Milford chronicle., 1906-01-26
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, January IS.

Thursday, January 10.
DR.. Gustavus r. Knabe, known as
ahe father Of music" died at Knox
vile, Tenn, aged SO years.
The National Hardwood Manufac-
turers' Association have increased the
price Of hardwoods 81 to 50 a thousand
feet.
Mrs. Ida Uhl, who was charged with
numbering her husband, died at the
Athens, O., insane asylum, having
been adjudged insane.
Sells & Downs circus, in winter
quarters at Birmingham, Ala, was sold
at public auction to C. W. Thompson,
Of Boston, for $35,0OO.
Friday, January 10.
Fire at Port Royal, Pa, destroyed
four dwelling houses and a store, caus-
ing a loss of S25,OOO
The tugboat Andrew Axton was de-
stroyed by fire at Duquesne, Pa, en-
failing a loss of $780,
Two trainmen were killed in a col
lision of freight rains on the B. & o.
railroad near Warren, o.
Three men we're blown to pieces by
an explosion of giant powder in the
Opp mine, near Jacksonville, Ore.
Mrs. Elizabeth Aiken, SO years old,
a famous nurse in the Civil War, and
Familiarity known as "Aunt Lizzie,
died in Chicago.
Saturday, January 20.
Former President Bartolome Mitre,
Of the Argentine Republic, died at
Buenos Ayres, aged SO years.
David Cannon of Seaford, Del, who
two weeks ago accidentally shot him
self in the foot, died of lockjaw.
Fire swept over 40 miles of prairie
in Duell county Neb, destroying two
ranches and damaging u others. Loss,
100000.
Members of the Iowa senate signed |
a petition for a full pardon for Mrs.
Tolla. the New Jersey murderess, now
under sentence to die.
library building nearly a block |
long. costing 81, 100000, will be erected
in Chicago as a memorial to the late
DR.. William R. Harper
Monday, January %.
Seven men were killed by a snow
slide at the mining camp at Alta,
Utah
There have been eight deaths so far
at the naval training station at New
port, R. l., from spinal meningitis.
For sending Objectionable literature
through the mails Edward F. Hansen
was sent to jail for year and fined
$4,000 at Chicago.
Breaking of the ice while they were
crossing Pettipaug pond, in Ivorytown,
Conn, caused the drowning of Harold
Norris and Ernest Davidson, each 12
years of age.
Because the Maccabees refused to
pay Mrs. Charlotte Felix, of Shamokin,
Pa, a death benefit, claiming her hus-
band was a suicide, she sued and re- !
covered a verdict for sS6OO
Tuesday, January %.
The Baltimore chrome works, at Bal ]
timore. Md. was damaged by fire to I
the extent of $4,000. s
Frederick S. Stedman, the we'll I
known dog fancier dropped dead in t
OF heart trouble. L
General Robert S. Brown, a promi- q
lent retired agriculturist, died at his f
home at Bethlehem, Pa, aged S8 years. t
A bill was introduced in the Virginia il
legislature to erect a monument to t
General Fitzhugh Lee in the capitol e
square at Richmond. t
Ernest Baker, a negro, was taken
rom Jail at Hopkinsville, KY, by a
mob and hanged for attempted crimi-
lal assault on a white woman. r
Wednesday, January "a. c
The Mississippi Cotton Compress at n
Jackson. Miss, was burned, with $500 il
lales Of cotton. Loss, $75OO0O. Il
E. D. Gartner & Co., stock brokers', o
4 Pittsburg, Pa, made an assignment, r
VitR liabilities exceeding 100000. g
Many Alaskans have petitionad Pres b
dent Roosevelt to appoint Judge James b
as governor of Alaska a
W. B. Fairless. of Marks, Miss. has fl
cen shot and killed by Mrs. E. B. II
Vhitten, whose husband Fairless killed tt
everal months ago. b.
A consignment of American school o.
eaders, printed in Japan is being held 81
p at San Francisco, as they are be- fl
eyed to violate copyrights of readers re
ow in use. fl