Milford chronicle., 1905-05-19
4 WEEKS NEWS Compressor
Thursday May Il.

= The 18th annual meeting of the
american Tract Society was held In
New York
Victor W. Priest, a clerk in the post.
once at Hudson. N. Y, was sent to
jail for one year for stealing letters.
The cruiser Minneapolis has been
ordered to the New England coast to
destroy = number Of dangerous dere-
Iicts.
The 18th annual convention of the
supreme council Of the Catholic
knights OF America was held at st
Louis
First Lieutenant AlphOnse Strebler.
47th Company Of Coast Artillery, who
disappeared from his station at Fort
Hunt, Va, three months ago. has been
dropped from the army register as a
deserter.
Friday, May t2.
The Grand Castle of the Knights Of
the Golden Eagle Of Pennsylvania will
hold their next annual session at Read
ing.
Mrs. Alexander Schafer and her s.
year-old child were struck and killed
by lightning at Lancaster, O., during an
electrical storm.
Frederick J. De Peyster, a we'll
known New York lawyer and head of
the Society of Colonial Wars, died at
Lakewood, N. J.
George NJ. Seymour and Charles L.
Sperry, Cornell students, were drowned |
in Cayuga Lake. near Ithaca, N. Y, by |
the capsizing Of their canoe.
Saturday, May 10.
Judge Charles B. Bellinger, Of the |
United States circuit court, died at
Portland, Ore.
The Buenavista, the largest hotel at
Belmar. N. J., was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $1SO,OOO.
Former President Cleveland has re-
turned to Princeton. N. j.. after spend
ing two weeks fishing in southern
waters.
Major E. D. T. Myers, president Of
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Po-
tomac railroad. died at Richmond, Va,
after a brief illness.
Mrs. Letitia Tyler Semple, the FIRST
lady of the land" during the admin
of President Tyler, celebrated
her S4th birthday at the Louis Home in
D. C.
Monday, May IS.
Orange orchards in California have
been attacked by millions Of cut worms.
Ex-Sherif J. Frank Werner, of
Schuylkill county. Pa, who executed
six Molly Maguires in one day in 1876,
lied suddenly at Atlantic City, N. J.
Shot five days ago and unconscious l
.ver since, Mrs. William Darby, at
Ia, gave birth to a perfect I
hild, the first instance in medical his
ory. i
The Catholic Summer School of =
America will begin its 14th annual Il
ession at Cliff Haven, on Lake Cham. p
lain, N. Y, July 5, and will continue d
ntil September 5. '
An indictment was returned Mt .
w. Va, against former
S. C. Shaver, charging 81
i'm with accepting $500 as a bribe
Thile member Of the county court.
Tuesday, May 16. b.
The WOodmen of the World will hold IL
ieir annual convention next year at N
orfolk, Va. fc
Fifty horses were killed in a fire SC
hich destroyed the stables of the l.
tlas Brewing company at Chicago. al
A strike of over 400 carpenters was W
1erted at Shamokin, Pa, by builders ed
'anting an increase Of wages from in
LIS 10 s2.79 per day. pr
Ivor Davidson, who became promi-
mt as a circus giant years ago, his fri
light being feet inches, died at 22
S home at Roscoe, Minn. ST.
General Thomas ]. Churchill, former hi
vernon of Arkansas, and commander be
the Arkansas division, United Con-
ierate Veterans, died at Little Rock.
Wednesday, May II.
William F. Kelly, Jr., has been ap- rul
inted postmaster at Doylestown, Pa. R.
Thomas B. Bishop, composer of John mi
owns Body" died at his home in Ke
iladelphia, aged 10 years. aul
Tohn B. Lawrence, a Baltimore, Md, Fla
,ker, was sentenced to four years in we
son for swindling patron out of An
100. jur
In equestrian bronze statue of Lieu Jur
ant General Nathan B. Forrest was pou
yelled at Memphis, Tenn, with i'm kne
ling ceremonies. am
Iert J. Howe lost his position as
ductor on the Lackawanna railroad =
committed suicide at Binghamton, /
Y, by stabbing himself and then IN
hiking poison. UNI