Milford chronicle., 1909-04-23
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, April IS.

Charles Sullivan was killed and four
ether persons were injured in Mem
phis, Tenn. when an automobile ran
down Sullivan as he was alighting
from a street car
O1cial announcement was made at
the White House that the president
has leased as a summer home the cot
tage Of Robert D Evans, at Woodside
Point, Beverly, Mass
Oliver Hazard. a broker. was ac-
quilted IN Allentown. Pa. Of the charge
Of ching implicated in the dynamiting
Of the safe in the store Of Recorder OF
Deeds Harvey T. Schuyler on Dec. 20.
Friday April IS.
The senate ratified a new patent
treaty between the United States and
Germany which was agreed to by the
committee on foreign relations.
Senator Stone introduced a bill pro
viding for free trade with the Philip
pine and for the independence Of the
Islands within fifteen years.
The body Of Alernon Charles Swim
burne, the post, who died April 10 at
PutAey, was laid At rest IN the church
yard Of St. Bonifaet. Bonchureh, Isle
Of Wight
The Youngstown (O) Sheet and
Tube company, one Of the largest in
dependent concerns in the country,
will let contracts for three new tube
mills to cost 100000.
Saturday, April II.
Berry SeaboTn, a negro, was cleo
trocuted in the penitentiary at Rich
mond, Va, for criminally assaUlting a
negro woman.
Mabel johnson. charged with killing
her husband, Louis Johnson, on Feb.
IS, was acquitted at Norfolk, Va, the
Jury being out only ten minutes.
Miss Harriet suter. principal Of one
Of the girls high schools Of New Or
leans, celebrated the hftieth anniver-
sary Of her service as a teacher in the /
public schools.
Ed Snyder. nineteen years old, was
arrested at Birmingham, Ala. on the
charge of inflicting what will prob
ably prove fatal injuries upon his
mother by throwing a vessel Of boiling
water on her back.
MonuayS April ~.
William E. cambridge, a confiden-
tial agent Of the United States treas
ury department, killed himself in
Paris.
Colonel James E. Montgomery. a
member Of General Grants STAFF dur
ing the Civil War. died In Pasadena
Cal, aged eighty-twO years.
Mrs. Elizabeth Booth Harrington,
mother of Newton Booth Harrington
the author, died at her home in In
dianapolis. Ind, of heart disease.
Two brothers, Isaac and Louis
Abrahams. fifty-ave and fifty years Of
age respectively, were found dead in
their home in New York having been
asphyxiated by Illuminating gas.
The will of the late Charles P. Ellis,
Of Philadelphia, bequeathed the bulk
Of his estate. estimated at s3O0O,O0O,
for the building Of a home for father
less girls. on lines similar in many re-
spects to Girard college.
Tuesday, March 20.
Mrs. Lucy Palmer Willard, a grand
niece of the late President James A.
Garfield. died in Seattle. Wash.
A washout sent a Grand Trunk
freight train from Grand Haven, east
bound. into the ditch one mile west Of
Grand Rapids. Mich, and three men
we're killed and one was fatally in :
jured. !
bolt Of lightning shot down
through the vestibule of the Methodist
church in the little hamlet :
of Meade. near Detroit, Mich. and al
though about fifty persons were crowd
ed together. there were but five in
iured.
Wednesday, April Fl. /,
-Four robbers blew open the safe Of .
the Bader Savings bank, at Badger !
Ia., secured $500 in silver and gold :
and escaped. G
Miss Rose Fremel fell dead at the !
uneral of her brother in Chicago as !
he last words Of eulogy we're being :,
laid over the casket. b
John Macarthur. twenty years old, .
captain of the Huntington, Ind, foot h
3all team, is dead as the result of in n
uries received in a game here with h
he Wabash high school eleven. /.
st. Louis Compress. No. 2, one of :,
he largest cotton congresses in Lit
le Rock. Ark, was practically de-
troyed by fire. causing a loss which it
{ estimated will approximate almost
4 OOO 600 U