Milford chronicle., 1904-08-26
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, Auaust ts.

III GoiAlSAOA DSAWGGu bAoiASy NeN-
at Fort Lee. N. J., 20 persons were
injured, two seriously.
Clarence Deryder. a cyclist, was
| killed while attempting to loop the
/ loop" at Salt Lake City, Utah.
The plant of the Standard Powder
company, near Hollidaysburg, Pa, was
partly destroyed by fire, entailing a
loss of $4,000.
While preparing for the funeral of
her daughter, Mrs. L. A. Larson, of
Rush City, Mimi, fell down stairs and
broke her neck.
The farm house of B. A. Bowling,
near Perth, Okla, was destroyed by
fire, and Mr.. Bowling his wife and two
children burned to death
Friday, August 19.
Mrs. Annie Miller, of Camden, n j.,
was fatally burned by the explosion
of a gasoline stove.
Because she was scOlded by her
mother, Ethel Ashby. of Chester, Pa.
ended her life with poison.
Allen Heathington. a young white
farmer and saw mill owner, near
Charleston, S. c., was shot and killed
by a negro.
An express train on the Rock Island
railroad was wrecked at Altamont.
Mo, by the spreading of the rails. and
II persons were injured two fatally.
Charlemagne Tower, United States
ambassador to Germany. who is in this
country on his vacation, called on
President Roosevelt at the White
House.
Saturday, August 20.
Ida E. Warren, of Worcester, Mass.
was elected president of the Daughters
of Veterans at the Boston convention.
Prince Henry of Prussia will repre-
sent the German emperor at the chris
tening of the heir to the Russian
throne.
Ethel NJ. Hill, a 5-year-old child. OF
Somerville. N. J., was drowned despite
the heroic efforts OF an older sister TO
save her
Fish Rock Camp. said to have been
the most beautiful and expensive camp
in the Adirondack Mountains, has been
destroyed by fire.
The Supreme Lodge. Knights of Py-
thias. will hold their next biennial en-
campment at New Orleons the third
Tuesday in September, 1906
Monday, August %.
At least seven lives are known to
have been lost in a flood that swept
Globe, Ariz., and the surrounding
country.
Pennsylvania Day was celebrated |
at the St. Louis Exposition, !
Governor Pennypacker making an his
torical address.
Secret service agents arrested four I
at Atlanta. Ga. charged .
with making counterfeit $40 bills of /
the Buffalo" pattern.
Barbara Kready, of Lancaster, Pa, |
has sued Sallie Geib for $1,000 dam
ages for the alleged circulation of re-
ports that she had thrown pepper into
ler cows eyes.
Tuesday, August %.
D. Lynch Pringle, formerly United
States minister to Turkey, died at san
Francisco.
Because she was disappointed in love
Miss Annie Fox. Of Philadelphia, COM
nitted suicide by swallowing carbolic
lcid.
Elmer RhOads, a car inspector on the
railroad, was run down
md killed by an express train at Har-
'isburg, Pa.
Postmaster General Payne conferred
n Chicago with the Republican ma
ional committee concerning the politi-
al situation in the west.
Richard Croker, former leader Of
rammany Hall, New York. has arrived
n Dublin and says he has no intention
# returning to America this year.
Wednesday, August "a.
George Leander, the American bicy-
list, died in Paris from injuries re-
eived while racing.
Thomas Reinck, president of the
northampton National Bank, Easton.
a., died after a long illness.
The 500 miners of the Pennsylvania
.oal Company at Pittston, Pa, who
ave been on strike the past two weeks,
eturned to work.
Booker T. Washington, Jr., son of
he president Of Tuskegee Institute.
.labama, was fined SIS at Quincy.
lass, for speeding his motor bicycle.
The governor Of Georgia has ap-
ointed a commission to investigate
he conduct of he militia from which a
lob took two negroes at Statesboro,
nd burned them.