Milford chronicle., 1907-06-14
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday June 6.

An earthquake shock lasting 10 sec
onds was felt in San Francisco on
Wednesday.
Waterspouts in eastern Kentucky
caused much damage, in some counties
crops we're ruined.
Thomas NJ. Lawler a noted labor
leader and organizer of the American
Federation Of Labor, died at Sunbury.
Pa.
Fire destroyed the Smith Table com
pany plant and several smaller con.
Germs at Mohawk. n. Y; causing a
loss of 100000.
Harry DierWAohter. aged 8 years
was drowned In Swatara creek. near
Lebanon, Pa, when the boat in which
he was playing capsized.
Friday June 7.
President Roosevelt has appointed
General William V. McMacken as col.
lector Of internal revenue at Toledo
Ohio.
Charles N. Holt, a member Of one
Of the most prominent families in
Alabama, committed suicide by taking
poison at Montgomery.
Helen M. Cougar, the famous TEN.
perance leader and lecturer, dropped
dead at her home in Lafayette, Ind.
of heart failure, aged 70 years.
Harry Smith, bookkeeper Of the
Hooking Valley Bank at Lancaster, O..
pleaded guilty to embezzlement and
was sentenced to seven years impris
onment.
Saturday, June 8.
Frost was reported from various
sections of York county, Pa, on Fri
day.
General William McMahon Nc
Kaig, former member Of congress. died
at Cumberland, Nd, aged 60 years.
John c. Atlee. 1908, OF Fort Madi
son, Ia, was elected captain of the
Princeton college track team for next
year.
Thomas Battle, a Confederate vet
eran, 72 years old, was sentenced tc
life Imprisonment at Macon, Ca, for
murder
J. j. Joiner, a farmer near Valdosta
Ca, shot and killed Henry Jones, 9
negro plow hand, who, resenting or.
ders given him, had advanced on Join.
er with a knife, and Joiner was exon.
Grated by a coroner's jury.
Monday, June 10.
Miss Julia Magruder, the novelist
died at Richmond Va, aged 81 years.
Chicago's suicide record was broke
in May, 55 persons ending their live.
that month.
Dorchester, Mass, the third oldest
settlement in New England, celebrated |
its 277th birthday
For $4,000 Yale Law School bought |
the Cole collection of sessions laws
of the legislatures of the various states /
and territories, the duplication o.
which is said to be impossible.
Tuesday, June II.
The United States Steel Corporation |
placed contracts for 5000 steel cars, tc
cost $6,5OO,OOO.
The American National Association
of Dancing Masters held their annual
convention at Reading. Pa.
Campbell H. Herzog, of MertztOwn
Berks county, Pa, has been appointed
clerk to Secretary of Internal Affairs
Houck.
Mrs. Samuel P. Bates, mother OF
( Congressman Arthur Bates, who was
run down by an automobile at Mead
vile, Pa, died of her injuries.
Governor Stokes, of New Jersey
signed the bill directing the state
geologist to make a survey and esti
mate the cost of an inland waterway
so feet wide along the Atlantic ocean
Cape May and Bay Head.
Wednesday, June 12.
The bank of Ouray, Cal, closed its
doors, with liabilities about 100000.
The steamship City of Savannah,
built for the Ocean Steamship Com
pany. was launched at Chester, Pa.
General Baron Kurok, the Japanese
envoy to the jamestown Exposition,
sailed from Seattle. Wash, for Japan.
David Taggart, a brother of Captain
Taggart, was found dead in bed at Orr
Vile, O., from an overdose Of medicine.
Mr.. and Mrs Edward Baumgartner
we're found dead from bullet wounds in
their home at Cincinnati, as the result
Of a domestic quarrel.
James W. Wilson, a negro, was
vnched at Gibbs Landing, La, for at
tempted criminal assault on a white
woman.