Milford chronicle., 1905-09-22
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. septemher IA.


Platt, of Philadelphia, committed sui
eide at Hamilton. Ont. by taking poi
son.
Vice President Fairbanks will make
the principal speech at the opening Of
the Ohio Republican campaign at Bell
fontaine, September %.
Annie f. Mckinley filed a petition
in the Somerset, Pa, court asking to be
relieved as executrix Of the estate Of
Abner Mckinley, brother of President
Mckinley.
The National Tobacco Growers Asso-
citation, representing KS7tucky, Vir-
ginia, Tennessee, North Carolina and
Wisconsin, will meet at owensburg,
KY, October IS.
Friday, September is.
Isaac G. Leonard, said to be the
Oldest man in Chicago. died Of para
lysis, aged 1O2 years.
VIII Adams. colored, was hanged at
Raleigh, N. c., for the murder Of a
negro woman and her child.
over 40 buildings in the business
section Of Grangeville, Idaho, were
destroyed by fire. Loss, s25O,0OO.
Fire partially wrecked the plant OF
the Featherstone Foundry and Ma
chine company, at Chicago, entailing
a loss of s15O,000.
Brigadier General George H. Weeks,
retired. at one time quartermaster
general of the army, died in Washing
ton after a brief illness.
Saturday, September 1e.
Field Marshal Lord Roberts, of
Great Britain. has indefinitely post
poned his visit to America.
John R. Roby, engineer of a steam
barge. was burned to death by an ex-
plosion on the vessel at Lewes, Del.
Seventeen persons were injured,
several seriously. in a collision be-
tween trolley cars at Kansas City, Mo.
The 44O-acre farm near st. Louis, the
former home of General Grant, has
been sold for $4,000 and will be con-
verted into an amusement park.
After a varied career as a lawyer.
minister. author and army chaplain,
Rev. John B. Rice killed himself at
louisville because of sufferings from
a cancer.
Monday, September 10.
Soft coal interests in Ohio and Penn
sylvania will raise prices 10 to 10 cents
a ton at the mines.
Miss Alice Hamilton, granddaugh-
fer of General Alexander Hamilton,
died in New York, aged go years.
The explosion of a defective boiler
in Edward jennings stave mill, at
Pinconning, Mich, killed five men and
injured 10.
Twelve governors have called a
southern states conference at Chatta-
nooga. Tenn, to arrange a uniform
quarantine.
From a fall from third-story win
dow of a St. Louis hotel, w. B..
Walker, so years of age, Of Staunton,
Va, is dead.
Tuesday, September 10.
Daniel Leirde, a steel inspector for
the Spring Valley Water company, OF
California. was found dead of apOplexy
in Harrisburg, Pa.
James Booth, who broke his spine
while bathing at Atlantic City and was
taken to his home at Mauch Chunk on
a water cushion, is dead.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
purchased % acres Of ground north Of
its present terminals in Portland, Ore,
for 81. 500, 900, to be used for shops.
In smoking out bees, S. V. Reeves
set fire to his barn at HaddOnfeld, N.
j., and a $4,000 fire resulted, valuable
stove patterns stored in the barn be-
ing destroyed.
Wednesday, September 20.
The National Purity Conference
will be held in La Crosse, Wis, Octo-
ber 1919.
The National Rural Letter Carriers
Association held their annual conven-
ton at Indianapolis.
H. w. Dennison and six members of
the Japanese peace mission sailed
from Seattle for Japan.
The annual convention of the Amer
icaI Federation of Labor will be held
at Pittsburg November 13.
Wade S. Stanfield has been appoint
ed United States district attorney for
the northern district of Indian Ter
ritory.
John Vercavags. of Pittsburg, who
was arrested at Wilkes-Barre, Pa, for
drunkenness. hanged himself in his
cell and was dead when found.