Milford chronicle., 1904-05-06
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, April %.

A Inc 4VtH annual meeting OF the Ma
tional Municipal League was held al
Chicago.
The Panama canal commissioners
Z returned to New York on the steamer
Yucatan from Colon.
Fire destroyed the greater part of
the business portion of Brainard,
Mimi. entailing a loss Of $250,OOO.
Clarence Quails, colored, was ar
rested near Seaford, Del, charged with
robbing rural mail boxes of valuables.
Michael Davitt, the Irish leader. who
was in this country in the interest of
the Irish National League, sailed for
Liverpool on the steamship Majestic.
Friday, April 20.
It has been announced in New York
that ]. P. Morgan bought the original
manuscript of Millions Paradise Lost"
in London for $4,000.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Norfolk and Western railroad has been
called for June II, at Roanoke, Va, to
authorize a S35.OOOO0O bond issue.
Albert G. Sheppard, of Wilkesbarre.
Pa, died of cramps on board the Clyde
line steamer Commanche. which ar
rived at New York from Jacksonville
and Charleston.
During a severe coughing spell DR..
MCGEE chief of the anthropological
department of the st. Louis fair.
strained a Hgament in his left side
and fractured a rib.
Saturday, April 80.
The Virginia Democratic state con-
vention will be held at Richmond on
June g.
Tom Searcy, colored, was lynched in |
HAYWOOD county, Tenn, for assaulting a |
9-year-old white girl.
Postmaster General Payne has re-
turned to Washington from his south
ern trip much improved in health.
The May circulars of the anthracite
coal companies show an advance of 10
cents ton for domestic sizes over the
April price.
Wendell p Stafford, of Vermont, has
been appointed justice of the supreme
court Of the District of Columbia to
succeed Justice P. C. Pritchard, now a
United States circuit judge.
Monday, May 2.
The Virginia Navigation Companys
steamer Pocahontas was destroyed by
fire at Richmond, Va. Loss, $3.50, 900;
fully insured.
Hon. John J. Shonk, one of the pio-
neer coal operators of the anthracite :
region, died at his home in Wilkes
barre, Pa. aged SO years. 7
The Pittsburg Conference for a mer-
ger of the Primitive Methodists and :
Methodist Protestants is likely to ad- ;
ourn Intellectually for another year. :
W. A. Botkin. divorced husband of :
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, convicted of the -.
murder of Mrs. J. P. Dunning, of Della
ware, died suddenly in San Francisco. :,
Tuesday, May 8. -
The safe in the Pennsylvania rail. =
Dad office at Pitcairn, Pa, was blown :
pen by burglars, who secured over =
600. ?
Sunday base ball in Brooklyn has .
cen declared legal in a decision y
anded down by Justice Gaynor in n
lew York. -
Three men and a boy were burned 10
, death in box car on the North
estern railroad at Council Bluffs. Ia. cc
lille stealing a ride n.
Secretary Of the Navy Moody left n,
'ashington to inspect the naval sta iii
ons at Guantanamo. Key West. Pen. a
,cola and New Orleans
Ex-President Cleveland delivered a So
cture on The Government in the en-
licago Strike of 1894" before a large tn
ldience at Princeton, n. J.
Wednesday, May 4. as
Judge Andrew Kirkpatrick of the de!
lited States circuit court. died at his Do
me at Newark. n. J. sid
The 10th annual national convention
the Funeral Benefit Association of
e P. o. S. oc a. was held at Scran-
T. Pa. Snt
Over $4,000 loayes of bread were anC
,eived in Chicago from Pittsburg to yea
ieve the famine threatened by the wit
ike Of bakers. the
'udge Goodwin, of Aurora. H.. has con
N selected for the position of as bro
tant attorney general for the post- the
ce department. nov
NE New York grand jury found thai
r indictments for grand Iarceny plaC
inst David Rothschild, former trac
sident Of the defunct Federal bank was
default Of $4,000 bail he is in Jail.
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