Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-07-10
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday July 2.

Thursday, July 2.
Rear Admiral Charles II. Rockwell
retired, died at Chatham. Mass. OF
spoplexy, at the age of sixty-eight
years.
William Burns, an iron worker. out
OF employment, dropped dead in his
cell at Reading. Pa. from the shock
due to his arrest
Lorenzo Dow Harvey, Phi. DID,. su.
perintendent of public schools of Ne.
1ominee, Wis, was elected president
Of the National Education association.
Mae c. Wood, the Omaha woman
who sued United States Senator
Thomas c. Plat for divorce. was in
dicted by grand jury in New York
on charges of perjury and forgery.
Friday, July 8.
Denver was selected as the place for
holding next years convention of the |!
National Education association.
The Pure Oil company's local plant |
at Bethlehem, Pa, was completely de. /
stroved by fire, due to the explosion OF
a gasoline engine, causing a loss of
$4,000.
Five persons were killed and thirty.
six injured near Knobnoster. No,
when the fast California special on
the Missouri Pacific collided with the
st. Louis special
Four persons were seriously injured
and two dwelling houses partially
wrecked when a charge of dynamite
was exploded by Black Hand agents
at the home of George Deavotoria, a
wealthy Italian, living at McKeesport,
Pa.
Monday, July 6.
Receivers certificates to the amount
Of 100000 may be issued to allow of t
the purchase Of jamestown Exposition l
state buildings. {
The police of Schenectady, N. Y, c
have arrested Eugene Wilson. colored t
suspected of being mail robber want v
ed at Kansas City. b
Wading out beyond his depth and S
unable to swim, Clement. the seven
teen-year-old son OF J. r. Montgom- Y
cry, of Orangeville, Pa, was drowned
IN Fishing creek. =
After an illness of more than two d
years, Mrs. Ida Young wife Of Judge p
James S. Young of the United State5 y
circuit court, died at the family resi- nj
1ence at Pittsburg. al
Tuesday July 7. lii
Minneapolis has been selected as the
next meeting place of the National
Young Peoples Christian Union. of the
church, July to Il. 1909
The E. l. Du Pont De Nemours Pow !
Ter company, of Wilmington, Del. was
he lowest bidder, at S23S. 405, for fur -.
fishing 100000 pounds of dynamite sy
o the isthmian canal commission. m
Charged with disorderly conduct in q
for nine years as a man ~
Hrs. Augusta Sieg, thirty-six years old a
t GAL Sixth avenue, New York, has pc
zen sentenced to the workhouse for II
I've days. ri
The president has accepted the re So
ignation of Judge William Lochren u
ldge for the United States district So
curt for the district of Minnesota al cr
t. Paul, and has appointed NJ. D. 81
urdy, present assistant to the attor Pc
ey general, to the vacancy. 81
Wednesday, July 8. . s
Five persons, all members Of one 81
.mily, were drowned in the Nemaha s6r
yer, near Unadilla, Neb., during 599ii
pod. $50
Algernon Sartoris, a grandson OF $50
resident Grant, has been appointed sseeB
,cretary Of legation at Guatemala PEI
ce William F. Sands RG
One man was killed, a woman was syl
tally injured and damage amounting ''e
$4,000 resulted at Monongahela
l., when a boiler in the water works
ant exploded
Jacob Zimmerman, aged seventy-si
ars, engaged in the coal business al S
Pa, for many years. com
TIED suicide by shooting himself il
e mouth with a revolver.