Milford chronicle., 1907-12-06
4 WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Erldav. November %.

Mrs. Vannelia Meeker Hull aged 100
years and months, died at her home
in Pittsburg.
Hugh Murray, grand secretary Of the
Masonic Grand Lodge Of Canada, died
suddenly at his home at Hamilton,
Ont. from apopleXy.
Despondent. it is said. when she
learned she had been made a party to
mock marriage, Miss Osie Pierce
committed suicide at Powhatan o.
At Hurts. near Richmond, Va, on
the Southern railway, south Of Lynch
burg. a passenger train struck and
killed three unknown negroes who
were walking on the track.
Saturday, November 80.
John Gillison, colored, was hanged
at Madison Court House, Va, for the
murder of Pearl Thomas, eolored.
John Mason. formerly vice-consul
of Portugal died at his home in Phil
adelphia. from heart disease, aged
73 years.
George r. Porter, millionaire attor
ney and theatre man, of Minneapolis,
was found dead in his room at the
Paxton hotel Omaha. Neb.
Two fremen of the steamer Mau
retania, on their way back to the
steamer, after a night of shore leave
in New York, fell OFF the pier and
were drowned.
A fire which started from the over
turning of a lamp in a barber shop,
destroyed three-fourths Of the town
of Granite, Cal, a small mining sta
ton, 20 miles east of Leadyille.
Monday, December 2.
Peter wilkinson won the wheat
threshing championship Of Northum- /
berland county, Pa, threshing 800
bushels in eight hours.
Overcome by gas, the bodies of Mrs
Catherine Logan, a widow, and her
young daughter, Nina, were found in
their home at Boston.
Ellis Taylor, Of East Altoona,
brakeman of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, lost his balance. fell under the
wheels on the Granville branch and
was ground to pieces.
Dragging bales of hay from a near
by store into the bank to deaden the
sound Of the explosion. robbers dyna-
mited the vault of a bank at New
Mo. and escaped with $4,000
in cash.
Upon being knocked down by a
brick, which fell 60 feet, Ben Newman,
aged 1S. a negro, in Altoona, Pa,
,rawled up and asked his fellow labor
ers, who expected to find him dead,
who hit him.
Tuesday, December 3.
Major Jacob Downing, a noted In
iian fighter died at his home here at
Denver, aged n years.
Lewis Guest climbed an electric
light pole in Philadelphia. caught hold
If live wire and was instantly killed.
Professor ]. Augustus Rice. for
many years an instructor at Nazareth ;
lall, Bethlehem. Pa, died Of apo )
,lexy, aged 60 years. 1
H. ]. Groves, managing editor of
he Kansas City MOI Post, who was f
hot and wounded November % by
feneral Richard Horne in the editor .
al rooms of the Post, died of his in E
uries. h
Chairman James H. Ferriss issued y
call for a Populist national conven- q
ion to be held in st. Louis April 2. S
9OS, for the purpose of nominating v
andidates for president and vice n
resident of the United States. !,
Wednesday, December 4. g
Frank Wayland Palmer former pub n
C printer, died of pneumonia in Chi q
ago. aged so years. a
The postoffice at Pelzer, S. c.. was 6
ntered by burglars and the safe was n
lown open by dynamite and robbed Fl
[ $1,000 in cash and stamps. d
One man was killed. another serious Sc
injured and three firemen were over @
1me by back drafts in a fire which =,
lused a loss of $45.00O to a building q
Bleecker street, New York
More than a score of persons, mostly
omen, were injured when a Dayton
Xenia traction car got beyond con-
ol Of the mOtorman on a steep hill
Lst of Dayton, O., and overturned at
curve.
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