Milford chronicle., 1906-09-14
q WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday, september 8.

Thursday September 8.
The fourth annual convention Of tn
American Institute of Bank Clerks wa
held at Atlantic City, NJ.
Judge David Torrance, chief justicl
Of the Connecticut supreme court, diet
at Derby from heart trouble.
United States Senator P. c. Knox, O
Pennsylvania, arrived in New Yorl
from Europe on the steamer Oceanic.
While cunning for reed birds, Johr
]. Steyer, of Philadelphia, dropped deaC
from heart disease near Chester, Pa.
The director of the mint rejected al
bids for silver because they were toe
high, the lowest being 6794 cents an
ounce.
Friday, September 7.
Mrs. Eliza f. Wheeler, mother OF
Professor A. w. Wheeler, of Yale, died
at Easton, Conn.,, aged 1O1 years.
George K. Johnson has been elected
president Of the Penn Mutual Life In
surance company of Philadelphia.
The convention of the Chapter Gen
eral of America, Knights of St. John
and Malta, will be held at Philadelphia
next year.
Paul Pietian, machinist and Louis
Zoebel, his helper, fell five stories in
an elevator shaft in building in New
York and were instantly killed.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued a call for a statement of the
condition of national banks at.the close
of business Tuesday, September 4.
Saturday, September 8.
Iowa's corn crop is estimated at
3S1 900 600 bushels.
President Roosevelt has reappoint-
ed Brigadier General R. NJ. O'Reilly
surgeon general of the army
The National Association of Span
ish-American War Nurses will hold
their next convention at Norfolk, Va.
While fighting fire in a grocery
store at st. Louis, II firemen were
seriously injured by the explosion of
gasoline.
Blamed by a corOner's jury for
fatal accident, John o. Backus, super.
intendent of an Illinois traction com.
pany, committed suicide by shooting
at Mattoon. Ill.
Monday, September 10.
An explosion at the Dupont powder
works at Nimours, Va, killed one man
and fatally injured four.
The Master Steam Boiler Makers
Association has elected J. H. Smythe |
of Paterson, N. J., as president.
Cutting his throat with a knife be- /
cause he was tired Of continued illness,
William Booth, of Shamokin, Pa, SOL |
dier of the Civil War, will likely die.
Rolling a hoop over the Reading
at Shamokin, Pa, John Bick-
art, a boy, was run down by a train
his legs were crushed and he may die.
William Schuler, a former engineer
1t the Lancaster county (Pa.) aims.
house, was caught robbing the store
house Of potatoes and accused of many
previous robberies.
Tuesday, September II.
William J. Bryan has accepted an
invitation to visit Jackson, Miss, on
September %.
Miss Rose Porter, widely known as
n author, died at her home in New
Iaven, Conn. aged Sc years.
The Catholic church at Parkesburg,,
lear Coatesville, Pa, was destroyed
y fire, entailing a loss of $4,000.
Twelve persons were injured one
atally, in a collision between trolley II
ars at the New York end of the Brook. 4
IN bridge.
While engaged in a friendly boxing n
out with companion at Little Rock. U
rk., Carney Griffith became i'll and
led of over-exertion.. G
Wednesday, September IL. 4
Robbers entered the bank of Akley,
linn, blew open the safe and escaped
ith $4,000 in cash.
George A. Clemens, a New York DO =
ceman. died at Easton, Pa, where he
as spending his vacation.
Beginning November 1, the maximum
le-way fare on the Erie railroad will z
: 21s cents per mile instead of 3
lnts.
The S6th annual convention of the
elect Castle of Pennsylvania Ancient
rder Knights of Mystic Chain was y
I'D at Lancaster a
President Roosevelt has appointed h
,lonel Culver c. Sniffen to be pay. a
aster general of the army, to sue
ed General Dodge, retired.