Milford chronicle., 1909-08-06
CONDENSED N-WS ITEMS.
Thursday, July 2e.


The union scale has been signed to
cover the tin plate mill at Cumber
land. Md. of the n & G. Taylor Co.,
Of Philadelphia.
The Western Federation Of Miners
instructed the executive board to print
Socialist literature in number OF Ian
guages for distribution.
While working in a bayfield, at Lack
awack. Ulster county ~ j., John Hon
ST.. seventy-eight years of age, drop
ned dead from heart disease.
One man was killed and two were
injured when a mortar exploded dur
ing a fireworks display in connection
with the convention of the National
Hav Dealers association at Cedar
Point near Sandusky o.
Friday july 30.
The French ambassador to the Unit
ed states J J Jusserand, and Nine
Jusserand sailed for Euroye on the
steamer La Lorraine.
John r TAFT ranking high as an
artist and a critic of note was foun.
dead at the foot Of a flight Of steps IN
his home in Baltimore
The plant Of the South Baltimore
Steel Car and Foundry company was
bought IN by the reorganization CON
mittee of creditors for S340000.
George Watson seveuty-six years OF
ace prominent retired citizen oi
Reading Pa. died on a trolley car
while returning from a park where he
had become ILL.,
Frank NJ. Boyer. an appendicitis pa
tient in the Harrisburg, Pa, hospital
fell or threw himself from third
story window in the hospital and died
two hours later.
Saturday, July 81.
The senate ratified an arbitration
treaty between the United States and
Paraguay. which was signed on March
13 last
President Taft has been elected an
honorary member Of the Tuna club
the famous fishing organization of
Catalina island. at Los Angeles Cal
As result Of a switch engine dash
ing into heavily loaded suburban.
street car in Memphis. Tenn, one per
son was killed and FIVE or six were
injured
Claude Brooks. aged twenty-one
years. negro. was hanged at Kansas
CITY for the murder Of Sidney Hern
don. well-to-do real estate owner, for
merly of Tyler Tex. Jan. 10 1908.
Monday, August 2.
The government contract for S25,Ooo
Yards of olive drab cotton cloth for
the army goes to a Massachusetts mill
at 25 cents a yard.
A nail in the foot then gangrene
and amputation of the leg to save h :
life all ended in the death OF Thomas
Lauer at Berwick Pa.
From a bullet wound inflicted by MS
divorced wife. John Haker died near
Lansing Mich. a question Of money
having started the trouble
The North Carolina corporation com
mission has closed the Citizens Ban'
and Trust company at Southern Pines
/ bacause Of a cash shortage.
In an auto accident at Lake Geneva.
H.. Philip Swift eldest son of Edward
F. Swift. the packer had a leg broken
and was badly cut and bruised.
Tuesday, August 3.
President Taft has decided to in
cIude Charleston S c. in his timer
ary for the western and southern trip.
The funeral Of Harry c. Pulliam.
late president OF the National League.
who committed suicide in New York
was held at Louisville. Ky
Franklin K. Lane, a member Of the
/ Interstate commerce commission, is ar
present in France, studying the regu
/ Iations applied to French railroads.
In the presence of a large number OF
{ citizens the tablet marking the site OF
old Fort Yates. where General Grant
led his regiment. the Twenty-frst llli.
nois infantry. in 1861, was dedicated
at Springfield I'll.
Wednesday, August 4.
Thomas Fl Heist former owner o
the Bolton house and a prominent
business man of Harrisburg. Pa. Gied
suddenly at his home at Wayne juno
/ tion. Philadelphia. aged seventy years
The raising of the battleship Maine
in Havana harbor by the United States
government was favored in a resolu
tiou passed by the New York state DE-
partment. United Spanish WaI Vet
erans
President Taft has approved the sen
tence OF dismissal in tie case of First
Lieutenant Frank w Tall Twenty
aftb infantry Z. s A. recently tried
twice bv court martial in the Philin