Milford chronicle., 1906-05-04
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. April 2e.


The Standard Oil company has ad-
vanced the price of crude petroleum
three cents a barrel east and two cents
west.
Professor John Knowles Paine, di-
rector of the musical department of
Harvard University, died suddenly at
Cambridge, Mass, of pneumonia.
A tank of gasoline exploded in the
round house of the Delaware & Hud-
son Railroad company at Wilkes
Barre, Pa, and five locomotives were
badly damaged.
The body of John Flannery an en-
gineer on the New Jersey Central rail
road, who disappeared from Wilkes
Barre, Pa, six weeks ago, was found
in the Susquehanna river.
Friday, April 27.
Two men we're burned to death and
four others were injured in a fire
which destroyed a hotel at Franken-
muth, Mich
Spencer Eddy, secretary of the Amer
lean embassy at St. Petersburg, and
Miss Lurline Spreckels, of San Fran
cisco. were married in Paris.
Joaquin Alvarez, a Spaniard, who on
February 2G shot and killed two men
in a Philadelphia boarding house, was
sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Fl. H. Sinclair, aged so years, an
employe of the P, w. & B. railroad,
was struck by fast freight train near
Wilmington. Del. and instantly killed
Saturday, April %.
John DAILY, said to be one of the
wealthiest gamblers in the country,
died in New York after a seven-months'
illness.
William A. Brewer formerly presi-
dent of the Washington Life Insurance
company, was indicted in New York
for perjury.
A runaway horse. frightened by ar
auto, at Atlantic City, N. J., leaped
over the go-cart of Miles Barnetts
baby without injuring the child.
The mutilated body of Selee Houk,
the missing deputy game and fish war
den, was found heavily weighted with
stones, in the Mahoning river, nearI
Hillsville, Pa.
Christian Lipp, a wealthy retired
farmer. near New Danville, Lancaster
county, Pa. died in great agony from
lockjaw caused by pitchfork pene-
trating his foot
Monday, April 80.
Three children were burned to death
when the Presbyterian mission school
at Lawson, w. Va, was destroyed.
PENNSYLVANIA state authorities will
experiment in the culture of tobacco
under cover at the Tocalico station, in
Lawrence county.
Falling beneath his horse in the sta
BILE, Adam Brilliant, a wealthy York
county, Pa. farmer, so years of age,
was trod upon so that he died.
Thirty-one indictments have been
returned against former Clerk of the
Circuit Court John A. Cooke, at Chi
cago. % of them relating to forgery.
Lloyd, son of Jacob Roth, of West
Coplay, Pa, was run over by a stone
train in a quarry of the Lehigh Port
land Cement plant and sustained in
iuries that caused his death.
Tuesday, May I.
The hearing in the bankruptcy case
of John Alexander DOwie in Chicago
has been postponed until May Is.
Two laborers were killed and five
seriously injured by the explosion of
a cupola at the Illinois Steel company
in Chicago.
Governor Pennypacker, of Pennsyl-
vania. reappointed David Martin, of
Philadelphia, commissioner of insur-
ance for a term of three years.
The body of Albert Schubert, New
York plasterer, with throat cut and
arteries severed, was found in the an
cient well st. Romans, at Corona,
Queens county, N. Y.
Wednesday, May 2.
Former Governor James E. Boyd, the
Dnly Democrat ever elected to the Office
in Nebraska, died at Omaha.
Joseph Pasquale, a Italian cook, OF
was fatally burned by
The explosion of a gasoline stove.
The battleship New Hampshire will be
launched at the plant of the New York
company in Camden, Nj,
some time during June.
Captain R. P. HobsOn, of Alabama,
he much-kissed hero of Santiago Har-
)or's bottling experiment, it is said is
n the field for the presidential nomi-
lation.
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