Milford chronicle., 1904-11-25
-. WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
r.,radav. November f7.

mar admiral Chadwick will be re-
- of command of the South At
.io snuadron at his own request.
iAn,, o. man was killed and several in
.,rod bv the explosion of locomotive
;,oiler on the Southern Railroad at st.
Louis. ,..
-, commerce and labor, returned to
washington from California, where he
went to vote.
eroes. were hanged on double gal
iows at Elizabethtown, N. c.. for the
murder of Mrs. George Parker.
Friday, November 1s.
1obn Radcliffe, prominent citizen
NJ Millville. N. J., committed suicide
BY taking poison.
The Eastern Bar Iron Association
ordered an advance of 81 per ton in
the price of its products.
burglars wrecked the safe In W. H.
T4tlIard's store, at North Stonington,
Conn. and secured nearly $4,000.
Secretary OF War Taft left Wash
ington for New Orleans on his way to
panama as the special representative
of President Roosevelt
While filling lighted gasoline stove,
which exploded, Mrs. Jacob Dever-
eaux. of Bridgeton. N. j., was terribly
burned on the face, arms and body.
Saturday, November 10.
The pier of the Warner Steamship
line at Boston, filled with highly in
fammable materials, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, s6O0,OOO
A fire which threatened to wipe out
the entire business section Of Bristol,
N. H., destroyed eight buildings, caus-
ing a loss of $5O,OOO.
Two hundred and thirty-tw0 Chi
nese. who have been connected with
the St. Louis Worlds Fair, have left
for San Francisco to sail for China.
Mary Dunn, convicted of murder In
the second degree for killing her sis
ter-in-law, was sentenced to Is years
Imprisonment by a Philadelphia judge.
Noal Bailey, a merchant, was shot
and killed on the street at Panther,
w. Va, by Roscoe Henderson in a dis
pute over politics. Henderson escaped.
Monday, November Fl.
- James H. Worden, of Harrisburg.
has been reappOinted a Pennsylvania
game warden
A parcels post convention between
the United States and Belgium was
signed in Washington.
Hugh S. Webster. of Camden, N. J.,
committed suicide by shooting in a
hotel at Newport News, Va.
Carelessly setting their cell bedding
on fire, Reuben Loree and his son Fred |
were burned to death at Columbiaville,
Mich.
President Stevens. of the Chesapeake
& Ohio railway, will contribute $4,000 |
to the Railroad Y. NJ. C. A. to erect a
building at Richmond, Va.
Tuesday, November %.
Philip Marx was struck by a Reading |
railroad locomotive near Philadelphia .
!, I'd instantly killed, his body being
cut in half.
Five horses and IA head of cattle
were burned to death in a fire which
destroyed the barn on Roney Hart's
farm, near Altoona, Pa.
Every idle coke oven Of the H. c.
Fricl1 Coke company, in the Connells-
vile, PPa., region, about 10000 In all,
we're put in full operation.
Secretary of State Hay and Mr..
Probst, the Swiss charge d'affaires,
signed an arbitration treaty between
the United States and Switzerland.
General Louis Palma di Cesnola, d.
rector and trustee of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, died sud
denly from indigestion, aged p years.
Wednesday, November %.
Captain Royal B. Bradford will be
promoted to rear admiral, to succeed
Rear Admiral T. F. Jewell, retired.
Arnold Beauthien. former cashier OF
the West Liberty Bank, at Davenport,
ILL.,, was arrested for embezzling $780,
900.
Thirty negroes saved their lives by
jumping from the third floor Of a
burning building in st. Louis into nets
held by firemen.
Miss Annie Frazier, daughter of Gov
ernor Frazier, of Tennessee, has been
chosen to christen the cruiser Ten
nessee when it is launched in Phila-
1elphia. December 3.
While driving across the Lake Shore
railroad tracks near Buffalo, N. Y,
William Bodamer and W. G. Herzog
we're struck by train and instantly
dlled.