Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-07-17
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Thursday July 9.

Thursday, July g.
Two hotels and twenty cottages vera
Sestroyed by fire at College Point L.
~ entailing a loss Of 100000.
Il John D. Rockefeller celebrated tho
lAty-nlntn year Of his birth Wednes.
say at MS residence in Cleveland.
During the electrical storm lightning
STRUCK tent at Ocean View, near At.
-anlc Highlands. n. J., and its six &C.
aupants were severely shocked.
Mrs. Lydia Runyon, ninsty-two years
cid, widow Of D. C. Runyon. Of New.
ark. N J., is being treated at the Pas.
ieur institute in New York as the re-
SUIT OF being bitten by a supposedly
rabid dog.
Friday, July 10.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edmund Smith each
eighty years old. who lived on a farm
near Rochester, N. Y, were burned to
death in FIRE which destroyed their
nome.
In a gun and knife fight at a pro- /
sracted meeting near Backusburg. KY,
Wayne Lawrence shot and killed An.
ME Bannister and was himself perhaps
tstally stabbed.
Governor Fort, Of New Jersey. an.
nounced that 1t would not be necessary
TO call special session Of the legisla-
lure to provide extra appropriations
Tor state departments that did not re-
ceive the full amount asked by them
last winter.
Saturday, July II.
Clarence Yeager, a Camden, N. J..
youth, lost his life while bathing in
Ocean City.
A hot coal from a North Penn train
Iell on a leaky valve of the United
Pipe Line company's line, near Allen
town, Pa, causing an explosion and
letting 2SS barrels of oil flow away.
Governor Stuart, respited Mike
Holka, of Venango county, Pa, under
sentence to be hanged next Tuesday.
until Aug. IS, in order to allow the
case to be taken before the supreme
court
Rather than face her landlord when
She had no money to pay the rent OF
boarding house in which she lost the 8
savings of a lifetime, Mrs. Henrietta -
Scadder killed herself in New York by =
nhaling Illuminating gas. a,
Monday, July 10. =,
By a court decree the name Of the -
Western University of PENNSYLVANIA .,
ras changed to University of Pitts ~
,urg. u
Chicago city council has votel S10.- .
100 to employ 100 physicians to look g
fter children of the slums during the " "
ot weather. Ut
Proceedings have been begun in San q
Francisco by Mr.. and Mrs. James &c
tead, of Philadelphia. to break an al Ie,
eyed false will by which the late ia ou
Oh q. Davis disposed of $4,000, 900. W.
D. S. Serer, employed at the Stand
I'd Steel works, Lewistown Pa, was pc
.ruck in the right eye by a piece of Sc
wing metal and his sight so badly in ol'
red that he will lose the eye. Ol
Tuesday, July IA. sn
Rear Admiral Charles NJ Thomas. pu
S. NJ, who died in California, was OIL
lried at Newport, R. l.. with full an
wal honors. cas-
The Carpenter Steel works and the 'el'
ddling departments of the Reading
IN company, at Reading. Pa, resum- eco
after an idleness of some weeks. enc
Thomas M. Allen, postmaster at Cass- A
le, near Joplin, Mo-, was arrested cas-
p totFce inspector, charged with use
sni1 '-lall addressed to S. R. Rey- rigl
Ids. rOu
a ne ~ us wreck, Thomas r Slartiu I
re- hf1uinent real es ate dealer oil teel
asnr qton pleaded guilty. to charges eros
e. Oezzlement and forgery and was the
ltenced to two years in the peniteu- lead
ry al Moundsville, W. Va pom
Wednesday July So hav
Five-year0ld Clara Hoffman. while i.fte
ying with matches was fatally to b
ned "a the home OF her parents in alio
ladelphia. Will
'eleg Barker. for several years the Chat
ler Of the Washington Post, died at also
home at Portland Me, at the age 10
'ighty-four years. pipe
osario Serge, eighteen years old. not
hanged at New Castle, Pa. for be d
murder of Antonio Bond. which oc- steel
red at Hillsville, June s. 1907. at v
espondent from i'll health. Mrs. 7. solid
ldall Chadwick, of Lakemont, N. bore
committed suicide by drowning her for
in fve feet of water in a cistern lengt
be cellar. a col
and