Milford chronicle., 1907-08-02
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. July pB.

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Cardinal Gibbons celebrated his 75d
birthday. Tuesday. with. friends. at
Westminster, Md.
Two men were killed and five SER
iously injured by the falling of a scat.
fold at Conneaut o.
The 10th semi-annual convention Of
the Pennsylvania Lumbermen's Asso-
citation was held at Wilkes-Barre.
The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus train
was derailed near Grand Rapids, Mich.
and four horses and one camel were
killed
Crushed under load of bricks. Ivan
Mendes. a laborer is dying in a Phil.
adelphia hospital with broken back
and internal injuries.
Friday, July 26.
Mrs. Charles Benner stepped in
front of a trolley car at Rittersville.
near Bethlehem, Pa, and was instant
ly killed.
Six deaths, including two suicides,
and hundreds of prostrations from
heat were reported in New York
Thursday night.
George W. Rogers, rs years old, pres
ident of the Montgomery County (Pa.)
Bar Association, dropped dead in his
home at Norristown.
Austin Seib, 6 years old, nearly
died after eating poisoned chocolate,
which he purchased at a store near his
home in Philadelphia.
Saturday. JuIv 27.
Newton A. Berry, a wealthy farmer
Of Covington, Ga, was gored to death
By mad bull.
Mrs. Dorothea WIGHT, aged Is years,
was struck by a trolley car in Phila-
delphia and instantly killed.
Frank Cousins, clerk in the Bos-
ton postoffice, has been arrested,
charged with embezzling S4725.
Miss Pearl Waring was shot and
killed at Leesburg, o., by Orb Ander-
son, whom she refused to marry.
Calvin Coleman, colored, was hang
ed at Montgomery, Ala, for the MUIR
der of J. A. Finley, white man, whose
body he cut to pieces.
Monday, July %.
Exploding gas at Gilberton colliery,
near Mahanoy City. Pa, seriously
burned George Davis and George Ber-
bits.
Falling from his train at Mt. Union
Charles e. Nelson. a Pennsylvania
brakeman, was fatally injured dying
later at the Altoona hospital.
Vice President Fairbanks and Secre-
tary Taft will be rival attractions dur
ing the Ohio Home Coming at Column
bus, o., the first week in September.
Harry Powers, dying with a bullet
hole in his head, and the remains of
Mrs. Powers, shot and terribly man
gled, were found in the rear of their
store, at Charlotte, NC, and it is be-
lieved there was a fight to the death
between them.
Tuesday, July 80.
H. J. Keith Willoughby, Trinity
College student, was drowned at Buff
falo, N. Y, while bathing.
John A. Zucl, chairman of the
finance committee of the National
Order OF Red Men, died at Madison,
Ind.
In a collision between a special
train and a freight at Brockton, Mass,
three trainmen were killed and four
injured.
William Nelson, negro, was cleo
trocuted in Sing Sing IN. " prison
for the murder of Lizzie Norman, in
New York.
It is reported from Lexington, Ky,
that the Hargis-Cockrill feud has
broken out again at Jackson, Breath
tit county, and that several men were
killed in a fight.
Wednesday, July 81.
While reading newspaper Lewis
Sutton, a farmer, living near Whining
ton, Del, fell over dead.
Fire destroyed three business blocks
in the town of Moravia, near Auburn,
N. Y, entailing a loss of 100000.
julius Hallrock, prominent yachts
man, was drowned while bathing in
the Hudson river at Newbursh, N. Y.
Tony Leto. a Black Hand victim
was murdered in Detroit and his body
was shockingly mutilated with stab
wounds.
An unknown Italian workman fell |
from the third-story of an apartment |
house at Atlantic City and was in |
stantlv killed.