Milford chronicle., 1909-02-05
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
rhursday, JanuarY q.

The senate ratified an arbitration
treaty with Brasil.
Wilson Heckdom, a miner. wa
struck and killed by a train At q cross
ing fifteen miles north OF Lebanon. Pa
William spOOner. a farmer, and hi.
ten-year-old son. Wilfrid, were killed
instantly at the Montreal street grade
crossing, Kingston, Ont
Curtis N. Buzbey is under arrest in
I Philadelphia, charged with embezzling
$4,000 from his employers, Vance 4
Peters, a hardware firm.
Frank Clarke, a chemist. was shot
and mortally wounded in a Quarre
with Clyde Butterheld. a mail carrier
IN a hotel at Fort Henry, N. Y.
Friday, January 20.
William Robinson, Of Philadelphia
was struck and killed by q train al
Eikton. Md.
Melancholy over domestic trouble
William GahRey. an iron ore miner al
Belvidere, N. j., shot and killed him
self
Lumber prices in sncouver. 3. c..
have advanced 81 per 1000 feet o.
common grades. and within a short
time there will be an advance affecting
all outside points.
Since the devil tracks" we're first
reported in South Jersey it has been
noticed that not a chicken roost rob.
berry has been reported. although pre-.
vious to that time hardly a night pass
ed but that a number of chicken rob
berries were not reported.
Saturday, January 80.
The treasury has purchased 100000
ounces OF silver for delivery at New
York. at 5192O per fine ounce.
One man was killed and four others
seriously injured in a collision between
a freight and construction train on the
Pittsburg q Lake Erie railroad al
Beaver Falls. Pa. near Pittsburg
Theodore Adams, OF Poughkeepsic
N. y was arrested and charged wit
the murder of his brother-in-law. Jon
Klif. Of that place after Mrs Xiii
had accused Adams OF robbing her
Frances Folsom Cleveland, widow
Of the late President Cleveland. an0
Mary Lord Harrison, widow Of the late
President Harrison, were granted the
franking privilege during their life
time by congress.
Monday, February I.
The Kansas house passed a bill pre-
hibiting the making or selling OF Gig
arctic papers.
Caesar Mattucci, Of Slateford Pa
has started suit for $1,000 against the
Lackawanna railroad for the loss OF an
eye.
Fire starting in the White Front
dry goods store at Freeport, ILL.,, de
stroyed three business houses. Loss
100000
A fire which destroyed their home
near London. Ont. cost the lives o
Philip Vansickle his SON daughter and
sOninlaw.
Charged with embezzling $4,000 re
ceived as license money. former Coun- !
ty Clerk William W Wallace of Nc
Minnville. Tenn, was arrested in Cali
fornia.
Tuesday, February ?.
Two children Of Nathaniel Work |
man were burned to death in a fire
that destroyed their home in Bath |
county. Ky.
Charles H. Brent Protestant Epi |
copal bishop Of the Philippines. was
elected chairman of the international
opium commission at Shanghai, China
President Roosevelt has accepted AT
invitation TO attend a farewell meet
ing OF the congregation of Grace Re
formed church in Washington on the
evening of Feb 49,
Panic stricken because Of the pres
ence of scarlet fever in the institution
thirty students of the Mercersblr-
(Pa) academy broke the quarantine
and fed in a body.
With the gas radiator turned or
full. Frederick Vahey forty years old
and his wife Marie were found dead
from asphyxiation in their apartmen
In Jersey city. n. J.
Wednesday, February 8.
The United States senate agreed 70
vote on the Brownsville bill Feb %
Ben I. Jones, one OF the wealthies;
men in Georgia. while in a depresset
condition. shot himself through tho
head at Macon. death resulting in
,tantly.
John Gilmer Speed, the author an
journalist committed suicide by shoot
ng himself in the head while in hi.
at the Phoenix house al
dendham. y. J.
Rev John Foster Dodd until las
-uly general secretary OF the Newarl,
and secretary Of the Int
rational Missionary society. Of the
church. died at Phillipsburg.
Z. j.. aged seyenty-two years.
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