Milford chronicle., 1905-09-01
WEEKS NEWS CONDENSER
ThuredaY, Auaust "a.

horses were burned at the Butler Pa,
fair grounds.
Senator W. S. Clark, of Montana,
who is recovering from surgical op-
Grafton, sailed for Paris.
Three persons were killed in head
on collision between two Union Pacific
freight trains near Rossville, KNl.
The big breaker Of the Greenough
Red Ash Coal company, near Shamo-
kin, Pa, was destroyed by fire, entail
ing a loss of SS7 200 and throwing 500
men and boys out of work.
Friday, August 25-
W. c. Hardison, a Wadesboro, N. C.,
manufacturer, committed suicide while
in poor health.
Contracts have been made at San
Francisco for the shipment of 100000
feet of redwood to New York
In throwing a high inshoot. Frank
Bonn broke his arm while pitching a
game of base ball at Louisville, Ky.
Fire destroyed the Farmer & Gra-
ham Tobacco company's warehouse at
Paducah, KY, causing 100000 loss
BY the confession of Ralph Warner
the $25,O0O worth of jewels stolen
from Mrs. Higginson, of New York,
will be recovered from pawnshOps.
Warner got them from the thief, John
Kadra, Syrian boy.
Saturday, August 26.
As the result of a race war at Car
Isle, Ind. the negro Baptist church
was destroyed by dynsE ite.
Fisk & Robinson, of New York, were
the highest bidders, at 1O1.64, for the
sale of $1,5OO,OOO Philippine bonds.
Despondent through illness, Mrs.
Laura Oxford jumped from train at
st. Louis and was drowned in the Mis-
sissippi river.
Fire at Baltimore destroyed the plant
of the Fred. Bergner company manu-
facturers of badges and novelties, en-
failing a loss of sl25.000.
DR.. C. B. Bratt of Allegheny, and
DR.. G. w. Klump, of Williamsport, |
were reappointed members of the Penn !
sylvania board of dental examiners.
Monday, August %.
The 10th biennial convention Of the |
American Order of Foresters will be |
held in Chicago in 1907
John NJ. Jones, for 80 years grand |
secretary of the Maryland Grand Lodge
of Odd Fellows, died at Baltimore.
John Matthews, of Williamsport Pa,
was killed by a Reading passenger
train while on his way home from
work
While walking in his sleep, Joseph
Hodges, colored, fell overheard from
vessel in Chester river at ChestertOwn,
Md. and was drowned.
The first of the farmers institutes
for the autumn under the auspices OF
the Pennsylvania state department OF
agriculture will be held at Rutland
Park. Lancaster county, on September9.
Tuesday, August 29-
Consul General Lee has cabled the
state department that there was one
death from bubOnic plague at Panama
President Roosevelt has appointed
Jesse T. Wilson. of Indiana. to be sec
ond assistant secretary of the interior.
One man was killed and many in
iured. one fatally. in a collision on the
railroad near Logan
port, Ind.
The 2-year-old daughter of James
Rusinski, of Wilmington. Del, was
burned to death while playing with
:
Releasing his grasp on a trapeze at
.ached to a parachute 1900 feet above
he ground, John Williams was dashed
o death at Cahokia, Ill. I
John B. Berry, chief engineer of the 8
Union Pacific railroad, has been ap- !
pointed a member of the board of con- !
ulting engineers to build the Panama ]
anal. q
Wednesday, August 80. b
The comptroller of currency has is t
ued a call for the condition of ma p
ional banks on August 25.
The 23d annual convention of the
Jational Association of Newsdealers P
yas held at Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
Nathan Lipsky, arrested for begging
D New York, had $1,000 in gold on il
i'm and is said to own real estate. p
Cracksmen removed a safe from the p
.tlantic hotel. Long Branch. N. j., and Il
lew it open at leisure on a vacant lot, a
citing $500. 81
J. P Morgan will be created a COM il
lander of the French Legion of Honor W
acknowledgment of a statue of T
rankin he presented to the city of W
aris. h,