Milford chronicle., 1905-06-30
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, June %.

ut DDullCEu WuuAtodAt OlOStlo AS
sociation will meet next year at jack
sonville, Fla.
The Imperial Council, Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine, decided to meet next
year at Los Angeles. Cal.
Laurence c. Francis, who was said
to be the oldest living Mason, died at
his home in Philadelphia, aged SS
years.
General Edward NJ Henry, former
mayor of Norfolk, Va. and once on the
staff of the late General John B. Cor
don, died at Norfolk.
In pistol fight with burglars in Chi
eago, Policeman William McGeohegan
was fatally injured and one of the
eracksmen seriously wounded.
Friday, June %.
General Charles H. Darling. of
Utica, N. Y. died at Asbury Park, N.
J., while on a visit.
The 29th annual festival Of the
North American Gymnastic Union was
held at Indianapolis.
The national council, Jr. o. U. A.
NJ, adjourned at Nashville, Tenn, to
meet in Boston in 1907.
Henry NJ. Wilson, a wealthy manu-
facturer, dropped dead of apoplexy at
the Duquesne Club, Pittsburg.
Levi Black. a colored farm hand,
while standing under a shed at Mid
dletown, Del, was struck by lightning
and killed.
Saturday, June "a.
Captain r. Inch was placed on the
-nA kHa ,v,1-
of rear admiral.
Secretary Hay has left Washington
for his summer home at Lake Sunapee, !
N. H., where he will spend the summer. !
Over 25OO delegates were present at |
the opening session of the Interna-
tional Sunday School convention 1T |
Toronto.
Federal courts in Indian Territory
ruled that oil leases must be adver-
tised, and persons desiring to buy them
must hand in sealed bids.
Governor Pennypacker has appointed
D. Watson Rowe, of Chambersburg,
Pa, president judge of Franklin coun-
ty, to succeed Judge John Stewart, who
became a supreme court judge.
Monday, June 2e.
Count Cassini, the Russian ambassa-
dor, will sail for Europe on July IL.
The 900 Chinese in Victoria, B. c.,
are working energetically against
American-made goods.
John Y. Woods. a prominent lawyer,
was struck and killed by a passenger
train at Greensburg, Pa.
Believing that he had fatally wound
ed a friend, Frank R. McCamyon, a
waiter, killed himself at Chicago.
Bertha Killinger, aged II, was fatally
shot in the head with a rife while in
the woods near Altoona, Pa, gathering
flowers for church.
Pounding a dynamite cap with a
hammer, 1O-year-old Robert Elmer, of
York, Pa, was almost scalped by the
explosion that followed.
Tuesday, June 27.
Morgan H. Beach, United States at
torney for the District of Columbia, ,
has resigned.
A severe forest fire north of Ogden,
Utah, got beyond control and laid a,
waste five square miles of rich farm :
ing country.
Ellwood Garman, under sentence of :
death for murder, committed suicide :
in the MifHintOwn, Pa, Jail, by drink
ing carbolic acid. !,
Willie, the 9-year-old son Of George
Smith, Of Port Jervis, N. Y, while
playing with a gun, accidentally shot g.
and killed his 2-year-Old brother. =
Herbert Birdsall, aged Is years, ac- u
shot and killed Edward 8
Rush at Stamford, Conn, and then =
illed himself with the same weapon. :
Wednesday, June %. =
The National Woman Suffrage As :,
will meet In Portland, Ore, u
rom June 20 to July 5. u
The next convention of the Interna- a
ional Sunday School Association will a. q
e held at Louisville, Ky. -
The Scranton, Pa, Gas and Water u
ompany has purchased the 13 water
in the upper part of Lacl1a-
7anna county.
The breaker at the Sioux colliery,
hamokin, Pa. was destroyed by fire, j
ausing loss Of $4,000 and rendering
90 employees idle.
Joe Bush, aeronaut, had a narrow
scape from death near BelIeville, N.
D., when his balloon started to burn
50 feet from the ground. He alighted
/ safety.