Milford chronicle., 1903-05-29
A wrrK,s news cONDENsED.
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Thursday, May q.
The Pennsylvania Grand Lodge OF
Odd Fellows decided to hold its next .
meeting at Easton.
The S7th annual convention OF the (
philadelphia conference Of the African
Methodist Episcopal church was held
at Harrisburg, Pa.
DR.. Thomas G. Morton, a distin-
euished philadelphia surgeon, died in !
Cane May. N. j., hotel Of cholera NOR
bus after an illness of two days.
Eleven men who interfered with the
transit Of United States mail during the
street car strike at New Orleans last
October have been convicted on the
charge of conspiracy
Friday, May p.
The business portion Of Dunkirk, O.'
was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss
Of $150,0OO
Louis Ellis and Richard France
were drowned at Dublin, N. H., while
out rowing.
The 49d general assembly Of the
Southern Presbyterian Church was
held at Lexington, Va.
Mrs. Thomas Counters and Margaret
Morris we're struck by lightning and
killed at Huntsville, Ala.
The Hamburg-American liner Penn
svlvania arrived in New York with
| 2,72S steerage passengers, the largest
/ number ever brought over by a single
vessel.
Saturday. May %.
The navy department has accepted
/ the torpedo destroyer Dale, built by
the Trigg Company, of Richmond. Va.
The Italian government will send a
/ commission to South Africa to see if
conditions there are suitable for ltal-
ian immigration.
Mrs. Mary Curry, widow of the late
DR.. J. L. NJ. Curry former United
States minister to Spain, died at At
lantic City, N. J.
CAPTAIN w. Bainbridge-Hoff, U. S.
| NJ. retired died at Washington. He
was the author of several standard
works on naval tactics.
A building in Brooklyn, n. Y, occu-
pied by Frank Jenner & Co., manufact-
urers of freproof flooring, and eight
other buildings were destroyed by fire.
Loss, $125,000.
Monday, May rs.
Twenty years ago yesterday the
Brooklyn bridge was formally opened
for public use.
While cleaning an empty revolver
at Shenandoah, Pa, young Peter Dill
man was probably fatally shot.
F. w. Eilenberger's planning mill and
thousands Of feet of lumber at North
Water Gap, Pa, were destroyed by
fire. Loss, 100000.
Twelve-year-old Howard X. Jones
had a congenital dislocation of the hip
cured by the Lorenz method at the
Ashland. Pa, hospital.
President Gompers, of the Fedora
ton of Labor. addressed the textile
strikers at Lowell, Mass, and prom
ised them substantial aid.
Tuesday, May 2s.
The Tooth anniversary Of the birth
of Ralph Waldo Emerson was celebrat-
ed yesterday.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoGice at Bowie, Tex, and secured
81. 700 in stamps and cash.
h Two persons were burned to deatl
) and another fatally injured in a fire
bich destroyed a boarding house al
Barre, VT.
General John F. Weston chief com
missary of the United States army. i!
| seriously i'll at John Hopkins Hospital
t Baltimore Md.
The GO.000.OOO estate of the late B
5 F. Jones. the Pittsburg steel manu-
facturer. is divided among his widow
5 and four children.
r Wednesday, May 27.
4 Austria is sending experts to thi
e country to investigate the American
/ telegraph and telephone systems.
/ The Tavern Hotel, at New Decatur
Ala. one of the handsomest hotels il
S the south, was destroyed by fire. Less
f. $175.GoO.
a Twelve buildings. including thre
+ stores and a hotel. We're destroyed b,
g fire at Weeks Mills, Me-, entailing
loss of 100000.
s Oliver T. Sherwood, the missin
t cashier of the Southport, Conn, Ma
It tional Bank. has been indicted for eI
i bezzling 100000.
The Southern Railway offers $50
reward for the person who wrecke
the passenger train near Raleigh, \
C.. nv placing an obstruction on th