Milford chronicle., 1903-09-04
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
rhursday, Auaust u.

The annual convention OF the Amer
ican Bar Association was held at Hot
Springs, Ark.
The annual conference of the Rail-
road Y. M. C. A. will be held at Potts
Vile, Pa. September 1927.
Representatives of the largest broom
manufacturers in the country met at
New York to form a combination.
In an explosion at the Independent
powder works at Carthage. Mo, three
workmen were killed and three injured,
one fatally
The large bakery of the Kolb Bak-
ing Company, at 10th and Reed streets,
Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire.
entailing a loss of over 100000.
Friday, August 20.
Boil weevils are reported in cotton
near Thomasville. Ala.
President Loubet has sent $1,000 for
the relief of the sufferers in Silesia.
Forty Turkish officers have been or
dered to COnstantinOple to answer for
outrages at Krushevo.
Six lives were lost by the running
down of the schooner John Booth by
the steamer H. NJ Whitney, near Sto-
nington, Conn.
Thomas Warner. Claude Loughry
and Noel Moore. 10. II and II years
old. were drowned in Cheat river, near
Parsons. W. Va.
The fourth annual convention Of the
League of Cities of the Third Glass
will be held in Williamsport, Pa, Sep
tember l. and 3.
Saturday, August 29.
Dan Mcleod defeated Tom jenkins.
champion wrestler, at Hamilton, Ont
T. Barstow's mare Alone paced an
exhibition half mile in 591s seconds at
Petaluma, Cal.
Albert S. Daniels, craneman, was
squeezed to death at the Harrisburg
pipe and pipe bending works.
The convention of National Associa-
ton of Retail Druggists will be held in
Washington, D. c.. October 5.
Four trainmen were injured and 100
cattle killed in a collision on the Wis
consin Central near Silver Lake, Wis.
Edwin w. Sims, of Chicago has been
appointed special attorney in the bu-
reau of corporations, department of
commerce.
Monday, August 81.
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis
left Washington for a months vacation.
The arbitration court for the Ven
ezuelan claims assembled at The
Hague.
General Funston has returned to
Seattle. Wash. after an inspection OF
Alaskan forts.
George F. Baer has returned from
his European trip and resumed his du-
ties at the Readings main office, Phil
alelphia Pa.
In a terrific eruption of the Vain
mangu geyser, near Wellington, N. r.,
several sightseers were swept away In
the stream of boiling water.
Tuesday, September I.
William J. Bryan opened the Ohio
Democratic campaign for Tom L. John
son for governor at Versailles, o.
The deer shooting season in New
York opened today. and hundreds OF
hunters are securing the Adirondack
mountains for game
The 14th annual convention of the
National Association of Letter Carriers
was held at Syracuse, N. Y, with lOOC
delegates in attendance.
Captain E. q. Strine, a member oi
the Pennsylvania legislature, died OF
paralysis at his home at York. Fol
many years he was captain Of Com
pany A, Sth regiment, N. G. P.
Wednesday, September 2.
Representative of the Quarrymen''
Unions in the United States met il
Washington to form an internationa
union.
Three men were caught by suddeT
rush of water in a sewer at Milwaukee
Wis, and drowned. They we're making
repairs.
A London dispatch says Field Mar
shal Earl Roberts may not visit Amer
lea this year owing to press OF otticia
business.
In wreck on the Norfolk and West
ern Railroad at Winston-Salem, N. c.
Engineer Lucas was killed and his fire
man fatally injured.
The S-year-old daughter of Mrs. Johl
Lennox, of Williamsport, Pa, wa
burned to death in her home durini
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