Milford chronicle., 1909-09-24
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursdsy. september ID.

JOnn j. SWangers nour mill at MY
erstown, Pa, was destroyed by fire
entailing a loss of $4,000.
Lister Philips, twenty-five years old
was crushed to death at New Holland
Pa, when six tons of rock fell from
the side of a quarry in which he was
working.
Pay Director James A. Ring, senior
officer Of the pay corps of the navy
and for many years in charge Of the
pay office at Portsmouth, N. H., retired
on account Of age.
Because Mrs. Jessie Gabel, q widow,
refused to marry him, Charles Eason
shot and killed the woman at Fort
Worth, Tex, and after drinking the
contents of a two-ounce bottle of car
bolic acid sent q bullet through his
brain.
Friday, September II.
Fire destroyed the flour mills and
elevators Of Iglehart Brothers, at
Evansville, Ind, entailing a loss OF
100000.
Burglars broke into the Neenah,
Wis, postohice, blew open two vaults
and obtained about $1,000 in stamps
and money.
DR.. John W. Coffin, a major in the
Tenth Pennsylvania Volunteers during
the Spanish-American war in the Phil
ippines. died at Bl Paso, Tex.
National Negro Baptists at their an
nual convention at Columbus, o., unan
imously reelected Rev. DR.. e. C. Nor
ris, Of Helena, Ark, to serve as presi
dent for his sixteenth year.
Saturday September 1s.
Bishop McCloskey, of the Catholic
diocese Of kentucky, died at Louis
Vile. KY.
The convention Of the Fraternal Or
der of Eagles at Omaha Neb., decided
to hold its next grand aerie at st. .
Louis.
Chang Yin Tang. the newly appoint
ed Chinese minister to the United /
States. in succession to- WI Ting Fang |
has left Peking for Washington.
Harrisburg Pa, grocers, who were
prosecuted by Dairy and Food Com (
missioner Foust for selling ketchup |
containing excessive quantities Of ben
zoate of soda, pleaded guilty and paid
fines Of $50 each.
Monday, September 20.
The union label will be restored in
all the hat factories Of Danbury, Bethe
and New Milford, Conn.
For killing a fellow-soldier, John E
Gibson has been given a life sentence
In the federal prison at Leavenworth
Kan.
A shipment Of 1913 high-bred cattle
from the Isle of Jersey, estimated to
be worth $4,000, has arrived at Coop
srsburg, Pa.
Police Of Nashville, Tenn, have
averaged six arrests a day for drunk
snness since July 1, when prohibition
vent into effect,
Governor Harmon, OF Ohio invited
he governors Of all the states and ter
itories Of the United States to attend
With delegations the National Coed
roads Congress, to be held in Colum
,us, O., Oct % to 20.
Tuesday, September Fl.
Bishop Seth Ward, of the Methodist I
Episcopal Church South, died at Toxic,
aD2zn.
A. H. Sanders, of Chicago. announc- +
d his acceptance of President Taft's r
to membership on the new 4
oard of tariff commissioners. +
James King, charged with having as v
assinated Charles Scribner from am a
ush near Beattyville, KY, has been 4
aptured by a posse of officers with r
loodhounds after a chase Of five days. v
Heart-broken because a scornful l,
ugh from the belle Of the Italian r
larter greeted his pleas for her hand /,
marriage, Luigi Bracaleone leaped s.
death from the high bridge over @
anther Hollow in Schenley park at r,
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Wednesday, September %. a
John and Henry Queen. brothers, Of
Ieming county, KY, in a general fight
ith negroes, we're both mortally shot
There was an aggregate increase of
.19O,037 in internal revenue receipts a.
T August as compared with the cor ~
spending period Of 1908. -
Three men were killed when the II
ontreal express, bound from Mon u
cal for Boston, crashed into the rear
the disabled Quebec express from =
lebec for Boston about a mile and p
half from Pattee, N. H. -
In the superior court at Greensboro.
c., Gather Holt, a negro youth, g g
eaded guilty to the charge of at ~ ~
mpted rape on Maggie Powers, a girl a
his own color, and was sentenced to
teen years in the state penitentiary
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