Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-06-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. June 4.

S"9 IudL marry lexis, govern
ment mining expert, and companion
were killed by Moros on April while
asleep in hut has been received at
Manila.
Colonel Charles NJ. Sloan. a promi.
nent insurance broker, who for MANY
years was director Of the Girard Fire
Insurance company of PHILADELPHIA.
died at Mt Holly M.
Captain A. J. Standing. widely
known as an Indian educator. and one
OF the founders of the Carlisle Indian
school, died Of paralysis at his home
at Dickinson college. Carlisle, Pa,
aged sixty years.
Friday, June 5.
Mrs. Minnie Gumert hanged herself
IN closet at her home in Appleton.
Wis with a shOestring while insane.
Rev. Robert Hitchcock Paine. rector
OF Mount Calvary Episcopal church.
Baltimore. Md. died of a complication
OF diseases from which he had been
suffering for a long time.
Charged with the embezzlement Of
about $4,000 from Servians. Peter
Zenich, thirty-seven years old. was ar
rested at Pittsburg on complaint Of /
Sam Mamlah, leader of the Servian |
colony.
Saturday, June 6.
Stxty-nine students in the second. |
third and fourth classes at the naval
academy at Annapolis. Md, this year
have been found deficient in their final
examinations
DR.. Henry Van Dyke. Of Princeton
college. has been nominated by Har.
ward to give che American lectures be-
fore the University of Paris and other
French universities next winter.
The verdict against Walter R. GIL
lette, former vice president of the Mu-
tual Life Insurance company. who had
been convicted of perjury in connec-
ton with the life insurance investiga.
ton, was set aside by the appellate
division of the New York supreme
court.
Monday, June 8.
Falling as he tried to board a train
at Lancaster. Pa, Charles Williams Of
Philadelphia. was perhaps fatally in
jured.
The 5000 miners in the coal fields OF
Northern Colorado have rejected the
proposed wage scale, but a strike may ,
be averted.
The Second battalion, Twelfth Unit
ed States infantry. reached Ogdens
burg, N Y. Saturday. after a 200-mile
march from Plattsburg {
Secretary Taft will celebrate the s
thirtieth anniversary of his graduation !
from Yale by attending the commence
ment on June % and making an ad.
dress.
Tuesday, June 9.
Miss Bertha Donaldson. who was ia :
tally burned at her home at Whining
ton, Del, while engaged in cooking. {
died Monday. 1
The Greensburg (Pa) county com +
mfssioners offered a reward of $1,000 t
for the arrest Of the person who as
5aulted and murdered Anna Luchinski :
nine years old, whose body was found !,
in a box car at Mount Pleasant
The president appointed Captain
Lewis Guion, of the Twenty-sixth u
Louisiana infantry, a member of the S
national park commission b
o fill the vacancy caused by the recent f
leath of General Stephen D. Lee. n
Alfonzo Valzone, convicted at Will =
nington, Del. of attempting to extOrt -
5000 from Raffaele Guglielmo, a rich Z
Italian merchant, by means of threat y
ming letters. was sentenced to three o
-ears at hard labor in the county o
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Wednesday, June 10. K
Seven persons we're drowned In the a
oods at Helena, Mont n
John S. Leech, the newly appointed
ublic printer was sworn inc office n
tuesday. n
Joseph Graf fell face downward in =
foot Of water at Titusville Pa, while
a an epileptic fit and was drowned. y =,
At the commencement meeting Of u
he board Of trustees of Princeton uni re
ersity gifts to the amount of S44, b.
31.71 were announced. Il
A fire of unknown origin destroyed m
"a. New Cliff hotel, one of the famous
um0er hotels of Newport, R. l.. to ,r
ether with a number Of small cot !"
ages connected with it, entailing "
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