Milford chronicle., 1904-01-22
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, January "a.

Thursday, January IA.
Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl-
rania, has reappofnted John c. De
Ianev factory inspector.
Nrs. Ruth Brown Thompson, daugh-
fer of John Brown, of Harper's Ferry
fame. is dying at Pasadena, Cal.
The Office of the Pittsfeld (Mass.)
cas- company was blown to pieces by
gas explosion. No one was injured.
Postmaster Albert eastman, Of
rtabl. Mo, is under arrest for embez
ming government funds to the amount
of $1,000.
The American Car and Foundry
company, of St. Louis, has reduced it's
employees wages 10 per cent About
1000 men are affected.
Lawrence White was killed and
fhree other miners injured by the ex-
nlosion of a box of dynamite at the
Lytle colliery, near Pottsville. Pa.
Friday, January IS.
George F. Randolph has been elected
arst vice president and traffic manager
81 the B. & o. railroad.
The Kentucky house of representa-
lives has invited Senator Arthur P.
Gorman to address them.
Three unknown miners were drown
Ia at Charleroi, Pa, while crossing
the Monongahela river on the ice.
All the wholesale grocery houses Of
Central West Virginia have consoli-
hated. with capital of $2,O00,OO0.
Mrs. Elizabeth w. Lee and her two
daughters were burned to death in
their home at Terre Haute, Ind. The
building caught fire from an over
heated stove.
Saturday, January 16.
Brigadier General Frederick D.
Grant has assumed command of the
department OF the lakes.
General Lee. a negro, was lynched
near Charleston. S. c., for attempting
to cr1minally assault white woman.
The three-story car barn and so cars
OF the Coney Island and Brooklyn rail-
road in Brooklyn were destroyed by
fire. Loss, $125.OOO.
William J. Bryan win publish a daily
edition of his newspaper, The Com
moner, during the Democratic national
convention in St Louis.
The boiler of a freight locomotive on
the New York Central railroad ex-
5ploded at Syracuse, N. Y, killing the
engineer and brakeman and fatally in
.iuring the fireman
Monday, January IS.
All the steel mills at South Chicago
lhave resumed, but at greatly reduced
wages.
Colonel John H. Bacon, former
mayor of Colorado Springs. Colo, COM
mitted suicide because of illness.
William Niemaler was killed and
three others fatally injured by a dyna-
mite explosion at a lumber camp near
Phillips, Wis
Charles Bonier, aged IA years, was
found guilty of first degree murder at
Buffalo n r for killing an old Ger
man couple for their money.
Losing control of mis- sled while
coasting, Earl Bird. 10 years old, of
Shamokin, Pa, plunged from a bridge
40 feet into a ravine, fatally injuring
himself.
Tuesday, january 10.
The Mennonite Publishing company,
at Elkhart, Ind, went into the hands
4of receivers Assets, $156,O00; liabili-
ties. 100000
The plate department of the Nation
al Tube Company, at Wheeling, W.
Va. resumed, giving employment to
over 1900 men at reduced wages.
A delegation from Michigan has in
vited President Roosevelt to attend
the 50th anniversary of the birth of the
Republican party al Jackson, July 6.
The state department has issued a
warrant for the surrender to the Chill
can authorities of Russell Beckett,
now under arrest in Philadelphia. He
is charged with forgery.
Wednesday, January 20.
The 45th annual meeting of the
Pennsylvania Horticultural Association
was held at Lancaster, Pa.
Unable to endure the intense cold.
thousands OF ice Earvesters quit he
river ice fields at Catskill, N. Y
United States Senator's A. C. Me-
Laurin and Fl. D. Money were re-elecU-
ed by the Mississippi legislature.
Eighty-three head af high breed
Hereford cattle were burned to death
in the barn of C. A Stannard, at En-
poria, Kan.
Judge William L Pemfield, solicitor
Of the national state department, has
announced himself as a candidate for
the Indiana Republican gubernatorial
nomination.