Milford chronicle., 1906-09-07
a WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, August 80.


ers seriously injured in a freight wreck
in the New York Central yards IN
New York.
Mrs. Mary Harris. of Millville. n. J.,
ate potato salad and complained of
distress before retiring, and was found
dead in bed.
Fred Beasley and Norman South
worth were drowned in the Hudson
river at New York when their motor
baot was run down by a ferryboat.
While at work along the railroad
tour Iaborers We're killed and another
fatally injured by a Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern train near Loveland, o.
Friday, August 81.
Lady Campbell-Bannerman wife of
the British premier. died after a long
illness at Marienbad, Bohemia.
Dora Morowitz. 4 years old, fell into
a tub of water at her home in Phila-
delphia and was drowned.
The Pennsylvania railroad flyer
struck a switch engine at Ebenezer.
near Buffalo, N. Y. and both engineers
were seriously injured.
Homer S. Castle, Prohibition candi-
date for governor of Pennsylvania.
was notified of his nomination at his
home in Plttsburg
Saturday, September I.
Fifteen buildings were burned at
Fryeburg, Me-, including 12 residences,
causing loss of $4,000
Edward Rosewater, proprietor and
editor of the Omaha Neb Bee. was
found dead in the newspaper building.
Helen Keer, aged s years, fell from
a second-story window at South Bend. |
Ind. was impaled on a picket fence
and fatally injured.
A B. & o. passenger train collided |
with a freight at Wheeling w Va. |
and Engineer Lee McMann and Fire /
man William Moran were killed.
Masked robbers, who travel in an
automobile, blew open the safe in the
postofice at Highland N. Y, and Sc
cured $500 in money and $500 in stamps.
- Monday September 8.
The Marquette Club. of Chicago, will
give a banquet on October in honor
of Speaker Cannon.
Jacob Suvdam, of Pennington. n.
j.. was instantly killed by stepping in
front of a fast-moving train.
Three hundred butchers in Balti-
more have gone on strike for a nine
hour day, without pay reduction.
Miss Dottie Glover, of New York,
saved Walter Stinson from drowning
after his canoe upset on a lake at New
Egypt N. J.
James c. Abernathy. managing edi-
tor of the Charlotte, ~ c., Observer,
died at Asheville, where he had gone
for his health.
Struck by lightning while at work
at Troy, Ala, Newton Graves. a car
penter, and his two sons, John and
Bascom. were killed.
Tuesday, September a.
The fourth annual convention of the
Interstate Amateur Press Association
was held at Boston.
Twelve men were injured, two Sc
riously. by an exploding bomb during
the labor parade at st. Louis.
Fifteen car loads of strike breakers
have reached San Francisco to operate
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men
While despondent over financial mat
ters, W. F. Hansberger, a city council
man of Sedalia, No, committed suicide
by shooting.
Henry Dunter shot and killed Grace
Reed and severely wounded Sam Moore,
a successful rival. and then killed him
self at Davenport, la.
Wednesday, September 5.
Lawson Addison, colored, murdered
two negro women at Lowryville, s. c.,
and escaped.
The monthly statement Of the ma
tional debt shows that on September 1
It amounted to $3.50. 1868 383
Estel N. Kirk, a Pennsylvania rail-
road car inspector. was crushed to death
between cars at Camden, N. J.
A man supposed to be w. ]. Jones,
Of Richmond, Va, committed suicide
by shooting in a hotel at Halifax, N. 5.
Robert Cotton, colored, who mur-
dered his wife by literally cutting her
body into pieces, was hanged at Vim
Ita, 1. T.