylvania Railroad employees, wer
seriously injured at AIetuchen, N. J.
nv 1OO0-pound butting block tailln
on them. ,-. 80.
In a head-on collision between pas
senger trains on the Chicago, MilWau
Ice and St. Paul railroad at Long Lake
til. two trainmen we're killed and man
messengers injured. three fatally.
Wednesday, August 49,.
Tho next convention of the Nationa
Building Trades Council will be heI
at Sioux City, Ia
burglars blew open the safe of th
Barnesboro, Pa, postofice and secure
S11O0 in stamps and money.
S. W. Alexandrovsky, commissions
General for the Russian empire to tn
St Louis fair, has arrived in Ne
York.
The Nebraska Republican CONVEX
tion has endorsed President Roos'
velt's administration and declared fc
his denomination.
Harvey Wilson, of Dover, Del, wa
accidentally knocked of whart an
drowned. One of his friends Will
wrestling with another man lie
against him.