Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-04-03
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday March 2s.

U. S. A., retired. who was born p
West Chester, Pa, eighty-four wear,
ago, died at the army hospital at Sar
Francisco.
May Thompson, aged thirty-twt
years. a patient in the delirium o.
fever. escaped from a hospital in ST
Louis, crawled into the cellar of 2
Park avenue residence four block,
away and hanged herself.
Representative Lands. Of Indiana
introduced a bill in congress to pen
sion at the rate of $50 month ever,
honorably discharged soldier or sailor
who served one year in the Civil Wal
or sixty days in the Mexican War.
Friday, March 81.
John Brill, son of the founder of the
J. g. Brill company. car builders and
vice president of the company, died in
Philadelphia.
Dr. G. W. Dunlap a well-known We
terinary surgeon of New Holland. Pa
was fatally injured in a runaway and
died several hours later.
The operators and miners of the
central Pennsylvania bituminous coal
field met at Clearfield. Pa. and signed
the old wage scale for one year.
Because the 5th of May will be cleo.
ton day in San Francisco, the battle
ship fleet will delay its arrival there
until the 9Th, one day. later than origi
nally provided for in the itinerary.
Saturday, March %.
The postmasters of Pennsylvania
will meet at Harrisburg April q tc
form a state association.
Walter Rippey, a negro, was hanged
at Tazewell court house. Va. for crimi
nal assault upon Mrs. Mary Dancy.
Two men were killed. one fatally
injured and four slightly injured in
the wreck of Erie train thirteen
known as the Wells Fargo express
at Belvidere. near Hornell. N. Y.
The large basket and crate manufac
tory of Layton & Owens at Bridgeville
Del, was almost entirely destroyed
by fire. which is supposed to have been
started by a spar' from the locomo
tive of passing ain.
Monda. March 30.
In a trance for fifty-two days. Mrs
Beulah Hawkins. of Los Angeles. Cal.
has broken all records for long sleeII
in California
Barton Miller two years cid. oil
Lancaster, Pa, while playing with
matches. set his clothing on fire and
was burned to death.
Tying a piece of Irvine about his
neck and twisting it tight with al
broom handle, William Batzell a muir
derer. strangled himself to death in his
cell at Waukon, MINI.
On his way home from lodge at AL /
toona, Pa, with $3.50 of the lodges
money, Carpenter John Moorehead
was held up and robbed at a pistols
point by two masked men.
Tuesday, March 81.
Thomas G. CAMEL, ex-Tax Collector
Of Pottstown, Pa, convicted Of EN-
was sentenced to six
months in the county prison.
Former Judge Rhone. for many
years a judge in the orphans court
Of Luzerne county, Pa, died at Wilkes
Barre, aged seventy-one years.
John w. Stewart, appointed by the
governor of Vermont as the success.
sor of the late Senator Redfed Proc.
Tor. was sworn in as a member of the
United States senate.
Albert Uren, aged twenty-one, ana
Rubin Dave. aged twenty-eight, were
instantly killed at the Austin mines
It Swansea, Mich, when four sticks
If dynamite which a worker was hold
ng exploded.
Wednesday, April I.
Orders were issued for the furloughs
# about 200 mechanics at the Wash
ngton navy yard for period of ninety
lays.
Shouting there goes" an unknown
oung man jumped from a ferrybOat
t Philadelphia and was drowned in
he Delaware river.
Judge Ward McAllister, son Of the
amous society leader of New York,
led at San Rafeal, Cal, from the eff
scts of an operation for appendicitis.
The president sent to the senate for
onfrmation the nomination of Spen.
er F. Eddy of Illinois, to be minister
the Argentine Republic, and Arthur
[. Beaupre. of Illinois, to be minister
the Netherlands and Gutenberg.
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