Milford chronicle., 1908-06-05
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Wednesday, May %.
A wage scale operative until March
81, 1909, affecting about 10000 miners
IN the Pittsburg district has been
signed. 9H
John oDonnell, of Newark. N. J. a
painter, was whirled to death nv the
shafting in the factory of the # r
Virgins Son company at Bloomfield
N.
In mine explosion at Salinesville
near Lisbon, o., three men wena killed
outright and one man was killed nv a
falling pipe after he had been dragged
out of the mine by the rescuers.
Friday May %.
Victor Stanley, a lawyer. was sen.
fenced in New York to serve not less
than five years and not more than ter
years in state prison for forgery.
W. c. Smith, former president of the
National Exchange bank, of Lexington
KY. committed suicide at his home
Aear Lexington by shooting himself in
the head.
Ralph J. Lehman. the ten-yearold
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Lehman of
Lebanon, Pa, was accidentally drown.
ed in a pond in the Westenb1rger
stone quarry.
The trolley chain connecting Phila.
delphia with Reading was made com
plete when the first car made the run
from Pottstown to Boysrtown, a dis
tance of eight miles. in forty minutes.
Saturday. May 30.
Governor Stuart appointed Robert S. 1
Conklin, of Columbia, Lancaster coun. /
ty, Pa, to be state commissioner Of
forestry.
Mrs. Harriet Belt Stevens, of viii.
mington, Del, well known in society
and as an author, committed suicide at
Portland, Me-, by shooting herself.
President Roosevelt has appointed I
David F. Barry, Of Providence. R. l.,
and Herbert L. Satterlee. of New York
as members Of the board of visitors to
the naval academy.
President Roosevelt issued an order
that in honor of the memory of the
late General Stephen D. Lee. com.
mander-in-chief of the United Confed.
crate Veterans, the flags in the Ma.
donal Park cemetery at Vicksburg j
should be half-masted.
Monday, June I.
Winning approximately s2,O00,00O
by his corn corner James A. Patten
of Chicago. gave $4,000 for a gymna
SUM at Northwestern university.
While snoozing in the Matchbox t
James Kaser, a swtchman in the ]
Pennsylvania railroad yard at Sun t
bury, Pa, burst a blood vessel in his !
leg and lost two quarts of blood.
During Memorial Day exercises at
cemetery at st. Paul. Mimi.
F. Mccarthy, an aged rail [
road man, fell dead of heart disease e
while placing flowers on his wife's a
grave fl
Tuesday, June 2.
Charles W. Sharpe. of Camden, n Ii
J., alleged to be a bank swindler was
arrested at Newark, N. J.. on the re
quest of the police of Atlanta, Ga. q
President Roosevelt pressed an L
electric button which gave the signal a.
n Kingston, N. Y, to start the parade ei
n celebration of the 25Oth anniversary le
If the founding of that town. NJ
Leaving the side of his mother at
7itman, N. J.. George NJ. Park, four
lnd-a-half years old, son of Mr.. and q
hrs. Alexander Park. of Philadelphia L
to the shore of Tyler's lake L
nd was drowned. pl
It is probable that several men of
lected superintendent of schools in r.
oroughs throughout Pennsylvania -
,ill have to be elected over again be Vi
ause of failure to give advertised no =
Ice of the election.
Wednesday, June 3.
Hildebrand Fitzgerald, one of the
and business manager OF
le Philadelphia Item, is dead, aged
fty-nine.
Safe blowers blew the safe and rob
ed the postoffice at Maryville. Tenn, LO
,curing $51165 in cash and stamps
orth $500. Ce
Owing to a general decrease in the
,mand for anthracite coal. the Read VI
G company's Schuylkill collieries e.,
osed for three days. "
Frank Johnson, a negro, who killed
married woman at Clarksburg, W.
l., because she refused to elope with
m. was sentenced to be hanged Oh
ly II.
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