Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-07-03
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, June 2s.

Ellwood McCullun. ten years old
while bathing in the SchuyIkill river
at Norristown. Pa, got beyond his
depth and was drowned.
During a severe electrical storm
lightning struck a 3500O-barrel oil tank
near Olean, N. Y, and about $4,000
barrels of oil were consumed.
On account of trouble with the rail
road companies relative to rates OF
fare, nearly all the lodges Of Elks in
! the western part of Pennsylvania and
in Ohio have cancelled their trip to
Dallas. Tex. where the Elks' reunion
will be held, beginning July u.
Friday, June 2s.
Two men blew the safe at Philip
Schmidt's grocery at Springfield, o.,
and secured $3.50 in money and checks
and notes valued at $1,000.
Charles Rench, aged forty-eight, for
years a well-known circus clown, com
mitted suicide by burning at Column
bus, o., while respondent from i'll
health
Thomas Burns, of Newark, N. J., was
sentenced to two years in the eastern
penitentiary for robbing a house in
Philadelphia. where he secured only
thirty cents.
It is estimated that about 5000 men
have been returned to work in differ
ent capacities by the railroads of the
western part of Pennsylvania during
the past week.
Saturday, June 27.
Five persons were killed when a |
Chicago & Northwestern passenger |
train struck a washout near Chadron,
Neb
Charged with the embezzlement of
county funds. former County Treas
urer William H. Pettis was arrested at
Sac City, la.
Henry Miller, aged one hundred and
four years, grew tired of life at Har-
-odsburg, Mercer county, KY, and CON-
nitted suicide by taking paris green.
After being rescued from drowning
~ two young men, William Kemp of
us Ferry avenue, Camden, N. J.,
vent in to swim again and was drown
ID before aid could reach him.
Monday, June 2e.
Bishop Thomas F. Gailor Of Ten
lessee, has been elected chancellor OF
he University of the South, at Sc
vance Tenn.
Because he was refused a loan Of
lightly cents. John Lauf Of Egypt. Pa.
ried to commit suicide by hanging and
iearly succeeded.
Falling from a rock used for diving,
t Derby, Conn. Herbert Moore, aged
Eighteen years. and Clarence Smith,
ged eight years. were drowned.
In stepping from one limb to an
Their while picking cherries. Mrs. Cal
in Reddy of North Jackson town !
hip, Lebanon county. Pa, fell twenty ]
We feet and was paralyzed. !
Tuesday, June 30.
Albert Brown. a negro. twenty-three
ears old. was hanged at Washington :
Dr. killing his brother in a quarrel
yer girl. /
The receivers of the Seaboard Air
Inc Railroad company have placed an
rider for $4,000 tons Of steel rails with
he Maryland Steel company for deliv
ry within the next six months.
Andrew Fair, brother of the late
ames G. Fair and uncle of Mrs. W.
:. Vanderbilt, Jr., and Mrs. Hermann !
elrichs, was probably fatally injured
/ a street car accident at San Jose,
al.
While his companions on a fishing
lip were digging bait, Frank Berger
f Auburn, Pa, threw himself into the
ond. and when they came back his =
ody was floating face upward on the
ater
Wednesday, July I.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey will spend
lie summer at Buena Vista, Pa. ]
Charles Cleveland, a piano player Of
)nsiderable ability, had both hands
own off by a cannon frecracker in
ew York.
One negro was shot and seriously
ounded as a result of a mutiny among
ie negro convicts at a convict camp
Yenty miles from Atlanta, Ga. II
David Bowman, the sixteen year-old
,lored boy who was shot at Eddy
one, near Chester, Pa, on Sunday y
ght by Deputy Sheriff Ford, died.
While working on the roof of a build. NJ,
G at Norristown, Pa. Henry Baldwin,
was overcome by the heat
Id died before a physician could be
immoned. Y