Milford chronicle., 1906-03-23
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. March IS.

Thursday, March IS.
The North Carolina Pine Associa.
tion. representing $2O.O00.000 capital,
held their annual meeting at Nor
folk. Va
Lena Fisher, years old, of Phila-
delphia, died Of meningitis, superin-
duced by a fractured skull, sustained
by falling while jumping rope.
While sweeping snow from the
tracks of the Delaware railroad. near
Dover. Del, Harvey Dyer, an assist
ant foreman, was struck by train and
instantly killed.
Fire destroyed the warehouse Of In
man. Akers & Inman. the plant of the
Atlanta Compress company. 700 bales
of cotton and seven loaded freight cars
at Taccoa. Ga. Loss. s175.OOO.
Friday, March 10.
8. H. Kaufman, publisher Of the
Washington Evening News, died sud
denly.
Rev. William D. Shea. one of the
Oldest and best known Methodist min
listers in the south, died at Atlanta, Ca.
aged n years.
Eight workmen we're burned three
fatally, by an explosion Of hot metal
in the converting mill Of the Edgar
Thomson Steel Works at Braddock, Pa. |
The house committee on military af- |
fairs reported favorably a bill appro- |
priating $4,000 for the purchase of a
building in Washington to be used as
a temporary home for soldiers and
sailors.
Saturday, March II.
) A block Of stores were gutted by fire
at Pittston, Pa, causing a loss of over
$4,000.
John S. Pershing, father of Captain
John J. Pershing, of the U. S. army,
died at Lincoln, Neb.
Four guests were burned to death in
a fire which destroyed the Hotel
Compton, at Osceola, Mich
Edward Lynch, a New York iron
worker. was sent to prison for one year
for assaulting a nOn-union man.
DR. Herman Freist was arrested at
Nashville. Tenn. charged with the
murder of Mrs. Rosa Mangrum.
The Dresses Machine Tool Com
pany's plant at Cincinnati was de-
stroyed by fire. entailing loss OF
100000.
Monday, March 10.
Found guilty Of improper conduct,
Frank 2. Wilcox, leader of the oppOsi-
tion to the increase Of rates. has been
expelled from the Royal Arcanum at
Rome. N. Y
During a fight in q saloon at Chi
cago William Curry was killed and
three other men were wounded, Henry
Dusing, the proprietor, being arrested
for the shooting.
Trustees of the New York Life In L
surance company, who were members j
of the finance committee in 1896, 1900 Il
and 1904, declined to pay back the a
S14S,0 presented to the Republican a
campaign fund. q
Tuesday, March 20. it
The supreme court of the United "
States took a recess until Monday, a
April 2. h
Valentine 2. Tyler, under arrest at -
Pa, for bigamy. attempted to ~
commit suicide by opening an artery u
In his wrist with a piece of glass. al
The postofHce appropriation bill re- b
ported to the house provides for an
expenditure of S191, ,373,S4S for the cl
fiscal year 1907, an increase of s10,- al
351, ,755 CO
Worry over an investigation of his m
accounts caused Charles P. Lytle, war pi
rant clerk in the city controllers Of
ice, Buffalo, N. Y, to shoot and kill - ~,
himself. a
Wednesday, March Fl.
The body of Johann Most, the anar- a. 81
hist, was cremated at Cincinnati. III
The pension appropriation bill, IN
to $14O,O00,0OO, has been pl'
passed by the senate. fel
A railroad snow plow ran into hu
lorse near Dayton, o., and was hurled
rom the track, killing the three men
Who operated it.
Hon. W. c. Arnold. a prominent law
-er of Dubois, Pa, died suddenly at BY
Mich, where he was look TIN
ng after legal matters. mi
A fast freight train on the Reading to
abroad was wrecked near Shamokin,
"a, by running into pile Of lumber. COG
he engineer was killed. On
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