Milford chronicle., 1906-09-28
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. September 20


General Adam E. King, former CON
sui general at Paris, is critically i'll at
his home, in Baltimore, Nd.
The American Red Cross Society
sent $4,000 to Chile in aid of the Val
paraiso earthquake sufferers.
The Religious Educational associa-
ton will hold its convention next year
in Rochester. N. Y, September . to Z.
Lehigh university, at South Bethle-
hem. Pa. began its 41st scolastic year
with over $50 students. 200 being -
che freshman class.
In pistol fight between the Mullins
and Fleming faction. near Sergeant
XIV. James Anderson was killed and
Hiram Mullins fatally injured.
Friday, September q.
John Torrey Morse. the Oldest grad
uate of Harvard University, died in
Boston, aged SO years.
William J. Bruehl, of Philadelphia,
dropped dead from paralysis Of the
heart on board a yacht at Still Pond,
Nd.
While standing on the porch Of his
home at Berwick Pa, DOminick Caulse,
an Italian, was shot to death by un-
known men.
Eight masked men held the people
of White Cloud, village near Grand
Rapids. Mich, at bay and robbed the
bank of over $4,000 in cash.
Howard Fillmore colored was sen
fenced to five years Imprisonment and
fined $500 for shooting and slightly in
turing COrnelia jenkins. colored, in
Wilmington, Del.
Saturday, September p.
The Sovereign Grand Lodge of Odd
Fellows will meet in st. Paul next
year.
T. Edward Hambleton, a retired
banker, of Baltimore, Nd, died at his
country home, aged rs years.
Application has been made in Tren-
ton. N. j., for a receiver for the Pater-
son Press; liabilities, $4,000; assets,
not given.
William Sheets, a well-known resi-
dent of Bellaire, o., was killed by a
stray bullet during a fight between po-
licemen and tramps.
General James c. HILL a distin
guished Confederate officer and the
first railway commissioner of Virginia
died at his home in Scottsville, Va.
Monday, September "a.
Michael Kolin was blown to pieces
by a mine blast at the Enterprise col
liery, Shamokin, Pa.
Warfare between the Standard Oil
and the labor unions has been started
with a strike at Whiting, Ind, a wage
increase being demanded.
While working behind a vicious
horse in his stable at Wolfburg, Bed
ford county, Pa, Theodore Lehman,
aged IS, Was kicked to death.
Despondent over loss of rank, acting
Drum Major T. NJ. Doherty. of the
fourth United States infantry, killed
himself at Fort Thomas, Ohio.
The fire insurance companies Of
Hartford. Conn, have paid on San
Francisco losses to date $15.952, 749, or
about 6 per cent. less than the claims.
Tuesday, September rs.
October 19 has been designated as
autumn arbor day in Pennsylvania
The United States battleship Geor-
gia has been placed in commission at
the Charleston. Mass. navy yard.
The 10th annual convention of the
Medal of Honor Legion of the United
States was held at Winsted. Conn.
The national encampment of the
Spanish war veterans will be held in
Washington, D. c., beginning Octo-
Der 8.
Wednesday, September 26.
Six people were injured, several
fatally, by the collapse of a building
at Memphis, Tenn.
The bank of Brady, Neb., was
wrecked by robbers and a large
amount of money was taken.
Colonel Isaac Hill, for S5 years an
employe of the national house of rep
resentatives. died in Washington of a
complication of diseases.
Tying bed-clotbes around his neck
and swinging himself from a bedpast
so that he slowly strangled to death,
John Hozier committed suicide at his
home at Mt Holly, N, ].