Milford chronicle., 1903-05-15
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
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Thur=day, May 7.
A hill granting women the right to
vote was defeated in the Connecticut
legislature.
The annual convention of the Ma
tional Congress of Mothers met in De-
troit, Mich
During a free fight at a hotel dance
at Bay City. Mich, two men were shot
and killed
Joseph Trepani the head of a gang
of Italians who defrauded New York
insurance companies by bogus deaths,
was sentenced to four years imprison-
ment
Colonel Asa P. Stanford, brother of
the late Leland Stanford, of California.
died in New York. He was once a
millionaire, but died in absolute pow
erty.
Friday, May 8.
Rudolph Dodge, of New York, has
been appointed a secretary for the
Caracas arbitration commission.
Willis Sweet, of Occur d'Alene.
Idaho, has been appointed attorney
general of Porto Rico, to succeed J.
S. Harlan, resigned,
The American Medical Associations
convention at New Orleans adjourned
after naming Atlantic City, N. j., as
the next meeting place.
It is announced from London that
the Transvaal, South Africa, loan Of
S175, 900 will be issued at par, with
interest at 8 per cent.
Frank Roth and Conductor Bennett
were killG in train collision on the
New York, New Haven and Hartford
road at Shelton. Conn.
Saturday, May g.
The first meeting of the coal strike
conciliation board will be held in
Wilkesbarre next week.
Secretary of War Root was the prin.
cipal speaker at the Lotus Club din.
ner in New York today.
1t is said John Wanamaker will
build 16-story fre-proof department
store in New York, at a cost of 81. |
100000.
A disastrous fire swept the bust |
ness portion of Colliersville, Tenn, |
destroying four stores and entailing a
loss of 100000.
The R. F. Morris Manufacturing |
Company, at Durham, N. c., sold out /
to the American Tobacco Company. /
The price paid was $105,O00
Monday, May II.
Lee S. Becker, of York, Pa. while .
at work, was caught in machinery and
almost skinned alive.
Secretary Hitchcock inspected the
government reservations at Sulphur
Springs, I. T., yesterday.
The Southern Cotton Buyers Asso.
citation, organized to control cotton
prices, will incorporate in Georgia.
Professor William H. Hall, famous
as a musician and vocal instructor
died at Columbia. Pa, aged Is years.
The 18th annual convention OF the
of the American Revolution
met in New York, with 1.2OO delegates
present.
Albert Roberts, cashier of the gov.
ernment ice plant at Manila, P. l.. is
short in his accounts $4,000. He has
been arrested.
Tuesday, May 12.
The National Stove Manufacturers
Association held their annual conven-
ton in Chicago.
The 28th annual meeting Of the
American Academy of Medicine was |
leld at Washington, D. C.
The submarine tOhrpedo boats Gram
1us and Pike have been accepted by the
navy department from the builders.
Suit for S1,OOO,OO0 taxes was filed by {
he state Of Kentucky against the
Southern Pacific Railroad company.
The National Conference of Chari-
les and Correction at Atlanta, Ga,
elected Jeffrey R. Bracket, Of Balti-
more, president.
Wednesday, May 10.
Richard Henry Stoddard, the poet. !
LED at his home in New York, aged
s years.
Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw has .
eturned to Washington from a weeks a
rip to Texas. n
The General Assembly of the South y
IN Presbyterian Church will hold its c
nnual session in Lexington, KY, May r.
1 to 80.
The annual convention of the Order
f Railway Conductors of the United
tates, Canada and Mexico was held
t Pittsburg, Pa
The Shirman Coal Company's col
cry breaker at Shamokin, Pa, was
estroyed by fire, rendering 500 en-
loyes idle. Loss, 100000. o,
The British admiralty will install Ell
ie wireless system of telegraphy on Al
Il the vessels of the North American te
nd West Indian squadrons.
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