Milford chronicle., 1905-05-12
! WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, May 4.

Thursday, May 4.
James Sutherland, Canadian minis
ter Of public works, died at Woodstock,
Ont. after a long illness.
The next annual convention of the
American Bankers Association will be
held at Washington in October.
Edward J. Smith, a San Francisco
tax collector, who embezzled $62, 900
and disappeared, was arrested in st.
Louis.
Miss Florence Payne. of Williams
port, Pa, is reported to have made
$4,000 in stocks through tip she had
from a New York broker.
Postmaster General Cortelyou was
the principal speaker at the corner
stone laying Of the Nazareth Hall Mil
itary Academy at Nazareth, Pa.
Friday, May 5.
Three men were burned to death
in a fire which destroyed the Fifth
Avenue hotel at Duluth, MINI.
Martin Rasmus was hanged at
Wilkesbarre, Pa, for the murder Of
Henry Ortwine, an aged German.
The boiler of a B. & o. engine blew
up near Youngstown. o., instantly
killing the fireman and fatally injuring
the engineer.
The Pennsylvania State Council,
Order of United American Mechanics,
will hold their convention next year
at Chester, Pa.
Thomas A. Neal, clerk Of the court
OF the First Judicial District Of Okla
homa. is under arrest at Guthrie,
charged with embezzling $4,000.
Saturday, May s.
Cuba has signed a treaty of friend
ship and commerce with Great Britain.
Captain Lewis L. Roney, adjutant OF
the 4th regiment. National Guard of
Pennsylvania, died at Allentown of
consumption.
The appearance of yellow fever on
the Isthmus Of Panama will result, it
is feared, in delaying progress on the
canal operations this summer
Charged with being implicated in
graft" in connection with teachers
appointments, Joseph Bernstein, of tho
Shenandoah school board, has been
held in bail for court at Pottsville, Pa.
Isaac N. Perry, of Chicago, formerly
president of the National Bank Of
America, was acquitted Of the charge
of setting fire to the Chicago Car and
Locomotive company's plant at Hege-
wisch, ILL.,
Monday, May 8.
DR.. L. H. Adler. Jr, of Philadelphia,
was elected president of the Procto-
logical Society of American, in conven-
ton at Pittsburg, Pa.
William Chipman, a retired farmer,
Of Lincoln City, Del, committed sui
eide by lying face downward in a
stream of water 10 inches deep.
Fred Schlichter, 10 years old, found
a gold watch worth s1OO while playing
in a r'le of scrap paper at the Perkio-
men Paper Mills at Hereford, Pa
Mayor Yost, Of Allentown, Pa, has
sent to Jail for 80 days Rupert Grif-
fifth, the defiant Dowieite. who insist
ed on preaching in the public square.
Tuesday, May 9.
Joseph Cancillian was shot to death
on the street at Pittston, Pa, and the
murderer, who is unknown, escaped.
Superintendent W. H. Brownson, Of
the Annapolis, Nd, naval academy, has
been promoted to be a rear admiral.
The case of Mrs. Chadwick was set
for hearing by the Ohio United States
court of appeals for October in Gin
cinnati.
Frank H. ClarksOn, a former letter |
carrier of Plainheld, N. J., was SEN
fenced to years imprisonment for
stealing letters.
Charles Pease, Richard Meade and
Charles Chappelle were drowned in the
Connecticut river at Hartford by the
capsizing of their canoe.
Wednesday, May 10.
The Pennsylvania Democratic state
convention will be held at Harrisburg |
on May "a.
The Grand Castle of the Knights OF
Golden Eagles of Pennsylvania held its
annual session at York.
Ignace Paderewski the pianist, who
has been Ill for several weeks, sailed
from New York for his home.
]. Thompson Baird, for 20 years
mayor Of Portsmouth, Va, and a vet
eran of the Sonfederacy, died Of para
lysis.
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