Milford chronicle., 1903-01-30
A wEEK,s NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursdav. Januarv e.


The internal revenue receipts for De-
cember, 1902. were S2G,749,S $50, a de-
crease from December, 1901, Of S2,O69,-
O62.
Jacob H. Gallinger was reelected
United States senator from New
Hampshire yesterday.
A bin passed both houses of the Kan
sas legislature yesterday providing that
a commission be appointed to investi-
gate the coal famine.
The Good Roads convention at Al
bany, N. Y, adopted resolutions favor
ing the bill in congress appropriating
S20,000.0OO for good roads.
The New Jersey board of pardons
eommuted to life Imprisonment the
sentence of George Taylor. colored,
who was to have been hanged in Jer-
/ sey City tomorrow for murder.
Friday, January %.
A bill to prohibit the kissing Of the
Bible in the administering Of Oaths
was defeated by the Virginia legis-
lature.
The postmaster general has ordered
the establishment of free delivery pos
tai service at Cape May, N. J.,
March 1.
Rev. Jean Sllyles, Of Gibson, Miss,
was sentenced to 10 years in the peni-
Tertiary yesterday for bigamy. He
had seven wives.
The United Mine Workers conVen- .
tion. in session at indianapolis, yes
terday issued a letter of thanks to the
public for financial aid given them
during the anthracite coal strike.
Saturday, January "a.
The house Of Representatives of the
Cuban congress has appropriated $780,
600 to build q capitol
NJ. w. Savage, of Minneapolis, owner
Of Dan Patch. the famous PAGER, has
insured the animal for $4,000.
The fall Of bucket down shaft at
the Torresdale filter plant, near Phila-
delphia, yesterday fatally injured two
workmen.
Samuel NJ. Bryan, a well-known
financier OF Baltimore and Washing
ton died yesterday Of a complication
Of diseases.
Captain Sherwood, of the British
steamer Carlisle, committed suicide in
the cabin Of his vessel at Savannah,
Ca, yesterday.
Monday January 20.
General Miles reached Berlin Satur-
day night and proceeded to Paris a few
hours later.
An unusually large number Of miners
are competing in the annual examina-
tion at Altoona, Pa, for positions as
foremen, etc.
John B. Scott, proprietor of the
Raleigh Hotel, Atlantic City, ~ J.,
died suddenly yesterday from a stroke
of paralysis.
a man named Shaifer shot and killed /
Richard Smith at Madison. Ind. yester-
day and when lodged in Jail tore his {
to strips and hanged himself. /
Charged with the murder Of his 4. /
adopted child Albert Jordan. d
a rich farmer of Crystal Plains, Kan, @
has been put in Jail, but mob violence
is feared. {
Tuesday, January 27. s
Brigadier General E. NJ. Hayes was
retired yesterday and Col. Charles L. d
Davis, Fifth Infanry, will be promoted t
10 the vacancy. b
The 18th annual banquet Of the Con
iederate Veteran Camp of New York :
was held at the Waldorf-Astoria. New I
York, last night. I
The banking house of Boughton. r.
Ford & Co.. Of Burton O., made an as
'ignment yesterday. Assets, $500, 600: h
liabilities, 100000. s.
Two men were killed and one fatally d
INJURED in a freight wreck on the Will s.
amsport & North Branch railroad, near u
Pa, yesterday. ~
Wednesday, January %. ii
Charles NJ. Schwab, president of the Ii
United States Steel Corporation, has
a private audience with the ci
'ope. k
John C. Spooner was reelected to nj
he United States senate yesterday by .,
he Wisconsin legislature. h,
John Gerfn. of Columbia, Pa. ai
brakeman on the Pennsylvania Rail
oad was thrown from his train YES ey
erday and killed. co
Colonel A. X. Mcclure. of Philadel- a
hia, last evening addressed the Penn. 1t
ylvania house Of representatives in "
upport Of a proposed monument to fr
-eneral R. B. Lee at Gettysburg. n
Republicans Of New Haven. Conn.
lst evening formed the Mckinley
ssociation Of Connecticut" " to observe
resident McKinley's birthday.