Milford chronicle., 1908-10-23
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, ostsbsr IS.

/ of Philadelphia, died ~ the DSiAWsEs
hospital In Wilma GtoH, Del, from th'
aRecta Of : brohan meek auuteined by
a fali from . chestnut tree nsar vii
mnKton tive weeks ago.
The conscience fund Of the postoffies
desartment was enFiehsd to the extent
OF $50 by q remittsncs, received from
q woman. who explained that fifteen
years ago, when she was postmistress
at a small ONCE. she appropriated the
sontents Of q package.
]. w. Lorraine. charged with steal
ing pay checks from the public health
department in Washington last Au,
gust, pleaded guilty in the federal
court at Atlanta, Ca. and was sen
fenced to FIVE years imprisonment and
to pay a fre Of $1,000.
Friday, October 10.
Six persons were badly burned and
ethers were less seriously injured at
Amherst, o., when = tank car filled
with gasoline on the Lake Shore road
exploded, following q wreck
Antoine MuEzarelli, aged sixty-one
q veteran of the French army and
prominent both In this country and
abroad as an educator and q writer,
committed suicide in New York by
shooting.
Yonkers, N. T.. the place, and the
second Tuesday in October. 1909. the
time, we're selected for the next an
nual convention Of the supreme castle,
knights OF the Golden Eagle.
Saturday, October II.
DIR. Won TiedmaDn, postmaster al
Cortsz, New, was arrested. charged
with embezzling s440o Of the funds Of
his ONCE.
The treasury purchased $4,000
ounces Of silver for delivery at New
Orleans and so. 900 ounces for delivery
at Denver at 51SOT per fine ounce.
Fire destroyed 100000 feet OF
lumber and two saw mills and devas
tated an area Of ten acres at Rock
Island. ILL.,. causing a loss Of 100000. |
One child was killed and another
seriously injured and a whole neigh
borbood was thrown into a tumult as
a result OF an explosion in the paint
shop Of Louis Kersberg, in New York.
Monday, October 10.
Pittsburg has a girl dying Of too
many pickles, eaten in facotry where
she worked
Captain Joseph T. Brown, Of Birney
Mont, Democratic candidate for presi
Dental electOr, died in a st. Louis hos
pital
Government experts at Yuma, Ariz.
declare tests have shown both Egyp
tian cotton grown there and an i'm
ported roller gin are great successes.
Slipping from a freight train on
which he was riding at Williamsport
Pa, thirteen-year-old Emersan Guthrie
had his left leg taken of at the knee.
Tuesday, October 20.
Gus Rogers. the comedian Of Rogers
Brothers. died suddenly at his home
n New York.
Mrs. John A. Blackburn was burned
o death near her home at Schell
". Va. while lighting forest fires.
Harry f. CrOut. manager of the Club
lotel at Baltimore, Md. was stricken
With heart trouble while attending the
performance at the Gayety theatre and
led within five minutes in the theatre
obby.
John Karle, a porter in the plant OF
he American Rope Manufacturing
ompany, in Brooklyn. was mangled
} death by a carding machine In the
of 300 screaming girl oper
tives.
Wednesday, October Fl.
The skeleton of prehistoric animal
,rty feet long and twenty-five feet in
eight has been found in the Bad
ands south Of Glasgow, Mon.
Stepping from train slde-tracked
. Burlington, N. J., Walter Stack
ouse, of Bridgeboro, walked in from
the westbound milk train and was
tally injured.
Harry and Lewis Kanarr were killed
Id their mother, Mrs. James Quick
as fatally injured at Glare, Mich, by
e explosion of sixteen pounds of dy-
mite which had been placed in their
zen to dry and was forgotten.
An attempt to light a fre with kero
ne cost the life Of Mrs. Mary Petlak
Cleveland, o., indicted burns upon :
r husband. Lawrence. from which
will probably die, and came near
rning their infant child, asleep in an
4r4nfno noon,