Milford chronicle., 1908-11-20
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. Novembsr p.

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John Irby a negro, was convicted at
Spartansburg, S. c., on a charge of at
tempting a criminal assault On Miss
Leila Dempsey and was sentenced to
serve thirty years in the penitentiary.
Duncan Cameron McCallum. late
teller of the Farmers Bank Of Canada.
pleaded guilty at Toronto. Ont. to the
theft Of $16.495 from the bank and was
sentenced to three years in Kingston
penitentiary.
Edward Bostwick, sixty-eight years
Of age, and a former state senator
Of Michigan. committed suicide by
Btrangling himself with a silf scarf at
the home of his sister, Mrs. BENJAMIN
Clark, in Syracuse. N. Y.
Friday, November 13.
Charged with cutting off half Of ia
cob Wynn's whiskers, Thomas White
was fined s35 in the criminal court at
Camden, N. ].
Judge Tayler, of the federal court.
named Warren Bicknell and Frank A.
Scott as receivers for the Municipal
Traction company, of Cleveland. 0.
DR.. William Kieth Brooks. professor
Of zoology at Johns Hopkins univer-
Eity, Baltimore, Nd and since the
founding of that institution continu-
ously in its service, died after a pro
longed illness.
John J. Miller, eighty-seven years Of
age, who has been employed in the
government service continuously for
thirty-three years, died at his home
in Washington as the result of an at
tack of acute indigestion.
Saturday. November IA.
The general assembly of the Knights
Of Labor will meet in st. Louis in 1910.
Echo river. in the Mammoth cave.
near Louisville, KY. is almost dry as
a result of the drought.
The president appointed George S.
Terry to be assistant treasurer of the
United States at New York. in success
sion to Hamilton Fish.
Brakeman John Carter of Wilkes
Barre, Pa, was killed and Fireman
r. T. Bradshaw, of Wilkes-Barre. Pa.
was fatally injured when the boiler of
the engine drawing a fast freight train
on the Delaware e Hudson blew up
near Windsor, N. Y.
Monday, November is.
The big cotton mills at Laurens. s. 4
c., are to be greatly increased in ca ,
pacity.
Caught between a car and the walls |
of a coal mine at Portage, Pa. John
Rebosh was fatally squeezed.
The University of Illinois may es-
tablish a $250,000 veterinary school in .
the Union Stock yards at Chicago.
President Roosevelt has been asked |
to plant a tree Feb. u next on the
campus of a new colored school at
Lexington. Ky.
The Home Missions Society of the
Methodist church has appropriated
100000 toward rebuilding San Fran
cisco churches destroyed by the fire.
Tuesday, November II.
The treasury has purchased 100000
ounces of silver for delivery at New
York at 5O.501 per fine ounce.
William Jennings Bryan has been
unanimously elected by the seniors of
Westminster college. at New Castle,
Pa, to deliver an address next June
during commencement.
Lying in pools of blood with their
throats cut from ear to ear. Mrs. Ag-
mes Lidner and her two children, aged
five and three years respectively, were
found in their home at Frankford, Ky.
One Italian was shot to death and
three others probably fatally injured
at East MillsborO near Uniontown,
Pa. in a general fight over the owner
shin of a well which was located be-
tween two foreign boarding. houses.
Wednesday, November 1s.
William s. McKinnon, treasurer of
Ohio. died at his home in Cleveland
after an illness of more than year.
Herman Billik convicted of the muir
der of five members of the Vzral fam
Ily. was sentenced by Judge Barnes in
Chicago to hang on Dec. II.
Gene Doudell, a sixteen-year-old ne
zro. confessed to killing Ernest Walsh,
.welve years old. also colored, at Ham
lton. Ga, by beating him on the head
With a rock and throwing the body
nto a creek. after robbing him Of 81.
Charles N. Hanscom, president of
he Eastern Shipbuilding company, an !
that the plant at GrotOn.
dass.. where the battleships Mime ,
ota and the Dakota were built. would
,e sold at auction and the yard dis ;
nantled. +