Milford chronicle., 1904-10-28

contents. entailing a loss of 100000.
Emma Grennell. a poor girl. has
been awarded by a Chicago court $40.
900 damages for the loss Of one arm
and three fingers in a trolley accident,
William H. Kensington, a leading
Mormon and U. S. commissioner at
Alton. Wyo.. has been arrested at
Evanston. Wyo., on charges of poly.
gamy.
Friday, October Fl.
Robert S. Mccormick, American am.
bassador to Russia, arrived in New
York on visit to this oountry
George Jaggers, under sentence of
death at Newton, N. j.. committed sui
eide by taking chloroform and car
bOlic acid.
Rev. DR.. J. Vernon Bell. Of Dubois,
was elected moderator of the Presby-
terry of Pennsylvania at the oxford,
Pa, session Of the presbytery.
Governor Murphy, of New Jersey,
has selected his daughter Mrs. Will
liam B. Kinney, to christen the battle
ship New Jersey, to be launched at
Quincy, Mass, November 10.
Saturday, October %.
Secretary of the Navy Morton in
spected the work in progress on the
naval academy buildings at Annap-
oils, Md.
Three trainmen were killed in a col
lision between two freight trains on
the New York Central railroad at Ge-
neva, N. Y.
The armored cruiser Pennsylvania,
built by Cramp & Son, at Philadel-
phia, will have her official trial on
November %.
Andrew Carnegie has given Dickin-
son College. Harrisburg, Pa, $4,000
to pay an obligation on the new pre-
paratory building.
A crowded trolley car at Stamford.
Conn. jumped the track and crashed
into the abutments of a bridge, injur-
ing several persons, one fatally.
Monday, October "a.
Ordered out with a Lehigh Valley
wreck crew, Peter Winisi, of Delano,
Pa, dropped dead from excitement.
In a head-on collision between
trains near Natchez, Miss, three men
were killed and two fatally injured
Damages suffered by farmers as the
result of the war manoeuvers at Ma
nassas, Va. have been fixed at S13. 700.
In a rear-end collision. caused by
slippery rails. between trolley cars at
WestborO, Mass, Is persons were in
jured, several seriously.
Former Governor Beaver. of Penn
sylvania. called on President ROose-
welt to invite him to attend one of the
Pennsylvania State College functions
next year.
Tuesday, October rs.
The powder house of Abbott & Son.
Marshalltown, Ia, was blown up,
shaking the entire city and killing two
men.
John Morley, the English statesman,
has been invited by President ROose- |
welt to be his guest at the White House |
on November 9.
Henry Klen. of Alton, Ia. commit
ted suicide in New York by throwing |
himself under a street car in the pres
ence of scores of people.
Dr. Van Telburn Hoffman, surgeon |
of the Atlantic Coast Line railway at
Sumter, S c., beat his wife and then
blew the top of his head off with a
shotgun.
Frank Gustafson. a convicted wife
who was to have been SEN
fenced to death in the electric chair
hanged himself in the Tombs pTson,
New York
Wednesday, October 26.
Over 80 persons were injured. sew
eral fatally. in two head-on collisions
between trolley cars in afog at Seattle,
Wash.
The total registration of students at
Princeton University. Princeton. N. j..
number 1856, falling OFF of % from
last year.
Former President Cleveland will de-
liver an address at a Democratic mass
meeting at Cooper Union New York,
>.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Mrs. James Longstreet, widow of Gen
eral James Longstreet, postmaster at
Gainesville, Ga.
George Carpenter. of Philadelphia,
a trolley car conductor. was crushed
to death in a collision of cars while
adjusting the pole OF his car.
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