Milford chronicle., 1903-05-22
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, May IA.

Thursday May "A.
George Gardiner was given the de
cision over Marvin Hart at Louisville
KY, at the end of the 18th round.
Fire destroyed the large plant OF
the Atlas Glass and Metal COMPANY AT
Washington, Pa, causing a loss OF
$125.OOO
Peter Stansley, aged 10 years. died
at Upper Sandusky. o. He is survived
by a widow of 1O6 years. to whom he
had been married IS years.
The board of directors of the Della
ware and Hudson Railroad COMPANY
elected David Wilcox president to sue.
coed Robert Olyphant, resigned.
BY direction of President Roosevelt
General T. J. Wint has been placed
in command of the department of vi
sayas, in Philippines, relieving Gen
eral J. NJ. Lee
Friday, May is.
Secretary Wilson left Washington
to join the presidents party in Mon
tana.
The Pennsylvania Grand Comman.
derry, Knights of Malta, will meet at
Gettysburg next year.
The cotton mills of Alabama. Geor.
gia and Tennessee have sold out to
the Southern Textile Company.
Striking teamsters at Omaha. Neb
attacked nOn-uniOn drivers. seriously
injuring several, before the police
quelled the riot.
The 18th annual commencement of
the Reformed Theological Seminary at
Lancaster, Pa, was held last night
and class of "a graduated.
Saturday, May t6.
In a collision between a trolley car
and beer wagon at Chicago "A per.
sons were injured, two fatally.
St. Johns Cathedral of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church at Denver. Colo.
was destroyed by an incendiary fire
Loss, 100000.
The sessions of the Grand Court
Pennsylvania, Foresters of America. |
at Wilmington. adjourned to meet in |
Wilkesbarre. Pa, in 1905.
In a collision near Charleston. S.
c., between a railroad train and |
hand car, two section laborers were
killed and two others fatally injured.
Monday, May 10.
Burglars stole $1,000 from the union
station at Birmingham. Ala.
and escaped.
Commissioner of immigration sar-
gent is in Honolulu to investigate the
labor situation.
The national convention of the
Switchmen's Union was held at Indian
apolis. Ind. today.
Minister Bowen sailed from New
York for Venezuela to be gone month
after which he will go to The Hague.
The Pennsylvania Jr o. Z. A. M.
celebrated the semi-centennial of the ,
order at Wilkesbarre with a mammoth
parade and mass meeting
Patriotic societies have asked Secre-
-ary Root to suspend demolition of the
walls of Manila until the necessity for
heir destruction has been ascertafned.
Tuesday, May 10.
General Jacob H. Smith, o. s A g
'etired, who is travelling for the benefit
If his health, has arrived in Rome.
In a collision of freight trains near D
Va. five trainmen were in
ured and several cars demolished. h
Three miners were entombed bv a
ave-in at the Egnol Placer, near He 9
ena, Mont, and were dead when taken
lut. $
The first national convention of the
.oets, humorists and paragraphers of el
he American press was held in Balti-
nore last night. u
With brakes that failed to work on u
is automobile Dr. A. X. Lowen, Of
.hicago. dashed down a steep hill and io
lunged into Lake Michigan.
Wednesday, May 20. n
A runaway trolley car at Chicago IL
rashed into a freight train, severely A
ljuring six persons.
A tornado swept over Horton. Kan,
nd vicinity, damaging many build. al
lgs and injuring two people.
Eli Engle, an aged farm laborcr, pl
suicide by hanging in a Sc
arm near Marietta, Pa. He was mel Ut
lcholy. 2,
Frank Plumley. of Vermont, has
zen appointed umpire for Great Bri.
in and the Netherlands in the arbi-
alton at Caracas.
The Southport National Bank. of
Conn, has been closed by
national bank examiner, owing to the cts
.shiers defalcation of 100000. erl
at
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