Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-10-29
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thureday, October 81.

Pennsylvania Railroad company, an
Rounces plans for the erection Of
new Chicago union passenger station
and terminal in Chicago to cost not
less than S25.OO0OOO.
Lehigh university, at South Bethle-
Aem Pa, according to the new regis
tration has an enrolment of $50 stu
dents. divided as follows Graduate
students 27; seniors. $50; juniors, 145;
sophomores. ISL; freshmen, TIA; spe-
eial students, 7.
Friday, October %.
DR.. James H. Carlisle, eightyfour
years old. president emeritus of WOf
ford college. died at Spartansburg, S. C.
H. S. McAllister has been appointed
superintendent Of construction Of pub
lie buildings in the treasury depart
ment at Washington.
The General Education Board in
New York announced a conditional ap-
preparation Of S125,00O to Ohio Yves
leyan university at Delaware, o.
twenty-five persons were drowned |
following the bursting of a dam at |
Lake Derkos, thirty miles northwest |
Of Constantinople, which supplies wa !
ter for the Turkish capital.
Saturday, October %.
Andrew Williams. colored, was hang |
cd at Chicago for the murder Of his |
wife two years ago. Williams observed |
to the guard: We'll, it's a fine morn
ing to die"
One murder, two riots. scores of
street fights and the severance of
three business partnerships is the re-
suit of four lays of political strife at
tendant upon the election of the first
mayor of Gary ILL.,
Louis BALKAN, a negro preacher, was
hanged at Grove Hill, Ala. for the
murder Of a deputy sheriff last August.
David Taft Robinson, aged ninety
four years. a cousin of President Taft.
died at Redwood. o.
Edward w. Pecker, a shoe manu-
facturer of Boston and Lynn, Mass,
died at the University hospital at Bal
timore from the effects of injuries re
ceiVed when his automobile turned
turtle near Savage, Nd.
Monday, October 25.
slight earthquake shock at Mem {
phis Tenn. did no damage.
Torev Tomalitus and wife were ar
restol a Chicago on charges of coun-
ter NJ ,
c.. ged with stealing $500 from his
eighty-year old grandfather Jesse c.
Evans was arrested at Altoona, Pa.
Salvatore Pinello of Chicago, made {
a dying statement that Black Hand
ers. whose demands he refused, had 1
shot him. /
Returning to his home at Pottstown, n
Pa, from the fremen's celebration at ;
Phoenlxville. Harry McCrea, member
Of the Philadelphia Fire company, was
found dead in bed at his boarding Il
house. with the gas turned on. a
Tuesday, October 26. !
Matthias Collins, aged fifty years, a
well known farmer near Laurel, Del.
committed suicide by shooting at his F
home 81
While respondent from ill health
Henry c. Carpenter. cashier of the =,
Queens County Savings Institution. at
II Broadway Flushing, N. Y shot and
killed himself in the vault of the bank.
Fear that his family would have him
adjudged insane led Martin C. Thayer, v
aged sixty-seven years, a laborer, o.
Kan, to shoot his wife :,
Mary A. Thayer, and then shoot and I,
kill himself ~
Austin Wright, of Hightstown, N. J.. d
attending the convention of the Uni II
versalist church with her husband at al
Detroit. Mich, was seized with pull pl
apoplexy while walking on al
Cass avenue and died in a hospital. W
Wednesday, October 27. "a
Jacob DOld aged eighty-three years. 40
head of the packing house which bears -
his name died at Buffalo. N. Y. g
The dying wish of Francisco An OF
ireola was gratifed when he had the co
biggest funeral ever seen here, and pr
which cost $1,000. tn
Leonard Kohler, an electriction, was liz
,remated in fire that destroyed the
ar barns of the Peoria H. Terminal
company. Loss. 100000
Without fear and expressing his for
,iveness for all the officials. Rocco pc
lacco. a w~Il known Italian. alleged in
eader of 2lack Hand organization we
nd convicted of the murder of Selee m,
Iouk a state game warden a yea m;
go, was nged in the county jail ,
ard at New Castle. Pa