Milford chronicle., 1908-09-18
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday. sept.mh.r 10.

Thursday, September 10.
Francis K. Duke. a member of the
famous Duke family Of West Virginia
and Kentucky, died at Cane Nav Nj
Mrs. Mary Bedell, Of Jersey City.
Y. j.. shot her husband Stephen Be
iell, a boatman, during a quarrel at
their home.
Several hundred embloves of the
Philadelphia mint returned to work
when operations were resumed in the
rolling, melting and millins IONS.
One man was killed and fSur Pc.
sons injured in a FIRE that destroyed
two buildings of the Philadelphia
Cricket club at st. Martini S, Pa, en-
failing a loss of $25, 900.
Friday, September II.
The Postofice Clerks National as
sociation decided to meet next year
in Atlantic City, ~ ].
William Kerper Stevens has been
appointed Judge Of Berks county, Pa,
to succeed the late Judge Ermentrout.
Forest fires Destroyed the business
section of Peshtigo. near Menominee,
Mich, and several hundred people are
homeless.
An oxygen tank, used in connection
with a tank of hydrogen in a welding
process, exploded at the plant of the
Michigan Crucible Steel Casting COM
pany, in Detroit, Mich. instantly kill
ing Emil Keehm and injuring two
other workmen.
Saturday, September II.
Lee Strother, a negro, was hanged |
at Richmond, Va, for attempted Grim
inal assault on Leola Fry, a young
white woman.
Robert H. Shores, sixty years old, a |
Of Bristol, Pa, was drowned |
in the Delaware river, and his body
was found floating opposite Beverly,
N. J.
William Gardner and his wife, farm
srs near Dimondale, Mich, were both
drowned when a launch was oapsized
in Grand river by running on sunken
stump.
Fifty-fve men have been killed in
the new Blackwells Island
bridge over the East river at New
York. according to the report of a
committee of the Central Federated
lnion appointed to ascertain the IA
alities in that work.
Monday, September IA.
Booker T. Washington denies that
lie will stump the south for Taft.
In football practice at Sturgeon,
ear Pittsburg, William Service broke
is jaw.
The total registration of pupils in
he New York public schools is 640.-
90, an increase of 10000 over last
ear.
The 500 or more box cars that have
cen stored on the old Pennsylvania
abroad tracks at Duncannon, Pa. for
everal months are being removed.
The Cambridge Coal company's col
cry at Shenandoah, Pa, idle since
lly undergoing general repairs, re-
lmed operations. giving employment
, $50 men and boys.
Tuesday, September IS.
H. H. Smith. father of Governor .
oke Smith. of Georgia, and one of
e best known educators in the south,
ed at his home in Atlanta.
Because his youth prevented him
ON becoming a soldier, Otto Schnei-
r. aged fifteen years. shot and IA
lily wounded himself at Chicago. =
A robbery of certified checks to the
ce value of $4,000 on the Chapman
ltional bank, of Portland Ne, was
ported to the police of Boston.
William l. Reed, of Portsmouth o.,
Elk and prominent in insurance
'cles. was killed instantly by a fall
I'm the ninth floor of the Havlin
tel in Cincinnati, o.
Wednesday, September 16. 4
While respondent from i'll health, MI
s Helen Donaghy hanged herself R
her home in Philadelphia. ia
Mary McHale. aged seven years. Eli
lying about a fire of old leaves at liz
yphant, Pa, received burns that LIN
Used her death. Fi
by the announcement of his
gagement to marry another woman,
S. Angelina Lubrast, employed in I'm
thing factory in New York. shot
Yn the foreman. Francisco Panza.
lying dead on the floor with a deep
in his breast. and with a bloody
fe on the floor beside him, Howard
Saylor, of New York, Princeton
.duate. was found in his room at an I
lrtment house in Philadelphia.