Milford chronicle., 1906-03-16
| WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
ThursdaY. March 8.

Midshipmen b. Mcdaniel and Will
lam W. Sercy, both of Texas, resignet
from the Annapolis naval academy.
The 18th annual convention of tn
public school superintendents of Penn
sylvania was held at Harrisburg.
A bill has been introduced in con
gress to increase the pensions of sur
vivors Of the Mexican war from 81.
to $50 per month.
Mrs. Sarah Rumbly SO years old
mother Of the late Walter Q. Gresham
former secretary of state, died at hel
home, near Lanesville, Ind.
Friday, March g.
Mrs. Susan D. Crossman, aged 1O3
years, died at Janesville, Wis.
Major General Corbin, accompanied
by his wife and personal staff. arrived
in San Francisco from Manila.
Stanley w. Little, a prominent at
torney, committed suicide at Towanda,
Pa. by shooting while suffering from
melancholia.
An appropriation bill carrying si91,-
| $685. for postal service has been
agreed upon by the house committee
on postofiices.
A Philadelphia jury awarded Will
lam Jones, a blacksmith, $500 dam
ages for the loss Of an eye at the Bald
win locomotive works.
Saturday, March 10.
The house of representatives on Fri
day passed 4OS private pension bills.
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte ad-
dressed the Swedish-American Central
Republican Club of Chicago.
over $50 slot machines, captured in
raids, were burned by the Law and Or
der Society in Philadelphia by order
of the court
Despondent over domestic troubles,
Abraham Weinstein, of Camden, N. J.,
committed suicide by knotting a towel
around his neck, causing strangula-
ton
Gavin Harris, who is worth $4,000
and who enlisted in the army at Co
lumbus, o., said he did so to get away
from undesirable companions and to
lead a quieter life.
Menday, March IL.
Convicted on the charge of perinry |
George Collins has been SEN
fenced to IA years Imprisonment at |
San Francisco.
Present prospects are that 100000 |
bushels of grain will be waiting trans
portation at the head of the lakes when
navigation opens.
Rev. G. Wells Ely. a Presbyterian
has been drawn for jury
duty in Lancaster, Pa, the first preach
sr to serve as a juror in that county.
John Mincer was instantly killed and
Robert Basinger and Burton Shadle
each had a leg broken by a fall of
'Ock at Jospeh Haberstroh's quarries,
lear Lock Haven. Pa.
Tuesday, March 13.
DR.. Manuel Quintana, president of
he Argentine Republic, died at Bue-
los Ayres.
The piano and organ factory of H
4ehr & Co., at Easton, Pa, was de-
troyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
During a fit Of jealousy, Corinne
filler, aged 10, of Wichita, Kan, shot
nd killed her sweetheart, William
lorrow.
To punish his wife for leaving him. o.
mil Fuhl, killed himself and 5-year- il
Id daughter by turning on the gas in
New York tenement house.
Detected in the act of robbing a 4
lore at Monongahela, Pa, Joseph s.
-olaski a young Slav, was shot and
illed by Joseph Freeman. the watch
ian.
Wednesday, March IA.
A. X. Read, of Louisiana, Rhodes
,holar at oxford, died in London OF .
eningitis.
The camp of United Veterans Of (
oplar Bluff, Mo, elected President
an honorary member.
A slight fire caused a panic among
ie $50 guests of the Irondale hotel,
onora. Pa, but no one was hurt
1ss, $4,000.
The house committee on military
fairs reported favorably the bill to
,propriate 100000 for a government
wider factory.
Citizens of Toledo, o., will make an
ganized effort to induce President
1osevelt to pardon George E. Lor-
z, who is now in prison for conspir-
y to defraud the government in the
stal cases.