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Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
RUSHING WORK IN FRISCO
Temporary Frame Buildings Being
Erected In Burned District.

Temporary Frame Buildings Being
Erected In Burned District.
San Francisco, May S.-Construc-
ton of temporary frame business
buildings is proceeding rapidly in the
burned area. merchants showing un-
daunted energy and pluck in an ef-
fort to resume business. Thousands Of
clerks. stenographers, bookkeepers
and other Office employees, as well as
professional men, finding themselves
out of employment. are seeking work
as laborers in the clearing away Of the
debris left by the earthquake. fire and
dynamite.
What is to be done with the great
number of men and women who can
not get down to the level of common
worlJmen is a question that is puzzling
the city officers.
Relief work is proceeding smoothly
along the lines arranged by the city.
The issuance of food tickets has be.
gun.
The finance committee reported thai
the amount of relief subscriptions
confirmed to date was S4.406.24s.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
Met Death In An EIevator.

New York. May 9.-Charles Grover
an insurance broker of Philadelphia,
was instantly killed in an elevator at
the Victoria hotel while ascending to
his room on the third floor Mr.. Grover
entered the elevator at the office, and
when midway between the second and
third floors lost his balance apparently
and lurched forward in such manner
that his head projected through the
elevator door. The elevator conduetor
made desperate effort to stop the
car but it was too late, and Mr..
Grover was caught between the eie-
vator and the flooring of the third
floor. His skull was crushed in.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
FATAL CRASH
ON The PENNSY
Express Trains Collide Head.On on
Petersburg Cutoff.
10 KILLED AND SO INJURED

Altoona, Pa, May THE official
report of the collision between the
Chicago mail and the Chicago and ST..
Louis express on the Petersburg Cut
on Friday night lays the blame on
Engineer J. 7, Dougherty, who was
hauling No. q west He was given
orders to wait at the end of the dou-
Bile track at Carlim to permit No. lS
to pass, but he misunderstood them
and continued out on the single track
Railroad officials here say it was the
duty of DOugherty to hold his train
at Carlim until he received definite
orders to proceed. Engineer Dougherty
did not deny that he had made mis-
take when before the officials for ex-
animation.
The disaster in one sense was the
result of a costly and damaging
freight wreck which had occurred at
Union Furnace An east-bound freight
trains air-hose broke near the for
ward end in the train, and q loaded
cars piled up and blocked all tracks.
On such occasions the Petersburg
branch is used by the company for
the movements of its passenger traf-
&c, and fast passenger trains, both
east and west-bound, are ordered to
use this branch.
Ten persons, mostly men employed
on the fast mail. were killed and S6
were injured, the latter mostly pas
sengers.
The following is the list of killed
and injured:
The Dead-Mrs. W. N. Trinkle. of
Philadelphia; J. w. Wagner, postal
clerk, Mifflin; J. W. Cox, postal clerk,
Downingtown; f. H. Shultz, postal
clerk. Washingtonboro, Pa; H. F.
Jones, postal clerk, residence un-
known; +. G. Harder brakeman, Har-
risburg; ]. W. Herr, baggageman,
]. D. Conover, travelling salesman,
New York; Max Tarlove, South Nor
walk, Conn; G. W. Law. president of
York Neckwear company, York, Pa
The Injured-Oscar Anderson, Vel
va, n K; ]. A. Van Hook, Philadel-
phia; w. W. Applegarth, Baltimore;
w. G. Dickman, West Fairview, Pa;
A. w. Livingstone, Lancaster; John
A. Camp Harrisburg; NJ. R. Beam,
]. r. Gearich, residence |
o. L. Hoffman, Petersburg,
Pa; w. D. Mccullough, Altoona; E.
C. X. Irwin, Pittsburg; T. J. Scott |
Fort Wayne, Ind. F. J. McDermott, !
Tyrone, Pa; David Mhlleu, Harris
burg; Engineer J. S.Ffckes, Fireman
A. T. Cook, J. H. Collins, conductor;
w. Osborne, Harrisburg; J. r. Car
penter. WilliamspOrt; Mrs. Nora
New Orleans; J. L. Mir
sanet. porter, Jersey City; Andy Beal
1r, Johnstown; J. H. Downs Colum-
1ia; Frank Sample, Dunmore; Don
ito Baueri. j. H. Hambright' and J.
r. Dougherty, all of Altoona; C. T.
Fisher, Harrisburg.
All the wounded are doing well, and
t is thought none will die.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
W. H. BERRY TAXES OFFICE
Pennsylvania First Democratic state
Treasurer Since 1879.

PennSylVanla's First Democratic Statq
Treasurer Since 1879.
Harrisburg, Pa, May s. - William
H. Berry, of Chester, has succeeded
William L. Mathues, of Media. as tbs
state treasurer. Berry is a Democrat
and was elected on a fusion ticket
over ]. Lee Plummer, Republican, last
November. Berry took into ONCE with
him an almost entire new staff to take
the place Of Mr.. Mathues assistants,
Benjamin P Thompson, of Norris
town, an old soldier, is the only mem.
Der of Mathues' staff who Is retained.
Berry took the oath of Office at his
home in Chester on Saturday ana had
previously filed his bond of 100000.
He is the first Democrat to become
state treasurer since 1879, when Amos
C. Noyes went into ofice. The trans.
fer of the office was made without any
formal ceremony. Benjamin F. Measey
of Ridley Park, is Berry's cashier.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
FATHER AND SON MURDERED
Found In Barroom Near New Bruins.
wick, N. j., With Threats Cut.

Found In Barroom Near New Bruins
wick, N. j., With Throats Cut.
New Brunswick, N. j., May S.-John
Whiteman, aged 20 years, and his son
George. aged 40, were murdered in
little roadside barroom kept by them
at Browntown, near here. They were
last seen alive by Miss Whiteman, the
daughter of the older man, who lived
nearby, and who on going to the place
three hours later found the door shut
and all the blinds drawn. Pushing
open the door, she found the bodies
Of her father and brother lying on the
floor. The throats of both had been
cut and their bodies were covered
with wounds. The condition of the
room indicated that the men had
made a desperate resistance before
being overcome apparently by several
assailants. On the floor lay three
blood-stained, razors. All the furniture
in the room was overturned and the
floor and walls were spattered with
blood. The location is a lonely one,
and it is believed that the Whitemans
we're attacked and killed by one of
the numerous bands of tramps that
infest the neighborhood.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
Prize FIuhter Dies Of injuries.

Sharon, Pa, May 8. - Harry Nc
Carthy. Is years old, of this city, died
in the hospital here as a result Of in
iuries received in the preliminary
bout With Young Aspberry, also Of
this city. The principal bout was be-
tween Jimmie Dunn. Of ewcastle, and
Tommy Feltz, Of Brooklyn, N. T., and
while these two we're fighting the
fourth round of their contest It was
announced that Mccarthy was dead
Arrests will probably follow
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
PRODUCE Quotations
The Latest Closing Prices In the
PRINCIPAL Markets.

DELPHIA-FLOUR steady;
winter extras, S3100330; Pennsylva-
mia roller, clear, S3.45Q3.65; city mills,
fancy. S46O04.70. RYE FLOUR Arm;
per barrel S3.55. WHEAT firm; No.
3 Pennsylvania red, new, 861z4slc.
CORN firm; No. 2 yellow, local, 561ac.
OATS steady; No. 2 white, clipped
39c.; lower grades, 37c. HAY firm; No.
/ timothy, $3.50 for large bales. PORK
steady; family. N7. BEEF steady; beei
hams, S23624. POULTRY: Live
steady; hens, 141z@15c.; old roOsters
1Oc. Dressed firm; choice fowls, 14c.;
old roosters, 10c. BUTTER Arm; Sc
lected, 21c per pound. EGGS firm; Sc
lected, 18019c.; nearby, lie; western,
171ac.: southern, 15c. dozen. POTA-
TOES steady; S5090c. per bushel
BALTIMORE-WHE fairly firm;
No.2 spot, 87A 9871ac.; steamer No. 2,
spot, SOA 0S01kc.; Southern, S0A q
S7Ac. CORN quiet; mixed spot, BOZ q
55 1ac.; steamer, mixed, 52A 0521Rc.:
Southern, 55d57c OATS firm; white,
No. 2, 38R03S&c.; No. 8, S71s03Sc.;
No. 4, 36As@37c.; mixed, No. 2, 37H0
3715c; No 8, 36A 0S65hc.; No. 4, $50
3515c. BUTTER steady; creamery sep
arator extras, 22022kc.: held, 1870
19c.; prints, 23@24c.; Maryland and
Pennsylvania dairy prints, 16017c.
EGGS quiet; fancy Maryland and Penn
sylvania, 155c.; Virginia, 1515c.; West
Virginia, 151Ac.; Southern, 14hc.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
Live Stock Markets.

PITTsBURG (Union Stock Yards)-
CATTLE-The supply light market
steady; choice, s5.600585; prime,
$5.3565.6O HOGS-Receipts light,
market higher; prime heavies, $3.50
$40; mediums and heavy Workers,
$6.7016.75; light Workers and pigs
$6.7O66.S0; roughs s55005.S0. SHEEP
Supply fair; market slow; prime Weth-
ers, s5.4065.60, cillls and common,
f2.500350 so: larrbs, $4.50Q6.60; veal
calves, S6D6.50.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
"HoLY ROLLERS" LEADER SLAIN
Shot to Death On Streets Of Seattle
For Revenge.

Seattle, Wash, May S.-Frank E.
Crefleld, leader of the so-caIled reli-
gious organization known as the Holy
Rollers" was shot in the head and
instantly killed on First avenue by
George Mitchell laborer, aged 25
years. Mitchell, when arrested, assert
ed that his two sisters had been
wronged by Crefield. Leader Crefield
and his wife were walking down the
avenue. when Mitchell, who had been
following them, addressed a remark
in a low tone to Creffield. Instantly
following this, Mitchell shot Crefield.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
vEsUvlUs AGAIN ACTIVE
Volcano Throwing Out Dense Col
unons of Smoke. Sand and Cinders.

Volcano Throwing Out Dense Col
umns of Smoke, Sand and cinders.
Naples, May 9.-Vesuvius is again
showing considerable activity. A
dense column of smoke is arising from
the crater and spreading like an um.
brella, accompanied by loud detone
tions and, electrical discharges, which
are especially noticeable from Resina.
The main crater is discharging sand
and cinders.
An English engineer, named Mo7eE
Mount Vesuvius, going within
so yards Of the opening of the era
ter, which is now 400 feet lower to
wards Resina than it was before the
recent eruption.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
propped Dead WhlIe MAKING Address.
Shot wife Dead on Street.

Long Branch, N. J., May 7.-Thad-
deus Burch, who came here from Vir-
ginia in search of his wife, who left
him some time ago, met the woman on
the street, and after few words shot
her dead. He was arrested, and de-
clared that his love for his wife Inn
pelIed the deed
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
CHICAGO eRoeeERlEs CLOSED
High License Drives Out 1854 and
Swells City Revenues $3,00O,0oo.

High License Drives out 1854 and
Swells City Revenues 100000.
Chicago, May 1.-The effect of the
$1,000 saloon license is seen in the
police reports showing that 1854 sa
looms have gone out Of business since
April 80. OF these SO are in the First
ward, while the largest number is in
the Maxwell street police station dis
trict, where 112 are reported closed,
and in the new city police district,
where 1O7 went out of business.
There are 600 applications for new
saloons. Even if all these are granted
it will make a net decrease of 700 sa.
looms Since May 1 1000 licenses have
been issued. The revenues will be in.
creased more than $3,OO0,OOO The
retiring saloons are of the "groggery"
variety
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
sharp Fighting In Moroooo.

Port Say, Morocco, May 9.-Sharp
fighting has occurred on the banks Of
the Muluya river between the Pre-
tenders forces and the sultans troops.
The latter in endeavoring to cross the
river lost 80 killed and many wounded.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
Wood Alcohol KllIs Two.

Tunkhannock, Pa, May .. - Mrs.
Patrick Farrell and her son John Of
this place, died as q result Of drinking
wood alcohol. The young man was en-
ployed by the Tunkhannock Distilling
company. and It is alleged that he
stole the spirits from the plant and
carried it home and he and his mother
drank Of 1t, dying in great agony. The
coroner is investigating the case.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
NEGRO Lynched,

Jackson, Miss, May 9.-Sam Sims,
a negro. was lynched by a mob six
miles from Jackson. Resisting arrest,
he killed a horse under Constable
Hendricks, and friends of Hendricks
captured the negro and lyhched him,
first tying the constable to a tree to
prevent his interference.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
PRICE OF COAL REDUCED
All Except Steam Sizes Down Forty
Cents a Ton.

Cents a Ton.
New York, May S.-A reduction of
40 cents ton in all except the steam
sizes of anthracite coal was announced
by the Lehigh Valley Railroad COM
pany. This announcement followed the
news that the committees representing
the operators and the miners had reach
ed an agreement. The reduction is
customary at this time Of the year and
it is understood that the Reading COM
pany will make a similar decrease in
price.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
CUT TO PIECES BY SHEARS
Workman's Body Was Drawn Int
Jaws Of Machine.

Workman's BODY Was DFaWh Ihtg
Jaws Of Machine.
Pittsburg, May 9.-Challoner Dick
son. 27 years old, was cut to pieces
by revolving shears at the McKees.
port tube plant. Dickson was in
charge of the machine and in some
manner his hand became caught in
the machinery. He attempted to draw
it out but the shears slowly drew his
hand deeper into the jaws Of the ma.
chine. Before the mac merry could be
shut off Dickson ha5 been dragged
into contact with the sharp blades.
The machiney was finally stopped and
the body was removed in fragments.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
AGREEMENT WITH OPERATORS
Award Of Strike Commission Extended
Until March 81; 1909.


Until March ST. 1909.
New York. May 8.-After carrying on
negotiations for nearly three months
the subcommittee representing the
anthracite mine workers and operators
OF Eastern Pennsylvania agreed to con-
tinue the award of the strike commits
sion for another three years.
This outcome Of a dispute, which
threatened to develop into long and
bitter struggle and paralyze a great in
dustry, was looked upon with consid-
cradle satisfaction by the coal road
presidents, as the agreement entered
into is their first proposition made
early in March in reply to the mine
workers original demands.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
Reoord.RreakIa Trip from Frisco.

New York, May 9.-E. H. Hartman
arrived here on the Empire state ex-
press on the New York Central &
Hudson River railroad, having made
the journey from San Francisco in the
record time of II hours and n min
utea.
Milford chronicle., 1906-05-11
soNAPARTE GOES DRIVING
Secretary of Navy Recovering From
Attack of Acute Indigestion.

Secretary of Navy Recovering From
Attack of Acute Indigestion.
Baltimore, May 9.-Secretary of the
Navy Charles Bonaparte went driving
for short time, this being the first
time he has been out of the house since
his recent attack of acute indigestion.
His physician reports his progress to
ward complete recovery as entirely sat
isfactorily. There seems no noubt that
he will be able to go to his country
residence, in Baltimore county, on
Thursday, as planned.
Dropped Dead While Making Address.
Detroit, May 9.-Alfred Russell, one
of the prominent attorneys of Detroit,
and formerly United States district at
torney for the eastern district of
Michigan, dropped dead at the Detroit
Club. At the time he was stricken Mr..
Russell was in the act of making an
address at the annual banquet Of the
Michigan Society of Colonial Wars, his
collapse creating CONSERVATION among
the guests and bringing the banquet
to an abrupt close. Heart disease was
assigned as the cause of death. Mr..
Russell was 76 years of age.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-20
The Mating of Fowls.

Few things are more worthy of care
full attention than the proper mating
of poultry. If one, for instance, has a
flock of common hens, it is possible,
by placing them with a thoroughbred
male and securing a new cockerel of
the same breed each year to change
in three years time all the common
blood to that which is pure and thus
have a flock of pure bred of the male
variety. The way to bring it about is
to select, according to the egg-record.
the best two-year-old hens one has and
then purchase a Thoroughbred rooster.
nine or ten months old, of such breed
as he desires. The chief point in doing
this is to keep in mind that the weak
characteristics in the females should
be the strongest in the males. The
next year the most promising pullets
from this mating in shape, color and
other points, should be selected and
placed with another cockerel as be-
fore. The pullets then obtained will
be likely to grow fast. feather rapidly
and mature early. Accordingly, they
should be mated, not to a young rooster
but to a thoroughbred cock two years
Did of the same breed, though not from
tee same breeder as the others were
purchased. Any reliable breeder who
understands his business can furnish
the right kind of a bird if the would.
be buyer will only write him, designat.
ng the shape, color and general charac.
teristics of his pullets. The results OF
this mating should be a lot of very
fine poultry, including valuable cock.
erels, all of which will find a ready
market anywhere at good prices. Thus.
by selecting the nearest standard pull.
lets in color. shape and characteristics,
IL may carry the grading up still
further year by year and ultimately
have the finest birds that it is possible
to breed.-The Epitomist.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-20
Poultry Yards and shrubberv.

The best poultry yard for fowls
that have not free range is the one
with plenty of shrubbery in it and
mi in which grass may be sown to
allow the birds plenty of green stuff
to eat. 1t is advisable to have two
yards. and while the birds are living
in n sow some seed in the other. 1t
is also a good plan to turn the soil in
the yards and the birds will get many
worms and insects. If there are no
trees or shrubs in the yards it is very
little trouble to plant a few there. The
hens, and little chicks, especially, will
appreciate them on hot days. 1t is not
a pleasant thing for a hen to be COM
PEELED to remain ont in the broiling
with a flock of little ones. trying
to keep cool. And then so many per-
sons forget to give plenty of fresh
water to their fowls in hot weather.
There is nothing that is more of a
drawback to the health and comfort
of the birds than to be forgotten
when the days are so warm. They
get run down and their systems are
in a condition to get all the diseases
that are going around.-Mirror and
Farmer.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-20

Some very wholesome counsel wal
given to young lawyers by Cortlande
Parker, O. Newark, N. j., who Ii
looked up to as the most eminent law
yer in that State, on the occasion OF a
memorial banquet recently given in
his honor. He took high, conservative
ground cs to what constitutes Euccess,
and said in part:
ITO lay young friends a word Of ad'
vice: Stick to the profession-seek to
elevate it. Do not seek by it to make
money. Doing that makes it a trade
not a Profession. Be fair in charges.
Help the poor, with advice and with
professional aid. Do not speculate.
Be known in Christian work and in
charity, public and private, according
to your means. Study law and his
tory in all spare time, and manifest it
by your action in the courts. Do not
be a politician. But always vote and
do the duty Of a citizen. Be member
Of a party, but independents slave to
no one. Deserve honors and Office. If
they come, as If you deserve them
they should, do honor to them. II
they do not, never mind. There is
One who seeth not as man seeth, whose
well done, good and faithful is worth
all the dignities Of all the world"
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-20

In his twenty-three years at the bar
Lincoln had no less than 169 cases
before the highest court of Illinois, a
record unsurpassed by his contem-
porhries; he appeared before the
United States Circuit and District
cou:ts with great frequency; he was
the most indefatigable attendant on the
English circuit, and tried more cases
than any other member of that bar; he
was attorney for the Illinois Central
Railroad, the greatest corporation in
the State, and one which doubtless had
its choice of legal talent; he was also
counsel for the Rock Island Railroad
and other corporations and individuals
with important legal interests at stake;
he was sought as legal arbitrator in the
great corporation litigations of Illinois
and he tried some of the most notable
cases recorded in the courts of that
State.-FrOm Frederick Trevor Hills
Lincoln the Lawyer" in The Century.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-20

Unless there are ladies among the
guests, the wife and daughters of the
host do not appear at dinner in Japan.
Before the meal begins it is customary
for them to bring in small cups of tea
and dainty confectionery, when they
take their survey of the party.
If gentlemen only are present, the
Japanese hostess disappears after
greeting is over, and does not return
until the guests are taking their depar-
ture, says a writer in Smiths Weekly.
At a signal from the host, barefoot
ed waiting maids, dressed in graceful
and prettily tinted kimonos, bring in
lacquer trays bearing tiny covered
bowls. Before setting the trays on the
tables, the maids sink gracefully to
their knees, and bend forward till their
foreheads touch the floor. Then they
serve dinner, which is of several
courses.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-20
Carbon Fine Swimmer.


Clad with a coat of oily wool next his
skin the caribou is covered exteriorly
with a dense pelage of fine quilts.
Every caribou, indeed, wears a cork
jacket, and when this is prime, the
creature seems on the water rather
than in the water. No other quadruped
that 1 know swims as high as the
caribou.
Their speed af1oat is so great that it
takes the best of canoemen to overtake
a vigorous buck. A good paddler is
supposed to cover about six miles an
hour, so the caribou probably goes five.
There are many kinds of woodland
and rough country over which the carl
bou cannot travel 81 fast as this. What
wonder, then, that they are so ready to
take to the water as soon as they find
it in their course? Mr.. Mum assured
me that several times he saw caribou
swim a broad bay that was in their
line, though a trifing DETECTION would
have given them easy walking along
the shore to the same point, and with
but little increase of distance.-From
THE Caribou and His Kindred" by
Ernest Thompson Seton, in Scribner's.
The Penn's Grove record., 1906-04-20
TobOgganing In Favor.

Tobogganing at last promises to have
a permanent place among the winter
sports Of this country. The slide at
Ardsley has been decidedly in favor,
and there are other built slides.
But, so far as is known to a writer
on this subject who contributes his ex-
perience to Health, there is not any
where in the United States a regular
half or quarter mile ~toboggan slide
maintained by a town or an associa-
ton solely for the purpose of this sport.
Strangely enough, America-which
has been rather Indifferent to the sport
has achieved a worldwide reputa-
ton for its toboggans. Just as Biz
mingham, England, manufactures most
of the brass idols w%orshiped in the
Orient, so America makes sleds, coast
ers and toboggans for Switzerland,
Norway, Sweden and Canada.