Milford chronicle., 1903-07-17
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4 WEEKS NEWS CONpENsEp.
Thursday, July 8.


Two small children of John West
fall, of Akron, Mich, were burned tc
Death in a fire which destroyed their
home
In a head-on collision on the Erie
Railroad at Berlin Centre. O.. two
Srainmen were killed and five passen.
gers injured
The boot and shoe manufacturing
firm of Asa Cushman & Co., of Bos.
ton and Auburn, Ne, have failed. LA
bilities, S5OO,0OO.
Andrew Carnegie has received a let
ter of thanks from Queen Wilhelmina.
of Holland, for his gift of a court
house and library to court of arbitra-
ton at The Hague.
Friday July 10.
While digging a well at st. Peters.
Mimi, three men were killed by a
premature explosion of dynamite.
Cape Town, South Africa, has expert
enced the most violent earthquake
shock in 20 years. Much damage was
done.
The Imperial Council, Mystic Shrine,
will meet at Atlantic City in 1904. G.
H. Green. of Dallas Texas, has been
elected imperial potentate.
George Smith. aged 10 years, was
drowned while grabbing at Laurel.
Del When his body was found 1t was
literally covered with crabs.
Frank Manoley, Of Baltimore, Nd,
shot and killed his wife while she was
sleeping in bed. He says he was dream
ing and imagined he was shooting at a
burglar.
Saturday, July II.
J.B. H. Crismon, treasurer Of Spott-
sylvania county, Va, has absconded
owing to a shortage.
Eleven prisoners escaped from Jail
at Williamsburg, KY. by prying out
the iron crate in the floor.
Mrs, Hannah Pierson, irged 1O3 years.
was buried from the Home for Aged
Coiored People at Newark. N. J.
The gunboat Bancroft has sailed for
Venezuelan waters to investigate the
alleged seizure of American vessels.
Spreading rails caused a wreck on
the Terminal line at Madison, Mo,
in which two persons We're killed and
two fatally injured.
The transport Thomas has arrived
at San Francisco from Manila with
three squadrons of the Fifth Cavalry,
150 sick and 450 casuals.
Monday, July IS.
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International Union met in !
indianapolis.
Alexander K. Sinner, 6s years old,
a real estate assessor, was killed by |
at Gayport, Pa.
Inspector General Burton left Wash
ington, D. G., on a tour of the soldiers
homes Of the United States.
John Davey and John Jenkins, min
ers. were killed in the Barnum mine
at Pittston, Pa. by fall of rock.
An explosion in the corning mill of
the Birmingham, Ala, powder mill
killed four men and wrecked the
building.
The Marine Hospital Service of the
United States will send experts to
Calcutta and Bombay, India, to watch
The plague situation.
Tuesday, July "a.
Yale's enrolment Of freshmen shows
IN increase of 10 per cent. over last
year.
Six boys have died Of tetanus since
July 4 in Pittsburg. All were victims
If the toy pistol.
R. S. Berlin, a prominent Republican
politician of Omaha, Neb., was as
,hyxiated by gas in his home.
The director of the mint has pur-
hased $4,000 ounces Of silver for
Philippine coinage at 53.S5 cents an
ldnce.
The United States district court at
Baltimore. Md, has issued an oIFier re-
training the Pennsylvania Railroad
Ompany from removing Western In c
On wires and poles from along the
racks of the P. B. & U.
Wednesday, July IS.
Next years convention of the Uni
ersalist Young Peoples Union will
e held at Providence, r. I.
Captain s. p. Sparrow, U. >. A., re- :
red, died at New London, Conn,
-om a dose of carbolie acid taken in q
listake for medicine.
Secretary Hay has invited the czar
{ Russia to appoint three arbitrators
, settle the questions submitted to
under the Venezuelan claims treaty.
Charlemagne Tower, United States
AMBASSADOR to Germany, and George =,
L. Meyer ambassador to Italy, ar
we'd in New York on the steamer
aiser Wilhelm II. Il
SuIcIde az Atlantic CIGN. tc