Milford chronicle., 1909-09-03
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Thursday, August a6.
President Taft has commuted the
sentence Of Charles F. Kline, serving
fve years in the penitentiary at Co
lumbus, o.. for counterfeiting.
-Four men were seriously injured
and heavy damage caused when the
roof of the round house of the Penn
eylvania railroad in Pittsburg col
lspsed
George W. Drinkwater. Of Jersey
City. second engineer. was instantly
killed and three other men we're IA
tall. injured by the explosion Of a
feed pipe on the tugbSat Bee in the
East river.
Colonel William D. Shaw, railroad
man and originator Of Hello Bill, the
Elk slogan at lodge conventions. died
at his home in Cincinnati. aged sew
enty years.
Friday August 27.
Water in the streams in the north
ern section Of York county, Pa, is
lower than it has been in thirty-five
years.
George Ruttledge found pearl in
the Wabash river at Mount Vernon
H. weighing forty-six grains, which
he sold for s25OO.
Rev Robert Gamble, aged eighty
years, of Bridgeton. York county. Pa,
a we'll known Presbyterian minister,
died in the hospital at Columbia from
a stroke of paralysis
Firing a single charge of buckshOt
at two supposed chicken thieves.
Charles Hartshorn. Sr, at Newark, o..
instantly killed his nephew. John
Weakley, and William Trace.
Saturday, August %.
The Manitoba Grain Growers asso-
citation estimates the wheat yield of
western Canada at 1O7,0OO.OO bushels.
Professor E. B. Bierman, aged sew
enty years. former president Of Leba-
non Valley college at Annville and one
o fthe founders of that institution. died
suddenly at his Annville (Ps) home.
Charles w. Fairbanks. former vice
president Of the United States. and
Rear Admiral G. B. Harber U. S. N,
were received in separate audience by
the prince regent in the Forbidden
City in Pekln, China.
By the explosion of an ingot mould
flled with molten steel at the Mary
land Steel works, at Sparrows Point, .
Md. Thomas Smith colored. was kill
ed and three or four others. all ne
groes. we're badly injured.
Monday, August 80.
Rev. ]. G. Hartzell, Methodist Epis
e. A In, NTov
York from Europe.
An explosion of powder in a zinc
mine at Neck City. Mo. killed two
and fatally injured one.
General rains in Kansas have great
~ benefited the corn crop which had
been set back by hot winds.
Premature discharge Of a cannon at
a farmers picnic at Esconaba. Mich,
killed one gunner and seriously in
iured another.
As a result Of going in swimming
too soon after recovering from an at
tack of typhoid fever. Lee Hildebrand,
aged thirteen. of York. Pa, died from
the exposure.
Tuesday, August 81.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles A. Copper
smith. of Newton. were killed near I
Newton. Ia, when their motor car
rolled down a thirty-foot embankment {
Made frantic when his shopmates {
tainted him because he was deaf, AL
fred Sido, a graduate of Heidelberg,
committed suicide by hanging himself
at Waterbury. Conn.
Edward Kumbier and Eric Heine-
mann were drowned in the Tittaba-
wassee river at Saginaw. Mich. by
the capsizing of a rowboat in which I
they were being tOwed by a launch.
Deputy Sheriff J. W. Sykes Of Nor a
folk. Va. died as the result Of wounds
inflicted by one of three negro high ?
waymen who had been placed under
arrest by him and two special officers c
n south Norfolk. Z
Wednesday, September I.
Five weeks drought in Kansas was 5
,roken by a twoinch rain. ,
Diamonds valued at $4,000 were b
soIen from Mrs Adolph Hirsch at the r
yendome hotel in Chicago. and there
8 no clue to the thief d
Engineer w. D. White was killed y
nd ten passengers hurt when pas u
enger train and work train on the u
Northern Pacific collided near Detroit. y
dich.
The employees Of the Southern rail n
rays big shops at Spencer. n. C.. have h
cen placed on a nine-hOur working =
ay basis instead Of eight as hereto %
pre-
While resisting an attack made upon
i'm at Canal Dover o. John Mace. a al
ailway watchman. shot and instantly nj
Hled An unidentified italian and set q
go other Italians to flight n
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