Milford chronicle., 1907-06-28
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. June 20.

ThurSoay, June ~
Mrs. Alice Spooner is dead and fouI
others are in serious conditions as a re
suit of heat prostrations at Cleve
land. o.
The body Of a woman, who commit
ted suicide, weighted down with iron
tied about the waist, was found in the
lake at Cleveland, o.
St. Johns College. at Annapolis, Nd,
conferred the honorary degree Of doc
tor of laws upon John Hays Hammond,
the mining engineer.
An engine on the Reading railway
ran through an open switch at Perkio-
men Junction, Pa, and Charles A.
Dinn. the engineer, was crushed to
death.
Friday, June Fl.
George IL. Felix, OF Reading, Pa
was elected president of the American
| Water Works Association.
Fire at brakes Branch, village
near Richmond. Va, destroyed half a
dozen stores, entailing loss of S37,-
600.
Colonel Henry Harrison Hall, a
great-grandson of President William
Henry Harrison, died at Aiken. S. c.,
aged SO years.
The home of Walter Lippincott in
Philadelphia, was looted by thieves,
who carried of thousands of dollars
worth of valuable silverware and
paintings.
Saturday, June %.
Warren Summers, of Mantua, n. j.,
was killed by falling down an eleva-
tor shaft in a store in Philadelphia.
William r. Bishop committed sui
eide at Pitman Grove. N. j., by shoot
ing himself, in the presence Of his
wife.
Driven desperate by prolonged head
aches, Mrs. Mary S. Sternberg com
mitted suicide by inhaling gas in her
home in Philadelphia.
The steamer Crystal Steam was
burned to the waters edge at St. John,
n. B., and four members of the crew
were burned to death.
Monday, June "a.
Thomas HertkOrn, of Easton, Pa,
Lehigh Valley brakeman, was squeezed
to DEATH being caught between two
cars.
William Clendinne, former member
Of the Canadian parliament and once
mayor of Montreal, was cut in two by
a train near Depew, N. Y.
William Yolasik, of Coplay. was
committed to Easton Jail. charged with
having blown up the house Of Andrew
Kuish. near Weaversville, Pa
At the expense of the Live Stock Ex-
change and the packers inspectors will
be established at the cattle scales at
the South St. Joseph stock yards.
Stopping to avoid a freight train,
Herman Bell, a signalman, was killed
by an engine on an adjoining track in
the Pennsylvania yard at Altoona Pa.
Tuesday, June 25.
Three valuable race horses and a
man was killed in cyclone at Kala-
mazoo Mich.
John Johnson. a wife murderer,
was put to death ii the electric chair
in Sing Sing IN. " prison.
Garcia Zopel aged years, while |
playing with fireworks in Philadel- |
phia. set fire to her clothing and was
burned to death.
While respondent and lonely Mrs. |
Abigail A. Parker, 81 years old, COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas, in her
home in Philadelphia.
Five persons were killed and a score |
injured in collision between a passen-
ger train and freight on the New York
Central railroad at Rochester, n. Y.
Wednesday, June 26.
Mrs. J. Wilbur Chapman, wife of the
evangelist, died at War
saw. Ind, of blood poisoning.
Seven persons were killed and three
seriously injured by the collapse of a
tenement house in New York.
The plant of the Utica IN. " Drop
Forge and Tool company was destroy
ed by fire, entailing a loss Of $200,000
John Johnson was arrested in
charged with having muir
iered his wife in Charlotte, n. c., two
years ago.
Governor Stuart appointed John F.
Gibbons a member of the personal
registration commissioners Of Scran-
.on. Pa, to succeed Frank Robl.ng, de-
ceased.