Milford chronicle., 1908-10-30
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Thursday, October %.

CHHflSS E4lOl norton, the Weli-knOW
philanthropist and scholar and 70
many years a member OF the Harvar
faculty, died at his home at Cambridge
Mass.
William A. Gerton, an engineer oi
the Reading railway. was struck an,
instantly killed by a stone projecting
from q bridge at Fort Washington
near Philadelphia.
Three persons were killed, four 9th
ers badly injured and the lives of q
hundred more were imperilled by fire
In the six-story tenement hous at SO
East Third street. New York
Friday, October %.
Because she was forced to change
her home thirty-nine timss in her mar
ried life, Mrs Jennie E<'V Jarrett. Of
Fort Wayne, Ind. asked a divorce from
James E. Jarrett.
Crazed at the cancellation of his en-
gagement to Nellie Diemeyer. nineteen
years old, August Sauererein, aged
twenty-three, shot her twice and then
sent a bullet into his brain at Grand
Rapids. Mich.
Benjamin F. Gilbert aged IS years,
was found guilty Of murder in the first
degree at Norfolk Va. for killing his
sweetheart. Miss Amanda Morse. when
she refused his suit for the attentions
OF another young man.
Saturday, October a.
City Detective Clyde Edgeburn. of /
Pittsburg. shot and almost instantly /
killed Policeman Thomas Farrell. |
whom. it is said, he mistook for
While driving across Baltimore &
Ohio railroad crossing at Derby, O..
peddler's wagon in which were Albert
Lewis and Harry Bernfeldt was struck
by an express train and both occu-
pants were killed.
Despondent over long illness from
nervous prostration. Oscar J. Sell. who
managed five and ten-cent syndicate
jtores at Roanoke. Va. and Bristol.
Tenn. and who returned to Allentown. /
Pa, fourteen weeks ago, shot himself j
n the head at the home of his father v
n-law. +
Monday, October 26. :
A dummy election will be held on
he Isthmus of Panama, with Bryan ,'
nd Taft as candidates. II
Major Harry Benson succeeds Gen e.
raj Samuel NJ. Young as superintend-
ut of Yellowstone park. d
While picking coal on the railroad
! Island park, near South Bethlehem in
a.. Mrs. Michael Wasco was killed th
stantly. at
DR.. w. H. Jones, of Millerstown. te
A., has received from his friend. P. ] OF
,anlon, in Cork, Ireland, a piece Of III III
e original blarney stone from the PC PC
stle in Ireland.
An injunction has been issued at tb
IRE Haute. Ind, restraining the Ma be
NAL United Mine Workers officers it
I'm deposing leaders Of the district to
ganizatiOn at that place wi
Tuesday, October 27.
Cardinal Francis Matthew, of France. as
ID in London after an operation. ~
Rev DR. Hiram Bingham, the noted bv
ngregational missionary who un- the
went surgical operation at Johns pri
pkins hospital at Baltimore, died pro
'he supreme court of the United be
ties set Jan. for hearing of argu- me-
nts in the case of the commodities
Ise' of the Hepburn railroad rate d.
ecause of i'll health. Secretary Met. bntt
has been obliged to cancel his en- II Is
ement to address a political gath whe
g at Charlestown. W Va. next own
lay and has declined an invitation from
peak at Akron o. was
Wednesday. October %. acte
iss Therese Heinfurter ninety. thaV
n years old. died at Hudson. Wis. ~; teSu
is said to have been the oldest or ar
ster in America. "T
it'll his neck broken. the result of unde
lg down stairs at Milwaukee, Wis. you
nan Haedkeb. aged forty-four. "V
twenty-eight hours before he ex- toun'
thou,
e greater portion OF the thickly Wits
ed summer colony at Salisbury l.- &c NJ
h, Mass, was wiped out by a fire anJ P1G's :
, destroyed more than 100 cot rant =,
. entailing a loss of 100000. deten
Y. f. H. Nelson, who until two vet if
S ago was pastor of the Camden assist,
- Methodist Episcopal church. allege
a. the residence of Rev. under
White. at Delaware City. Del. know know
he was visiting eno J..
seller