Milford chronicle., 1908-12-11
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, December 5.

Twenty horses were burned 10 oeatn
IN A ire which destroyed the livery
stable Of GoR Brothers, at Charleston
W. Va.
H. Sharer, commander for Ohio
Of the Grand Army OF the Republic
died at his residence in Alliance, o.,
Of acute indigestion.
John Francis Glider. a brother OF
Richard Watson Glider and Well known
As a musician, died at Bordentown,
". J., aged seventy-one years.
Edward H. Jones. an executive ON
ser in many Wilkes-Barre, Pa, cor
porations and we'll known in the iron
industry, died from complication OF
diseases.
Friday. December 4.
Herbert L. Satterlee, Of New YORK
was sworn in as assistant secretary OF
the navy. in the presence Of Secretary
Newberry and others.
Major George T. West, psymaster OF
he Texas National Guard, fell four
stories down an elevator shaft at Fort
Worth. Tex and was killed.
As result Of over-exertion at cham
pioB roller skating. Charles Mackerick,
a Pottstown (Pa.) high school boy, Is
IN a critical condition with appsndi-
citis.
DR.. Frederick G. Davis, Of Blossburg,
Pa. has been appointed member OF
the board Of trustees of the Cottage
State hospital at Blossburg, vice Ham
nton B. Humes, resigned
Saturday, December 5.
Richard Evans, of Philadelphia, was
shot and fatally wounded at Superior
Wis nv a man whose demand for
money Evans had refused.
The treasury has purchased $4,000
ounces of silver for delivery at New
orleans and so 900 ounces for delivery
At Denver at 4s.251 per fne ounce.
man who registered at the st.
James hotel at Baltimore, Nd as j.
L. O'Neal. of Harrisburg, Pa, commit
ted suicide in his room by shooting.
Captain Robert Hanna, U. S. A. re-
tired died suddenly in the ONCE OF
DR. George E. Brewer in New YORK
when lust about to submit to an eX-
animation by DR.. Brewer.
Monday, December 7.
A state tuberculosis dispensary has
been opened in Bangor, Pa. with DR..
H. S. Sherrer in charge and MIS- j.
Halsey Miller as nurse.
Rev Mary Hanna Graves, the nrs'
woman to be ordained to the Unitarian
ministry in Massachusetts, died at heI
home in Boston, aged seventy-ont
years
Postal oficials at Chicago are inves
4iRating a letter received by Rev w
q. Waters threatening to damage his
church unless $4,000 was placed at
Sesisnated spot in Lincoln park
Twelve hours after being freed fro'
the rocks in Buzzards bay and whil'
being lowed to New Bedford Mass.
the cruiser Yankee sank in six iatn
ems Of water.
Tuesday, December 8.
The safe in the jewslry repair stor'
NV. G. Coxeler, at Hartford, Conn
was blown open and jewelry TO TN
value of about $4,000 taken.
Rev. w. H. D. Hatton, chaplain o
4he First Pennsylvania Volunteers
known as the "Bucktails," died at HaI
risburg. Pa, aged eighty-one years.
Iottie and Ida Kaplan. sisters, re
aDectivelv nineteen and seventeen
wears old. were found dead in thei
room in an East Side tenement in New
York. having been asphyxiated by iilu
minating gas.
Wednesday, December g.
The French chamber of deputies D,
vote of $50 to POI decided in favor o
continuing the death penalty In France
While returning home from party
Michael Dorsey, cripple, was strue
nv a train at Gilberton, Pa, and II
stantly killed.
James ]. Corbett, former heavy
weight champion of the world, ha
consented to referee the fight betwee
Hugo Kelly and Billy Papke the nlgh
Of Dec. Is at Los Angeles Cal.
A big seven-story building at 10
T+apklin street. New York, used b
the western Union Telegraph con
many as a storehouse. was destroye
bv Are. causing loss Of $4,000.
President Roosevelt notified the SCI
yetary of war that as soon as 1t ca
be done without injustice he desire
all negro regiments in the army 10
supplied with negro band masters