Milford chronicle., 1906-03-30
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, March %.

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Congressman George R. Patterson,
of the 18th Pennsylvania district, died
suddenly at Washington.
Nearly a score of families were made
homeless and property valued at s27.-
600 was destroyed by fire at Point
Pleasant, n. J.
The worlds record in blindfold type
writing was broken in Chicago by Miss
Rose Fritz, who wrote 4007 words cor
Tectly in GO minutes.
Despondent over i'll health brought
On by the death OF her husband. Mrs.
Ruth A. Odgers. of Philadelphia. COM
mitted suicide by inhaling Illuminating
gas.
A verdict Of not guilty was rendered
in the case of DR.. Francis NJ. Morgan,
who was on trial at Norfolk. Va.
charged with performing a criminal
operation upon Mrs. Josephine Davis.
Friday, March %.
A bill to legalize pool selling at race
tracks in Ohio was defeated by the
state senate.
J. V. Folkesson. Of Passaic, N. J..
committed suicide in a Chicago hotel
by swallowing carbolic acid.
A train on the Lehigh Valley rail-
road was wrecked near Rochester, NY,
and the engineer and fireman were
killed.
]. Edward Addicks' SOO-acre farm
near Wilmington, Del, was sold at
sheriff's sale to Alexander B. Cooper,
who is said to represent Addicks, for
sS5.OOO
Henry R. Thomas, former state rail-
road commissioner of South Carolina,
fell dead from heart disease on his
farm near Columbia, and his body was
not discovered until a day later
Saturday, March "a.
The Mt. Holly Inn, a famous summer
resort near Carlisle, Pa, was destroyed
by fire.
General Julio Sanguily, who became
prominent in the Cuban revolution, died
at Havana.
George Cyphers. ofNew York. dropped
dead while attending the funeral Of his
sister at Easton, Pa.
A bill has been introduced in con-
gress to appropriate $5O,OOOfor a bronze
statue of Samuel J. Tilden, to be erected
in Washington.
Herman Reckling, of Hazelton, Pa,
suicide by tying a stick OF
dynamite about his neck and hitting it
with a hammer, blowing his head to
pieces.
Monday, March Is.
Five members OF the family Of Pedro
Mezo, presidente of La Dura, Sonora,
have been slain by Yaqui In
iians.
President Thwing, of Western Re
serve University, speaking at Chicago, |
declared not over per cent of college |
graduates go to the bad.
A carpet tack caught between cog |
wheels caused a spark that resulted in
he blowing up of the Phoenix powder
plant near St. Louis and killing two
George Schoenerberger 5 years old,
" Allentown, was cutting pictures out
# a paper when he fell on the scissors,
10Th blades going through his left arm,
it.
Tuesday, March 27.
An explosion of gas wrecked two
Try goods stores at Usage. Ia, causing
loss of $4,000.
Andrew Carnegie will give s25,0O0 to
he endowment fund of Roanoke (Va.)
'ollege If a like sum is raised.
Fire at Fayetteville, N. c.. destroyed
] buildings in the centre of the city,
a loss estimated at s3OO.O0O
Norval E. Foard, for nearly 40 years
ssociated with the Baltimore Md
un. died of pneumonia, aged SO years.
Charles w. Saum, a Harrisburg, Pa.
oliceman. was acquitted of murder for
hooting a 12-year-old negro boy when
e was escaping after robbing a jew
Try store.
Wednesday, March %. 4
The explosion of a gasoline engine
lused a fire that destroyed a dozen
nildings at Kane, Pa, near Bradford, =
ltailing a loss of $S5,OOO
]. S. Shade & Sons, proprietors Of
ne of the largest department stores
Reading, Pa, made an assignment.
$35, 900; assets, over $50 1000.
Robert H. Spriggs, the New York
sgro convicted of abducting white
omen and OBTAINING them in a resort
equented only by negroes, was SEN
mood IN % x-aorc in rricor