Milford chronicle., 1903-01-16
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, January s.

Thursday January s.
BY an explosion of gas at a collier,
al Mahanoy City Pa, yesterday thre
miners were fatally burned
The Central Hotel building. the lar
gest in MaHch Chunk, Pa. was de
stroyed by fire yesterday. Loss
100000.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
Camden, N. j., 100000 for its lihrary
provided the city will contribute $40.
600 year for its maintenance.
It is reported that Jamaica has pro.
hibited the importation of cattle from
Canada and the United States on ac.
count of the foot and mouth disease
Senator Quay yesterday introduced
a bill prohibiting persons not mem.
bers of societies composed of war vet.
Grams to wear the insignia Of mem.
bers.
Friday, January g.
- Emperor William, of Germany. will
lach Rome April &c, on a VISIT to tbo
Italian court.
The Bank Of Louisville. Neb.. was
broken into and robbed of 5000 earlv
yesterday morning
The explosion of a gas plant at Nh.
pleton, Ia, broke every pane of glass
in town and killed two men.
A dispatch from Berlin saws Ger.
many viii negotiate for a new com.
mercial treaty with the United States
in the spring.
The SD annual convention of the
National Board of Trade will be held
ia Washington January 13, to continue
three or four days.
Saturday, January 10.
The monument to the Seventv-tbird
Regiment OF Pennsylvania Volunteers 4
at Chickamauga Park was completed
yesterday.
The house committee on naval af
fairs yesterday refused to r4port the
bill to retire Lieutenant Commander
Richmond P. Hobson.
Governor Nash, of Ohio. issued =
proclamation yesterday calling upon
the people of Ohio to observe January
2S as the 60th anniversary of William
McKinIey's birth
Richard Burmeister of Baltimore.
has accepted an offer from the RovaI
Conservatory of Music in Dresden.
Germany, to become head instructor
in the piano department.
Monday January 12.
Stepping from his engine, Edward
Walsh, a popular Erie engineer. was
run down by passing train and killed T
at AvOca, Pa.
The Marconi Wireless Telegraph
Company Of Canada will ask for a ;
charter to do business all over British +
North America. =
Lack Of coal caused the closing of 7
the Glucose and Sugar Refining Com h
pany's plant at Peoria, ILL.,, throwing +
500 men out of work.
! Rear Admiral George w. Melville. c
shAef of the bureau of steam engineer
ing, was retired on Saturday, having "
reached the age limit of So years.
Tuesday, January 1S.
W. J. Bailey was inaugurated as "
governor of Kansas yesterday. Il
Chief Justice Henry McIver. of South o.
iarOlina, died at his home at Cheraw y
eSterday. Fl
Whlle skating on pond near Wha- >
eys, Del, yesterday 12-year-old Robert 7
Wilson broke through the ice and was 81
rowned. 70
For assaulting a crippled white boy Fl
t Aiken, S. c., Tom Jefferson, a negro. tn
ras whipped by a crowd Of white peo- CT
le and driven from the town. fr
John Mitchell will leave Philadelphia
ext Saturday for Indianapolis to open Of
le United Mine Workers national De
which convenes there the a
blowing Monday. hi
Wednesday, January IA. cr
Russia's budget for 1903 places reve- pl,
les at $948,516,SS9 and expenditures mi
$94O, O,202,614. VIC
John B. Stetson, of Philadelphia. no
as elected a trustee of Bucknell Uni ov
,rsity, at Lewisburg, Pa, yesterday.
United States Senator Mason, of Il
lois, yesterday withdrew from the
ntest for reelection, admitting his ers
feat ear
A passenger train on the st. Paul knt
lilroad was wrecked by spreading hin
lis last night at Alton, H., killing his
e engineer and injuring four train day
y. con
President A. J. Cassatt, of the Penn Phi
lvania Railroad, has resigned from abo
e directory of the Manhattan Trust on
of New York, to devote all ing
time to railroad affairs. golt
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