Milford chronicle., 1905-03-10
a WEEKS news coNprNsRn
Thursday. March ?

One OF the new DattleShipS author
lied in the naval appropriation bill
will be named the South Carolina.
James D. Scott, of Wilmington. Del.
fell in front of a Reading shifting en-
gine at Coatesville, Pa, and was in.
btantly killed.
Seven people were injured, two ia
tally, by the overturning of a passen-
ger coach on the B. and o. railroad at
Colfax, w. Va.
Captain Joseph Umble, aged rs, well
known in the anti-slavery crusade in
Pennsylvania before the Civil War.
died at Reading, Pa
Freeman S. Farr, president of the
Atlantic Coast Lumber company, and
a well-known capitalist died at Nor
folk, Va, while on a business trip.
Friday, March 3.
Frank Tidmarsh, of Bridgeton, N. J.,
committed suicide by hanging himself
to the post Of his bed,
Princeton University has added
wrestling to the list OF college sports
and club has been organized.
Burglars entered the postoffice and
railroad station at Carrcroft. Del, and
secured $500 in stamps anSs&aluables.
One man was killed and over so in
jured in a head-on collision between
trains on the Mt Vernon railroad at
Spring Park, Va
While repairing a broken electric
wire at Chester, Pa, George McGin-
mis- forgot to turn off the current Id
was instantly killed.
Saturday, March 4.
Charles f. Horst a stell worker. was
struck and killed by a train at Har-
risburg, Pa. his body being horribly
mangled.
Three men and one woman were in
jured in a rear-end collision between
trains on the Philadelphia, Baltimore
and Washington railroad at Wawa, Pa.
Four railroad 1aborers were killed
and two fatally injured near Pikeville, |
KY, by an explosion of dynamite.
which they we're heating in powder
cans.
The Texas legislature adopted a |
resolution endorsing President Roose-
velt's policy regarding the Standard
Oil company and the alleged beef
trust.
Monday, March 6.
The Texas Legislature is preparing
data to assist the government in in
vestigating the methods of the beef
trust
Using her hands to stop fire in lace
curtains, Mrs. w. H. Emigh. of Hunt
ingdon, Pa, may lose one of them by
amputation.
"High WALL one of the finest dor
mitories at Yale College, New Haven,
Conn, was damaged to the extent of
$4,000 by fire
President Roosevelt will attend the
dinner Of the Empire State Society of
the Sons Of the American Revolution
in New York, March II.
In a head-un collision between
freight trains ON the B. e O. railroad
at Defrance, o., one railroader was
killed and two fatally injured.
Tuesday, March 7.
Rear Admiral Robley Evans will as
sumo command Of the North Atlantic
fleet on March 81.
D. W. Tyrons bank at Spartans-
burg, Pa, closed it's doors, the owner
having made an assignment
Judge John H. Reagan, sole surviv-
ing member of the Confederate cabi-
net, died at Palestine, Tex, aged Sc
years. :
Banker Jacob H. Schiff, of New
York, has given Columbia University ,
100000 to endOw a chair of social :
work. :
Ellen Peck, rs years old, the most ;
notorious confidence woman in the :
was arrested in New York -
or swindling Frank Repetto out of :
1900. !
Wednesday,, March 8. :
George B. COrtelyou took the oath :
f office as postmaster general. :
John L. Swayze, assistant attorney :
-eneral of New Jersey, resigned to :,
nter the service Of "a corporation as ;,
.
John w. Grange, a retired banker .
nd co-receiver Of the Neafe & Levy
company, died in Phila- q,
elphia of pleurisy.
BY the will of David R. Jaques, of h
lew York. the Hampton Normal and o
gricultural Institute, Hampton. Va, 81
sceives $4,000 to educate Indian "
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