Milford chronicle., 1907-02-01
a WEEKS NEWS coNDENsED
Thursday, January "a.

me North Carolina legislature has
1 e-elected F. NJ. Simmons Democrat,
20 the United States senate.
W. H. lIorkescheimer, of Beverly,
~. j., dropped dead from heart disease
on ferryboat at Camden, N. J.
Major Frank B. Gordon, youngest
son of the Confederate General John
B. Gordon, died suddenly in Washing.
ton of pneumonia.
Alfred B. Stoney, speaker of the New
Jersey house in 1884, and well known
in steamboat circles, died at his home
IN Keyport, N. j., aged GA years.
Walter McHenry of Marion Centre.
Pa, a student at the University of
pennsylvania, fell under a trolley car
IN Philadelphia and was so badly in.
Cured that his left leg had to be am.
putated.
Friday, January IS.
The Academy of Music in Washing.
ton was Quilted by fire, entailing a lose
of $5OO0O
Next years convention of the Amer
lean National Live Stock Association
will be held in Denver, Colo.
Mrs. William Allen, of Lexington,
Ky, died on a street car while satisfy
ing her mania for riding on cars.
freight train ran over an en-
bankment at LOngdale, near Parkers-
burg, w. Va, and three trainmen were
killed and one fatally injured.
Matte Merritt, aged q years; Yer
gle Taylor, aged years, and Ethel
King, aged 4 years, were burned to
death in fire which destroyed their
home at indianapolis.
Saturday, January 26.
x Robert Curtis, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa,
hs sentenced to five years and six
ponths Imprisonment for forging judg-
nents.
The second section of the first class
OF the Annapolis. Nd, navel academy
will be graduated on Monday, Febru-
airy II.
DR.. E. w Haines, the Oldest prac-
ticing dentist in Delaware. died at his
residence in Newark. Del, aged "a
years.
Mrs. Isabella Beecher Hooker, sister
of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet ,
Beecher Stowe. died at her home in
Hartford, Conn, aged IS years.
Monday, January %. :
There are 40 cases Of smallpox in I
the territory within 10 miles of Rich :
mond. Va. \
The steel trust has bought $500
acres more land for Gary, Ind, where +
It is building a model town. n
Brakeman Edward zuppert, of Read s
ing, was killed in the Reading railway q
near Myerstown, Pa
Miss Ellen D. Morris, former ma p
tional treasurer of the w. C. T. u, n
died at Hastings, Neb. fl
Peter G. Albright has brought suit b
against the city of York, Pa, for $4,000 ii
damages for a broken leg, sustained In
pn account of a bad pavement. ii
The New York state building at the
Jamestown Exposition will be modelled ii
after the congressional library at
Washington and will cost S31,500. al
Tuesday, January 90.
The United States supreme court tb
take a recess for three weeks, be-
anning next Monday. m
Thirty to 35 degrees below zero was in
ecorded by the thermometer at Su- ia
er1or, Wis, on Monday. IN
Jacob Well and wife were asphyxi-
ted by gas escaping from a stove in
heir restaurant in Brooklyn.
WILDER S. Jackson, dean of the
chool of education at the University
Chicago, died after an illness of "a ria
oprs. dill
A runaway trolley car at Richmond, Isl
a., crashed into two wagons, wreck fol
lg them and injuring seven passen- "a
ers, none seriously.
Wednesday, January 80. vel
Otis Eddy, aged 1O2 years, died at an
Is home in Rockford, III.
Continued grief over the death of his
ife caused John A. Britton to commit
licide by shooting at his home in
rooklyn.
Tuesday was the 65th anniversary A
the birth of William Mckinley and abb
e day was observed as "Carnation con
iy' in Washington. tior
The comptroller of the currency is wa.
ed a call for a statement of the get
ndition of all national banks at the imp
)se of business January 26. an
In a collision between an express Tru
lin and freight on the Boston &
sile railroad, near Shelburne Falls,
2ss., four trainmen were killed and II
feral injured. an