Milford chronicle., 1907-11-15

yer Cleveland, at Buzzards
p s,4a -, has been sold to George D.
I Flynn, a brewer.
Thomas Haugh and Charles B.
Knuyson were electrocuted in Chicago
while operating derrick, the steel
cable Of which came in contact with
trolley wire
John C. Dueber, owner of the
Dueber- Hampden Watch works, at
Canton. O., said to be the largest
watch factory in the world. died after
q short illness
Friday November 8.
Philip Farley. so years old. and his
wife. Mary. So years old, were found
dead from gas in their home in New
York
Robbers dynamited the safe of the
Farmers National bank at Marshall
Okla. and secured all the money and
valuables in the vault.
The ninth annual meeting Of the
PENNSYLVANIA State Congress Of Moth
ers was held at Harrisburg, with near
ly 100 delegates present.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt has offered the
Newport, R. l., Young Mems Christian
Association a new building, to be
erected as a memorial to his father.
the late Cornelius Vanderbilt, at a cost
Of $4,000
Saturday, November 9.
Rear Admiral Henry Lyon retired
from the navy on account OF having
reached the age limit Of service.
A four-Rtory brick building occupied
By Joseph Goddard, a wholesale gro
Ger, at Muncie, Ind, burned, and the
loss is estimated at 100000.
The 34th annual convention Of the
National Womans Christian Temper
anee Union was held at Nashville.
Tenn, with over 500 delegates in at
tendance.
Rev. T. J. Lehs, rs years old, a we'll.
known minister of the Methodist
Episcopal church, -6iad at his home in
Pittsburg, following protracted ill
ness.
Monday November II.
There have been 30 cases of verified
bubonic plague with 81 deaths in San
Francisco since the present epidemic
began.
Mrs. John Shilling, Of Lewistown
Junction, Pa, has preserved in good
shape for Is years an apple stuck full
of cloves.
A landslide near Redwood, W. Va,
covered the tracks of the Baltimore &
Ohio to a depth of fve feet for dis
tance of half miae.
Farmer Josiah Reese hailed Joseph
Iiebfrled into the Lancaster, Pa, court
for stealing half dozen potatoes from
a field, and the court considered the
0ffense so trifiing as to suspend SEN
tence.
Tuesday, November 12.
The United States supreme court
will adjourn on November Is to De
Cember 2.
Attorney L. A. Dewitt was found
dead In his Office at Wilkes Barre, Pa.
death having been caused by a rup
tured blood vessel.
David Maloy, a negro, 80 years old
is under arrest at Pittsburg in connec
ton with the killing Of a white man at
Madison. n c., over a year ago.
Governor Stuart appointed Mac
Henry Wilhelm, Of Ashland, Pa, to be
president judge of the orphans court
OF Schuylkll county, to serve until
the first Monday of January, 1903, vice
P. NJ. Dunn. deceased.
Wednesday, November fS.
The Standard Oil company announc
ed that Somerset crude oil is now
quoted at 81. a cut of 10 cents having
been made.
A. {. McComb. a prominent real es.
tate man, committed suicide at his
home in Pittsburg, Pa, by drinking
carbolic acid.
Andrew Carnegie made a gift to the
University of Chicago of $4,000, to be
used for the William Rainey Harper
Memorial Library Fund.
Thomas Ford, the last full-blooded
Mohicon Indian, few days ago be-
came an inmate Of the almshouse at
Waterbury, Conn, at his own request |
Flames sweeping through the ser
wants rooms on the fifth floor of the !
Hotel Garde. at New Haven, Conn,
burned to death four employees. while |
q NTH man, Isaac Levine. was killed I
while using the rope of the fire escape. |