Milford chronicle., 1905-11-03
4 WEEK.s NEws coNpENsEn.
Thursday. October 2s

Thursday October 2s.
James z. Barnes, awaiting trial fol
murder, died at Butte. Mont, from self
Imposed starvation
Bruno A. Bahr. a Chicago messen
ger boy, was killed by falling IL stories
down a ventilating shaft
Secretary Hitchcock will recommend
the abolition of all positions of lant
Dfice receivers in the western states.
The New Jersey State Council Of
the Junior Order United American
Mechanics held two-days' session al
Trenton
Rev Charles N. Sheldon. reform
preacher and author of Topeka Kan.
Is seriously i'll with stomach and kid
ney troubles
Friday October 27.
The second annual convention OF
the National League of oPsmasters
OF the Fourth Glass was held in Wash
ington
John Adams. colored, was convicted
of manslaughter at Buffalo. N. y for
killing John Graham, and sentenced
to 10 years in prison.
-Four persons were killed and Is in
iured in a head-on collision between
passenger trains on the Rock Island
railroad at Fairfield, Ia.
The secretary of the interior has
withdrawn from entry 100000 acres of
land in the Cheyenne (Wyo) land dis
trict, with a view to creating a forest
reserve.
Saturday, October %.
VIII +. Granger, an actor. was shot
in the eve during a performance at
Chicago and will lose his sight.
The plant Of the Central Manufaet-
urlng company. at Connellsville, Ind,
was destroyed by fire, entailing a loss
OF $4,000.
John Johnson was sentenced at
White Plains. n. Y. to be electroeuted
at Sing Sing prison, December Is for
the murder Of his wife
Ephraim Ramsey was shot and killed
near Mount Vernon, Ind, by Thomas
Ridley, his nephew, in pistol duel
caused by domestic troubles.
Leaping headlong through a window
four stories down to the street to
eyade arrest, Adolph Perbohner was
Instantly killed in Chicago.
Monday, October so.
Falling from a Lake Shore train at
Porter, Ind, John Kelly, Jr., of Roches-
ter. N. Y, was instantly killed.
Mrs. John Shimenski has died in
Scranton from burns due to scalding
water thrown over her. it is alleged, by
her husband
Chairman Shonts, who is in Wash
ington, denied that there is any fric-
ton between himself and Secretary
Taft over the Isthmian canal
Many Japanese residents of South
eTn California are hurrying home to
go into the newly opened commercial
fields of Manchuria and Korea.
Former Governor D. r. Francis, of
Missouri, has been appointed special
to visit 43 foreign gov
ernments to thank them for partici-
pating in the st. Louis Exposition.
Tuesday October 81.
Six men were injured, two fatally, |
by the deraHment Of a B. & o. train 4
at Mariners Harbor, Staten Island.
The ninth annual convention of the |
New Jersey Firemen's Benevolent As
sociation was held at Trenton.
The convention of the Supreme /
Lodge and the encampment of the
Rank, Knights of Pythias,
will be held at New Orleans the third
Tuesday in October next.
Edward C. Bearden. money order
clerk in the Augusta, Ga, postoffce,
shot and killed himself on being asked
% turn over his cash drawer and books
or inspection. No shortage was dis
covered.
Wednesday, November I.
Three shot firers were killed in a
yas explosion in a coal mine at Hart
ord, Ark.
Colonel Henry C Ward. of the 18th
J. S. infantry, has been retired after
2 years active service.
Aaron ]. Levy, lawyer, was arrested
n New York for aiding and abetting
legal registration.
Sylvester Kendall was caught by
all OF soapstone in a mine at Bellaire,
D., and instantly killed.
Henry Bills, aged 20 years, of Kent,
d, while intoxicated, threw his wife
gainst a door and killed her.
Charles H. Darling, assistant secre-
ary of the navy, has resigned, and
ruman Newberry, of Detroit, will sue
aed him.