Milford chronicle., 1907-06-07
A WEEKS NEWS coNDENsEl
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home in Philadelphia at the age of los
years
Albert Crowell, of Henderson, N. c.,
committed suicide in a New York
Aotel by shooting himself.
Thomas Gallagher, track walker
On the New York elevated railroad,
struck by train and instantly killed.
Buck High, a 15-year-old negro,
was hanged at McDonough, Ga, for a
criminal assault upon a 4-year-old
white girl
William A. Skinner, who served in
Stonewall Jackson's brigade during
the Civil War, committed suicide at
washington by inhaling gas.
Friday May 81.
Thomas LAWN, IL years old. died in
NOrristown, Pa, Of injuries received
while stealing a ride on a railroad.
William ]. Bryan was the orator Of
the day at the celebration of Patrick
Henry Day" at the jamestown Expo
sition on Thursday.
Paul Barringer, professor of materia
medica at the University of Virginia.
was elected president of the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute at Roanoke.
The Missouri supreme court has de-
creed that Lord" Frederick S. Bar
rington shall be hanged in St Louis
on July Is for the murder of J. P. Nc
Cam.
Saturday, June /.
Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coghlan, U.
S. N, has been retired.
The Graduate Nurses Association Of
Pennsylvania will meet next October
in Pittsburg.
Two men were drowned by the over
turning of a boat while fishing in the
Miami river at Dayton, o.
The Doylestown and Easton trolley
road was sold at Doylestown, Pa. at
foreclosure sale, to ]. Carroll Williams,
Of Philadelphia, for 100000
Colonel Benjamin F. Winger. aged p
years, editor of the Greencastle (Pa.)
Press, and one of the largest land own
ers in southern Pennsylvania, died at
his home in Greencastle.
Monday, June 8.
Thieves entered the pOst-ofice at Pa
sadena, Cal, blew open the safe and es-
capped with $4,000 worth of stamps.
Probably murdered, George Dittman,
a dairyman. was found in a pool of
blood in his home at North Collins |
N. Y.
Angered by his wife's threat to leave
him, Francis Aldape set fire to his |
home in Mexico City and burned four
persons to death.
High rents and increased cost of liv- |
ing are declared responsible for the
demoralized condition of the building
trades in San Francisco.
A threatened famine in school teach
ers, owing to a June wedding craze, is
worrying school directors in the town
ships and smaller towns of Lehigh and
Northampton counties, Pa.
Tuesday, June 4.
In a freight wreck on the Pennsyl
vania railroad at Rochester, N. Y, two
trainmen were killed.
General Thomas H. Ruger, U. S. A,
retired, died at his home in Stamford,
Conn, of heart failure.
The fifth annual convention of the
Pennsylvania Camp of the Knights Of
the Maccabees Of the World was held
at Reading.
Joseph Hoeneke, his wife and 2
year-old child were burned to death in
a fire which destroyed the Turn Verein
Hall in Newark, N. J.
Enrique c. Creel, Mexican ambassa-
dor to the United States, has been
elected governor of Chihauhau, Mex
leo, without opposition.
Wednesday, June 5.
Joseph Moore. a farm hand, COM
nitted suicide by hanging himself in
4 barn at Pitman Grove, N. J.
Edna May, the American actress,
vas married in London to Oscar Lew
sohn, son of a New York banker.
President Roosevelt received 80
veterans from Tennessee
n the White House and shook hands
With all of them.
Neil Ferris, Washington Griffith and
Byron Becker were drowned by the
apsizing of their boat while fishing
q a lake at Cement City, Mich. I
John c. Capers, of South Carolina,
rill be appointed commissioner of in
ernal revenue ad interim, the appoint
nent to continue until December 1, S
yhen Pearl Wight, of New Orleans. {
ill become commissioner. I