Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-11-27
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
rhursdav. November fe.


Green Brothers shoe factory at Fred
ericksburg, Va.
Bitten in the hand on Aug. 80 while
rescuing several children from a rabid
dog, Gustave A. Wolf died in Chicago
of hydrophobia.
Major General W. H. Duvall has
been selected to succeed Major Gen
eral John F. Weston. in command of
the troops in the Philippines.
Fire supposedly Of incendiary orr
gin, at the Wabash Screen Door COM
pany. at Memphis, Tenn, destroyed g.
300. 900 feet of lumber, ehtailing a loss
of $4,000.
Friday, November 20.
Continued i'll health caused Judge
S. A. McClung, Of common pleas court
of Pittsburg, to send his resignation to
Governor Stuart.
Mrs. Mary Harbour, accused Of the
murder OF Miss Rose Adams, her fos-
ter daughter, was found guilty of muir
der in the second degree at Sioux
City, la.
Samuel E. Campbell, an automobile
dealer at New Haven. Conn, was held
criminally responsible for the death
Of Rev. Dr. G. Brinley Morgan, who
was struck and killed by Campbell's
machine.
John Krauss, who is connected with
the Pacific State & Sunset Telegraph
company. of San Francisco, commit
ted suicide in his cabin on the steamer
Adriatic while the vessel was enroute
to Queenstown, Ireland.
Saturday, November p.
Seven track labOrers on a hand car
we're run down by a Chicago. Burling-
ton & Quincy railroad passenger train
between Highland and Lagrange, Ill.
Henry L. Schrifogel was found guilty
of murder in the first degree for kill
ing Mrs. Mary Hamilton by jury in
the criminal court, Washington.
Joseph Meyer. a chauffeur, and Mar
garet Atkins we're drowned when an
automobile carrying them and three
other chauffeurs. each with a young
woman companion. swerved from its
course and plunged into the Calumet
river at Chicago.
Monday, November %.
Bryans official plurality in Nebras-
ka was 4102.
A heavy bOwlder that fell into the
West Algion slate quarry at Pen Argyll
Pa, struck Martin Parson. at work at
the bottom, and crushed out his life.
Fred Campbell, convicted Of attack
ing and shooting a twelve-year-old girl,
was sentenced at Franklin, Pa, to a
term of fifteen years in the peniten-
tiary.
A big automobile. containing nine
occupants. was struck by an electric
car at East Charleroi, Pa, and seven
of the occupants injured, one of them
fatally.
Tuesday, November "a.
John Barrow, a well-known river
man at Pittsburg. was murdered and
robbed of $500 and his body thrown
into the Allegheny river.
Arthur Honekar, ten years old, was
drowned while padding in leaking
boat on a lake at Bridgeton, N. J.
Rev. Henry F. O'Reilly. rector of
the Roman Catholic Church of the An
at Shenandoah, Pa, for the
last forty years, died suddenly OF apo
plexy.
During a heavy fog at Wheeling.
w. Va, two street cars collided at
Schads Crossing. fatally injuring Mo
torman Woods and seriously hurting
six passengers.
Wednesday, November rs.
The largest wooden schooner in the
world. the six-master Edward B. Wins
low. S18 fet long, was launched from
the yard of Percy & Small at Bath, Me.
While playing with the fire in the
kitchen stove in his home in Philadel-
phia. the clothing of three-year-old
Russell Simon became ignited and he
was burned to death.
John Haynes. farmer of Winona.
5. c.. after trying to kill his wife and
children with a shotgun. shot Henry
Moore. who went to the assistance Of
he family. in the leg, and then blew
)ut his own brains.
The orange crop of Cuba this year
will be the largest in the history of the
sland and will reach 100000 boxes,
according to a report made to the bu-
eau of manufactures by Consul Hola-
law of Santiago. Cuba