Milford chronicle., 1905-03-17
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursdsy. March 9.

AN9NAAe-3NCA W. DdIlAGLL. Ul
Doylestown, Pa, d.sd at his hcne
aged 81 years.
Judge Peter V. voorhees,, of the New
Jersey court Of errors and appeals
has resigned on account Of i'll health.
Vespasian Warner assumed his of.
fce of pension commissioner to sue.
eeer Commissioner Ware, resigned.
John Sheer, a freight brakeman on
the Pennsylvania railroad, fell from
his train near Lancaster, Pa, and was
killed.
After searching 25 years for his sis
ter, William Vansickles, of New
York, met her by accident on a crowd
I'd street In Chicago.
Friday, March 10.
A bill TO prohibit prize fighting in
California was defeated in the legis-
lature.
The New Jersey Grand Lodge, An
Client Order of United Workmen, held
3 two-days' session at Trenton.
Thomas Folk, a cripple, committed
suicide at Reading. Pa, by cutting his
throat with a razor because of his in
lDlllLy 70 earn living.
While picking coal on the tracks of
the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wash
ington railroad at Wilmington, Del,
James Twaddel was struck by a train
and instantly killed.
Mrs. Caroline R. Haldeman. widow
Of Hon. Jacob S. Haldeman, who was
minister to Norway and Sweden under
President Lincoln, died at Harrisburg,
Pa, aged so years.
Saturday, March II.
Augustus H. Cobb, banker, Of Rich
mond, Va, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the head.
The will Of the late James C. Carter.
Of New York, bequeathes 100000 10
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
Railroads entering Chicago have ap-
piled for an injunction against ticket
scalpers, who they say have combined
into a trust.
As a result Of a furnace explosion at
the Cambria Steel Works, Johnstown,
Pa, three men were killed, their bodies
being horribly burned.
Vice President Fairbanks has ap-
pointed his son, Fred C. Fairbanks,
who graduated from Princeton in 1903,
as his private secretary.
Monday, March 13.
Appraisers think the defunct City
Trust company, of Lancaster, Pa, may
pay over 60 cents on the dollar.
The armOred cruiser New York left |
Old Point Comfort for the navy yard |
at Boston to be put out Of commits
sion.
Dusing the session of congress
which closed on March 4, President
Roosevelt signed 1912 measures
passed by both houses.
By an explosion of gas in the Park
mine, near Mahanoy City, Pa,
two miners were fatally burned, be-
sides being hurled 100 feet down a
breast.
An express train on the Buffalo,
and Pittsburg railroad was
wrecked at Butler, Pa, by an axle on
the engine breaking. and one man was
killed and nine injured.
Tuesday, March IA.
Thieves dynamited the safe in the
bank at Benton, KY, and escaped with
$4,000
President Roosevelt has appointed
Joseph Cross United States district
Judge for the district of New Jersey.
For the first time in 80 years the
Democratic party of Bangor, Me, n
elected a mayor at the municipal cleo
ions.
In a collision between a trolley car !
md a heavy truck in New York, five =
men and one woman were injured, sew =
.ral seriously.
Edward Mcmahon and William
7awls were caught in a rush of coal I
t the Stanton breaker, at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, and sufocated.
Wednesday, March IS. 1 l
The biennial convention of the Head :.
amp of the Woodmen of the World, A
7as held at Harrisburg, Pa.
Twelve locomotives were shipped to !
apan by the American Locomotive !,
ompany, Schenectady, N. Y. A
President Roosevelt has appointed
gorge Barclay Rives, of New Jersey,
of embassy at Vienna {,
Sydney Adams, chief clerk OF the N
eneral delivery division of the Balti- O
lore postofice, was sent to Jail for
lree years for robbing the mails.
As the-result of gas explosion in a,
he home of Jacob Bitter, at Pitts d
urg, Pa, Mrs. Bittzs, - killed.
oman friend fatally .,eI iOiG1'H ~ and two
ouses wrecked. - b,