Milford chronicle., 1904-09-30
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, september p.

FRANCIS VI. Delp, prominent grocer
of Lancaster, Pa, committed suicide by
shooting while respondent.
Lightning struck an oil tank at Port
Arthur, Tex, on which six men were
at work and five were killed.
Wilson Keiser was killed and several
others injured by overcharged electric
light wires at New Bloomfield, Pa.
Rev. Dr. Arthur S. Lloyd, of New
York, has been elected bishop of the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of Ken
tucky.
John N. Navarro, consul general for
Mexico at New York, was stricken with
apopleXy on a train and is in a seri-
GUS condition.
Friday, September %.
Captain John W Hall. one of Balti-
more's leading fnanciers, died sud
denly of heart failure, aged rs years.
The German emperor has conferred
the order of the Red Eagle on Presi-
dent Harper, of the Chicago Univer-
sity.
Princeton University, at Princeton.
N. j., was opened for its 15Sth year
by an address by President Wilson to
the students
The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
company has adopted a resolution to
admit clergymen free to the Worlds
Fair during the month of November.
Saturday. September "a.
Rear Admiral Nicoll Ludlow, re-
tired, has been assigned to duty as gov
ernor of the naval home at Philadel-
phia.
G. w Fidlar, deputy guarding the
steel plant at Glassport. Pa, was ia
tally shot in a riot between strikers
and nOn-union men.
Homer Smith, Is years old, was killed
at Laurel, Del, by being thrown FROM
his horse and dragged through the
streets by the stirrup5.
General Harrison Allen, deputy audi |
tor for the postoffice department at
Washington. D. c., died suddenly of
heart disease. aged So years
George Davis son of a wealthy ranch
owner Of Kansas City, was found dead /
in a London hotel, having committed |
suicide by cutting an artery in his |
arm.
Monday, September &c.
James Stuart. colored. was lynched /
at Laurens, S. c.. for an attempted as
sault on a 14-year-old white girl.
Lonely without his wife. who had re-
turned to Austria. Andrew Scalco COM
mitted suicide by hanging near Potts
vile. Pa.
The fall of an elevator in the Cohen
company's plant at Cincin-
natl. o., killed one man and seriously
injured two others.
Four children of George Cooper.
ranging in age from 2 to years, were
burned to death at Winchester, KY,
while left alone in their home.
Fire destroyed the structural build
ng at the Bethlehem Steel Works,
Pa, together with the
,aint, car. carpenter and pattern shops.
loss of $250,0O0.
Tuesday, September 27.
The International Pure Food Con-
yress held their sessions at the ST.
4ouiS Worlds Fair.
Owing to scarcity of labor planters
n Georgia are preparing to start pick
ng cotton by moonlight
Mrs. Bessie Peck, of Kansas City,
Irowned her daughter and herself in
rain cistern while despondent.
James Bailey. colored, was hanged
t Courtland, Va. for the murder of
,admus Williams. colored. in a dis
ute over five cents.
A passenger train on the Burlington
abroad was wrecked near Elmwood,
Il. by a washout, and one man was
illed and three fatally injured.
Wednesday, September %.
Three children of Charles NJ Bird
rere burned to death in a fire which {
estroyed their home at Iowa Falls, Ia.
The 54th annual meeting of the I
Medical Society was held I
t Pittsburg, with 400 delegates in at {
I
David B. Hill will speak in Indiana 7
)r Parker and Davis October II, IS {
nd 19 at places to be designated by
le Democratic state committee.
After a shutdown of two months.
le furnaces of the Carnegie Steel COM
any at Sharon. Pa, resumed oper-
ions, giving employment to 2000 men.
Because a young woman with whom y
= was infatuated refused to recognize i
m. Carlo Frederiques Won Bauditz, a j
ealthy Venezuelan. committed suicide :
a New York hotel. =