Milford chronicle., 1905-10-27
a wEEK,s NEWS coNpRNsEn
Thursday. october 70.

Thomas NJ. Day, father-in-law of Sec
retary Of the Navy Bonaparte, died at
Hartford, Conn.
The price of shoes in Chicago have
been greatly advanced, owing to a
scarcity of hides.
Burglars broke into the home Of
Governor Herrick at Cleveland, Ohio,
and stole articles worth over $1,000.
The plant Of the Standard Chain
company at Braddock. Pa, employing
over 500 workers, resumed in full on
an "open shop" basis.
The great council of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church of North America at
Milwaukee adjourned and will here
after hold biennial conventions.
Friday, October 20.
Troy C. Thorne was appointed post
master at Friendly, Md.
The biennial convention of the Ma
tional Universalist Church was held
at Minneapolis.
DR.. G. H. Grant, of Buffalo, fell
from a train il a New York tunnel
and was cut to pieces.
Saturday, October 2S, 10 years after
1t was begun, the new building of the
Chicago postofice viii be occupied.
Foster Maynard, of Flushing, L. L,
who attempted to work a game of
blackmail. was arrested in the act of
receipting for a decoy registered let
ter, supposed to contain hush money.
Saturday, October Fl.
Mrs. Lloyd Wheaton, wife Of Major
General Wheaton, died at Chicago,
after a months illness.
Mrs Joseph Renk, a farmers wife,
Of near Wernersville, Pa, fell in front
Of a troller car and was killed.
The new brick works of the Hum
melstown (Pa) Brownstone company
was destroyed by fire. Loss, S6O,0OO
The question of the friar lands pur-
chase was settled at Manila, when
the Dominican order was paid $S.225,-
900.
Secretary Shaw has decided to re-
turn the s22, 1000 pearl necklace which
customs officials eonfiscated, upon pay
ment of the $4,000 duties by the mys-
terious owner.
NlOuGdYg OEtDUEI
Stryohnine pills, mistaken for candy, |
killed Eva Palifer at Hunters Sta
ton, Pa.
Grand Army posts at Lilly and Port
age, Pa, have disbanded because death
has so depleted their ranks,
Burglars took $749 from a safe in the
national bank at Phillips, Mo-, but
overlooked $4,000 in the main vault.
The temperature in many parts OF
Louisiana has gone below the freezing /
point, which will wipe out the yellow |
fever.
Congressman Tawney, of Minnesota,
who has been investigating statehood f.
conditions, says Arizona and New Mex
leo are unfit for admission as states.
Tuesday, October "a.
Peter Conlin, formerly chief of police
of New York, died at Walpole, Mass,
of heart disease, aged "a years.
While despondent over financial mat
ters, Horace Rufe. a weJ-known former
of Doylestown township, Pa, hanged
himself
Conductor McClennan and Fireman
of a Lake Shore freight train,
were struck by train and instantly
killed at Dunkirk, N. Y.
After heart action and respiration had
ceased, following asphyx-
iation, Edward schilling, a laborer. OF
O.. was reyiyified by use Of
adrenaiin.
Hepburn and Rupert, two towns, will
be created November IA and q, respec-
lively, by the United States govern
ment in Idaho, on what is now an abb
solute desert.
Wednesday, October 25.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
Ind, state bank and es-
capped with $4,000.
H. ]. Richardson, once a wealthy
western mine owner, died of delirium
.remens in an Atlantic City hospital.
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, proposes
Using the referendum to decide the
question Of closing saloons on Sun ]
lay.
General Jonathan A. Hill, we'll I
lnown in the tanning and leather in
lustry in Pennsylvania, died at To !
wanda, after a short illness. l
Edwin J. Noble, secretary Of the I
National Reciprocity League, has de- {
Jared municipal ownership imprac- +
icahle under our present political sys-
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