Milford chronicle., 1903-04-10
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
ThursdaN Anil 2.

y The union printers of Easton, Pa
went on strike for an eight-hour da
and $3.50.
Solomon Stamey, a prosperous farm
er of Mont Alto. near Chambersbure
Pa, drowned himself yesterday Will,
temporarily insane.
1t is announced from Berlin that thu
German empress, owing to her injured
arm, will not accompany Emperor Will.
liam on his visit to Rome.
Major General R. P. Hughes retired
from active service in the army yester-
day. He turned over the command of
the Department of California to Major
General Macarthur
Friday, April 8.
Pietro Mascagni, the Italian Gem.
poser. sailed for France on La Savoie.
John Mock, of BirdsborO, Pa. COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
while in bed.
RhOdesia South Africa, has accent
ed an invitation to participate in the
st. Louis Worlds Fair.
Baltimore contractors and builders
have formed an association to oppose
the card system of the Federation of
Labor,
Two negroes were killed and II in
jured, two fatally by falling walls in
a brick tenement house at Louis
vile, Ky.
Saturday, April a.
Walter Dimock was convicted at
San Francisco of stealing $4,000 from
the United States mint. Sentence de-
ferred.
Eightyear-old Walter Kruger and
his 10-year-old sister Ella were killed
by trolley car in Chicago while on
their way to church.
John Imler, the Caroline county
(Md) farmer who was shot by his
farm hand, Adam Stewart. died in
Baltimore hospital
Baron Won Sternburg, the German
envoy at Washington was the guest
of honor at the annual banquet of the
Hartford Comm Yacht Club.
An explosion of chemicals in the
laboratory of the Ursuline Convent in
New York seriously injured two young
girls and caused a panic among the
students.
Monday, April 6.
Miss Alice Roosevelt has returned
to Washington from her visit to Porto
Rico
The German emperor is to be enter
tained at Rome Italy May by
grand illumination of the Forum.
loupe, N. NJ. caused by a sand storm.
three men were killed and one badly
hurt.
Eleven-year-old Harold Stouck, of
Williamsport. Pa, attempted to crawl
under a freight train, when it started
and he was killed.
The enlisted men on the battleships
Kearsarge, Alabama, Illinois, Massa-
chusetts. Indiana and Iowa will be
given a 1O-days' leave of absence when
the vessels are docked.
Tuesday, April 7.
John Weaver has been inaugurated
mayor of Philadelphia, to succeed Sam |
uel w. Ashbridge
Andrew Carnegie has offered Mans
field, O., $4,000 for a new library under
the usual conditions.
The Holland submarine boats Adder
and Moccasin were given their final
trials today off Newport, r. l.
A general strike has been proclaimed |
throughout Holland Of all labor en-
gagged in transportation both by land
and sea.
The secretary of the treasury has |
purchased 236.5OO ounces Of silver for .
account of Philippine coinage, at 1880 .
cents an ounce.
Wednesday, April g.
The steamer Brighton, which was
ashore off Atlantic City, has been
fioated.
The death of Rear Admiral Belknap,
U. S. N, retired. is announced from
Key West. Fla.
G. N. Wilson has been appointed
general auditor of the Lehigh Valley
Railroad Company.
In the election for aldermen at Be-
lott, Wis, organized labor swept the
city, electing every man on their ticket.
An engine on the Cincinnati North
ern Railroad exploded at Van Vert o.,
killing one man and injuring four
others.
State Treasurer Briggs. of New Jer-
sey, has received a contribution
to the conscience fund of S125. The
letter was dated Philadelphia and
signed H. C. Marion.