Milford chronicle., 1908-04-10
A WEEKS NEWS coNDENsEp
Thursdax. April 2.

surgeon In the United States marine
corps, committed suicide by shooting
In a hotel at Atlanta. Ga.
The barge Ashland from Philadel
phia. loaded with 1913 tons of coal for
this city and owned by the Philadelphia
& Reading Coal company, went ashore
on the rocks and sank at Bath, Me.
George Taylor was arrested in New
York on a warrant charging him with
the larceny Of $1,000 from Forbes &
Wallace, of 3pringfield. Mass, by
whom he had been employed as aeon
hdential clerk for twenty-five years.
Friday, April 3.
Captain J. w. Isbister. Of Chicago.
master Of the steamer Park Foster,
was run down and killed by a New
York Central engine at Buffalo, N. Y.
Mrs. William w. Weave, OF Hyner,
wife Of the president Of the KarthRus
Fire Brick company. committed sui
eide by drowning in the river at Lock
Haven. Pa.
Three persons we're killed. fifteen
were injured, some OF them seriously,
and the lives Of nearly 100 persons
were endangered by a fire in a Eve
story tenement house at A Hester
street. New York.
Saturday, April 4.
James jeffrey Roche. American con-
sui at Berne, Switzerland. died after a
long illness.
NTavfco bas occantad tha gn,,it,tior
Of the Japanese government to partici-
pate in the worlds fair to be held in
Toxic In 1912.
Burglars blew open the safe in the
postoffice at Princess Anne Court
House. Va. and secured $500 In cash,
stamps and registered mail.
The dead body Of Mrs. Elizabeth
Highfll, fifty-two years old, a fortune
telling medium. was found in an arti-
fetal lake in Lafayette park, she hav-
ing committed suicide by drowning.
Monday, April 6.
Alvin Weiser. residing near Lyons,
Berks county. Pa, has a goose which
recently laid an egg that weighed ex-
actly one pound.
While returning to his home after
delivering produce. jeremiah Hamper,
a Springtown. Pa. farmer. fell in with
a trio of men who buncoed him out
Of 5000.
Their oyster skin upset by a high
sea. Captain W. V. Miles and two sons
of Captain James II. Tyler. of Somer-
set county. Md. were drowned in Will |
loughby bay, Va.
Because of over-production. the |
mines Of the Delaware C Hudson com
pany at Lyon Mountain, N. Y. have
been shut down, throwing out Of en-
ployment $50 men.
Tuesday, April 7.
The president sent to the senate the
name of John S. Leech, of Illinois, to
be public printer.
William H. Milton, Of Florida, was
sworn in as United States senator, to
succeed the late Senator William J.
Bryan.
Burglars ransaeked the country
home of C. Emory McNfichael at Dew
On. near Philadelphia, and escaped
with goods valued at $4,000.
After a shut down of three weeks
duration, the plant OF the National
india Rubber works. at Bristol, R. l.,
employing about 400 hands, resumed
operations.
Wednesday, April 8.
Robbers dynamited the safe at the
State bank at Huron. Atchison county,
Kan. and escaped with $4,000.
Benjamin Rosenberger, aged seventy
ears. dropped dead of heart disease
While at work on his truck farm near ]
IOrristOwn, Pa.
Congressman Abraham Lincoln ]
Brick, of the Thirteenth Indiana dis
riot, died suddenly in sanitarium at
Ind.
Bursting of a tank Of molten glass /
aused a fire that wiped out the plant
( the Whitney Glass company, at
ilassboro, N. J., entailing a loss Of
10000.
Mrs. Ruth B. NJ. Rea, widow of {
Judge James D. Rea. and mother Of
amuel Rea. third vice president of
he Pennsylvania Railroad company,
led in -Pittsburg from the effects OF =