Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-12-04
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Friday, November 27.

/ FTtCoys november H.
In attempting to cross a lake at
/ Orono, Ne. the thin ice broke and
! James F. Aldrich. of Little Falls, n.
/ T., was drowned.
: Dean Frederick Howard Of the mu-
Eical college of Drake university. and
well known in musical circles, died
suddenly at Des Monies. la.
Baroness Alice Decartier de Mar
chiene. wife of the chief counsellor Of
the Belgian legation. died at Phoenix,
Ariz.. where she had gone for her
health.
Three women and one man were
baptized in the chilly waters Of the
Delaware river at Gloucester, N. j.,
by Rev Bickers Gill pastor of the
Helping Hand church of that place.
Saturday, November 20.
Colonel Harry c. Page. one of the
oldest newspaper men in New Jersey,
and editor and owner Of the BayOnne
Herald, died at his home in Bayonne,
n. J.
Acting as her own detective, Miss
Amelia Ernsten captured Edward
Kelly, hold-up man, in Chicago. who
six weeks ago robbed her of SIPS and
a gold watch.
OF the estate Of 1865, 600. half a mil
lion dollars was left TO the American
Bible society by Bloodgood H. Cutter
the poet. of Little Neck, L. l., who died
last September
Dr. John Bell Henneman, of the
University of the South. at Sewanee,
Tenn one Of the most prominent edu-
Gators in the south, died in Richmond,
Va. after an operation.
Monday, November 30.
In a head-on collision on the Sea /
board Air Line railroad near Ocala. |
Fla FIVE persons were killed.
F. w. Vanderbilt has given Yale |
university $4,000 to enlarge Wander
bilt square. at New Haven. Conn
President-elect Taft will preside
over the conference Of the governors
and the national conservation commits
sion at Washington. Dec. s. !
Pleading guilty in the United States
court at Baltimore. Nd. to accepting
rebates from the Pennsylvania rail
road. the Baker-Whiteley Coal com
pany was fined $1,000.
Joe Berenski and John Bardale,
while hunting near Steubenville. o..
fired a shot into a can that contained
nitro glycerine and we're instantly
killed by the explosion.
Tuesday, December I.
Comptroller of the Currency Muir
ray issued a call on national banks for
a statement of their condition at the
close of business Nov. q.
Chairman Stellwagen. of the inaug
nral committee. has appointed Major
General J. Franklin Bell. chief Of staff
U. S, A., to be grand marshal of the
parade.
One man was killed. FIVE others
seriously injured and many passengers
badly shaken up when train No. 5.
known as the Chicago Limited, on the &
& Western branch OF the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad, crashed in /
% a "buckled" freight train near Va
encia. Pa.
Wednesday, December 2.
Burglars blew open the vault Of the
State bank at Port Huron. ILL., and es I
aped on handcar with nearly S5OOO y
n gold. silver and currency. a
After an fdleness of thirteen months v
he old open hearth department of the
illinois Steel company's plant at South .
'hicago was reopened and 1000 men =:
esumed work.
Chief of Police Buggy. of San Fran G
isco, who has been prominent in the q
ribery case as custodian OF former "
layor Schmitz, fell from a police
lunch and was drowned off Alcatraz Al
iland. in San Francisco bay. F
A meeting Of the officers and board -
I governors of the Descendants Of -
ne Signers of the Declaration Of In
ependence has been called by the
resident. Judge Albert Mcclellan r
to meet in Philadelphia on /
&c. IL.