Milford chronicle., 1907-05-31
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED.
Thursday May %.

I IulLeQ nldte1l duuichneu tue nAlhhuuIl
Bankers Association at Kansas City
w. E. Ward, Of Hopewell, Md, was
stricken with apoplexy while out
driving, and was found dead in his
carriage.
The comptroller Of the currency IS
sued a call for a statement of the con-
dition of national banks at the close of
business on May 20.
Friday, May "a.
The Maryland Democrats will hold
| their state convention at Baltimore on
August s.
The Pennsylvania Foresters will
hold their next convention in Phila-
delphia in May. 1909.
Mrs. Ambrose Limbaugh, Of Davids-
burg. near York. Pa, was fatally
burned while rendering lard.
Annie Sullivan, a cham5ermaid,
and George A. James, a guest. we're
suffocated in a fire in the Metropoli-
tan hotel at Utica, N. Y.
Mrs. Louis B. Hall, wife Of the
manager of the National Press Asso-
citation Of New York, committed sui
eide at Cincinnati, o., by drowning
herself in a reservoir.
Saturday, May rs.
Former United States Senator John
Patton died at Grand Rapids, Mich,
of typhoid fever.
Two motormen were killed in a
headon collision between trolley cars
at Grand Rapids, Mich.
Rocco Panagino, who was on trial
for murder in Brooklyn, committed
suicide by hanging himself in jail with
his belt
The car barn OF the Buffalo Lake
Erie Traction company, near Buffalo, |
N. Y, was burned, together with 25
cars, causing a loss of 100000.
Edna Fisher, years old, who was
bitten by a dog three weeks ago, died |
at her home, near Valley Forge. Pa,
of hydrOphobia.
Monday, May 27.
Mrs. Mary Greenhow Lee, widow of
Captain Hugh H. Lee, died at Balti-
more. aged IS years.
President Roosevelt will make an
address at the laying of the corner
stone of the new Masonic Temple
in Washington on June s.
Potatoes in the Lancaster, Pa, mar
ket have jumped from 6Oc to 81 a
bushel. owing to the unreasonable
weather.
Labor leaders and business men OF
are arranging love feast for
July 4.
Charged with embezzling $4,000
R. F. Garner, a Southern Pacific rail
way clerk, has been arrested at Car
Ga.
Tuesday, May %.
Edna Wilson, an actress. committed
suicide at Columbus, O.. by drowning
herself in a bathtub
William McKie, a Kalamazoo, Mich,
lruggist, while despondent from fnan-
'ial difficulties, shot and killed his
mother and himself
Lightning struck the postoffce at
Atlantic City, N. j., and shocked sew
raj men and women in the corridor.
Dallas Sanders, a well-known lawyer
nd member of the Philadelphia board
f civil service commissioners, died
fter a long illness.
The United States treasury pur-
hased 100000 ounces of silver for de-
very at the Philadelphia mint, at
7.720 per fine ounce.
Wednesday, May 29.
Governor Cummins, of iowa, has an
ounced his candidacy for the United
tates senate.
The Pennsylvania Retail Coal Deal
rs Association held its third annual
invention at Reading.
The Toledo Railway & Terminal
,mpany. at Toledo, O., was sold to the
for $2.000,00O.
Frank A. Sperry, former corporation
x commissioner Of Brooklyn, com
tilted suicide by drowning while de-
,ondent.
Miss Philaner Swimmer, 80 years old,
Chicago, while demented shot and
lied her mother and then set fire to
n clothing and was burned to death.
HEADLESS MYSTERY SOLVED
oman's Confession Clears Sunbury
a., Murder and duplicates Husband.
Sunbury, Pa, March 26.-The mys-
~ surrounding the finding of the
adless body of a man sewed in a bag
itch was picked up in the Susque
ma river near Georgetown on Sat.
day, may be cleared up by the re-
rted confession Of = Mrs. Koomes,
ar Wilkes-Barre. According to the
,ry which the authorities here have
,eived, Michael Kropaskie was muir -
red on March Is. The body was
lden in the Koomes cellar until
nday, March II, when it was put
a bag and thrown into a creek
ieh empties into the Susquehanna
er. The body found in the bag at
Drgetown in a general way answers
description of that of Kropaskie. N
s. Koomes is alleged to have I'm.
aafad har husband in fha rnurder ~