Milford chronicle., 1908-09-11
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
rhursdaY. september 8.

so badly injured at Newport thal ne
died in the Harrisburg hospital.
Rear Admiral Henry Glass, U. s NJ
retired died at a health resort at Paso
Robes Cal, of heart failure, following
an operation performed several days
ago at his home in Berkeley
Vina Wood, eleven years old res
cued her ten-year-old brother from
drowning at Port Huron, Mich ana |
imperiled her own life trying to rescue |
Younger brother, Clayton, who was
drowned.
William G. Haas, a saloonkeeper ana
nolitical leader of Erie, Pa, is confined
70 his home as the result of an attack
made upon him by a woman who, II is
! alleged. threw an acid or some olheI
/ fiery liquid into his face.
Friday, September 4.
! The First National bank, oil Mes,
q. was closed by order OF the board Oh
directors on the ground OF insolvency
Rrigadier General Calvin dewitt re-
tired died from heart disease at Fort
Yellowstone, Wyo., aged siXty-elght
years. ~, -,
While at work at Baltimore, Nd, un-
der twenty feet of water at the bottom
of one of the big caissons. on when
the superstructure of the new pipes
will rest. William Small, diver was
stricken with heart disease and dled
before his companions could get MN
out of the big tube.
Saturday, September 5.
MI, fort,--tbird annual enCampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic
will be held at Salt Lake CITY utah-
Emanuel Mandel first vice preslueh'
of Mandel Brothers and one OF en-
Cages most successful merchants dleu
at Basic. Switzerland
William owen Sossaman, seven
teen-year-old white boy, was Killed al
Mobile Ala. by Henry Leech, aged
sixteen. in a mimic duel
Despondency over the death OF MS
wife which occurred over hve years
, ago was given as the reason for the
i suicide of Edwin Gage, commerce.
traveller who killed himself by inhai
ing gas in his room at the Ashland
} house, New York.
Monday, September z.
r George Hanker. of Slatington' Ia
while walking on the railroad wa
> struck by train and ground to pieces
Navy yard officials at Vallejo Cal
d have been ordered to change the nam
e of the monitor Wyoming to Cheyehh'
Falling from a hayloft at Sout
S bethlehem. Pa. twelve-year-old WI
r liam Wolfram landed headfrst on
hard floor twenty feet below and IS
a critical condition. 81,
John y. Smith. president OIL III
Negro reformatory. and minister
7 iberia under President Cleveland
first administration, died at Richmon
. Va. aged sixty-fve years.
Tuesday, September 8.
Frank Lesman. of Moosic, net
/ Scranton. Pa. i'll and learning he coui
l. not recover. killed himself,
Three-vear-old Flora Fagin, hVlng
Cumberland. four miles east OF Mi
Vile n. j.. while playing near u
mill pond. fell in and was drowned
r During a fit of jealousy Mrs. EdWai
a smoot shot and killed her husband
q Flemingsburg. Ky, and then tried
,r kill herself by shooting herself IN U
TX arm.
,e carroll Hall. aged fourteen years.
Danville. shot and killed his sue
ne Flossie Hall. aged sixteen years VIM
~ playing with a shotgun at Portsmouth
lie N. H.
to Wednesday, September 9.
ct Alexander Berkman. the anarchl
ed was sent to the workhouse in Ne
le- york for five days for melting riot
he ! Cooper Union.
at Thomas Leroy Ritner, young re
to dent of Harrisburg. Pa, was caue
ng between two engines and crushed
ut death in the Pennsylvania rallro
lid yards. .,..-u.a ,,.i
Henry Smith, negro, charged WI
OF criminal assault upon aged NJ
it'll powell Of Portsmouth, Va, upon
he second trial was found guilty and 81
nd fenced to death.
Fowler Kenton. a constable, was
sassinated. being shot from ambu
and killed on a pike between Hell
oil, wood and Huntsville KY While G.
ler Quoting a prisoner to Huntsville