Milford chronicle., 1905-10-06
a WEEKS news CONDENSED.
Thursday, september e.

Five children were cremated in q
fire which destroyed their home at Fort
Dodge, Iowa.
The First National Bank of Orrville,
Ohio, has been closed by the comp
troler of currency.
James McHale, a riveter at Cramps
shipyard, Philadelphia, was killed by
falling so feet from a ship.
John Fowler, the alleged slayer OF
DR.. f. w. Ridings, at Dickson, Tenn,
committed suicide in Jail by hanging
himself.
The law passed by the last Michigan
legislature providing separate courts
for juvenile offenders has been de-
elared null and void.
Friday, September %.
Burglars blew open the vault in the
private bank of c. B. Burnett & Sons
at Eldorado. H., and carried off S10,-
900.
Walter B. Currley, of Reading, a
brakeman on the Reading railroad.
was struck by an engine and instantly
killed at Allentown.
While protecting his 16-year-old in
valid daughter from assault, w. r.
Harrington beat Charles Martin to
death with a base ball bat at Detroit.
William J. Hussey, the noted
astronomer of Lick Observatory, has
accepted the chair of astronomy in
the University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor.
Saturday, September 80.
H. Stanley Ulrich, the father" Of
the Lebanon, Pa, bar, died Of cancer.
aged 70 years.
over 800 iron workers on three
large buildings in Baltimore went on
strike for an increase in wages.
Frank Beard, the well-lnown illus
traitor. widely known as the originator
OF "Chalk Talk" died in Chicago. aged
63 years.
Owners of the schooner Job H. Jack
son. which was sunk in Chesapeake
Bay by the steamer Bayport, have
Ibelled the Bayport at Norfolk, Va,
for $4,000 damages.
President Roosevelt has named DR..
Lawrence F. Flick, Philadelphia;
Henry b. Jacobs. Baltimore, and S. A.
Knopp, New York, to represent the
United States at the tuberculosis con-
gress in Paris.
Monday, October 2.
Congressman John Sharp Williams
will stump Maryland and Virginia in
the coming campaign.
The strike of mail wagon drivers in
New York has been compromised by
slight increase in wages.
A pig owned by George Brothers, of
Allentown, Pa, fell into a butchers
scalding vat, then swan the cool Jor-
dan creek and escaped.
Sutherland NJ Provost, third vice
president of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road company, died in Philadelphia of
a complication of diseases, aged 60
years.
John Dickey, of Lancaster, Pa, has
sued Harry J. HartmOn and Martin
Campbell for $50, 900 damages for per
manent injuries to his minor son,
whom they ran down while out driv-
ing.
The big game season has opened in
Maine and hunters are going into the
woods in large numbers.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
concluded his vacation and assumed
charge at the postoffice department.
Ex-Judge Henry Hice. aged Il, one
of the most prominent lawyers in
Western Pennsylvania, died at Beaver
from paralysis.
Michael thinner, a farmer, commit
ted suicide at Paterson, N. j., by
jumping from window of the Cos
hotel.
Wednesday, October a.
Baron Komura, the Japanese peace
envoy, sailed from Vancouver, B. c.,
for Yokohama.
John T. Pearce, for % years curator
of Racine CWis.) College, was found
dead in bed from apoplexy.
The Norvelle hotel, at Jackson, |
Miss, one of the best known in the
state, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
s175,0OO.
The estimated loss in the hemp
growing districts in the Philippine
Islands from the recent typhoon is
S5,000OOO in gold.
The postoffice department announces
that 1431 rural free delivery routes
We're established during September,
making total of SO, 1856.
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