Milford chronicle., 1909-11-26
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
ErldaY. Novemher 1a.

Friday, November 10.
The city hall at Elmira, N. Y, was
destroyed by fire. but the records and
tax rolls were not injured
The comptroller of the currency is
sued a call for a statement Of the con
dition of all the national banks at the
close of business on Nov. 16.
Paul Wesley Collins, four years old
died of hydrophobia on a Big Four
train at indianapolis. Ind, while he
was on the way home from Chicago.
where he had been for treatment.
Death due to his profession is the
verdict of the friends Of Dr. Francis
B. Sprague. one of the foremost ear
and throat specialists in the country,
who died at Providence, r. l.. of blood
poisoning contracted while operating
on a charity patient
Saturday, November 20.
Two masked men dynamlted the
safe in the Bank of Alleman, at Ale
man. Ia, escaping with $1,000 cash
Charged with eight highway robber-
les. twice shooting victims and escap-
ing three times, Bud" McLaurin was
caught at Durham, n. c.
Governor Brown, OF Georgia. com
muted to life imprisonment the death
sentence of DR.. J. NJ. Elliott, of La
Grange. who was to have been hanged
at Atlanta for the murder of G. L.
Rivers.
It is stated in New York that the
earning power of the copper refining
and other companies that will enter
the proposed copper merger is be
tween S25,O0O.0OO and S9O,OOO,O00,
based upon 13-cent copper.
Monday, November %.
Peter Kroeyer, Denmark's foremost
and only world renowned painter, died
in Copenhagen.
Pittsburg announces that Republic |
Steel company puddlers' wages will
go back to $3.50 a ton.
While cunning near LincOlnton. N. |
c., Wood Rogers. aged eighteen years,
was killed By Earle Caldwell, a com.
rade of the same age.
The gross receipts from the sales
of North Dakota public lands during /
the fiscal year amounted to $1.282.6S6 |
while Montana lands brought $712,333 |
Quarreling with his sister-in-aw,
Mrs. Josephine Edwards. at Brooklyn
Adolph Ochs shot her in the back,
then shot himself in the head Both
probably will die.
Tuesday, November %.
Frank King. president of the Iron
union of Cleveland, O.. who
was waylaid and shot, died of his
wound
Philip Latourette. an insurance
broker, of New York. dropped dead
near the New Jersey Central station
at Somerville, n. J.
Edward Miller. known to the police
as the "hugger." was sent to Jail for
six months at Paterson, N. J., by the
for annoying young
women after dark.
Mrs. Philip Snowden, the leader Of
the persuasive suffragettes of Eng
and was presented to President Taft
1t the White House a,d had a few
minutes conversation with him re-
yarding wOmen's rights.
Teodoro Rizzo. who murdered The
'esa Proconia, seven years old. and
Freddy Infusino. two and half years .
I'D, in a lonely culvert in Utica, N. Y,
he night Of Sept 70 last, was cleo
rocutsd in Auburn prison.
Wednesday, November "a.
Vespasian Warner, United States
tension commissioner. received from
President Taft an acceptance of Mr.
Warmers resignation.
Lonely without the wife who had
een dead for eight years, John Hart
nan an aged Englishman, of Cleve-
and o. cut his throat
The large wholesale dry goods store
( the Bernard Frank company. at
Iontgomery. Ala. was struck by light
ing and totally destroyed.
Bloodhounds in running down the
of seventeen-yearold Myra
mith, who was attacked on the street
t Lima, O.. came near causing the
cath of the wrong man.
Following a conference between
Iayor Tom L. Johnson, of Cleveland
nd the administration councilmen in
le formers office, ordinances grant
lg a franchise for a $50,00O,000 sub
ay system to the Cleveland Subway
1mDanv were introduced in the citv