Milford chronicle., 1909-02-19
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. February Il.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lehman. the oldest
resident Of Lancaster county, Pa. died
in Mount JOY. aged 1O4 years.
-Four miners were fatally burned %
an explosion of a keg of powder in the
Gaylord mine near Wheeling W. Va.
WaldFon Bates. an attorney of Bos-
ton Mass, was instantly killed under
a train at Monroe. near Lynchburg, Va.
Senator Frye introduced a bill in
the senate which requires all ocean
going steamers carrGHg. fifty passen-
gers or more between ports 200 miles
apart to be equipped with wireless
telegraph apparatus.
Friday February r.
William H. Whipple, founder Of the
FIRST boys branch of the Young Mems
Christian association. died at his home
at Salem. Mass.
Rev c. p Pledger. assistant to
Evangelist BILLY" Sunday who has
5ust completed a six weeks revival
service at Spokane, Wash, died in that
sity of pneumonia.
Thomas Lewis postmaster at Grant
Works, ILL.,, who pleaded guilty to en-
bezzling $SS2O5 Of pOstofice funds.
has been sentenced to serve two years
in She pententiary.
Joseph Adams. twenty-siV years old.
who claims he is wanted by the au-
thoritles OF Quebec. Can. upon two
charges OF false pretense has surren-
dered himself to the Pittsburg police
and is being held pending word from
Canada.
Saturday, February 13.
Rev. Dr. William Dunn Mitchell Of
Baltimore. widely known Methodist
evangelist. died suddenly at Princeton.
N. j., from heart disease.
Two men were killed and one so
badly injured that he may not recover
by an explosion in the McAdOo tunnel
along the Hudson river at Jersey City, !
NJ.
Mrs. James Lamberton, aged eighty
one years. mother Of Admiral Benja, |
min P. Lamberton. of the United
States navy, died at her home IN Car
isle. Pa.
James Herman, a saloonkeeper, and /
Charles Winters. a driver. were shot (
and perhaps mortally wounded in Sta
pleton. s. T.. in a quarrel over dog
owned by Winters.
Monday, February IS.
Caspar L. Simonds. son of the late
Commissioner Of Patents William q.
simonds. was accidentally asphyxiated
1t Hartford, Conn.
Francis Heine. Of near Orwigsburg
Pa, obtained from his seventy-hve col
onies OF bees last year two and three
quarter tons Of honey.
The United Mine Workers will send
100 organizers into the Schuylkill, Pa,
region to get recruits to line up for
next April's scale contest.
4 small fire in the Algonquin hotel. :
New York caused a partial panic
among the $50 guests who rushed to /
the lobby in their night clothes.
Declaring that when he pleaded
guilty to larceny he was promised
sentence of one year and that he now
discovers he is in" for twenty years,
James O'Neill demands his release
from the Illinois penitentiary.
Tuesday February IS.
Andrew Carnegie gave Cincinnati, I
O.. 100000 with which to build three !
branch libraries. s
The Bank of Oaktaha, sixteen miles
south of Muskogee. Okla. was broken :
into and robbed of $4,000.
F. L. woodruff. of Atlanta. Ga. drop
ped dead from heart disease on a pas.
senger train near Detroit. Mich
Battalion Chief Michael Graham one /
of the five firemen who were injured {
by the collapse of a wall in a fire in +
the packing sheds Of the Pratt Oil
works in Brooklyn, died. ;
A bill authorizing the acceptance by
the United States from the women's q
relief corps. auxiliary to the Grand {
Army Of the Republic, Of eighty-eight a
acres OF land contiguous to the Ander- a
sOnville National cemetery, Georgia, z
was passed by the senate.
Wednesday, February II. 5
Rear Admiral James G Green. U. O
s. n. retired, died at Edenton, N. c.
The house Of representatives passed n
The bill providing for separate state
hood for Arizona and New Mexico.
Leslie Coombs. aged nineteen years,
vas put to death by electricity in the
state prison at Dannemora N. Y, for
he murder OF Harry Hosmer in St.
county, Sept. 20, 1908.
General William p. Mickle adjutant
general of the United Confederate
Veterans. gave out a statement say
ng there would be no Joint session Of