Milford chronicle., 1908-01-10
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, january 2.


Lackawanna county, Pa, for 1901
shows 1O1 deaths in and about the
mines.
The 131st annual session of the New
York state legislature began at noon
Wednesday James W. Wadsworth, Jr.,
was reelected speaker of the assem-.
bly,.
While alighting from the rear end
Of a trolley car on which he was steal
ing a ride. Francis Gallagher, fifteen
years old, of Philadelphia, was crushed
TO death by another trolley car.
Friday, January 8.
Two men were run down and killed
by Pittsburg & Lake Erie passenger
train in Pittsburg.
DR.. Nicholas Sem, one Of the most
widely known surgeons in the United
States, died in Chicago.
Robbers blew open the vault Of the
McCurtain, Okla, State bank, secured
$4,000 in gold and silver and escaped,
leaving no clue.
The Cumberland Presbyterian church
and three store buildings at Coal Cen
tire, Pa, were destroyed by a fire which
threatened the destruction of the en-
tire mining town, fifty miles south of
Pittsburg.
Saturday, January 4.
Sarah Burton and her son Arch,
negroes, were shot and killed at
Blackville, Ark, by Deputy Sheriff
Barnes and City Marshal Britt Jones
while resisting arrest.
Rev. Father Denis J. Stafford, D. D.,
pastor Of st. Patrick's Catholic
church, in Washington, and one of the
most noted divines in the country,
died at the Providence (R. I.) hospital,
following an operation.
After suffering for ten days with
facial neuralgia, which had settled in
All liberated tooth, Mrs. Anna Rel
mann, of Philadelphia, died in her hus-
bands arms in a dentists office.
Monday, January 6.
A reduction of ten per cent in the
wages of all its employees was posted
at the Crane Iron works, Catasauqua,
Pa.
Thomas L. Pierson, acting Judge OF
the second criminal court at Newark,
N. J., dropped dead at his home from
apoplexy.
Martin Wezlarz, of Philadelphia,
while walking on the railroad, was
struck by a train at Redington, Pa,
and perhaps fatally hurt.
The worlds record for quantity and
price of loose leaf tobacco
has been broken at Lexington, KY,
where 100000 pounds were sold for
5000 per hundred.
Thirty-two deer, comprising the |
herd in William G. Rockefellers pri- |
vate park, at Greenwich, Conn, have |
been rounded up and shipped to a |
Pennsylvania purchaser.
Tuesday, January z.
A bell cast in Paul Revere's work
shop was destroyed in a fire which
burned down the Congregational
church at Wiscassett, Me.
Ten of the thirty hot mills of the
Shenango tinplate plant at New Cas-
lie, Pa, resumed operations, giving
to 1000 men.
Attempting to cross the street in
ront of trolley car in Philadelphia,
Hiss Luella Smith, colored, was run
iver and both legs were cut off.
Commander Harry Fl. Hosley. .. S.
Y, who took the dry dock Dewey from
Newport News to Manila, and who
ince his return has been supervisor
f the harbor of New York, died in
lew York.
Wednesday, January 8.
Governor James Higgins was in
ugurated at Providence for the sec
nd time as chief executive of Rhode
sland.
For injuries received in a collision
( trolley cars in Philadelphia Mrs
Thrum was awarded $45OO
amages by a jury.
Dennis Driscoll, one-legged pencil ,
was burned to death in a fire
hich destroyed the Salvation Army
dginghouse at Worcester, Mass.
Thieves broke into the home of
barles F. Brooker, of Ansonia, Conn, I
ltional Republican committeeman,
Id got away with jewelry valued at Z
$1,000.
Richard A. Ballinger, commissioner
the general land Office. has rendered +
S resignation of that office to Presi-
mt Roosevelt, and it has been ac-
pied, to take effect March 4. Z