Milford chronicle., 1908-08-14
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursdav. AUGUST S.

years old. who made the first Westing
house airbrike, died n Pitts5urs.
r. J. Hume. wife and children. O
Eau Claire. Wis. were drowned 4
Lake Nabaganon. Wis. while attempt
ing to cross the lake in a duck boat.
Continued brooding over the dealt
Of his favorite daughter Anna. VII
died several years ago. 1t is believed
led Robert 5. Burr aged seveaty-One
a farmer living at Farminsdale. y. J.
/ 10 swallow laudanum. that caused hii
death
Friday August 7.
While scufiing over the possession
Of a shotgun at Elgin Ill.,. Victor
Swanson shot his friend RegnOw Mel
son. and then shot himself
Unable 10 sleep because Of the heat
Henry Thiele. Of Jersey City. ~ j..
tried to end his life by shooting him
self and is in a critical condition
Captain D. G. Purse, a noted devel
oper. Industrial writer and promoter.
and having connections IN New York.
Pittsburg and other centers. commit
ted suicide at Savannah Ca
Governor Stuart approved Nov. II
as the date upon which the memorial
20 Pennsylvania regiments at Freder-
icksburg. Md. shall be dedicated, bis
approval being required by law.
Saturday, August 8.
The bottling works Of Thomas J.
Beck, at Harrisburg. Pa. was destroy
ed by fire. entailing a loss Of several
thousand dollars.
Mrs Eliza D Stewart, the noted
temperance advocate and known all
over the country as Mother" Stewart.
died at her home in Hicksville o.
Two negro children were killed. one
was fatally hurt and one seriously In
jured when a double tenement at Cam
den Ark, was blown up by dynamite
Governor Stuart fixed Sept "a as
the date for the execution Of Francis
NJ. Schuts. who killed mis- little daugh
ter in Fairmount park Philadelphia |
and then tried suicide and Raphael
Peric, also of Philadelphia
Monday, August 70.
For assaulting a three-year-Old girl .
Henry Johnson, cOlored was hanged .
at Memphis. Tenn
Smoke from a burning tobacco ware
house at New York overcame thirteen
fremen. three seriously
Six hundred men won a fight to save
the famous Calaveras grove Of big
-rees in California from a forest fire
While cunning for groundhogs in
over Lehigh county. Pa. Milton Dor
ley. of Centre Valley. was seriously
wounded by the accidental discharge
# his gun
While picking coal on the Pennsyl
'ania tracks near Coatesyille, Pa.
hrs Mike Gembarche native Of Po
and. was struck by the Chicago linn
ted and instantly killed.
Tuesday, August II. q
G C. Bantz was appointed assistant
reasuer Of the United States in the
lace Of the late J F. Meline
Mrs Louise Chandler Mouton, the
'ell-known authOress. died at her
ONE in Boston after an illness OF .
early nine months n
Charlie Lokie. colored, about eigh
zen years of age, was lynched at Tif !
IN. o., for making insulting remarks
, a young white woman
Secretary H. F. Van Norman. Of the
State college. announced .
lat the next convention of the Penn
'lvania Dairy union will be held in
arrisburg the same week as the
Getting of the state board of agricul
re and the Live Stock Breeders as
citation. Jan 25-29. 1909
Wednesday, August y.
Judson B. Evans fortvfve years
4, a farmer Of Gladwyn. near Norris.
wn. Pa. while chasing several horses
t of a cornfeld. dropped dead of
art failure. n
One man was killed and three were
dly injured as a result of a boiler j.,
plosion at the plant Of the Break )
ter Construction company at Sa-
ems Head. Conn. ~.
Cornelius Morey.
o drank a half pint of whiskey. -
ich he found on the table of his
me, 5521 Sullivan street. in Phila- +
phia died from commissions. de- q
te the efforts of two physicians. =
While holding a nozzle and direct
a stream of water upon a fire in
abandoned building Of the ConsOli-
ed Ice company at Pittsburg. a
Elk wall twelve feet high. fell upon W
'liau, DoDninuar drivar. of rgfv,o "a Juf