Milford chronicle., 1908-03-13
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. March :

vi hamburg. Ger
many has been engaged as directo
i the Boston Symphony orchestra +,
succeed DR.. Carl Muck.
New York won the dual intar.oit,
track meet at Philadelphia betwaeT
the amateur atletes of the MetronoIi
tan association and the Middle Allan.
&c association by a score of az ga
points to 80 "a
william F. Weimers. of Highland
Park former master in chancer, Of
the circuit court of Cook county was
indicted at Waukegan. Ill nv TIE
l1@he county grand jury on a charge
"a conspiracy to commit arson
Friday, March 6.
At Foyil, near Muskogee. Okla I'll.
lis Beck, a farmer, shot and killed his
VIE and his fifteen-year-old stenson
and then committed suicide.
Mrs. Bridget King. of Sheffield III
Is dead' and her son John. fifteen wears
old' is fatally burned, following the
explosion of a lamp in their home.
General Frank A. Pargond who
gained his title in the Confederate cor. |
vice. is dead at his summer home IN
BTanford, Conn, aged seventy.nipe
years. ----0
Anna Arnold and her two children
Florida, aged three years. and ArneU
aged eighteen months. colored were
burned to death in their home at Tam
pa, Fla.
Saturday. March z.
+. B. Gary was elected by the South
carolina legislature to succeed Asburv
Z. Latimer in the United States sen.
ate. 90-' /
Alfred Johnson committed suicide at I
North Easton, Mass, after he had &C
cidentally shot and killed John Ben q
sen, a friend and fellow-workman. ?
The secretary Of the interior has Sc b
Iected Moses Friedman to be suDerin. t
tendent Of the Carlisle Indian school c
at Carlisle, Pa, succeeding Major w. j.
A. Mercer. Il
Court decides that ballot boxes can Il
be opened and ballots that elected t.
Mayor Mcclellan, of New York. count In
I'd IN William R. Hearst's fight to IN II
seat Mcclellan, charging fraudulent &C
election e
Monday March g. in
Charged with embezzling S46.9G sa
rom the Hold Carriers union, No. 1873 ra
4 York, Pa. Calvin Fells has been ar tn
ested. Gu
FOR assaulting a non-unton work tn
ian at Ashtabula, O., John OBrien Of
Mon labor leader, has been given six sh
ears in prison. ha
Having stepped out of a second
DRY window in her sleep. at Lancas- in
r, Pa, Miss Maize Maud Olhme was del
} badly hurt that she died.
For robbing bodies in his charge me
.chard c. Russell. an embalmer's as U.
slant. was sent to state prison for an in
definite term at Minneapolis, MINI. ira
Tuesday, March 10. not
Edward H. Chase. one of the best tho
own attorneys in Luzerne county the
I'd at his home in Wilkes-Barre. Pa Arc
ihe treasury department purchased ard
1000 ounces of silver for delivery to {
New Orleans at 55.74O cents per N
2 ounce an
IN unknown young woman well that
ssed, jumped from the Smitbfeld wrot
eet bridge at Pittsburg. Pa. into oflc
Monongahela river and was swept PEN
ly by the swollen water. fens
Lss Jessie Daw, of Brooklyn. who evid
been an inmate of a sanitarium MI
'ishkill Landing, N. Y. for the past give
se months. threw herself from a sayiI
d story window and was killed. al
Wednesday, March II. ing
he school building at Napoleon. o. more
largest of the kind in the state ditioi
totally destroyed by fire entailing aye.
IS of $4,000. anon
Wood Lulens, sixty-five years of own
president and treasurer of the men
smead Iron company, of Consho- dor,
en-, died at Norristown, Pa. shall
lie hundred masked might rides" suspi
into the town of Birmingham. will
hall county, Kentucky shot six mand
pes, one Of them, it is believed prejut
Iy' and whipped five others. you /
sht firemen were cut and bruised guilty
light business houses damaged to
xtent of S1250OO by fire which
time threatened the entire bust
section of Williamsburg, a suburb Were
-tsburg.