Milford chronicle., 1908-05-29
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday May q.

Inc comptroller OF the currency is
sued a call for the condition of ma
tional banks at the close of business
on May IA.
Percy G. Marling, aged fifty-fve. OF
Montreal, committed suicide by iumD
ing from the window Of a room in the
Hotel Manhattan, in New York city.
Twenty-one persons were injured
many of them seriously. and hundreds
narrowly escaped death at a perform
ance Of the Charity Circus in Chicago.
when all the seats in the tent sud,
denly gave way.
Friday, May %.
Joe Cans and Battling Nelson have
signed articles for a forty-fve-round
battle, to take place in San Francisco
on the afternoon Of July l.
Mrs. Fred Grothe was killed and
several others more or less injured in
a tornado which struck Lincoln. a
small town northwest of Salina, Kan.
The business of the United States
Steel corporation during April has
shown an improvement over March
which, as officially announced by Pres.
ident Gary when the annual report
was made public. was considerably
better than the business in February
or January.
Saturday, May %.
In the midst of an exciting game Of
base ball in Hazelwood. near Pitts.
burg, Ralph C. Barr, aged eleven. one
OF the players, was struck over the
heart by hard hit line drive and died
almost Immediately
From the reports now in the posses.
sion of c. NJ. Day, president of the
Denver Convention league, it is evil
dent that more than 100000 visitors
will attend the national Democratic
convention in July.
Ira Oakley young white man, has
been arrested in GAINESVILLE, Va, |
charged with the murder of Mrs. J. NJ.
Underwood and her young son and the
burning of their house at Fuquay
Springs, N. c., to conceal the crime on
Feb. last
Monday, May IS.
Forty-eight per cent of the adult |
Indians of Alaska are suffering from
tuberculosis, while practically all OF
the children have some disease OF
other.
Rev. William H. Connolly, for the
past three years rector of St. Ga.
briefs Catholic church at Hazleton,
Pa, died from kidney trouble, aged
forty-four years.
Harry Russell, a ten-year-old boy,
has confessed to robbing a railroad
depot at Spokane, Wash, of $500, a
crime for which an aged section fore
man had been arrested.
Elmer Peterson, aged seventeen,
and his brother, Charles, aged six.
teen, were killed in a mine of the
Pennsylvania Coal & Coke company
at Hastings, near Johnstown. Pa.
Tuesday, May &c.
Five persons lost their lives in the
Goods in Oklahoma and many had mar.
row escapes.
Thomas E. French, Samuel K. Rob
bins and George J. Bergen were ap-
pointed receivers for the State Mutual
& Loan association of New
Jersey.
Stanictos Rokwski, sixteen years of
lge. an inmate of the Boys Protectory
It FIatlands. near Norristown, Pa, was
lrowned while bathing in the Perkio,
nen creek.
Congressman Charles E. Littlefeld,
# Maine, who will retire from CON
,ress at the conclusion of his present
ERIN, was admitted to practice law in
he federal courts by Judge Hough, in
Jew York city.
Wednesday, May 27.
Peter Celop, an Austrian, was hang
d at Harrisburg, Pa, for the murder
f Stefan Cosio, on Dec. last.
Alleged to have scOlded four men
nd embarrassing them in public. Mrs.
,arrie Nation was arrested at Pitts !
urg. Pa, charged with disorderly con
act
Frank StilIwell, eighteen years old.
CRYING a sentence for burglary at the :
Indiana reformatory at Jacksonville {
lied himself in his cell by hanging /
imself with a towel s
Wi nam NJ. Simpson. a well-known
locomotive engineer. was shot and +
illed at Roanoke. Va, by Sadie But. !
,r. formerly of Lynchburg, who i'm
ledistely drank a bottle of carboltc &
cid and died in a few minutes. :