Milford chronicle., 1904-01-08
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Fire Of unknown origin st North
Bergen. n j., destroyed Il houses,
rendering 13 families homeless.
John k. Royal resign as city
treasurer Of Harrisburg. Pa, to be-
come prothonoIary Of Dauphin county.
The White Star Steamship company
IS building a steamer at Belfast, lre-
land, 700 feet in length. or 30 feet
longer than the largest ship in Ihe
world.
By the explosion OF large steam
pipe at the Kundtz Cabinet Works. at
Cleveland O.. three men We're scaldod
to death and four others seriously
burned
Edward r. Kimball. Of Massachu-
setts has been appointed superintend-
ent Of the money order system Of TIE
postofiee department vice J. 4. Met
calf, removed.
Friday, January /.
The United States gunboat Quiros Is
on reef of the coast Of Borneo.
Pope Plus received in private au-
dience John +. Betz, Of Philadelphia.
Paris, Ill. was shaken by an EARTH
quake. which was perceptble all over
the city. No damage was done.
Frank White, Of Paterson, n. j., son
Of a wealthy lumber dealer. was sem
tenced to 2S years imprisonment for
forgery
BY the derailing Of a Lake Shore ex-
press train at Ashlabula, o. three train-
men were killed and another fatally
injured.
Saturday, January ?.
The total deaths from typhoid fever
to date at Butler. Pa. number 81.
Two business blocks in Ansonia,
Conn, were destroyed by fire inyolv-
ing a loss Of s175.0o0.
Daniel Edward Fiske. the famous
author and newspaper writer. died at
Upton, Mass. aged 81 years.
Charles Mason. a Newark, N. J..
butcher, was stabbed to death during
a quarrel by Charles Schaub.
The fire department oficials Of New
York have been ordered to make
weekly inspections Of the fire arrange /
ments in all theatres.
The National rolling mills Of the
United States Steel Corporation at
Mckeesport Pa, resumed operations. /
giving employment to 5000 men.
Monday, January 4.
The national convention Of the So
cialist party will be held in Chicago.
III, May l.
Fire in the business section of Will T
son, n. G., destroyed a dozen or more T
buildings, entailing a loss OF s125, 900. [
Bryan Democrats Of Lincoln. Neb.,
are arranging a dollar dinner as a vel
come to their leader when he returns
home, January Is.
President Roosevelt declined to at
tend the quadrennial conference Of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church
in Chicago in May.
-Angered because he was ordered
from the home Of his sisterin-law,
john Pollak, Of Chicago, shot the wom-
an twice, killing her instantly and
then killed himself
Tuesday January 5.
All collieries in the anthracite coal
district resumed work, after an idle
ness Uf 10 days.
Minneapolis mills have advanced tho
price Of flour 10 cents a barrel. as a re-
suit of the advance in wheat
James Pendegast a miner living at
Upper Lehigh, Pa, was found frozen
% death on public road near his
lome.
Martin sheetz. a Pennsylvania rail-
oad mail carrier OF Harrisburg, Pa.
Ell under the wheels of a train and
vas Instantly killed
J. N. Graham, chief engineer Of the
baltimore and Ohio railroad, has re-
igned and win become one Of the
ice presidents Of the Erie railroad.
Wednesday, January 6.
During the year 1903 there we're $50
in the marine corps and
S5 in the navy.
Governor i. z. G. Garvin, Of Rhode g
land, was inaugurated at Providence
II his second term.
Alfred Knapp. selfconfessed muir
srer Of i've persons. has been granted
new trial at Hamilton. o.
BURGLARS dynamited the safe Of the (
mbridge. Pa, postofiice and got away
ith $500 in cash and stamps
Brigadier General James Miller, rel
red, has been detailed to duty with o,
e organized militia Of New Hamp-
ire. n
President Roosevelt has pardoned 4
Fl Ashley serving a two-years'
ptsnce for forgery in the Illinois Z