Milford chronicle., 1903-11-20
A WEEK,s news CONDENSED.
hursdaY, November h.

retire from business has been officially
denied in New York.
Francis J. Terrence, Of Allegheny,
has been reelected president of the
Pennsylvania Board of Charities.
The navy department has ordered
the Lancaster in commission at League
Island navy yard as a receiving ship.
Amour & Co.'s elevator, at Savan-
nah, H., together with 100000 bush
els of grain, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, S150,000.
While horseback riding at Memphis,
Tenn, Miss Douglass Calhoun, promi-
nent in society and wealthy, was
thrown from the horse in front Of
trolley car and killed.
Friday, November 13.
Fire that started in a dry goods
store destroyed the business portion
of Abba, la. Loss, s250,O00.
In a collision of freight trains near
New Hope. KY, six trainmen We're
killed and another fatally injured.
Louis J. Rothstein was convicted in
New York of swindling Forstman &
Co. out of $2S,OOO on fraudulent order
for clothing.
Henry Klein and Frank Gray. Of
Minneapolis, were drowned in Lake
Eddy by the oyerturning of their boat
while hunting.
Judge w. R. Day, president of the
Mckinley National Memorial Associa-
ton, has called a meeting at Washing
ton, D. c.. November 19. Designs will
be viewed and discussed.
Saturday, November "A.
August Solid, IA years Old; Of Nc
nominee, Mich. shot and killed his
cousin, Joseph Allison, during a
quarrel.
The engineer was killed and foul
passenger injured, two fatally, by the
derailing of a Pennsylvania train near
Buffalo, N. Y.
The Cuban government has decided
not to recognize the new Republic Of
Panama until other Latin-American
governments do.
An explosion of natural gas at
Marion, Ind, wrecked the home Of
Benjamin Hight and terribly burned
the five occupants.
The secretary of the treasury re-
ceived from an unknown person in
Brooklyn a conscience contribution of
$1O7.5O, and from Trenton, N. j., $40.
Monday, November is.
Admiral Dewey has returned to
Washington from an inspection trip
to Annapolis, Nd, and Newport News,
Va.
Three robbers locked up the town
watchman at Mapleton, Ia, and took
$4,000 from the safe of the State
Bank
Wilbert Cobbs was struck and fatally
hurt by a hose cart while the latter
was on it's way to a fire at Williams
port, Pa.
Twenty boot and shoe factories al
Quebec, Que, have closed down on ac
count of a strike and over 5000 EN-
ployes are idle.
One man had his head blown OF and
two men were fatally hurt at La Porte
Ind, by the explosion Of a boiler run
ming a corn shredder.
Tuesday, November II.
The transport Logan has arrived al
: San Francisco from Manila, with Is
officers and 265 men of the 18th cav
airy.
Matthew Nelson, after a quarrel will
his sweetheart. Tillie Moore, shot ant
killed her on the streets of Blooming
ton, ILL.,, and then killed himself.
A dynamite explosion on the stocE
farm of DR.. J. B. Hartman. near Co
lumbus, o.. killed four men instantly
and injured several others. They were
blasting stumps.
The remains of Mrs. Elizabeth X
Monroe, widow of James Monroe, fiftE
president of the United States, Were
exhumed at Leesburg, Va, and taker
to Richmond to be re-interred in Holly
wood cemetery.
Wednesday, November 1s.
A copper deposit, rich in quality anC
Of immense extent, has been founC
near Carney. Mich.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
First National Bank Of Lyons, Neb.
and secured over $4,000.
over a foot of snow has fallen Al
Calumet. Mich. and telegraph ant
railroad service Is impaired.
The 18th annual convention Of the
Association Of American Agriculture
Colleges and Experiment Stations was
held at Washington, D. c.
Mrs. Frank Downing, a bride, jump
ed into the river at Minot, N. D., tc
rescue her sister, who had broken
through the ice, and both of them
were drowned.