Milford chronicle., 1903-10-30
A WEEKS NEWS coNDENsED.
Thucsdav. October e.

A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, October %.
The Superior, Wis, postoihce was
broken into and robbed of over $4,000
in stamps and cesh.
The Delaware aad Hudson Railroad |
company has announced that 1t viii |
lay off 2O0 msn, or 10 per cent. OF the |
working force.
Howard Elliott. of St Paul, Mimi,
has been elected president Of the !
Northern Pacific railroad, vice c. 3. |
Mellen, resigned.
S. E. Morse, owner of the Indian2p-
oils Qnd) Evening Sentinel, fell from a
third floor window to the pavement
and was instantly killed.
The 18th annual conference OF the
American Sunday School Union was
held in Chicago, with over 600 dele
gates present, including 100 mission
aTiSi.
Friday, October 23.
The widow of Rev. Charles II.
Spurgeon. the noted Methodist minis
ter. died in London.
Hawaii is to be represented at the
st. Louis Worlds Fair by building
Of typical Polynesian architecture.
The town of San Miguel, Cal, was
visited by a fire that nearly destroyed
the town. The loss will exceed S225,-
0OO.
The Pennsylvania German Society
held it's 18th annual convention at
Lebanon, and elected DR.. ]. S. Stahs.
of Lancaster, president.
Charles S. White, one of the best
known journalists in northeastern
Pennsylvania, contested with the
Wilkesbarre Leader, died after
weeks illness
Saturday, October "a.
Burglars broke into the store room
of the Deutsch Jewelry Company, at
Cleveland, O.. and stole $4,000 worth
of diamonds.
Secretary of the Navy Moody ar
rived at Hampton Roads on the Dol
phin and visited the Norfolk, Va,
navy yard for the first time.
A boat containing five Hungarian
laborers was swept over the Spring
dale dam, near Pittsburg, Pa, and four
of the occupants were drowned.
The navy department will rush work
On the cruiser Chattanooga, which was
towed to the Brooklyn navy yard from
the shipyard at Elizabethport. N. J.
Monday, October 2e.
Five Italian laborers repairing tho
tracks of the Erie road at Ramapo
ny. were struck by an express traiI
and killed.
Cincinnati. O., is making elaborate
arrangements for the National w. c
T. U. convention, which meets ther'
November Is to Is.
For embezzling $4,000, Albert W
Deibel, former paying teller of th'
City National Bank at Canton, o.
was given five years in prison.
Terribly cut and riddled with bul
lets. the dead bodies of Mrs. Anni
Holcomb and her 17-year-old daughte
were found dead at Jasper, Ga, witt
no clew to the assassins.
Tuesday, October 81.
The banking firm of Scrogging
Workman, at Sheridan, Ore, was rot
bed of $4,000. The safe was blow
open with dynamite.
In a drunken fight at Cleveland, 0
one man was fatally stabbed and 81
others badly injured by knives an
clubs. A number of arrests wer
made.
Lieutenant General Young, chief c
staff. has returned to Washington froI
Fort Riley, Kan. where he inspecte
the troops engaged in the war m'
noeuvres.
The Twentieth Century Club, OF Bo
ton, has started a movement to rails
funds to relieve distress in Macedonii
which resulted from the insurrectiol
They expect to raise s1,O00.O0O.
Wednesday, October %.
II. s. District Judge NJ. NJ. Estee die
at Honolulu from an operation for XII
ney troubles.
Fire at the Bay Shore Lumber G
plant at Marinett, Wis, destroyed
400 600 feet of lumber valued at $12C
900.
I A. Marcoux and wife were chlor
formed to death in their home at Lea
S. D.. by burglars, who then ransac
ed the house.
Three men were killed and five i
iured in an accident at the Canadia
Niagara Power company's plant at \
agara Falls. Ont.
Two children of Albert Colema
near Bryan, Louisa county, Va we
burned to death in a fire which d
stroyed their home.