Milford chronicle., 1903-04-17
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday April 9.

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The strike at Rogers Brothers silver
factory, at Wallingford, Conn. has
been declared off, the men returning
to work on the old conditions.
The armored cruiser West Virginia
will be launched at the yards of the
Newport News (Va) Shipbuilding
Company on Saturday, the 18th in.
stant
Senator Clark, of Montana, offers
to build 80 miles of street railway in
Los Angeles, Cal, and charge three
cent fares if the city grants him the
franchise.
Professor E. S. Eggers, head of the
department of German at the Ohio
State University at Cincinnati, COM
mitted suicide by shooting while de-
spondent from i'll health.
Friday, April 10.
Assistant Secretary of War Sanger
reviewed the Seventh Cavalry and
Third Battery Artillery at Chicamauga
Park.
Governor Pennypacker, Of Pennsyl-
vania, has signed the bill fixing the
minimum of salary of school teachers
in the state at S35 per month.
The Virginia house of delegates has
voted to remove from the bench Judge
c. J. Campbell, of Amherst county,
who cowhided Rev. Crawford, of the
AntiSaloon League.
Reuben Zimmerman and F. Wanke,
of Scranton. Pa. and F. J. Leonard,
of Philadelphia. have applied to the
Canadian parliament for power to op-
crate telegraph and telephone lines
in Canada.
Saturday. April II.
o. 2. Wharton. of New Haven, Pa,
committed suicide by shooting in a
hotel at Huntingdon. He was despon-
dent.
A jury at woodbury.. N. J., acquitted
Peter Brandt. charged with the muir
der of his brother William during a
quarrel over the ownership of poultry
It is positively denied in Washing
ton that Mayor Seth Low. of New
York, has been considered in connec-
ton With American ambassador at
Paris.
President Loubet, of France, may
visit England as the guest Of King
Edward. It would be the first visit of
the head of France since 1855, during
the Crimean war.
Monday, April 13.
Henry NJ. Rogers, of the Standard Oil
Company, is said to be a very sick man.
A $1O,OOO,OOO iron and steel plant will
be built at Brunswick, Ca, by the Mo-
hawk Valley Steel Company.
Colonel J. E. MacGowan, the veteran
editor-in-chief of the Chattanooga
Times, died at hospital in that city.
Jimmy Bryant, said to be the most
notorious all-round crook in the coun-
try. has been arrested by the Memphis,
Tenn, police.
Funeral services were held over the
body of Rear Admiral Belknap at Bos-
ton, Mass. The body was taken to
Washington, D. c., for interment.
Tuesday, April IA.
The Havana Street Railway have
begun collecting five-cent fares in
American money.
William S. Smith, a noted confed-
crate general, died at Huntingdon, W..
Va, aged 7S years.
A hurricane at Blocton, Ala, wreck
ed a number of houses and caused
damage estimated at $4,000.
Secretary Of the Navy Moody has
returned to Washington from an ex-
tended cruise in the West Indies.
While temporarily insane Frank
Hush, of Erie. H., shot his wife to
death on the street and then killed
himself.
Rear Admiral Belknap, U. S. NJ,
who died at Pensacola. Fla, last week.
was buried with military honors at
Washington.
Wednesday, April IS.
The Southern Association of News
paper Publishers was organized in At
lanta, Ga, for mutual benefit.
The bank deposits of Kansas are
now over S9O,O0O,00O, over $3,000,000
more than at any previous time.
Christian Sent, of Louisville, KY, is
under arrest at San Francisco charged
with embezzling $4,000, awaiting ex-
tradition papers.
Two men were killed and two in
jured in a dynamite explosion at the
Mount Washington tunnel of the Wa
bash Railroad near Pittsburg.
The employees of the Wilkesbarre
(Pa.) lace mill, the largest plant of
its kind in the United States, demand
a 20 per cent. increase in wages.