The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-06-28
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eptMEe Five persons were
ss,- drowned in New York
bay on Sunday by the
@fe0osN- overturning of the thir-
ty-eight foot sloop yacht Elsie and Ka-
tie in heavy storm. Eight other per-
sons who were on the yacht at the time
were rescued. During the same storm
one man was killed and ten injured by
thunderbolt at picnic in Winfield,
Queens borough. sSsra
In Detroit, Mich, Thursday, Charles
"A. Swayse shot Miss Effie L. Alvord
OF Saginaw, Mich, and beat her about
the head with his revolver while the
couple were in corridor on the eley-
enth floor of the Chamber Of Commerce
building. Swayse then jumped out Of
the window, falling eleven stories to
the brick pavement beneath. He was
instantly killed. The woman will, 1t
Is said, recover.
While on his way to the Quarries of
the Hudson River limestone company,
about eight miles from Kingston, N. Y,
Thursday morning, o. Q. Longyear.
paymaster, and a friend, David Mar
kle, were held up and robbed OF 81, T66
by four masked Italians. The robbers
were captured on Saturday and large
share Of the booty recovered.
In schenectady, n. X. Thursday,
James Alexander, the nfteen-year-old
son OF County Clerk James B. Alexan-
der. was shot and killed by revolver
In the hands Of Clarence Gregg, play
mate, In the latter's house. The Gregg
boy did not know the revolver was
loaded.
A bandit with shotgun held up the
outgoing stage to Murphy. near the
summit, few miles from Silver City,
Ida, Thursday. Nine passengers were
forced to alight and give up their val
uables. The robber then demanded the
mail sack, which he ransacked.
Seth Ellis, who was at one time the
Union Reform candidate for president
OF the United States and who was once
master of the National and Ohio
oranges, fell from cherry tree on his
farm at waynesville, O., Thursday,
md was killed. -~slss----Ass S-sssS-
At Europa. Miss. on Sunday, Star
ling Durham, a negro, held on charge
OF criminal assault, was hanged in the
public square BY mob. The young
girl who was his victim adjusted the
moose and led the horse from under the
negro.
Benjamin and Edwin Goshkey.
brothers, aged respectively twenty four
and twenty-one years. were electrocut-
ed at their home near Wabank, Pa,
Friday, while picking cherries in tree
through which passed live wire.
An electrical storm which has sell
dom been eQualed in intensity passed
over eastern and central New England
on Sunday night. Many buildings were
struck BY lightning, and there were at
least two fatalities.
Twelve persons were injured in col-
iision between two street cars on Sat
nrday In Chicago, The cars were
crowded with passengers. and there
were number Of narrow escapes from
death.
The Hargis-C ockrill feud. which for
two years has Numbered. has again
been reopened and is raging fiercely in
the mountains back Of jackson, Ky.
Two Of a sheriff's posse have been kill
ed.
william Donohue, New York paint
err employed On the Brooklyn bridge,
fell from that structure into the river
on Friday. II Is said that he will prob.
ably recover.
At Chicago Sunday, George d. Dix
on and wife In an automobile collided
with an electric car at a crossing and
were inskantsy killed.
During a Cyclone on sunday ia the
suburbs or Paterson, N. j.. one mar
was killed and Eve large ice houses
blown down.
-1r r,vr In Cleveland, O., or
prcopn Friday, fire, supposed
nEs0fAp' to have been Of incen
diary origin, caused losses aggregatint
100000 In the lumber district lyinl
along the river front. Several acres
covered with big lumber piles wer'
swept clean BY the flames.
The theater In Roricks Glen, ons
mile outside the city Of Elmiras one O
che finest summer playhouses ln tn