Milford chronicle., 1905-10-20
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday October 12.

Thursday October 12.
Cold shipments from the Yukon Ter.
Titory for the season of 1905 will
amount of s6,OOO,OOO.
The Pennsylvania Daughters of the
American Revolution held a three
days State Convention at Reading
George W. Murray, colored. a former
member of Congress, was sent to
prison for three years for forgery at
Columbia, s. c.
Robert Bacon. of New York. has
taken the oath of Office as assistant
secretary of State, vice Francis B.
Loomis. resigned
Amanda Herkimer great-grand-
daughter of General Herkimer, Of
Revolutionary fame. died at James.
vile. Wis, aged 70 years.
Friday, October 10.
Henry Sturgis Drinker has been in.
stalled as president Of Lehigh Univer
sity. Bethlehem, Pa.
General William T. Clark, chief of
staff Of General Grants Army of the
Tennessee. died of cancer in New
York.
Rev. John Long. aged 80 years, a re.
tired Episcopal minister, who served
charges in Delaware Philadelphia,
Willes-Barre and many other places, !
died in Reading, Pa
Several days ago William Eldridge. |
q well-known pilot of Cape May. N. J., /
predicted that he would die on the /
night before his daughters wedding
and Tuesday night all the conditions
Of the prophecy were fulfilled
Saturday, October IA.
Four prisoners confined in the Lo-
rain, O., Jail cut their way through
10-inch wall and escaped
Mrs John Sainsott. of Mulville, N.
J., who was scalded with boiling coffee
while preparing dinner, died after
greatsuffering
Lyman G. Bloomingdale, founder OF
the Bloomingdale department store in
New York, died of heart disease at
Elberon, n. J.
w. E. Brown president of the failed
First National Bank, of Storm Lake,
Iowa, was sent to prison for five years
for fraudulent banking.
Calvin c. Lines, for 81 years book.
keeper and director of the closed
Peoria, ILL.,, National Bank, died heart
broken of ever the incident.
Monday, October 16.
The total registration of students al
Princeton University, Princeton, N. J.
is 1245, a decrease of Al.
Joseph Hartman, lineman, fell 50
feet from the top of telephone pole
in Philadelphia and was killed.
The Union Central Life Insurance.
Company, at Cincinnati, O., was sued
by the state for $2.S5S.481, alleged ar
rears of taxes.
Domestic troubles led Margaret Will.
Jams, employed in MeAllister Hall, ia
kill herself at State College, Pa, by
drinking poison.
-Four of a party of six Grand TrunB
Pacific surveyors were drowned in
river by their canoe upset.
ting near Kenera, Man.
Tuesday, October II.
Harvey f. Boyle, of Harrisburg, Pa,
committed suicide by drinking carbolit
acid. '
By the falling of a scaffold al {
Ind, six workmen were I
two fatally. 6
Rev. DR.. D. M. Gilbert, of Harrisburg
Pa, one of the foremost Lutheran t
clergymen in the country, died sudden. I
y after brief illness. f
A hundred Christian Brothers in g Z
at Pocantico Hills, N. Y.
fought big barn fire and saved a large S
lerd of cows and horses. v
Mayor Belcher, of Paterson, N. J. f.
who embezzled $2OO, 900, has been locat.
ID at the home Of James Robertson Il
mother fugitive Patersonian, at Yebri II
Queensland. Australia. 2
Wednesday, October 1e. t,
Mahlon Clark Mercur one Of the u
rest known citizens of Northern Penn.
ylvania, died at Towanda, aged 90
ears.
Mr.. and Mrs. Marshall Field, who .
we're recently married in London, ar
ived in New York on the steamer
Ironprinz Wilhelm. 9
During a fight at a beer farm" near M
N. j., William Dufield was "
hot in the leg and man named Rob. u
ins was terribly beaten. C
A hand car on which were eight %
abroad laborers was struck by a Wa Ell
ash train at Cecil, Pa and two were pc
illed and one fatally injured. 1r
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