Milford chronicle., 1903-04-03
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, March 2e.

Ihe Old Forge breaker OF the Penn
sylvania Coal Company, at Duryea, Pa,
was destroyed by fire yesterday.
The 36Sth anniversary of the settling
Of the colony of Maryland was observed
yesterday throughout the state.
The National Womans Suffragist
Convention at New Orleans adjourned
last night The next session will be
held in Washington.
The Toronto. Ont, Opera Hosue was
burned yesterday, entailing a loss of
$3.50, 900. Defective electric wires were
the cause of the fire.
Edward Edsall was sentenced to one
gear in the penitentiary at New York
yesterday for sending a threatening
letter to a Pittsburg millionaire.
Friday, March 27.
The torpedo boat De Long has been
accepted by the government She is
now at the Norfolk navy yard.
Notices were posted yesterday at
the coal mines near Cumberland, Nd,
giving the miners a 10 per cent. in
crease in wages.
Judge Henry C. Ide. a member of
the Philippine commission, arrived in
San Francisco yesterday. He returned
on account of his health.
The plant of Henry K. Wampole &
Co., manufacturing pharmacists, Phila-
delphia, was damaged by fire to the
extent of $4,000 last night.
J. C. Bowling and W. S. Cooper
while crossing the Southern Railway
tracks near Raleigh, N. c., in a wagon
were struck by a train and killed.
Saturday, March 2s.
President Roosevelt has declined to
visit Victoria, B. C.. on his western
trip.
The 500 employees of the brick and
terra Gotta plant of Henry Maurer. at
Maurer, N. j.. went on strike yester-
day.
A bill was introduced in the Canada
parliament yesterday to increase the
head tax on Chinese entering Canada
from 500 to $500.
DR.. c. v Brown, of Milwaukee. will
represent the United States at the
International Medical Congress at
Madrid, Spain, next month.
In a collision of passenger trains on
the Southern Pacific Railroad. near
San Antonio, Tex, yesterday, three
passengers were killed and nine others
injured.
Monday, March 80.
Twenty-one Sisters of the Daughters
Of Jesus, recently expelled from
France, arrived at st, Johns, N. B.,
yesterday.
Extensive forest fires are raging
on the mountains near Williamsport,
Pa. and a large amount of valuable
timber has been destroyed.
In order to give the Pennsylvania
State College, near Bellefonte, a more
adequate library, Andrew Carnegie has
increased his gift to s150,000.
After wandering over several states
in the last few weeks, Lawyer J. J.
Timanus, of Baltimore, Md, has re-
turned, claiming to have no recolIec-
ton of where he has been.
- Tuesday, March 81.
All the employees of the glass factor
ies at Dubois, Pa, are on strike against
a reduction of wages.
Queen Alexandra left London for
Copenhagen yesterday to visit her
father King Christian, of Denmark.
Arthur Wellhousen, of Marine City,
Mich, shot and killed himself because |
his parents wanted him to go to church. |
ElmerWeaver, baker, was run down
and killed by an express train while |
crossing the Lehigh Valley Railroad |
tracks near Easton, Pa, yesterday.
Frederick s. and Edward F. Rowe, |
aged II and years, were |
killed by a shifting engine on the B. |
and o. Railroad, near Baltimore, Nd, /
Wednesday, April I.
Minnesota will build a new state
capitol at St Paul at a cost of $4,5OO,-
600.
The next annual convention of the
Pennsylvania State Grange will be
held at Wilkesbarre early in Decem-
Der.
Henry W. Corbett, ex-United States
senator from Oregon, died at his home
at Portland yesterday from heart
trouble.
By ferryboat breaking in two in
the Delaware river near Easton, Pa;
Nathaniel Rucher- and four
horses were drowned.
Over 100 non-union men from Balti-
more went to Pittsburg to enter the
employ of the American Bridge Com
Dany. whose men are on strike.
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