Milford chronicle., 1908-01-24
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday. January is.


ceiver for R. NJ. Smith & Company,
wholesale lumber dealers, of Parkers-
burg. w. Va. Assets. S50O.OOO; Iiabili-
ties, s95O,0O0
Samuel Fisler, seventy-two years of
age, for over a quarter of a century
treasurer of Lafayette college. was
found dead in bed at his home on Col
lege hill, Easton, Pa.
The bodies Of two men. who were
identified by papers in their pockets
as Ira B. Stetson. of Liverpool. o..
and Albert E. Donovon. of New Ro-
chelle, N. Y, were found beside the
tracks of the Pennsylvania rail cad at
New Brunswick, N. J.
Friday January II.
Hepburn hall the girls dormitory at
Miami university, at Oxford, O., was
destroyed by fire, entaillng a loss Of
$4,000.
Mrs. Lydia K Bradley, one of the
richest women in Illinois. and well
known for her philanthropy died at
Peoria, ILL.,, aged ninety-two years.
The J. G. Brill Company, car build
ers. of Philadelphia, have been invited
to bid on a contract to supply cars for
the st. Petersburg municipal street
railway
Arthur Chapman, of Doylestown,
was appointed a member of the Penn
sylvania state board of game commits
sioners by Governor Stuart to succeed
former State Treasurer Frank G.
Harris.
Saturday, January 1s.
Notice was posted at the shops of
che Lehigh Valley railroad at Easton.
Pa, reducing the working time to
forty hours a week.
George Kenney. a negro, was hanged
at Charlotte. S. c., for the murder of
H. G. Stello, a white guard, at the
convict camp in this county.
While miners we're drilling in a
missed hole" charged with dynamite
at the Winona mine, at Hancock, |
Mich, an explosion occurred, instantly |
killing Henry Luckonen and fatally
injuring John Koski.
Gilbert Maddox. convicted of the |
murder of James E. Camm. a watch
man at the South Jersey basket fac
tory at Bridgeton on Oct. 5, was SEN
fenced to die in the electric chair |
during the week beginning on Feb. %
next.
Monday, January 20.
All of the mills of the American
Writing Paper company, at Holyoke,
Mass, resumed operations.
Frank Carlucci, aged five years,
playing in a West Scranton. Pa,
street was killed by an electric car.
Interrupted while blowing open the
safe in the postofice at New Canaan.
Conn, burglars wounded a policeman
and escaped with $16.
More than one-half of the s74OOO,-
BOO New York clearing house certii-
Gates issued during the bank panic
have been Withdrawn from circulation.
After helping milk the cows. Mrs.
Leibert went to the barn
On their farm near South Bethlehem.
Pa. and crawled into the hay loft,
where she hanged herself and died.
Tuesday, January Fl.
Fire destroyed the Sunflower Glass
plant at Coffeyville. Kan,
causing damage of 100000
Max Rosenbaum, one of Pittsburg's
most prominent business men, dropped
lead on the street of heart disease.
Betsy Bennett, ninety-five years of
lge. daughter of Obeiu, chief of the
ribe of Ottawa Indians, died at San
husky, o.
DonatiO Fabrazio, young italian,
vas sentenced, at Reading, Pa, to
wenty years in the eastern peniten-
iary for the murder of a fellow-cOun-
ryman at Monocacy during a drunken
lout.
Wednesday, January %.
Rhode Island has a population of
81, $50, according to a state census
ust completed.
Thomas King, who is wanted in
lew York for the murder of James
'uff. on Nov. u, 1907, was arrested in
'hicago.
A band of 90 might riders" burned
he large tobacco barn on the farm of
ames A. Coleman, near Hopkins
ille, Ky.
Orange S. Brown. postmaster of
Pa, and publisher of
he Gazette and Bulletin, died, aged
lxty-seven years.