Milford chronicle., 1909-02-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. January 4.

rado legislature making It misde
meanor to give, accept or solicit a tip
except on a sleeping car
Rear Admiral William J Barnette,
superintendent Of the naval observa-
tory at Washington. was transferred
to the retired list by reason of age.
The Pennsylvania state board OF
health ordered that sixteen COWS af /
fected with tuberculosis at the poor /
district aimshouse at Freeland. Pa, be
killed
Three trainmen were killed and one
was fatally injured when two stock
trains on the Chicago. Milwaukee &
St Paul railroad collided head on at
Briceville, Mo.
Friday February 5.
Richard Mueller, president OF the
Association OF German Veterans liz
America. was received in audience BY
Emperor William In the palace in
Berlin
Charles F. Holmes. against whom
damaging testimony was given By his
tWelve-year-Old son IN St. Louis, was ,
declared not guilty OF the murder OF
his wife
The United States has been asked to /
be represented at the International \
Musical Congress. to be held in Vienna
In May. 1903, on the occasion OF the +
centennial celebration OF the birth Of :
Josef Haydn. the composer. +
Saturday. February 8. J
Drinking carbolie acid In mistake n
for castor oil. Dudley 3. Latham, q law
student at Columbia university New a
York, died in a hospital t,
Five hundred cattle were drowned Il
by the food waters on the Stanford 81
ranch, near Tehama. Cal, and 1900 jc
sheep perished near Colusa C
VIII Foster. 8 negro. twice convicted II
OF numbering John Young, a we'll II
known white man. two years ago. was tr
hanged in the county Jail at Spartans- th
burg. S. c.
William Cloke, one Of the best
known newspaper men in New Jersey
and recently appointed By Governor II
Fort a state commissioner OF reports
died at his home In Trenton.
Monday February 8. &
The postofice at Enola. Pa. was fe
robbed. the safe being blown open and loi
over 5000 taken. wa
Il cost the Pennsylvania railroad W
1880 in the Lancaster pa court for we
destroying the lumber shed OF U. G Tn
dellinger through a spark from a 10 cal
omotive. pc,
Eight negroes will be hanged for cal
murder at different places in louisiana wa
larch s.
The National Model License league ste
of liquor men. will hold con
entions throughout the country to Ec
'Ork for uniform license laws.
The Wyoming house has passed a a.
i'll appropriating $500 for dry farm.
lg experiments this year.
Tuesday, February 9. kov
Or. Elizabeth James. aged seventy OF
ght years. the oldest woman phys ing
an in Chicago, died at the county bon
1spial Of heart disease. bro
T. H. Pardo de Tavera. who has Mo,
zen a member OF the Philippine com Yves
ission since September. 1901, has re- bac
gned on account Of IN health, to take
feet March l.
Mrs William H. Taft wife OF the b
esident elect has just been elected Mar
member of the Connecticut Society yeal
Colonial Danes Of America, by right fan,
her descent from Thomas Welles TO Ii
. of the early governors Of the state. Mis-,
Henry and Bud harrington, father her
d son, fought against Robert and goin
aries Weatherford. brothers. with the
tols at Alexandria. La. over a dog. prev
d both the Barringtons were killed
1 Robert Weatherford was mortally Pre-
unded. w
Wednesday, February 10. L'ooS
I. J. Miller, an erecting engineer can
forty feet from a crane at Oak nan
Mt, near Pittsburg and was killed va
,enator Foraker on Tuesday pre- pOuu
ted to the senate the credentials SoHil
his successor, Senator Elect Theo MS
e E. Burton, OF Ohio.
he comptroller Of the currency Is. "a
d a call for a statement OF the con 2 W
on of national banks at the clos Nom
business on Friday, Feb. s. At he
1seph BartoseVic. twenty-five years a.
was found along the Philadelphi, ing A
Reading railway, above Phoenix
= Pa, with both legs severed. catU
he J. & S. Emison corn mill. cor OHsI
s and elevator. together with 100.
bushels Of corn, were destroyed by Lost
at Vincennes, Ind, causing a loss
m mn San