Milford chronicle., 1908-01-17
. WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. January 9.

thursday, january 9.
Robbers wrecked the safe in the
State Bank Of Quenemo. at Quenemo
Kan, near here and escap~ with be-
tween $1,000 and $S00O
Captain Daniel Ellis, aged seventy
nine years, the celebrated Union scout
of East Tennessee, is dead at his
home near Elizabethton. Tenn.
Between 5000 and 1000 Illinois Cen
tral railroad employees have been drop
ped from the companys pay rolls on
account of the financial situation.
Two negroes, John Hudson and
Henry Campbell, are in Jail at Law
renceville. Ga, charged with having
murdered Hudson's wife and then set
ting fire to the house in an attempt
to hide their crime.
Friday, January 10.
Thieves entered the residence Of
Samuel Schwartz, in Waukegan, near
Chicago, and took $4,000 worth of Jew
Slry. mostly diamonds.
James Moulton and his wife, each
aged more than seYenty-five years,
we're burned to death in a are that de-
stroyed their home in Auburn, N. H.
The West Virginia Mining associa-
tion was formed as a permanent or
sanization at a meeting at Washington
Of over sixty mine owners and oper.
ators OF West Virginia.
Major T. L. Courtney, for many
years superintendent Of the Richmond,
Frederick & Potomac railway, and one
Of the best-knOwn railroad men in the
south, died in Richmond, Va.
Saturday, January II.
E. A. Perry. conductor on the Cam
bridge & SeafOrd railroad Of the Della
ware division. dropped dead on the
streets Of Cambridge, Md.
Five persons were killed in a colli-
sion between a westbound passenger
train and an extra freight train on the
Mississippi & Alabama railroad at
Vinegar Bend, Ala, near Mobile.
Mrs. James Valentine. wife of an
iron moulder at Bloomington, ILL.,, be-
came suddenly insane and attacked
her six-year-old son with a hammer
and razor, wounding him frightfully. |
Thomas E. Robinson, a well-known |
business man and department COM
mander of the Patriarchs Militant |
Odd Fellows, committed suicide in his |
Office, at Detroit, by inhaling illumi-
mating gas.
Monday January 13.
William B. Miller, of Churchtown.
Lancaster county, Pa, fell dead while
milking his COW.
Eight years in prison was the pen
atty meted out to John F. Via at
Staunton, Va. for the murder of his
wife.
Ten days ago eggs sold on the Ian
caster (Pa.) market for forty-five
cents a dozen, but the price Monday
was twenty-five cents.
While waiting for a train at Belle
Vile, Kan, John Lynch, a merchant
was assaulted and robbed of $4,000
cash and $4,000 in securities.
Following a quarrel in their home
at Albany N. Y, Frank Lentzeck,
aged forty-two years, wounded his wife
with a knife and shot himself dead.
Tuesday, January IA.
Four boys we're fatally injured at
Pa, in a coasting accident.
The Union railroad station annex
at Kansas City, Mo-. was destroyed
by fire, entailing loss of $250,OO0.
Louis Mcfarland, a locomotive en-
gineer. Of Pittsburg. has invented a
railroad tie and rail of
steel for preventing the spreading of
rails.
]. w. Carpenter, of Scranton, Pa, 6
was appointed additional law Judge of ]
county by Governor l
Stuart to serve until the first Monday {
If January, 1909, vice Judge John P. {
Kelley, resigned. {
Wednesday, January IS. '
The Pennsylvania State Dairy Union 7
leld its ninth annual convention in '
Wilkes Barre. 7
viii CrOgers, white man, was SEN
enced at Savannah, Ca, for the third
ime to be hanged for the killing of his I
Tife last September.
The soda building of the Dupont B
'owder company, at Wapwallot, near
Wilkes Barre, Pa. was destroyed by
re entailing a loss Of O,O00.
Henry A. Schuler. editor of the Penn
ylvania German Magazine, and long
ditor of the Allentown Welt Bote and
'riedens Bote, died at Allentown, Pa,
'om pneumonia, aged fifty-seven
ears. I