Milford chronicle., 1906-07-20
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Thursday, July II.
Abner c. Martin. charged with muir
der. committed suicide in Jail at Tow
ner, N. D., by taking poison.
After 20 years experience as a
"stseple jack" James H. Glenn was
killed at Chicago by falling 1855 feet.
DR.. Barnet C. Walter, one of the old
est practicing physicians in Eastern
Pennsylvania, died at his home at
FarmersvillA near Easton. aged "A
years.
For killing Robert Lane because he
would not pay for riding in a chair
car. Special Officer John L. Howery. of
ahe Chesapeake & Ohio railway, was
sentenced to eight years in prison at
Charleston, w. Va.
Friday, July 10.
Governor Pennypacker Fixed Sen.
tember 8 as the time for the execution
of Ricardo Forte, of Chester county,
Pa.
Giovanni Maline, an Italian, was
= hanged at .Uniontown, Pa, for the
murder of Antonio Reppi, another
Italian.
Otto Amerus and NJ. D. Kent. broth.
ers-in-law, fought a pistol duel at No
Bile, Okla, and Anierus was killed and
Kent was mortally wounded.
N. NJ Riggs, who was arrested at
Elroy, Wis, charged with numbering
AIilHe Ellison in a Minneapolis hotel.
committed suicide by shooting himself
in the head
Saturday, July IA.
Andrew L. Davenport, colored. was
hanged at Norfolk. Va, for the murder
OF William Thomas.
Leonardo De Luca, who killed An.
tonia ,Trapone, committed suicide in
prison at Lancaster, Pa by hanging
himself
United States Senator Francis G.
Newlands, OF Nevada, had his collar.
bone broken by being thrown from a |
horse at San Mateo, Cal.
Henry Kraft, a Bellaire, O., saloon
keeper. was fatally shot and Michael |
Maxson dangerously wounded by /
masked men who attempted to rob the
saloon.
Monday, July 16.
In South Bethlehem, Pa, Mary
Silko jumped head first from a rapidly
moving trolley car and may die from
a crushed skull.
Rev. Frederick w. Perkins, of Lynn,
Mass, has been reelected president of
the Young Peoples Christian Union OF
the Universalist church.
The first ground for the numerous
state buildings at the Jamestown ex-
position was broken Saturday by the
Rhode Island commissioners.
Without apparent reason, Mrs. Ma
tilda Dubs, widow and octogenarian
of Blooming Grove, York county, Pa,
committed suicide by hanging.
Tuesday, July II.
Three boys were drowned in the Mo
nongahela river at Pittsburg by the
capsizing of their boat.
powder mill of the Atlantic Dyna-
mite company, near Ashland, Wis.
blew up, killing three men and injur-
ing 20.
While returning from picking black.
berries, Charles Bougherty, Of Philadcl.
phia, was struck by a train and in
stantly killed near Camden, N. J.
While on his vacation, George Sny-
der, a clerk in the Carnegie Steel
Works, Pittsburg. Pa, committed sui
eide by cutting his throat at Kingston,
Ont.
A passenger train on the Erie rail
road was wrecked by a defective switch
at Port Jervis, N. Y, and the engineer
was killed and two other trainmen Sc
verely injured.
Wednesday, July 49, I
Christopher Spindleman, who shot
and killed his wife, hanged himself in I
jail at Windsor, Ont I
The warehouse of the Franklin Pea I
nut company, at Franklin, Va, was de-
stroyed by fire, causing a loss Of $780,
900.
George B. Ulrich, one of the leading
members Of the Lebanon county PA
bar, and prominent secret society f
man, died at his home aged So years. b
Fire destroyed the tipple and other o
of the Grab Tree mine at Q
Greensburg, Pa, entailing a loss of S75.- F
900 and throwing $50 men out of work. Ii
President Roosevelt has appointed f
General Felix Agnus, editor and pro- C
prietor of the Baltimore American, as
president of the commission to survey
the elaware & Chesapeake canal.