Milford chronicle., 1904-02-19
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, February n,

Thursday, February II.
-Four persons were killed at the
southern railway crossing at Waterloo
Postoffice, Va. while crossing the
tracks in a wagon.
andrew Carnegie has offered tc
erect a temple at Kilmainock, Scot
land, to the memory of Robert Burns
1t a cost of s2,5OO,OOO.
The 1O-year-old daughter of William
ciingen, of Chicago. died of injuries
4sceived in the Iroquois theatre fire
making the 575th victim.
The Howell -Connell contest from
PENNSYLVANIA in the national house of
REPRESENTATIVES was decided in favor
al William CoNnell, who was at once
worn in.
The Equitable National Bank. OF
New York city, capital 100000. has
been closed and a receiver appointed.
me failure is due to bad loans and in.
fudicious management
Friday, February 12.
William Arup, Danish commissioner
y the St Louis Exposition, has ar
rived in New York.
Charles NJ. Schwab, ex-president OF
he United States Steel corporation,
mas sailed for Europe to recuperate his
health
An epidemic of typhoid fever exists
at Watertown, N. Y. there being over
Zoo cases, and the hospitals are
crowded.
Miss Jessie Everill was burned to
death and four others seriously in.
jured by the burning Of an apartment
house at Kansas City, Mo.
Saturday, February 10.
Senior De Obarrio. minister of wal
for the Republic of Panama, has re
Signed.
A loaded street car was struck by
a passenger train at Paducah, Ky.
and 70 persons were injured, two ia
tally.
The government will send Dr. H. B |
Mohr, of Raleigh, N. c.. to Colon to
furnish reports of the sanitary condi
tion of the Isthmus.
The plant of the American Cereal
company, at Petersboro, Ont, was
damaged by fire to the extent of $50, !
900, and 800 employees made idle.
While trying to get his hat, which
rolled under a passenger train. H. B
Price, of RoXborough, Pa, had his arm
so badly crushed it had to be ampu
tated.
Monday February IS.
Owing to the war Russia has de
cided not to make an exhibit at the
ST. Louis Fair.
Three train hands were killed al
Peedee, S. c., on the Atlantic Coast
line in head-on collision.
Secretary Of War Taft will sell sS,
100000 Philippine certificates as soon
as he can arrange the details.
Professor Charles E. Beecher, Ph. D. |
professor of paleontology and curator
of Peabody Museum. at Yale Univer
sity, is dead.
Charles Diehl. of Leather Corner
Lehigh county, shot bald eagle
measuring seven feet across its wings.
and the largest catamount ever killed
on the Blue mountains.
Tuesday February is.
Wheat touched the dollar mark in
New York for the first time since
1898.
A landslide near Auburn, Cal, killed
three men, and 46 others had narrow
The bill to pay $150,O0o to ex-Queen
of Hawaii, failed to pass
the senate. the vote being 26 to 26.
Three men we're killed in New York
by the fall Of wall of a building in
course of construction, being precipi. :
-ated 13 stories to the cellar.
Secretary of War Taft forwarded tc L
congress a report of engineer officers
lrging an appropriation of 81 OOOC l
or improving the harbor of refuge on
he Delaware river.
Wednesday, February II. :
Major Isaac B. Brown has resigned =
IS secretary and treasurer Of the .
pennsylvania Medical Council. :
Rear Admiral c. S. Sigsbee has as .
umed command Of the United States .
iouth Atlantic squadron. L
man who registered at a New i"
'ork hotel as E. Baum, of Baltimore .
suicide by taking carbolic "
cid I1
The large paint shop of the Della. -
are, Lackawanna and Western rail -
)ad' at Scranton, Pa, was destroyed -
y fire, entailing a loss of s150,OO0.
Henry Young was killed during a
re at Newark. N. J., that destroyed Ol
lie grand stand ~ most of the board HI
ack of the Val yurg bicycle track. or