Milford chronicle., 1905-04-21
| WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, April Is.

coal mine at Alfalfa. Ala, and it is be.
lieved they died from hot air that was
pumped into the mine
General J. Fred. Grant, grand secre-
tary Of the Sovereign Grand Lodge OF
Odd Fellows, died at Baltimore as the
result Of an operation.
Owing to i'll health, Arthur Lutch.
ford, secretary-treasurer Of the Me.
chanics' Savings Bank. Rochester. N. e.,
committed suicide by shooting.
Miss Florence Oates, a 1Sirse in the
Chester county, Pa, insane hospital
was drowned in the Brandywine by
slipping OF foot log which she was
endeavoring to cross.
Friday, April IA.
B. ]. Rowe, a Pennsylvania railroad
brakeman, was killed in a wreck near
Fern Glen.
The Lewis county Jail at Weston.
W. Va, was partially demolished by an
explosion, and seven prisoners escaped.
Three cars running wild on the South
ern railroad at Columbus, Ga. struck A
passenger train and killed three col
ored girls.
The Isthmian canal commission will
establish a purchasing depot in New
York. to be in charge of a man selected
by Chairman Shonts.
First Lieutenant Henry Clay Evans
Jr., son Of the former pension commits
sioner, has been placed on the retired
list on account of disability
Saturday, April IS.
Arthur Laster and Joseph Miller, two
negro murderers, were hanged at Pat
erson. N. J.
Robert Hodges, a prominent Balti-
more architect. while suffering from
Ill health. committed suicide by cut
ting his throat.
The greater portion of the business
section Of Springvale, Me-, with many
dwellings, was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss Of 100000.
John D. Rockefeller has given $780,
900 to the University Of Virginia to
perpetuate the memory of DR.. J. L. NJ.
Curry, the famous southern educator.
Alleging that utterances of her father
caused her fiance to refuse to marry
her, Mrs. Helen Hazeltine, of New York.
has sued her father for $4,000 for
slander.
Monday, April II.
Prices Of live cattle in all the Texas
markets have been materially increased.
Beebe & ons' leather tannery at IT.
Pa, was destroyed by fire, en-
failing a loss of $175,00O.
Thrown from a vicious colt, his foot
in a chain trace, R. Percy
was dragged to death near Har-
Pa.
Three men were killed and much
damage to property done by an explo-
sion of powder in hardware store at
Trenton, Tenn.
Henry White, the new American am
to Rome, was received by
King Victor Emanuel and presented
his credentials.
Tuesday, April 1s.
John Paddock and Carl Lamphead,
high school students at Charleroix.
Mich, were drowned while canoeing in
Pine lake.
Mollie Halpert, 4 years Old, of Phila-
delphia, found a poisoned rat biscuit in
her home and ate it, dying an hour
later in agony.
Mark Wistlers and a laborer named
Burgess were burned to death in a fire
that destroyed a boarding house at
N. c.
After a quarrel with her parents,
Miss Lillian Smith, of Wilmington,
DEL, swallowed a dose Of poison and
was only saved by prompt medical
treatment.
Wednesday, April 10.
The Master Plumbers Association |
If Pennsylvania held their 18th annual
convention at Reading.
Senator James P. Taliaferro was re-
,lected to the United States senate by
he Florida legislature.
Asa S. Gates, father of John w.
Gates, the multi-millionaire, is dead at
st. Charles, Ill, aged 50 years.
The annual meeting of the Southern |
Publishers Association
will be held at Charleston, s. c., May
and 3.
A butler employed in the home of
}. R. Richardson, Morristown, N. j.,
las disappeared, taking with him jew
is valued at $4,000 and $500 in cash.
Captain Harry Whiteside was run
,ver and instantly killed by a freight
rain while crossing the bridge over
treat Egg Harbor river, N. J.