Milford chronicle., 1905-07-28
A wrRK,s NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, July 20.


Mrs. ]. B. Cole, sister-in-law Of Vice
President Fairbanks. died of heart dis
ease at Maysville, o.
The Charleston machine plant near
Bethlehem. Pa, was destroyed by an
incendiary fire. Loss, $4,000.
Two prisoners in the Macon, Ga, Jail
have warned the sheriff they will COM
: NIT suicide if they do not get more air
Four bricklayers employed on the
new court house at Greensburg Pa,
were fatally injured by the scaffold
collapsing
James Ternent, aged Is years, of
Lonaconing, Nd. died of lockjaw. re-
sulting from the tearing of his hand
by a cannon cracker on July 4.
Friday, July 21.
Mrs. w. H. Lantz, of Beverly, w Va,
and her baby were killed in a runaway
there.
John F. Stevens, the newly appointed
chief engineer of the Panama. canal.
sailed for Panama on the steamship
Mexico.
John H. Dewell, aged TO- a retired
Norfolk, Va, business man, committed
suicide by shooting while suffering
from heat
Deane Miller, Of New York, leaves
one-half his estate to his brother pro-
vided he does not drink liquor for three
| years, according to the will
| Judge John w. Price, 81 years of
! age a Confederate soldier, for many
years judge of the chancery court in
New Orleans, died at Newport News,
Va
Saturday, July %.
George and James Cubley, 6-year-old !
twins. were burned to death in their |
home at Muskegon, Mich.
William Leazer, cOlored, was hanged |
at Annapolis, Nd, for the murder of |
Police Officer John Mcnamara last
March.
Mrs. F. J. Kneware, of LOckport, |
N. Y, left $4,000 for homeless cats
and dogs and $4,000 to her daughter,
who will contest the will
Captain H. Clay Evans, Jr, retired,
only son Of II. Clay Evans, former CON
sui general at London, died at his
home near Chattanooga Tenn.
Monday, July "a.
w. J. Parker. a mining engineer of
Cleveland, o., was struck by lightning
and killed near Salisbury, N. c.
To celebrate the 59th anniversary of 4
their marriage, Mr.. and Mrs. David
Shank, of Lock Haven, Pa, attended a
Sunday-school picnic.
Jesse Tomlinson, a brakeman on the
Pennsylvania railroad. sat down on ,
the rail at Mifflin, Pa, fell asleep and
was instantly killed by a train.
Arrested on a charge of opening
railroad switch, James McGraw. who )
claims he did it on a wager, was held
at Akron, o. for the grand jury. /
The third convention of the Ameri- \
can Institute of Bank Clerks adjourned {
at Minneapolis after electing as chair. ]
man George H. Richards, of Mime 8
apolis.
Tuesday, July 25. D
DR. P. D. Pollock, for many years Z
president of Mercer University, died at O
Monroe, Ga.
The National Conference of Charities tr
and Correction will meet in Philadel- q
Dhia next year. pi
DR.. Juan Pablo Rojas Paul. former
president of Venezuela, died at Cara D,
.as. aged 60 years. l.,
A Lake Shore passenger train struck "a
party of track walkers near Buffalo. -
\. Y, instantly killing two of them. ia
Joseph J. Eakins, managing editor
f the New York World, died at Colo Ci
ado Springs, Col, from consumption.
DespOndent over the loss of S140 'n
Thich had been stolen from him. Peter
Iayden, of Philadelphia, committed
licide by hanging himself.
Wednesday, July 26.
Otto Bernheimer a wealthy New Lo'
orll cotton broker, committed suicide
Y shooting.
Samuel Harper, father of President hall
arper, of the University of Chicago NO, r,cI
ed at Chicago. aged 81 years. Fall
An explosion in the Enterprise pow Wa
II mill at Greendale, Pa, killed Ben anC
min Potter and partly wrecked the Is.
ill., I
General Charles Miller was reap be
inted major general of the Pennsvl- aug aug
mia national guard by Governor Pen tlr, +I,o
packer. 'o' ;sI
John Mulqueen, 6 years old. has been m. ;
md by the New York police in a va Ire
Mt lot, where he slept in a trunk and war
, scraps for two months. spec
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