Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-25
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, September y.

Thursday, September IL.
The machinery department at the
Reading railway car shops at READING
Pa. has gone on ten hours a dav
While Jealous. George Mitchell aged
twenty-five. shot and Instantly tiiIoS
Miss Georgia Pratt, aged thirty vears
at Eastport, Me.
Augusta zimraith. fourteen months
old' pulled pot of boiling tea over on
herself in her home in Philadelphia
and was scalded to death.
Martin l.. Hellings. a retired busi.
ness man of Devon. a suburb of Phila. |
delphia, was struck by an express
train and instantly killed at the Devon
station Of the Pennsylvania railroad.
Friday September 1s.
A. F. Bonelli, a former banker of
cleveland, O., charged with the theft
OF $4,000, arrived in New York as a
prisoner on the steamer Afghan Prince
from Brazil
The New Boston colliery Of the Mill
Creek Coal company at Mahanoy Citv
Pa, shut down on account of the wa.
ter shortage, throwing 1000 employees
out of work
In a collision between a trolley car
and an automobile at Newark n 7
Estella Traphagen. aged eighteen suf
Tered possibly fatal injuries. and Mar.
celia Connell, aged seventeen, the
fracture of an arm. {
The great council of the United
States, Improved Order of Red Men n
selected Detroit, Mich, as the place Il
of the great council session next year: q
Cleveland in 1910; Columbus, o. in 6
1911, and Cincinnati in 1912.
Saturday. September 10. h
For some inexplicable reason Silver -,
WE'LL, fourteen-year-old schoo,boy. a,
committed suicide by hanging himself d
IN the cellar of his home in Mount
Vernon. N. Y. =,
Carroll w. Ashby, cashier of the 81
Southern Railway company. for thirty o.
years an employee of that system. was h,
found dead in a Turkish bath estab. ~
ishment in Washington. Al,
The Virginian railway is running ~
copper wires along its lines in Vir
ginia and West Virginia for the pur -.
pose of ihaugurating the use of the 81,
telephone exclusively for the dispatch NJ
ing of trains. 20,
Monday, September 21. Pr
The Georgia senate passed the bill ga
abOlishing the convict lease system at
practically as it came from the house
Of representatives.
Harry Domain, twenty-five yc rs @. :
age. of Nanticoke Pa, YVES draw Z
through the huge rollers of a coal Abb
breaker and ground to pieces. mo-
William H. Gray and William S ing
Rule, government clerks, were drown J..
I'd in the Potomac river at Washing a D
on, when a gasoline launch caught to
ire. to t
One man was killed and three 9th. ing
rs injured. one fatally, when an turr
ighteen-inch steam pipe burst in the ster
en-inch mill of the Cambria Steel fore
ompany at Johnstown Pa. ror-,
Tuesday, September %. stoo
Robbers dynamited the safe in the draw
lbion postoffice. near Erie, Pa. and He
scaped with over $1,000 in cash and reco
lamps.
Clarence Richardson, of Ashland. o.
not and killed his sweetheart Miss
ydia Corbin. at Portsmouth. o.. after Ru
icy had quarreled, and escaped ringt
John Rowley. nineteen years of age the
nployed in paper mill at Tarentum year
'ar Pittsburg. became entangled in slant
e machinery and his body was badly of tn
Inflated on Il
In a fight with ordinary pocket freigl
ives at Hot Springs. Ark. Charles struc
lnield, of Pennsylvania, was killed ginee
Sam w, Ray, of Tennessee. as the went
limitation of a quarrel. last C
Wednesday, September %. II IN [
The Pennsylvania State Homeo- was r
ihic Medical society held its forty. tran
h annual session at Harrisburg. dent
Fearing that he would go insane and
re to be confined in an asylum
mes Cogan, a clerk in the law office
DeForest e Brother New York city, D. ,
lmitted suicide at Washington by Bedfor
citing. at the
ohm Murray Dowie, aged eighty. compa
ee years, father of John Alexander packag
vie. the founder of Zion City. and ed to a
was repudiated by his son, died at openin
home of his sons widow, Mrs Jane other
lie, on White lake, Muskegon 500 in
lty. in the
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