Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-06-26
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Thursday, June 10.
Joseph Bengele, aged fifty-fve years
president Of the Cresson Springs Brew
ing company, at Altoona. Pa. commit
ted suicide at his home at Gallitzin BY
shooting.
Rather than go to Jail for having
sent Mrs. James Jones. Of Wilkes
Barre, Pa, a threatening letter
Thomas Jones agreed to leave this
country and started for Wales.
Frank Smith, q negro ex-convict was
shot and MORALLY wounded by w. H.
Stewart, a newspaper editor. when sur.
prised In an attempt at burglary in
the editors home, Salisbury. N. C.
While her mother was Sacking away
some clothing. Catherine Weiss, aged
three years, of Philadelphia, pushed a
camphor ball into her nostril. and It
was necessary to take her to a hospital
to have 1t removed
Friday, June 10.
Charles Bixler. treasurer Of the town
ship, committed suicide at Shamokin
Pa, by hanging.
The 1920 annual meeting of the
Medical Society of New Jersey was
held at Cape May, with over 400 physi
clans in attendance.
Daniel Jones. Frank Spikes and Hay
wood Lee, white, all of Raleigh, ". c.,
were killed at the Caraleigh Phosphate
works by the escape of sulphuric acid
gas in one of the rooms.
Ten Italian laborers who lived in a
car on a siding of the West Shore
railroad, at Fort Plain, N. Y, were
held up by armed robbArs and forced
to hand over more than $500 which
they had received in wages.
Saturday, June 20.
Twenty passengers were injured,
one fatally and several seriously, in |
an accident on the Meadville & Cam
bridge Springs street car line, near
Bakertown, Pa.
Mrs. Julia Whitaker wife OF Bishop
OH W. Whitaker. of the Protestant |
Episcopal diocese of Pennsylvania
died at Philadelphia after a long i'll
ness, aged seventy-three.
By the explosion Of a carload Of
dynamite. near Sargent, o.. a freight
train on the Denver & Rio Grande rail.
road was blown to pieces. two tramps
were killed, several trainmen were in
iured, and a hole forty feet deep was
blown in the ground.
Monday, June %.
Meeting at Toronto. the Supreme
Council. Independent Order of Forest
ers, decided to raise rates 40 to 100
per cent
While Harry Stehman. of Mannheim,
Pa. was picking cherries, the limb he
vas on broke and he dropped twenty
eet, breaking his back.
Driven to desperation because her
,etrothed had told her that he would
lot marry her, Bessie Paruah, a pretty
girl, at Greensburg.
Pa, shot herself through the heart.
md Rudolf Bomboltiah, her lover. also
ried to kill himself.
Tuesday, June %.
Five men were seriously injured by
scaffold collapsing at the National
lube works, at Pittsburg.
The International Sunday School
will hold their next conven-
ion in San Francisco in 1911.
J. S. Bryant. a prominent pharma.
ist and Thomas Littleton, twenty-one
ears old, were drowned while swim
ling near Salisbury. n. C.
R. NJ. Sallier and Edward Jones
cattlemen, were killed in
lel at Albuquerque, N. NJ. caused by
quarrel over a cattle trade.
After being idle for the last six
onths the Plank Ridge colliery of the
homas Coal company at Shenandoah,
a., resumed work, giving employment
300 men and boys.
Wednesday, June "a.
A hanging lamp fell upon Mrs. Mary
'orrol in her home at Norristown
l., and badly burned her.
The fourteenth annual meeting Of
e Pennsylvania State Bar association
as held at Cape May, N. j.
The New Jersey state fish and game
has received exhaustive re- -
rts showing that the shad season
is year was better by 100 per cent ~ 10
an last year. u
Mrs. Mary Cassidy, a widow, aged &c
lrty-five years, was shot and killed a
her home near Woodhaven. L. l.. by Is
ctor Henry. a rejected sutton, who g
en- turned the revolver on himself. ue
ing instantly. ~
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