Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-09-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, August q.

ton, o., for the murder OF Henry Free.
kai attempted suicide by buttins out
his brains against a sharp shelf pro-
! lection in his cell
The rolling mills OF the National En-.
ameling & Stamping company. at
Granite City. H.. which have been
closed since June 80. will reopen. and
the full force Of 1900 men will be EN-.
IIployed
The cigarmakers union Of Elmira,
n T.. unanimously adopted a resolu-
ton endorsing the position taken by
Samuel Gompers. president Of the
American Federation Of Labor. with
regard to the political situation.
Friday, August %.
The Pennsylvania camp of the P.
o. S Of A will meet at Washington,
Pa, next year.
The recent census gives the total
population of the canal zone as 500O3,
Of which $4,000 are employed by the
isthmian canal commission and the
Panama railroad.
Charlie Scarlet, six years old. killed
his eight-year-old sister at Benton. H.,
while attempting to pull a gun from
under the bed. when the weapon was
discharged, the shot striking the girl
in the groin
Saturday, August 90.
The buildings on the famous Meth
odist Evangelistic meeting grounds OF
Kentucky Parsons Camp Ground.
near Russellville. KY. were destroyed
by fire
Joseph G. Cannon, speaker Of the ma. |
tional house of representatives. will |
open the Republican speaking cam
paign in Indiana in Merton county on .
the night of Sept. "a
Rev o. B. Milligan, pastor Of the
First Presbyterian church at Canton, |
o.. and well known in the state, both |
as a minister and gcf player. killed
himself by charge from a shotgun.
Rev. D. r. Kills, a survivor Of the
crew of the Monitor" the Civil war
battleship, and a retired United Breth.
ren clergyman, died of Brights dis
ease, at Annville, Pa, aged sixty-eight
years.
MONDAY, August s l.
Dog Catcher Bartholomew. Of Allen
town, Pa, was suddenly seized with
and is in a critical condi-
ton.
To escape trial for wife murder.
NeThert Woodbury. committed. suicide
In Jail at Dover, Ne. by cutting his
throat with a razor
Enfrwrfvar ba - . {
Charles E. Armstrong, a wealthy cat
-leman shot and killed Andrew Ar
lold, wealthy merchant pear Rogers G
vile, Tenn
Jacob E. Mumma. of Lancaster
county, Pa, placed 1900 tomato plants
N half an acre and he has realized
hus far $3.50, and is still gathering to t
natoes daily
Tuesday, September l. t
Albert Carr. aged fifteen years, Of b
was drowned while swim
ling in Laurel river at Laurel Del C
An official order calling off the strike h
( coal miners in the Birmingham.
la. district was issued to all the =.
amps in that section. ID
Joseph c. Tyson. ffty-fve years old. "a
as found dead from apoplexy in the
BAD a short distance from his resi- III
ence at Royersford Pa. e
After making an investigation, Cor
her King Of Montgomery county Pa, q
lnounced that excessive use of to
acco killed William Scofeld. twenty
le years old, of Perkiomen township
Wednesday, September 2. y
General John W. Clous, retired. of :"
e United States army, died in St.
lke's hospital in New York city, at We
e age Of seVenty-one years. ira
Mrs Arch Pickett shot and killed
r husband, a well-known resident Of or,
nesboro, Ark, because, she alleges, ou
was mean to her and abused her"
President Roosevelt's son Kermit. =
10 will accompany his father on the PIE
nting expedition into the wilds Of sol
RIGA, left Oyster BAY for a hunt Of tn
own in the northwest.
Carnegie silver medal was receiv- tina
by eleven-year-old Marjorie Coast. wa
Iowa City, Ia, who leaped into the %
va river and saved the life Of Mar r
ret Hayes. daughter Of Professor
! Mrs. Samuel Hayes last summer on