Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-05-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, May 7.

Thursday, May z.
Two women and two girls are be
lieved to have persisted in a fire which
destroyed the Shaw building in the
heart OF the business section OF Hous-
ton. Tex.
Judge Lanning. in the United States
court at Trenton. N. j.. appointed
Frank Wyant and Edmund Price re-.
ceivers for the New Jersey and West
Virginia Bridge company.
The president entertained at lunch
con at the White House Cardinal
Logus. Catholic primate II ireland:
Cardinal Gibbons. Mgr Faleonio, the
papal delegate. and other church dig.
uitaries.
Friday, May 8.
Mrs. J. V. Titus. ninety-two years
old fell down stairs at the home Of her
daughter at Scranton. Pa. and was In
stantly killed
Immediately following his prelim-
mary trial at Naples. Tex. on a charge
Of assault to murder and rob. John
Williams. a negro. was tai.en by a mob
and hanged.
-Four persons were killed and twelve
injured in a fire believed to be Of in.
cendiary origin which practically de-
stroyed the nVestOry tenement house
at 1O1 Orchard street. New York.
Foods colored green with copper |
salts will not be entitled to entry into |
the United States under the pure food |
and drugs law after Jan. / next, &C. /
cOrding to a decision Of the board OF |
food and drug inspection. consisting OF
Secretaries Cortelyou. Wilson and
Strauss.
Saturday, May 9.
Major Edward r. Lowndes. OF the
marine corps, has been retired from
active duty because of disability.
W. E. LOucke. Of Selma. Ca. his wife.
and their baby were killed when an
automobile was struck by a Southern
Pacific train at Reedley. Ga.
Mrs. Margaret Kieronsh was &C.
quilted by jury in Philadelphia Of the
charge Of poisoning her husband.
Grieving because he was compelled
to go to the almshouse. Dr. Charles 3.
for more than thirty-fve
years a practicing physician in various
New Jersey towns. Is dead at the War.
rem county IN. j. almshouse. where
be had been for the last ten days.
Monday, May II.
The will of Thomas Crumbaugh.
eaving 100000 to the Spiritualist
,hurch. has been set aside by a jury Il
It Bloomington. ILL.,
Paul Willis. a well-known young
carlisle. Pa. attorney, has been ap- n
'ointed by the United States court N
ederal commissioner for that district T
The body of William McIlhenny. a M
Teak-minded inmate Of the Adams N
ounty. Pa. almshOuse. who escaped Il
.pril 80. has been found in a field "
hree miles west OF Gettysburg. n.
In a fire at Punxsutawney. Pa.
Thich destroyed the general store and -
oarding house of John Becke $4,000
! money, the savings of eight for ="
lgners, was consumed. and Mrs. IT.
ecke was seriously and perhaps IA Fl
lily burned. ~
Tuesday, May II.
Mrs Helen E. Moses. national presl- =
ent of the Christian Woman's Board o.
Missions died in indianapolis. Ind
Work was resumed in all the coall Mi
ines in Illinois which were in a con I
ton to do so after six weeks idle Oo'
SIS -
In tornado that passed over Mercer
ID Henry counties in Illinois. one NJ
oman was killed, several children VA
iured and many buildings destroyed
While temporarily deranged from
aiding the newspaper accounts of the Sc
linness murders. Jacob Pouch aged
ventv years, committed suicide at
arsaw. Ind. "
Wednesday, May 10. Phi
Benjamin James Fernie, PHI D.. for
any years associate editor of the
tristan Herald, died at Lakewood.
J., after a prolonged illness.
Walter G. Berg. chief engineer Of
2 Lehigh Valley railroad. died unex-
ctedly at his home in New York.
5 C. Peters. recently a pay clerk on g Mo-
cruiser Rainbow, was arrested at Nor
nila for alleged embezzlement OF W I61
1000 Thu
'ohn Loughead. aged forty years. NO. MOI
ing apart from his seventeen-year =
wife, broke into her bedroom at frem
mothers home at Toledo. O.. and Che
It her. inflicting fatal wound. then
ned the revolver on himself and Tues
" out his brains Fri.