Milford chronicle., 1903-08-14
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. Auaust 6.

The Pennsylvania. .Sunday-schOol As
sembly will meet at Saratoga Park,
Pottstown, August II to 21.
Robert Atherton, a prominent tex
tile manuSncturer of Paterson, N. j.,
fell dead from heart disease in his
factory.
Samuel Goldstein, a trusted en-
ploye of a New York clothing house,
has been arrested for stealing $4,000
worth of goods.
Two men were suffocated and two
others badly hurt in a fire which de-
stroyed the Schwazchild & Sulzberger
refrigerating plant in Brooklyn, N. Y.
While standing in a large barn at
Hillsdale, Mich, Herbert Cox was kill
ed by lightning and Jonas Brown ia
tally injured. The barn was totally
destroyed
Friday, August z.
In a fight between tramps at James
town. n. Y. one was killed and another
fatally injured.
Mrs. Jane Stanford, Of Stanford Uni
versity. Cal, will make a two-year trip
around the world.
Conrad Schroeder. a wealthy con-
tractor of Scranton. Pa. accidentally
shot and killed himself while handling
a revolver.
Judge Gray, who has been chosen
umpire of the Alabama coal strike
commission, left Wilmington, Del, for
Birmingham, Ala.
Rev. Samuel Hudson, an aged min
lister of Woodbury., N. j., fell dead
from heart disease in his cottage at
Pitman Grove. N. j.
Saturday, August g.
Secretary Hitchcock has returned
to Washington from his vacation trip
to Canada and New Hampshire.
The boiler of a lumber company at
Waycross, Ga, exploded, killing one
man and badly injuring seven others.
Frank Reese. a slack-wire walker,
fell so feet at Chicago in sight of
11,OOO people, and was not seriously
injured.
During a family fight at Neillsville,
Wis, Gotlieb Schultz, his daughter
and her husband were fatally shot,
and two others slightly injured
A national convention of priests OF
the Ruthenian or Little Russian Cath
oiic Church of America was held at
Shamolin. Pa. It was decided to ask
the pope to appoint a bishop of their
own nationality.
Monday, August 10.
Daniel Powers. an Altoona, Pa,
brakeman, fell off his train and was
ground to death.
Postmaster Albert Ennis killed
negro at Reams Station, Va, who was
trying to rob the postofice.
While Charles Brown, of Schuylkill
Haven, Pa. was preparing to get mar
ried thief stole his wedding suit, S47,
a ring and other iewelry.
The trolley strike at Waterbury,
Conn, which began 80 weeks ago, has
been settled by the company taking
back the men at the Old wages.
The governor of Georgia is investi-
eating the fogging OF white woman
at the Milledgeville prison farm, and
will punish those who administered it.
Tuesday, August II.
David P. BarrOws, Of Illinois, has
been appointed superintendent of pub
lie instruction at Manila, p. I.
Rear Admiral George c. Remey, pres
ident of the lighthouse bord, has been
retired from active service on account
Of age.
In a fierce fight between railroad
strikers and the military at Kieff, Rus
sia, so persons were killed and many
injured.
The coremakers of the Diamond State
Stetel works, Wilmington. Del, are on
strike for a nine-hour day without re-
duction in wages.
Attorney General Knox had con-
ference with President Roosevelt at |
oyster Bay, L. L. on the Littauer-Lyon |
glove contract for the army.
Wednesday, August II.
Ysllow fevevr has broken out at |
Moglberey, Mexico. and an epidemic is
feared.
The Grand Circle Of Pennsylvania,
Brotherhood of the Union, held its an
nual convention at Allentown.
Herbert W. Bowen, United States
minister to Venezuela, sailed for Eu-
rope on the steamship Kronprinz Will
helm.
The remains Of the late Brigadier
General A. E. Woodson were inferred
at Arlington National Cemetery, Wash
ington, D. c.. with military honors.
Nearly all the mines in the Cripple
Creek, Col. district are closed on ac-
count Of strikes. The men demand an
S-hour day and recognition Of the
union.
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