Milford chronicle., 1906-05-25
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, NAV II.

I
The 10th annual convention Of the
American Cotton Manufacturing Asso-
eiation was held at Asheville, N. C.
Governor Pennypacker has appointed
William H. Stake judge of common
pleas court, No. s, of Philadelphia.
Miss Florence White. a stenographer,
was run down and killed by an automo-
bile in Milwaukee, driven by an editor
Of the Free Press.
Thomas A. Blake, of Boston, was ar
rested at Long Beach, Cal, charged
with embezzling $4,000 worth of min
ing stock at Boston.
Edgar Clark, second mate of the
schooner Sycamore, was burned to
death fighting fire aboard the vessel as
she lay at her dock in South Boston.
Friday May 1s.
An explosion of gas in the Diamond
mine. at Scranton, Pa, burned six
men, three of them seriously.
Near Attica, o., 200 striking Italian
laborers tore up portion of the Bal
timore & Ohio track and delayed a
mail train for several hours.
A premature discharge of dynamite |
killed Two and wounded five of a con-
struction gang on the Indiana South
ern railway, near Bloomington, Ind.
Fire destroyed the cotton compress
of the Central of Georgia railroad, at
Macon, Ga, together with 1000 bales
OF cotton, causing a loss Of $125.OO0.
The Cuban senate passed the house
bill, amnestying all engaged in revo-
lutiOnary attempts, but amending it
SO as to include only those whose acts
were committed between September
23 and December 1, 1905.
Saturday, May 10.
The great council of Red Men of
will meet at Norfolk in 1907.
The American Baptist Publication
Society at Dayton, o.. celebrated its
SD anniversary Friday.
Nathan Sharp, a 6O-year-old farmer.
Of Collingswood, N. J., was struck by
an express train and instantly killed.
In a quarrel over a mule trade at
N. c., H. D. Hudson attacked
his uncle with an axe and was shot
md killed.
Rev. DR.. Robert B. Moore, the Vine I
and, N. J., philanthropist, died sud
lenly Of heart trouble. He was a grad
late of Washington and Jefferson Col
ege and was 70 years old.
Monday, May Fl.
Andrew Carnegie has given Kenyon
'ollege, at Mount Vernon, o., $4,000
Or the aid of poor students.
Austin Wirth of Philadelphia, was
rowned in Ridley Pork lake, near
hester, Pa, while swimming. (
The clothing of Elmer Denlinger, of I
Pa, was caught in betting |
lille at work and he was fatally
.hirled.
Family troubles caused Thomas Har-
S to shoot fatally George McWhorter,
wealthy grain merchant, of Chilli
)the, ILL., +,
Mrs. William Roughton's dress was =
nited by fire in the yard of her 4
)me at Shamokin, Pa, and she was D
)rribly burned and will probably die.
Tuesday, May %.
Howard c. Wiggans was reelected Fl
preme regent of the Royal Arcanum IL
the session at Old Point Comfort,
Ma
William R. Schantz committed suf-
lie in his boarding house at Whining
n, Del. by shooting himself in the Va
ad while in bed. NV
Di Lucca and Lucia Gy-
no were sentenced to two years i'm Man
sOnment at Wilmington, Del, for
nging girls from Italy for immoral
rpOses. Sal
Wednesday, may -. tioi
BOnaparte has resumed his
les at the navy department after an
ience of three weeks due to illness.
Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl- -
Tia. appointed Richmond L. Jones, "a
Reading, member Of the Valley
.ge commission.
'homas Conners, so years old, of
tstown, Pa, dropped dead of apo IL
KY while driving along the road
r Collegeville.
'wO warehouses, containing cotton, So
the American Cotton docks on
ten Island, N. Y, were destroyed
fire, entailing a loss of $25O,OOO. k