Milford chronicle., 1908-12-18
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. pecember DO.

AIleT living together LOT over siANg
years. Mr.. and Mrs. John Paul, aged
eighty-six and seventy-fve years re-
spectively. OF Sarnia. Ont, were as
phyxiated in their home.
P. J. O'Connor. former national pres
ident OF the Ancient Order Of Hibern-
ians and former national president OF
the Catholic Knights Of America, died
of pneumonia at Savannah. Ga.
With full military ceremonies, the
body of the late Rear Admiral Joseph
B. Coghlan. who died Saturday at New
Rochelle. n. Y. was inferred in the
Arlington National cemetery at Wash
ington.
Friday, December II.
The president sent to the senate the
nomination of George R. Wales, Of
Vermont, to be chief examiner of the
civil service commission.
The Nobel peace rizes were award
ed to X. P. Arnoldsen, Of Sweden, and
NJ. F. Bajer. OF Denmark. Both the re-
cipients are ex-parliamentarians.
Despondent becauseaof failing health.
Miss Carrie S. Burns, forty-eight
years old, Of San Francisco, killed her
self at the home of Mrs. J. 3. REQ, in
Newark. N. j., whose guest she was.
Five hundred employees at the Erie
railroad shops in Scranton we're re-
duced from full time to two-thiyds time
by an order from the head Offices o.
the mechanical department in New
York city.
Saturday, December II.
The town of Patton. Ia. was destroy
ed by fire. entailing a loss of $4,000
William Fiddler was sentenced to
four years in prison at GAINESVILLE.
Wis. for attempting to wreck a trail
on the st. Paul railroad
Slipping as he was about to stab a
hog. Israel Hines. a farmer of Man
chester township. York county Pa.
fell upon the blade OF his butcher
Knife and gashed open his throat, al
most severing the jugular vein.
DR.. G. G. Mcconnell. medical eX-
aminer in chief of the Knights of Py-
thias. announced that il has been for
mally decided that a sanitarium for tn
berculosis patients affiliated with the
order shall be established in New
Mexico.
Monday, December "A.
Mort l.. Smith. OF Athens. Pa. diea
from an overdose OF laudanum, taken
TO induce sleep.
Eight dozen high-bred eggs. laid at
Scranton's poultry show. and so rated
at 81 each. were sold for charity.
Mike" Rossa. a blindTmendieant in
Chicago. has so much money that
Judge Gemmill has forced him 10 re
tire
Three Italian miners OF the North.
western Mining & Exchange company
were killed by a fall of rock in the
West Clarian mines at Brockwayville,
Pa
So bad have the rats become at Re
loboth. Del. that when Henry Frazier
went out into his barn he found that
hey had badly chewed the hoOfs OF
both his horses. which are badly lame
as a result
Tuesday, December IS.
The president sent to the senate the |
of William Hall Harris to |
De postmaster at Baltimore, Md.
c. e. Spencer. Of Hugo. Va, went to
Norfolk to do his Christmas shopping
md was found asphyxiated in a hotel. |
Fifteen persons were injured. one
atally in an explosion of a boiler at
he cement factory of A. E. Nelson.
Mimi.
The Lutheran summer assembly
Committee decided to hold the meet
ng at Irving college. Mechanicsburg.
"a July % to Aug. 8.
Rodolfo Gaona. a famous Mexican
was fatally injured in
light in Puebla, the horns of the ami
nal penetrating the abdomen.
Wednesday, December 10.
Charged with forging about twenty
hecks aggregating 100000 Edward f.
'erkins was arrested at Chicago.
Having reached the age of sixty-two
ears. Rear Admiral John E. Pillsbury.
hief OF the naval bureau of naviga-
ion. has been retired.
The body OF Chief Of Police Buggy.
I San Francisco. who was drowned
gently from the police launch Pa
'ol, has been found floating in the
ay
Walter Boldt. aged twenty years. Of
ouisvile, KY, a hospital apprentice
t the training station at Newport
D.. l., committed suicide by swallowing
rychnine.
In the presence of Bishop Talbot
nd a large number of other distin-
lished men. the new temple of the
col AFvstic Chrinara II Wflxes-Parre