Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-10-16
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
ThuradaY. October 8.


EuchaTistic Congress in London last
month. after several visits to the pope.
returned from Europe Wednesday on
the steamer Caronia.
After rescuing an aged woman from
q burning house. Policeman Nicholas
Nestor, Of Jersey City, N j.. again
plunged into the blazing building and
met death by suffocation.
Harry Augustus Garfield a son Of
President James A. Garfield and a
brother Of Secretary of the Interior
James R. Garfield, was indicted as
president OF Williams college, at VII
Jamestown. Mass.
Friday, October 9.
Henry T. Mcbride was killed by
falling from an electric light pole in
New York. from which he yas trying
to get view Of base ball game
Robert QuAiley. the fourteen-year-
old schoolboy, who was shot in New
York while standing in front OF his
home during a clash between striking
and non-union chauReurs died.
The proposed arbitration treaty be-
tween China and the United States
was signed at the state department,
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minister,
acting on behalf OF the Chinese gov
eminent and Secretary Root on behalf
Of the America government.
Saturday, October 10.
A fifth conviction for fraudulent
election practices was recorded at St.
Louis, when John II. Buckner pleaded
guilty and was sentenced to three
years Imprisonment.
Joseph Painter, Sr, aged eighty-siX
years, head of the firm OF Joseph
Painter & Sons. who operate a big
iron foundry at MyeTstown, Pa, died
from a complication of diseases.
Lucy Mitchell. forty years old. who
IL charged with killing Minnie Nc
Bryde, a seventeen-year-old girl with
an axe in her home at Union Hall.
Franklin county, Va, was brought to
the Roanoke Jail for safekeeping.
Monday, October IL.
E. A. S. Blake, contractor, was
convicted at San Francisco Of trying
TO bride a prospective juror in the Abe
Ruef bribery case.
For the murder OF Albert Baker. his
wife Myrtle Baker, was given a six
years sentence and his motherin-law. |
Mrs. NJ. H. Raney, five years sen
tence at st. Louis.
The body of Ambro Watson. aged !
sixty years, a prominent farmer and |
churchman, was found in a field on |
his farm, near Meadville Pa. with a /
suicidal bullet hole in the temple.
While strolling through his garden, /
quietly celebrating his seventy-seventh !
birthday anniversary, George Breakell.
a well-known citizen. dropped dead at
his home near Hancock Md.
Tuesday, October 10.
Mrs. Charlotte Decker. who would
have been ITO years old on Nov. q,
died at Seneca Falls, N. Y.
Several thousand chickens and prop
erty valued at $4,000 was DESTROYED
by fire in the wholesale produce mar
ket in Chicago
Colonel J. Mansfield Davies, promi-
nent as a commander in the Civil
War. died at his residence at Burling-
ton. VT. aged eighty years.
Harold Ewing, the twenty-four-year-
old son of Judge Robert L. Ewing ac-
cidentally shot and killed himself at
his home in Nashville. Tenn.
Dependency because he had been
Tilted by young woman led John Ed
wards, Of Philadelphia. to attempt to
commit suicide by jumping from the
Brooklyn bridge.
Wednesday, October IA.
In a signed statement Chancellor ,
of the Nebraska State uni
versity, forbade class fights, kidnap- ,
pings and night gown parades. ,
A large section Of the town Of Stet
tier. Alberta. was wiped out by fire.
including fve hotels. twenty stores, 1
the bank and the postofice, and Leslie I
Miller, who was sleeping in a store I
Ost his life. '
D. o. Seaman. a farmer went to the I
district school at Goldsberry, Mo. 4
allied out his two sons. aged ten and d
welve years. shot one Of them dead. v
mortality wounded the other and then b
hot and killed himself.
Several girls were slightly injured
md 100 more had a narrow escape
rom death when the ferry steamer
Ariel, running between VAUDEVILLE, 7
int. and Detroit, collided in a fog .