Milford chronicle., 1908-05-08
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, April 80.


committed suicide at the home o
Stacy Prickett. at Medford, N. ].
where she was employed
Miss Elinor H. Wilson. daughsSr o
General James P. Wilson, of Whining
ton. Del, and Edward Cary Williams
of Boston. were married at Whining
ton.
Rev. Alfred NJ. Abel. house father
and chaplain of the Episcopal church
Home for Children, at Jamestown. Leb
anon county Pa, died at that institu
ton after an Illness of several months
Jacob Dumas, a Russian. Of Coates
vile. who has been on trial at West
Chester, Pa, for the murder Of a fell
low-countryman, Gregory Smulka. was
convicted of murder of the second de-
gree.
Friday, May I.
Douglass Grant a well-known resi-
dent of Mount Holly, N. j.. was burned
to death in a fire which destroyed his
residence.
BY unanimous consent the United
States senate will vote on May on
the bill for the regulation OF child
labor in the District of Columbia
Mrs. Sarah Bean. wife of former AS
sistant District Attorney Theodore L.
Bean. OF Norristown, Pa, died of in
juries received by fall down a flight
of stairs.
A man, supposed to be Francis J.
Black, poisoned himself in Central
park in New York, and a note in his
pocket said he was tired of life and
requested that his body should be de-
livered to a medical college and the
money found on him, about $3.50. be |
given to some poor worthy people,"
Saturday, May 2.
P. Farmer. chairman Of the Trunk |
Line association. and a prominent rail
road man, died suddenly at his home
in New York.
The breaker Of the Mountain Lake
Coal company, near Scranton. Pa, and
three nearby dwellings were destroyed
by fire, entailing a loss of $4,000.
The Farmers Telephone company,
which operates lines in Burlington
Mercer Ocean and Monmouth coun-
ties. N. j., was sold to the Bell Tele.
phone company.
William Steher. brakeman was
killed, and Conductor Thume sustained
4 broken leg and was otherwise badly
injured, in a wreck of a coal train on
he Baltimore & Ohio railway at Brad
shaw. Md
Monday, May 4.
Edward Hancock, of Shamokin, Pa,
ound his wife dead in bed of heart
allure.
Truman NJ Dodson. OF Bethlehem.
"a, the pioneer coal operator, left his
state, valued at $1,OOO.OOO, to his
ridow.
No more milk will be sold from
ans in small stores in Chicago. only
anitary bottled products being per
lifted by the health board
Calvin Smith. of Nazareth, Pa, has
asigned as United States consul at
anzibar. South Africa. and will again ca
lgage in the practice of law. nc
Tuesday, May 5. CT
Thomas J. Sullivan, director of the -,
Ireau Of engraving and printing died 20 f.,
Washington. "a
Discouraged by his failure to secure IL
nployment. Charles Neusser. a la
rer. shot and killed himself at Read. If
8, Pa. pr
Because his parents opposed his
arrying the girl of his choice. Arnold
enzel. of Camden, n. j.. committed
icide by shooting himself in the head =
his home <
Struck down by ten-tOn rock at the 7
liery of the St Clair Coal company s To
Pottsville. Pa John Andrek. a ren
ner, and Michael Tarhis. his laborer. y yea
re killed 10
Wednesday. May 6. -
n the local option election held at
Va, out of a vote Of -
the drys won by a majority of 81.
frank Paese was hanged in the Dau-
n county jail yard at Harrisburg. ~
for the murder of Charles Leh- 'e'
n. a trolley conductor, in August.
6.
Ohm Mccarthy. one of the best -
'wn newspaper men in Pennsylva-
died suddenly from paralysis of
heart at his home at Weatherly,
r Hazleton Pa.
he ninety-sixth annual commence
It exercises of the Princeton Theo-
cal seminary were held Monday,
seven students were awarded fell
shiDs of 5000 each.