Milford chronicle., 1905-09-15
a WEEKS NEWS cORDENsRn
ThursdaN. ssntember z.

mast OAOuGN1AcL, MISS
The New Jersey Congress Of Moth
srs will hold their annual session at
Atlantic City on October 20 and 81.
The working hours OF $50 men in
the Reading railways shops at Read
ing, Pa, we're reduced to ave days a
week and nine hours day
Because he met Mrs. Mary Orris
walking with a rival, Mack Murray in
a Jealous rage stabbed her to death on
the street at New Kensingtnn, Pa.
Francis B. Stevens, a member of the
well-knOwn Stevens family Of New
York, and grandson of the late Com
modore Stevens, committed suicide by
shooting himself at his home at West
bury, L. l.
Friday, September 8.
One man was killed and seven in
jured by a dynamite explosiP. at a
sand plant near Butler, Pa.
Mrs. Bertha Martin, of Massillon, o.,
was elected president of the Daughters
of Veterans at the Denver convention.
Wallace w. Hunter. for many years
city treasurer Of Norfolk Va, attempt
ed suicide by shooting, and his recov-
cry is impossible.
Frederick C. Rossiter, a Chicago
civil engineer, was struck and killed by
a train as he was trying to get his
chain from the track near Hammond.
A home for cOnsumptive members
of the Letter Carriers Association will
be erected at Colorado Springs, Colo,
on land adjoining the Childs-Drexel
Home for Union Printers.
Saturday, September 9.
Fire in the tobacco district of Dan
vile, Va, destroyed three buildings,
entailing loss of 100000.
Rear Admiral Charles J. Barclay
has been retired on account of age,
after serving As years in the navy.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw de-
1ivered an address to the Vermont
Fish and Game League at an outing
held at Bluff Point. N. Y.
While bathing at Atlantic City, !
Theodore E. TrUdell, of Philadelphia, !
was saved from drowning with great
difficulty and taken to the hospital in
an unconscious condition.
Monday, September H.
Brakeman Calvin Miller, of Summit
Hill, Pa, fell under the car wheels at
Lansford and was killed
John Mock and Charles Rice were
fatally burned by an explosion of gas
in a colliery at Mahanoy City Pa.
For an attack with a knife upon
white man, John Mcdowell colored,
was lynched near Brandon, Miss.
The purchase of Lincoln's birthplace
in Kentucky by the United Spanish
War Veterans was referred to the
council of administration
DR.. Sasuzki, companion of Admiral
Togo throughout the Russian war,
reached San Francisco on his way to
a convention of surgeons at Detroit.
Tuesday, September u.
Mrs. Irwin Meyer, of Allentown. Pa.
was crippled for life by a fall from a
merry-go-rOund.
The next convention of the Ameri
can Confederation of Catholic Socie.
ties will be held at Buffalo, N. Y
William Van Brimer, of Leaven.
worth, Kan, who recently fell heir to
100000 is dead of heart disease.
Theodore A. Shurr, a well-known
naturalist and taxidermist of Balti.
more, committed suicide by shooting.
James O'Brien, aged SO years, died
at Laporte, Ind, of a broken back. ,
caused by falling from a Lake Shore
train.
President Roosevelt had approved ,
the dismissal by courtmartiaI of Com
mander B. o. Scott, of the cruiser De. ,
troit {
Wednesday, September 10. I
bud" ROgan, feet 9 inches tall, z
the Tennessee negro giant, is dead at 7
his home in Gallatin. I
Former Queen Liliuokalani, of Ha. =
waii, celebrated her 10th birthday on I
at Honolulu.
Judge T. S. Simmons, chief justice F
Of the supreme court of Georgia, died
at his home in Atlanta, aged 65 years
Justice Merritt of Brunswick, Va
says he will fine young men who kiss
girls against their will $40 for each II
Dffense. 7
President Roosevelt has discharged .
Lawrence Brown a government in u
5pector, because of his marriage to Il
chorus girl after a champagne supper L
It Guthrie, Okla. =