Milford chronicle., 1906-08-24
. wERK,s NEws CONDENsED
Thursday, August 16.

S1s 20 and costs for selling short
weight butter.
owing to domestic troubles e. Fred
.rirl Ford. a Pennsylvania railroad
brakeman. committed suicide by shoot
sng at Enola. near Harrisburg, Pa.
Louis Nye, a night watchman at
bridge at LegionEille, near Pittsburg'
was hot through the abdomen by three
men who were being chased by de-
tectives.
In a ft of insanity, Emil Berner, OF
batavia, Ills, murdered his brother-in-
law by cutting his throat with razor,
slashed Mrs. Berner so severely that
she will die. and then cut his own
throat.
Friday, August II.
.F61r persons were injured. two fa-
tally. in a collision on the Seaboard
Air line at Portsmouth, Va.
~ Attorney General Moody conferred
with President Roosevelt at Oyster
BAY on filling several vacancies on the
federal bench.
p Rev. DR.. Richard Eddy, one Of the
=. most prominent Uniyersalist clergy
men in New England, dropped dead OF
heart disease at Gloucester Mass.
81. In. a personal alteration, NJ E.
lanes. superintendent of the Birming-
ham, Ala, gas works. was shot and IA
tally, wounded by w. H. Rogers,
wealthy manufacturer.
Saturday, August 1e.
The G. A. r. will hold their next ma
t,onaI encampment in Saratoga, N. Y,
in 1907.
The armored cruiser North Carolina
will be launched at the Newport News,
Va. shipyards on October 6.
Rebecca S. Clark, better known as
"Siphia May" writer Of many books
for children, died at Norridgewock, Me
One man was killed and three in
iured by a premature explosion OF dy-
Mantle at the Deering Harvester plant
In Chicago
state Senator F. o. Butt, of Perry
willie. Ark, was sentenced to two year.
in the penitentiary for offering a brib'
to another state senator.
Monday, August 20.
Scott HowingtQn was stabbed t.
death by Muncy TaIley during quar-
rel at Bristol, Va
Coe d. Barnard, convicted OF perJur
in the land fraud trials at Portland
Ore, was sentenced to prison for tw
years and fined $4,000.
Isaac s. Case, prominent in bushes
and nolitical circles and Monroe cou1
TVS CPa.) wealthiest citizen, died
Stroudsburg, aged rs years.
Ill
The widow of James ODonnell'
Norristown. Pa, railrOader who wa
RELIED three weeks ago, gave birth
twins and now has II children to SUI
port "A. c,4
Mrs. Mary Denny, of Smyrna, Del die
~ heart disease in the Broad street ST
tion of the Pennsylvania railroad
Philadelphia.
Tuesday, August 21.
With a temperature of 81 and MS
humidity. Louisville, KY, reports thr'
deaths from heat
Thomas Ellis, of Philadelphia WI
killed by falling down stairs IN
home. his neck being broken.
James Downey isQdying in PM
delphia hospital WIN DlOhSl4 ""ee
caused by a barrel of paint falling
him.
Edward Kollereb, of Chicago, W
deposited $3.50 in the wrecked Milw'
kee Avenue Bank, committed suici
by hanging.
Following a quarrel, Mrs. ], Thorn
wife of a miner at Pontiac Ills. "
killed bv her husband, who cut
throat and escaped.
Wednesday, August p.
The Bank of Mentor Mimi, was n
bed of $1,000 by men who blew open
safe and then escaped.
The goth annual convention OF
County Commissioners of Pennsyl
MIA was held at Lancaster.
The large kitchen at the Soldl
Home at Hampton, Va, was destro
bv fire. entailing a loss of $6O,OOO.
The annual convention of the
+iona1 Association of Newsdeal
booksellers and Stationers was hel'
Chicago.
The strike of the coal miners IN
hama. affecting 5000 men and cosi
the union over s1OOOOOO in two ye
has been declared of.