Milford chronicle., 1906-09-21
1 WEEKS NEWS CoNDENsED'
Thursday, september Is.

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In a collision between two freight
trains on the Western & Atlantic rail-
road at Ringgold. Georgia, seven train
men were killed.
The Order of Hoos-HOos has chosen
Atlantic City, N. j., as the place for the
next convention.
Four persons were killed and many
injured in the collapse of a hotel at
Chihuahua, Mexico.
The S5th annual meeting of the
Lutheran Synod of New York and
New Jersey was held at Berlin, Ont.
The California Demo- 9 tic State
convention endorsed Will. - J. Bryan
for the presidency and pledged him
their support.
Friday, September IA.
The Select Castle of Pennsylvania
Knights of the Mystic Chain will meet
next year at York.
Colonel w. H. Knauss, of Columbus,
o., was elected commander-in-chief of
the Union Veterans Legion.
William Butler, of Philadelphia.
tried to commit suicide by cutting his
throat with the blade of a safety razor,
but will recover.
A street rumor started by a drunken
man caused a run on Exchange Ma
tional Bank at AtchisOn, Kan, and
$50, 900 was withdrawn.
George A. Fuller, of Syracuse, N. Y,
who was nominated for state treas.
urer of New York by the Independence
League, has refused to accept the
nomination.
Saturday, September IS.
The boiler in a saw mill at Martha,
KY, exploded and killed three en-
ployes.
Lightning struck a building of the
New Jersey state reformatOry at Rah-
way and rendered four boys uncon-
scious.
Mrs. Mary A. Bigley, mother Of Cas-.
sic Chadwick, the frenzied fnancier,
Of Cleveland, o., died at Woodstock,
Ontario.
The Wyoming Democrstic state con
vention adopted resolutions endorsing
''W. ]. Bryan, the triumphant presi-
DENTAL candidate in lSOS.
Monday, September II.
Four robbers blew open the safes of
two banks at Underwood, N. D., and
escaped with about $4,000 cash.
w. J. Bryan will address the national
meeting of the Presbyterian Brother
hood at indianapolis November IA.
The resignation of several Methodist
ministers from that church and appli-
cation for admittance to the Episcopal
church in the Cory district Pa, has
aroused much discussion.
Six men and one woman were stabbed
in a fight among Poles and Austrians
at the mining settlement at Long Run,
O., and three men will die,
Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl-
vania, has notified Albert c. Leisen-
ring, of Upper Lehigh. that he had Sc
lected him as a delegate to represent
Pennsylvania at the Mining Congress
at Denver in October.
Tuesday, September 1s.
James W. Hall, night watchman OF
the Air Line Manufacturing company,
at Norfolk, Va. was murdered and
robbed.
The 276th anniversary of the found
ing of Boston was celebrated Monday.
In jumping from a moving train at
Cairo, H., p ]. Thistlewood, a wealthy
grain dealer fell and broke his neck,
dying instantly.
A. H. Baker was murdered in his
store at Barbourville, W. Va, and the
place robbed.
Wednesday, September 10.
The National Negro Baptist Con-
vention will meet next year in Wash
ington, D. c.
John Strothcamp died at Harrison,
N. Y. from a knockout blow received
in a boxing bout with Philip Ryan.
While sitting in the street before
his home in Philadelphia, Benjamin
Goldsmith, aged years, was run over
by trolley car and killed.
Two laborers were killed and nine
injured, two fatally, by the collapse of
a steel superstructure at the Wood
worsted mills, Lawrence. Mass.
Despondent because of i'll health,
Walter Brooke, a farmer, living near
Newtown Square, committed suicide
by shooting at the home of his brother
in Philadelphia.
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