Milford chronicle., 1905-05-26
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thuraday May 1s.

Inc new Jersey STATE tlr6men ,
Association held their annual meeting
at Trenton.
In a pistol duel at owlngsville. Ky.
James Stephen and John Burns we're
fatally wounded.
George H. Butler, OF New York. has
been appointed interpreter at the
American legation at Pekin.
The mixing mill Of the divers Pow
der Mill plant, near Wilkesbarre, Pa,
blew up, but no one was injured
Charles E. Magoon, who succeeds
General Davis as governor Of the canal
zone, has sailed for Colon, accom-
panied by John F. Wallace, the chief
engineer.
Friday, May 10.
Mrs. Jacob A. Rils, wife of the writer,
died Of pneumonia at her home 1t
Richmond Hill. L. l.
Prof c. R. Stiles, principal Of Sus-
quehanna Collegiate Institute, Towan-
da, Pa, died Of apoplexy. aged AZ years.
The army transport Buford, which
ran ashore at Malabong. Philippine
Islands, has been refioated and sailed
to Manila under her own steam.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has awarded a contract for $4,000 tons
of structural steel to the American
Bridge company for use at its New
York terminal.
Saturday. May 20.
The next national convention of the
Railway Telegraphers' Association
will be held at Denver Colo.
The First National Bank Of Corn
wall. N Y, has been closed by the
comptroller of currency on the ground
Of insolvency.
Daniel Graeby, a telephone lineman,
was shocked to death at MahanOy
City, Pa, while repairing a wire at the
top of a 50-foot pole.
DR.. William Osler, recently profess
sor of medicine at Johns Hopkins Uni
versity, and who goes to oxford to &C
cept a professorship there, sailed on
the steamship Cedric for Liverpool.
Jewels valued at $4,000, which have
mysteriously disappeared from the
trunk of Mrs. Thomas H. West, Jr..
of St. Louis, Mo-, are being searched
for by police detectives in st. Louis,
Boston and New York.
Monday, May %.
William ]. Bryan has announced that
he will tour the world to study munich |
pal ownership and railroad problems.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw di- |
rected the laying of the new federal |
building cornerstone at Cleveland, o. |
P. J. McArdle, Of Muncie, Ind, was
elected president Of the Amalgamated |
Association of Iron, Steel and Tin
workers.
Failing into cellarway at Washing
ton, Pa, DR.. S. c. NcCracken, an aged
Ahysician, sustained a fractured skull
and died in Is minutes.
Knights Of Labor in Chicago asked
an order restraining the Cigarmakers'
Union from circulating literature con-
demning knights of Labor cigars.
Tuesday, May %.
President Roosevelt has appointed
J. f. B. Stuart collector Of customs at
Va
The furnaces of the Moorhead. Bros.
steel mill, at Sharpsburg, Pa, resumed
giving employment to 500
men.
James Paterson, son of a wealthy
farmer, was murdered and robbed at
Latrobe, Pa, the body being badly
mutilated.
Major John W. Johnston father Of
Mary Johnston, the authoress, died at
his home in Richmond, Va, aged 66
years.
Forty monuments erected by the
state of Ohio to its soldiers who fell
N the siege of Vicksburg were dedi-
lated in the National Military Park at
Miss.
Wednesday, May "a.
Brigadier General Alfred T. Smith,
died at Buffalo, N Y, after a
hort illness.
John S. Grossly, known as one of the
two Johns" the famous fat men Of
he stage, died at his home in St.
.ouis.
w. @. Parker, teller in the Arkansas
National Bank, at Hot Springs, is
Missing, and his accounts are short
10000. {
Admiral Dewey. who has been suf-
ering from a severecold, has fully re- =
overed and is able to be at his Office =
d the navy department.
President Roosevelt has reiterated :
is intention of calling congress in
xtra session October 16 to consider Z
abroad rate legislation.