Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-08-28
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
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and publicist. died in Paris.
The Pennsylvania grand lodge
Knights OF Pythias. met in annual con
vention at Connellsville.
Two mines of the BePwind. White
Coal company. at Windber, near Pitts
burg. were closed down for lack OF
water
The machinists on the Gould rail
road have voted to call a general
strike. but efforts will be made to set
tie the dispute.
The ten-year-old daughter OF John
Stoltz, living at Armour. S. D.. com
mitted suicide, using a double-barreled
shotgun to commit the deed
Friday, August u.
The Christian Missionary Alliance
Of Southern New York and Northern
Pennsylvania held a conference at
Binghamton, N. Y.
Captain Charles X Jackson. sew
enty-one years old, a Great Lakes
sailor for more than half a century,
died at his home in Algonac, Mich.
A license was issued at Elicott City.
Md. for the marriage of Rev. George
s. Fitzhugh, aged sixty-seven years. to
Lulu V. Frazier. a girl ten years old.
Archbishop Falconio. apostolic dele
gate at Washington. has accepted an
invitation to dedicate the newly es-
tablished Francican seminary at Cats.
kill, n. Y, on Sept II.
Saturday, August %.
Seventy-six miners lost their lives |
by an explosion in the Maypole mine |
at Wigan, England.
Leslie A. Fields was fined $500 for /
Offering for sale obscene postal cards
on the Boardwalk at Atlantic City.
n J.
John V. Farwell, Chicago's pioneer
merchant and capitalist, is dead. He
had been head of the firm Of j. " Far
we'll & Co. since 1862
Joseph Nushura, aged twenty-one.
ell sixty feet down the Lackawanna /
haft in ELEPHANT, Pa. and every bone /
n his body was broken. He toppled /
rom the carriage while ascending.
Monday, August "a.
Thieves broke into John Figler's
emery at South Bethlehem, Pa, and
tole 10 spring chickens
Charles jenkins, Of Lehighton, Pa,
aught a foot in a guard rail on the 5
abroad at Packerton, was run down j
nd killed. r
To inaugurate a campaign OF edu- 7
alton on the injunction question Chi :
ago labor leaders formed the Injunc- =
on Reform League
Saving her daughter who had stop c
I'd on a railroad crossing to play with h
dog Mrs. Joseph Mackey was killed s.
: a train at Peoria. Ill., c
Said to have secured s225 by falsely "A
that he had the financial q,
pport of Russell A. Alger, Frank !
j !. Pishion. Of Richmond Va, was
rested at Detroit. IL
Tuesday August IS. a
George Pail. a Hungarian, was l
owned in the Delaware river at Kin NJ
ra N. j.. while bathing CT
The Pacific feet. under Rear Admi- di
Swinburn, sailed from San Fran n
GO for Honolulu, towing seven tor -
do destroyers. -
Rev Thomas N. Arnold one of the ~
st prominent ministers Of the Chris IN
n church in the south. died while CT
route to Versailles, KY, TO preach tic
a funeral mi
Three persons were badly hurt, one
man probably fatally. while several
ers were terribly bruised in a panic 70,
a swiftly moving street car, which k;g
ght fire at Cleveland. O.
Wednesday, August 26. -
oseph Butcher, said TO be the old az
member OF the Odd Fellows lodge II
New Jersey, died at his home in T
nden, aged SO years. roae
bout 1000 men were given employ &c ri G
It at the mills Of the Cherry River max
m & Lumber company located at /.
lwood near Clarksburg, W Va. r.
layton W. Williams. cOlored. who =
dered Mrs. L. B. Briggs recently. ~
beating her over the head with "
r, died Of starvation and exhaus.
in the county jail at Chicago.
iffOrd Savage a legless newsboy
sold papers in New York. and
yn among his fellows as the Fly -
Dutchman," committed suicide
by inhaling Illuminating gas in III
ZONE on the East Side.