Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1909-01-15
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. January Z.


The senate ratified arbitration trea
i8s with the Argentine Republic an
Salvador.
Mrs Mary McVannen Campbell.
rthal daughter OF the American Revc
tuition. whose father served sever
YEARS with the Revolutionary army
died at Warren Pa. aged ninety-tw
Ttkars
Edward Wright. commissioned b.
GPneral Booth to investigate the ad
Visibility Of establishing a Salvation
Army colony in Mexico. was received
byf President Diag. who warmly com
"a. ended the project
Friday, January 8.
1.-THE Fort View hotel at Winchester
KY, was destroyed by fire. aud one
gulest was burned to death and several
injured.
Because the dare is too near his
African trip. President Roosevelt has
desclned an invitation to attend the
dhhner OF the Iowa society in New
YORK on March 10.
Mrs Dougles Bolton was killed and
MI ss Eva Bolton. John Bolton. Mrs
FRIED Odell and Mrs. Fred Curtis were
Sc t-iously Injured in a FIRE at Calumet
Mf CHI, which destroyed a small apart
nd mt building.
Harry Gilmore, seventy years old.
vii has spent thirty-six years in
pra son for various robberies received
Ientence of eight years in Jersey City
tora boardinghouse thefts to which he
confessed his guilt.
Saturday, January g.
WHILE their parents were at a frollc
al neighbours home at Spartansburg
s q. three negro children persisted In
an re that destroyed their house.
Flew. Horace W. Bolton. D. D.. tenn
periance evangelist, Of the Whining
toni NJ. E. conference, died at his home
in Camden Del, from an attack Of
diabetes.
Frederick Corby Pole. thirty,four
yedlrs old wanted In Montreal on
chdlrge Of grand larceny in the sum Of |
$4,000, has surrendered himself to the |
police at Cincinnati. o.
John Witizar was instantly killed .
and John Thorma probably fatally in
iurIed in BraddOck, a suburb OF Pitts
bufg at a crossing Of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad by a shifting engine.
Monday January II.
"A cat, apparently suffering with the
rabies. attacked and seriously bit Mrs
Mary Corners in a Chicago grocery
store
Despondent, Frank Naftzgar. a well
TODD mill owner of Wooster, o., kille
himself by shooting on his mothers
grave.
Ross Shingler. of Altoona Pa eight
years old, found a dynamite cap. struck
Il with a hammer. and the explosion
CARRIED away his left hand.
Julia Zimcavage, aged three years
fell from a chair into tub of scaliiu-
waiter at Shenandoah Pa and was So
te1i ribly burned that she viii die.
Two blind inmates an aged negres
an Ia negro boy. persisted in a fire
HiGh DESTROYED the parish home ioi
poor in Lancaster county. S. c.
,t Tuesday January 70.
Joseph Wharton, the famous iron T
master and philanthropist, died at hi, 8
home in Philadelphia, aged eighty two c
years
All records for cold weather a [
Great Falls Mont were broken Mon 0
day, when the weather bureau Their S
mOmeter went to "A below zero
Captain John Barr, who sailed the d
yacht Thistle when the Scottish chal T.
lenger for the Americas cup was d.
feated by the Volunteer in 1887. died
at his home in Marblehead. Mass
John CONFESS. former United States 4
senator from California. and the last !,
survivor of the pallbearers Of Presi {
dent Lincoln, died at his home in ia a
maica Plain near Boston. aged eighty :
eight years. I,
Wednesday, January 10. tt
w W. Kitchin, for twelve years a p
Democratic congressman, was inaugu al
rated governor of North Carolina on d.
Tuesday.
Charles A. Buck the trusted cashier a.
OF Wolf & Co. New York. novelty man. e
ufacturers. was arrested on a charge p'
Of systematically robbing his employ Ia
ers for five years. o.
Frank Donnelly. after killing his wife Sc
at her home in Oxford. O.. walked into tn
the Office of ] d Marshall with his Ia
throat slashed and his wrists bleeding er
and with three pistol wounds in his on
head. 'a
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