Milford chronicle., 1908-01-31
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Thursday, January 3.

Thursday, January %.
John B. Larllin, controller of Pitts
burg, and formerly postmaster, was
found dead in bed at his home from
asthma.
Morris X. Jesup. retired banker and
long prominent in civic affairs, died at
his home in New York from heart
disease.
Two men were injured and consid.
cradle damage done when the Pitts.
burg Fulmite Powder company's build.
ing at Fombell, near Pittsburg, blew
up.
Fooled in her attempt to end her
life by inhaling gas, Mrs. Caroline Fer.
guson succeeded in eluding her watch.
ers and hanged herself to a rafter in
the cellar of her home in Philadel.
phia.
Friday, January "a.
Prof. Ernest Darling, occupying the
chair Of physiology in the University
of London, England was received by
President Roosevelt in the White
House.
A bill was introduced in the Virginia
senate TO appropriate $4,000 for a
copy of Houdon's statue of Washington
in marble, to be placed in the Hall of
Fame in Washington.
While attempting to start fire with
kerosene oil, Mrs. Sarah Horvitz was
fatally burned and the members of six
families occupying a tenement house
in Pittsburg had to be carried to safety
by fremen.
Saturday, January rs.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-.
gineers will hold its annual convention
at San Antonio, Tex, on Jan. 20, 80
and 81.
DR.. Charles B. Eager. one Of Har.
rlsburg's (Pa) leading physicians,
died Of heart failure after an Illness
OF one week.
While burning brush in their farm
near Bartlettsville, Okla, Mrs. George
Meyer, aged sixty-fve. was burned to-
death, and her husband, aged sixty
eight, was fatally burned.
In an effort to give work to the un
employed, the Pittsburg Railway com
pany adopted a new rule, providing
that all regular motormen and conduc.
tors shall lay off two days week inl
order to help the hundreds of idle
men.
Monday, January 27.
A Pennsylvania railroad train at
Plain City, o.. killed Section Foreman
Patrick Conley and Assistant Foreman
John Hagan.
While convalescing from the effects
Of a fractured ankle, Griffith Jones' OF !
Slatington, Pa. suffered a stroke OF
apoplexy and died.
While on a street car at Racine, |
Wis. F. J. Cameron, a lumber dealer /
of Milwaukee, was robbed of $4,000 in
cash and securities.
Mrs. Antonio Lubinski, of Maltby. |
Luzerne county. Pa, got lost at night
on her way home from Wyoming and
was run over and killed by q trolley
car.
Tuesday, January %.
The Pittsburg Stock Exchange re-
opened after being closed for three
months on account Of the recent fnan-
cial furry.
Chief Justice Fuller, of the supreme
court of the United States, announced
that court would on Monday. Feb. g.
take a recess for three weeks.
While attempting to avoid arrest, a
man believed to be Henry Won Bar
gen was shot and killed by Rudolph
Brokeep, a Chicago policeman.
During a severe storm at Mounds
willie. w. Va. lightning struck the new
high school building, destroying the
town clock and damaging the tower.
Wednesday, January 2e.
Secretary Root and Ambassador
signed the FrancO-Ameri-
can reciprocity arrangement drawn
under section three of the Dingley act
Three hundred children marched
safely out of the school building at
Neb. when it was discovered
that the structure was a mass of
flames.
William Sweeney, twenty years old,
a freight brakeman on the Reading
railway, stepped in front of an express
train near Norristown, Pa, and was
Instantly killed.
President Roosevelt sent to the SEN
ate a message recommending the Civ
ing of pensions to members of the life
saving service such as are given to
aremen and policemen in the large
cities.
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