Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-10-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS


roau mechanlcs, involving about 10000
men, which started Aug. 4. has been
declared on.
Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop of Bal
tfmore, left London for Liverpool.
whore he will embark on the steamer
Caronia for New York.
Fearing to face the disgrace which
he felt would follow his arrest on a
charge OF abusing his wife. Leonard
J. Schmitt. a piano maker, killed him
self ia New York by inhaling Alumi-
mating gas.
Fire destroyed property valued at
between $4,000 and 100000 In the
heart of the business district Of Dial
las, Tex, and resulted in Serious in
jury to several hremen. who were
caught beneath falling floors.
Friday, October 2.
owen Moran. English featherweight,
won the decision over Eddie Hanlon,
a lightweight, at San Francisco. after
twenty rounds OF fighting.
BY the explosion Of the boiler OF a
freight engine on the Trenton cutoff
at Fort Hill, near Norristown, Pa
three members Of the crew were badly
injured.
Thieves raRsacksd the apartment In
Washington Of Major C. L. McCauley
one Of the presidents aides, stealing
iewelry and bric-a-brac valued at
$500.
Three laborers we're killed and seven
injured in a collision between a work
train and a freight train on the Cen
trail New England railroad at Clinton
Corners, near Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
Saturday, October 8.
Montreal was selected as the con
vention city OF the League Of Ameri-
can Municipalities for 1909.
DR.. George w. Holstein, aged eighty
eight years, the oldest Odd Fellow in
Pennsylvania. died at Norristown.
John OBrien, a longshoreman and
iron worker, was held up in the yard
Of the Pennsylvania railroad at Viii
m;ngton, Del, by five men and badly
beaten.
Masked men held up a Steubenville-
East Liverpool Interurban car as the
car was entering Wellsville, o.. and at
the point of revolvers took $21 from
the conductor.
Monday, October S. i
Gus Jones, a negro, cut the threats
of his wife, his son and himself at
Gallipolis, O., and all will die.
Oliver Loders. Of Bethlehem Pa,
went to Bingen to gather chestnuts
and was killed by a fall from q tree,
his neck being broken.
Charles Lee, a negro, of Houston,
Tex, has invented a method Of exter
minating the boil weevil in cotton
fields by meSHs of chemical fumes.
Lewis Kdrzon was imprisoned at
Sunbury, Pa, charged with breaking
the neck of Alex. Chikillo, in Mount
Carmel, by hurting him over a high
porch.
Tuesday, October s.
F. J. Geissinger, of J. X. Taylor
Post. No. 1872, Bethlehem, Pa, dropped |
dead in Philadelphia while waiting to
view a parade.
Mary Devine. two years old, was |
burned to death on a lot near her
home in Philadelphia when her cloth
ing caught ablaze from a rubbish fire.
Ten persons were killed and more
han a dozen injured in an incendiary
ire which wrecked the tenement
house at 71h Mulberry street, New
York
Thomas Morrison, prominent in
abroad and business circles. dropped
lead in the office of the Spring Grove
Cemetery association at Cincinnati,
J., just as a meeting Of the cemetery
rustees was about to be called to
rider.
Wednesday, October 7.
General Louis Fitzgerald, for more
han half century a prominent figure
n New York, died at his home Garri-
on-on-the-Hudson. aged seventy-one
ears
Andrew Zydusa, a retired hotel
eeper at Jessup. near Scranton, Pa.
hot and killed his wife and turning
be revolver on himself, committed
uicide.
Charged with criminal assault on
is own daughter, Ben Price, a negro.
ras seized by a mob at Gleniora. Tex.
AIKEN to the center of the town and
anged to a tree.
As the result of a collision between
yard engine and a special freight
-ain on the Grand Trunk railway near
rantford, Ont. three persons were
illed and two injured.