Milford chronicle., 1905-04-14
a WERK,s news conpENsRn-
Thursday, April s.

Thursday, April s.
Mrs. Joseph Motalis died at Shenan-
aoah, Pa, after II hours illness from
spotted fever.
Chief A. w. Atchison, Of the Hamil-
ton, Ont, fire department, was killed in
a collision while responding to an
alarm.
James Hayes. a negro lawyer of
Richmond, Va, has been rendered the
position Of consul at Gaudaloupe, West
Indies.
Ex-Judge George Y. Maynadier a
distinguished member of the Maryland
bar, died of apoplexy at his home at
Belair, Md.
Major General Gillespie will be re-
tired June 10. on his own request, and
Brigadier General Randall will be pro-
NOTED to the vacancy.
Friday, April z.
While exercising on parallel bars.
Michael Fisher a well-kncwn athlete
of Chester, Pa, burst a blood vessel
and died a short time afterward.
During lovers quarrel, H. A. Bal
lard was fatally wounded by his sweet
heart, Miss Oma Hardie, at Hunts
vile, Ala, who then killed herself.
Postmaster General Cortelyou has
been made the first honorary member
of the American Chamber of Com
merce, recently organized in Naples.
Italy
Alexander E. G. Gordon, charged
with sending a threatening letter to
Droegdo,t Dnogo,voI4 vroe -orAo,oo,5 -
prison for one year at Minneapolis.
Saturday, April 8.
The bank at Benson, N. c., has been
closed, owing to a shortage and
charge of being improperly conducted.
At Pulaski, Va, Clyde Hale, colored.
was indicted for murder tried, con-
victed and sentenced to hang in less
than an hour.
George W. Graulich, a Reading rail-
road conductor, while standing beside
the track at Columbia, Pa, was struck
by an engine and killed.
The ninth annual meeting of the |
American Academy of Political and
Social Science was held in Philadel- !
phia, with many prominent men in |
attendance.
Monday, April 10.
The battleship Minnesota was
launched Saturday at Newport News,
Va.
Japan has ordered 100000 gun
stocks from a firm at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa.
Mrs. Roosevelt and three of her
children, who were cruising in Flor.
ida waters, have returned to Wash
ington.
Eugene Harris, aged Is years, was
hit on the head with a batted ball at
Asheville, N. c., and died in Is min.
utes. his neck being dislocated.
Three employees at the American
distillery, at Peluin. Ill, were cooked
to death by boards over a vat of boil
Ing water giving way and dropping
them into the tank
Tuesday, April II.
Daniel Mason, 6 years old, of Phila-
ielphia, choked to death while eating
4 candy sour ball, which lodged in his
throat.
The United States supreme court de-
,ides that portion of the Alaska code
providing for a jury of six men to be
During a quarrel in a saloon at Lon.
lon, KY, Tilford Benge shot and killed
I. c. Howard, a representative in the
kentucky legislature.
Andrew Carnegie has given an addi.
ional $4,000 to Dickinson College,
Jarlisle, Pa, for Conway Hall, making {
lis total gift $4,000.
Eighty icebergs, some towering $50 I
eet above the surface of the sea, were Z
lighted by the steamer Chemnitz, S
7hich arrived at New York from c
Iremen. .
Wednesday, April 12. L
George FOrdham, of Passaic, N. J., a
hopeless invalid, leaped from win q
ow of an infrmary at Hot Springs, o
TX, and was instantly killed. a
John w. Cherry, of Norfolk, Va, Z
as elected great incohonee of the Is
improved Order of Red Men at a
leeting of the great chiefs in Chicago.
Major w. G. Jewell, one Of the most "a
idely known G. "A. R. men in the "
1untry, was instantly killed by a
railroad train at Mari .,
ia, Ohio. ~,
After an illness of several weeks, y y
rs. Katherine X. Hutchinson, eldest =
lughter of A. J. Cassatt, president of y
e Pennsylvania railroad and grand -
ece of President Buchanan, died at =, a
II home in Philadelphia. "