Milford chronicle., 1907-03-08
4 WEEKS NEws coNDEnsED
Thursday February q.


Samuel G. Dixon to be state commits
sioner Of health Of Pennsylvania.
w. A. Garrett was elected president
Of the Seaboard Air Line railroad to
succeed Alfred Walter, deceased.
James w Ryan. former district at
torney Of Schuylkin County, Pa, died
suddenly at Mahoney City, of heart
trouble.
The Indiana legislature passed
bill appropriating $4,000 for a statue
OF General Lew Wallace to be placed
in Statuary Hall at Washington.
Friday, March I.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change was sold for SIS, 900.
Amy RockhOld, a former Virginia
slave aged 1O2 years, died at Piqua, o.
The Wisconsin senate defeated
bill to appropriate $4,000 for the
jamestown exposition.
The boiler of a locomotive on the |
Michigan Central railroad exploded at
Chicago. killed two trainmen and in
Turing one.
After quarreling with his wife,
Henry Gam of near Mt. Holly, N. j..
swallowed strychnine, and died in
great agony.
The Kelly Coal company at Dan
vile, H.. with five shafts and an out
put Of 100000 tons annually, was
sold to a syndicate for $4,OOO,OOO.
Saturday, March 2.
The Y. M. c. A. building at Utica,
N. Y, was destroyed by fire, causing
a loss of S15O,OO0. P
In attempting to save the life Of his 1
son, John NOlls was struck and killed !
by train at Chicago. =
Frank M. Mabry, a well-known bank a.
er, was sentenced to prison for five v
years at Waco. Texas, for embezzle.
ment. u
George A. Fuller, master Of the al
New York State Grange, dropped dead
At his home in Philadelphia, N. Y, of IN 10
leart disease. II II
One fireman was seriously injured ~
ind five others slightly hurt at fire 2
which destroyed a schoolhouse valued tn
It $4,000 at Allegheny, Pa. tel
Monday, March 4. ar,
William Giles. crippled son Of a sol
7ealthy farmer was shot by a bur. o.
lar at his home. near Edinboro Pa, -,
ut will recover. IN, ,i
In II days a s275,O 900 fund was rails. dis
/ in indianapolis for a Y. M. C. A. Ba
Iilding, and $4,000 out of S1OO. 900 str,
II Y. W. c. A. building. An
Stepping from the way of Reading pal
yer at Yardley Pa, a man fell to the 7
e on the Delaware, 65 feet and was din
ushed beyond recognition. ONE
A third charge Of forgery was lodg- ros, .i
against Claude A. Marette, a Leb- if "
ION, Pa, life insurance agent, who is per
ilieved to have realized $4,000 by enc
rgeries. rate
Tuesday, March 5. ofv
Fire destroyed a block of business II
uses at Danbury, Conn, causing a tne:
IS of $125.OOO not
Frank FurlOng was electrocuted in tSa, t.s5
lg Sing IN. " prison for killing i'm,
aunt in New York in 1904. uttl
rhe Central labor bodies Of Nor. cost
k, Portsmouth and Newport News. that
-. will erect a labor hall at the as
nestOwn exposition. prov
70 of tbo Co1Ior W. o ITS 'He be b,
AG VI lAe 0SlAeIs WdIu q t1dSner -
rdware Company, at st. Louis, and p,oh
ured over $4,000 worth of plunder. Win
rank x. Fitzpatrick, a prominent is tb
ident of Cambridge, Mass, was ar separ
ted by government detectives on a beinl
lplaint that he conspired to VIC. terial
the Interstate Commerce regula- Al th
IS by sending lottery matter from IN Inl
state to another. OUse'
"Wednesday, March s. 70,
ames r. Garfield took the oath of bstin,
e as secretary of the interior. value
ssse White was killed and another long
fatally wounded in a saloon fight their
Tenn. prepa
homas McCamant, formerly audi slo'
general of Pennsylvania, died of ana d
of disease, aged 67 III gn.s u,'
s. KerOs
over the death Of his Water
tied daughter. Frank Shoal drown cut
imself in the bathtub at his home "S.el
s,,s5
chard o. Hoops. a student at Lake with
st University. Chicago, is under then b
st, charged with robbery, over feet en-
worth Of jewelry having been Whe
vered. cream
thus n
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