Milford chronicle., 1905-06-02
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President Roosevelt has appointed
Horace f. Richardson postmaster at
Cape May. n. J.
While leading a horse to water at
Williamsport. Pa. Stephen Freeman
was kicked in the stomach and killed.
Eight thousand Knights Templar
marched in the parade Of the Massa-
crusetts Grand Commandery at Bos-
ton.
Anton Pftra, treasurer of the Ameri-
can Building and Loan Association, of
Chicago, is missing, and his accounts
are short $4,000.
Friday, May 20.
The International Association Of
Chiefs Of Police will meet next year In
Hot Springs. Ark.
Major Clifton R. Breckenridge has
resigned his position as a member of
the Dawes commission.
The national convention Of the
Royal Arcanum will be held next year
at Old Point Comfort, Va
Morgan Treat, OF Richmond, Va,
has been appointed United States mar
shall for the eastern district Of Vir-
ginia.
The New Jersey board of pardons
has refused to commute the death SEN
tence Of Giuseppe Maimo to life i'm
prisonment.
Saturday, May 27.
A store and three dwelling houses
were destroyed by fire at Strouds-
burg, Pa, causing a loss of 100000.
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Promised Land L. l., was strangled
to death by a peanut lodging in her
windpipe.
Major Flagler, U. g. engineer, has
given a hearing to those interested in
the proposed harbor of refuge at Cape
May, N. J.
Charles H. VanBrunt presiding JUS
tice of the appellate division Of the
New York state supreme court died
suddenly in New YORK.
Mrs. Evelyn B. Armit, daughter of
AL Adams, New Ycrk's policy king,
was granted a divorce from her hus-
band. Robert L. ArInit, on the ground
of cruelty.
Monday, May %.
Whitelaw Reid, the new American
ambassador to Great Britain, sailed
from New York for his post.
Former Governor E. w. Wilson. OF
West Virginia, died at Charleston after
suffering a year with consumption.
The remains of Captain John Drum,
killed in the battle Of Santiago, were
reinterred in the National Cemetery
at Arlington, Va
For dynamiting fish in the Susque-
hanna river, Clyde Doyle, Frank Her
man and Jacob Will were fined $1OO
each at Lancaster, Pa
Despite reports that President Har-
per, of the University of Chicago, is
i'll again, he declares he is better than
at any time for six months.
Tuesday, May 30.
The United States supreme court has
adjourned for the term.
Governor Folk will order militiamen
to prevent the sale Of liquor in st.
Louis on Sundays.
The plant of the American Sheet and |
Tin Plate company at Sharon, Pa, has
closed down, throwing 100 men out Of
work.
Judge Joseph Christian, for many
years a member of the supreme court |
of Virginia, died at Richmond, aged
u years.
Eight former employees on the Pan
anna canal, who arrived in New York,
said they resigned because Of the high
cost of living and the health condi-
tiOns.
Wednesday, May 81.
The 18th annual convention of the
Sigma Phi Society was held at Ge-
neva, N. Y.
The 31st annual convention of the
American Bankers Association will be
held at Washington October 25, 26
and 27.
Rev. ]. B. Brooks, a noted negro
preacher and temperance advocate of
Philadelphia, died suddenly of pneu-
monia
Frank Neighbors, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, while in a drunken frenzy, shot
and killed his sister and her husband,
George Taylor, and seriously wounded
another sister.
Major John M. Carson, the we'll
known newspaper correspondent. has
the position as chief of the
bureau of manufactures of the depart
ment of commerce and labor.