Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-04-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


q. S. n, died at the naval medical
school hospital in Washington from
uraemic poisoning
Eighty federal prisoners confined in
the penitentiary at MOundsville. W.
Va. were taken to the federal prison
at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
The New York senate codes commit
tee reported favorably the bill making
the maximum punishment for kidnap-
pink fifty instead Of twenty-five years.
The extensive dry kilns of the Fore
man Blades Lumber company. at Eliz-
abeth City. n. c.. were destroyed by
FIRE with a loss of 100000 feet Of
valuable lumber and timber.
Friday, April 2.
President Taft declined an invitation
to attend the annual banquet Of the
National Manufacturers association in
New York on May l9.
Barney Devine. Leonard Stevens and
Matthew Taylor, indicted eight years
ago for the murder Of Clarence War
rick. fifteen years old, at SOmerton
o., have been arrested at GAINESVILLE. O.
The marriage OF Miss Mary Hoss
the only daughter Of Bishop E. E
Hoss. Of the Methodist Episcopal
/ Church South. to John McCurdy Head
man. a civil engineer. Of Philadelphia,
took place at Nashville, Tenn.
Saturday, April 3.
The February grand jury at st.
Louis returned its final report show
ing that it had found thirty-six indict
ments for fraudulent registration or
voting.
Twenty priests members Of the
Order of St. Mary. in Chicago, had a
narrow escape from suffocatiOn when
a fire broke out in the dormitory where
they were sleeping.
President Taft accepted an invita-
ton to attend the 250th anniversary |
of the founding of Norwich. Conn, 10 |
be held on July 4. If congress shall |
adjourn by that time
George Sterling. a mute. and his /
wife were arrested in Chicago, &C /
cused of kicking their two-year-old /
baby under the stove, where It receiv.
ed injuries from which it is expected /
to die.
Monday, April 5.
DR.. II. c. Dotter, Of Saginaw, Mich
founder and builder of the Pere Mar
quette railroad. banker. fnancier and
manager. died in California.
The postoffice at Enola. near Har
risburg. Pa. was robbed for the sec
ond time in two months. the safe be
ing blown to pieces and 500 in stamps
taken.
Eugene and J. l. Williams. brothers
were shot in a street in Hazlehurst
Ga by V. T. Showers, formerly of Con
yers. Ga. the latter probably fatally
as the result of a business quarrel
The supreme court of Tennessee de
cided that the Cumberland Presbyter
ian Church still exists, and those who
refused to recognize union with the
mother body are entitled to all the
church property.
Tuesday, April 6.
The senate ratified the extradition
treaty between the United States and
France
Dave Alexander, a negro. was lynch
ed at Pensacola Fla, for the murder
of Policeman Canton, whom the negro
stabbed to death while resisting ar
rest.
Fire supposed to have been of in
cendiary origin Destroyer the flour {
mill of J. A. Kinds & Co., at Rochester J
n. Y. together with 15O0o bushels OF q
wheat. entailing a loss Of 100000. Is
Christopher Holland arrested in \
Philadelphia and extradited to Toron +,
to. Ont. on charge Of attempted !,
fraud on nine banks of Canada was !.
found guilty and sentenced to five
years in the Kingston penitentiary a
Wednesday, April 7.
Adjutant General Thomas w. Scott q
died OF heart failure at his home al u
Fairfield Ill., b
Leaving notes telling Of a suicide 4
pact. Herman Bartlett and Belva Pugh
Joined hands and jumped into the Mis-
sissippi river at Alexandria. Mo.
Upwards of 600 saloons and ten
ness in the nineteen counties of Michi
gan which voted dry" at Mondays
election. &,
Two persons were killed. many 9th n
ers hurt and considerable pronertv :,
damaged by a tornado which struck :
Marion. I'll.
Two boys were killed and six others q
injured. several seriously, when car G.
On the st. Clair incline. in Pittsburg. ell
broke away about the center of the in 81
cline and plunged to the bottom. d,