Milford chronicle., 1905-09-29
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, eeptember q.

Autumn Arbor Day in Pennsylvania
will he observed on Friday, Octo-
ber 20.
Admiral Dewey has returned to
Washington from Hot Springs, Va,
where he spent the summer.
The Brotherhood of Railway Car
mon of America will hold their next
biennial convention in Chicago.
Frederic Laurence Knowles, the
poet, author of On Life's Stairway
and Love Triumphant" died at Rox-
bury, Mass, of typhoid fever.
The Noel Construction company, of
Baltimore, was awarded the contract
to erect the administration building at
the L. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis,
Nd, at their bid of $4,000.
Friday, September 22.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild's will
was probated in London. He leaves So
100000 to charity.
Three men were fatally injured in
the old county court house, Chicago,
which is being torn down.
Two hundred persons were hurt,
three seriously, by the collapse Of a
band stand at Belleville. Ill.
From Idaho and California $4,000
cars of oranges have been sent east
during the season just closed.
Andrew Carnegie will give Smith
College. Northampton, Mass. $125,0OO
II an equal amount is raised.
Saturday, September %.
The University of Chicago has es-
tablished a four-year course in rail
way education"
Fifty children engaged in race
riot in Pittsburg and Is colored boys
were badly beaten.
Derby &, Co., New York jewellers, in
Maiden Lane, were robbed of $1,000 in
silver plate by burglars.
Former Governor Charles T. O'Far-
reI. of Virginia, died at Richmond
from nervous prostration.
Rufus Binyon, a negro, was executed
at Ardmore, I. T., for beating his g.
year-old stepdaughter to death.
John Reid, II years old, who fatally
shot man at Suffers Harlem River
Park. New York, came near being
lynched. He was intoxicated.
Monday, September 25.
A Bloomsbury, Pa, concern has just
shipped 400 school desks to Cape Town,
South Africa.
Mayor Tom L. johnson has been
,,o,,iDa+ad for a third term bV CleVe-
land Democrats.
For assault on a woman and the MUIR
der OF. her baby, Frank Brown, colored
was lynched at Conway, Ark.
The Commercial Club at Topeka
Kan, is planning worlds fair for
1911 to mark the states semi-centen-
NAL of admission to the union.
Though an engine on top of him al
Bethlehem. Pa, had to be lifted by
lacks to release Conductor Walter My
ers. he was unhurt, but his shoes were
in pieces.
Tuesday, September 2e.
IN a quarrel over a girl at Mays
vile. KY, Henry Edwards was shot
and killed by Clarence Turner.
Fifty Filipino students arrived in
Chicago, preparatory to entering vari
Gus western colleges and universities
The biennial convention of the SUI
preme lodge of the Improved Order OF
knights of Pythias was held at Wash
ington.
James P. Hennessy. who confessed
to stealing $4,000 from the estate ol
D. Percy Morgan in New York, was
sent to prison for seven years.
The congregation of a colored church
at Clayton, Mo, tried to lynch a col
ored man who was shot after an at
tempted assault on a white woman.
Wednesday, September 27.
George F. Baer, president of the
Reading Railway company, celebrated
his 63d birthday Tuesday.
Secretary Hitchcock has returned tc
Washington from Monadnock, N. H..
where he spent the summer.
Captain Martin L. Haines, who was
known as the Cranberry King" of New
Jersey, died at his home near Mount
Holly.
Augustus S. Miller, mayor of Provi-
dence, R. l., fell dead from heart dis
ease while chatting with several of his
friends.
Because his house had been sold and
he was compelled to vacate, Fred Rit-
ter, an Altoona, Pa, drayman, COM
mitted suicide by shooting.