Milford chronicle., 1909-06-18
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
thursday June 10.

! lnursodyg June To,
/ Albert Young. of Pittsburg, Pa, was
sentenced in London to two years in
prison for the theft of a racing cup
from the window Of a local bicycle
firm
Anton Jacobson. out of work and
with a sweetheart he wanted to marry,
turned on the gas in the bathroom OF
his boarding place IN Brooklyn and
ended his misery.
Lazarus Silverman. a pioneer banker
and fnancier. credited with originating
the plan for the resumption of specie
payments in 1878, known as the Sher-
man bill. died at his home in Chicago,
aged seventy-nine years
Friday, June II.
Judge Speer. in the United States
circuit court at Macon, Ga. ordered
the sale of the Savannah. Augusta &
Northern railroad on Aug. 3 to satisfy
a claim of S2s6.5O0
Captain John NJ. Bowyer assumed
the superintendency of the naval acad-
emy at Annapolis. Md, in place OF
Captain Charles J. Badger. who has
been assigned to sea duty
Three persons we're injured and a
hundred or more had a narrow escape
from death or severe injury when a
Wheeling & Lake Erie passenger train
crashed into the rear end Of a freight
train at Cleveland o.
Saturday, June 12.
W. H. Battenfield, of Philipsburg
was struck by Pennsylvania railroad
train at Harrisburg, Pa. and instantly
killed.
An arbitration treaty between Bra
I'll and Cuba was signed in Washing
ton by Ambassador Nabuco and Min
lister Velez
John H. Webb a retired newspaper
man. once owner of the New York
Star (now the Evening JournaD, died
at Los Angeles. CAL aged seventy
two years.
Charged with the murder Of the
father of the girl he is alleged to have
betrayed. Clay Smith. aged twenty-five
years. married. is held in the Mullen
berg Jail at Rockport KY, guarded by
a score of officers. as citizens have de
clared that he will be lynched.
Monday, June "a.
Blais Durbin, said to be a wealthy
mine owner of Patton, Pa, either fell
or jumped overheard from a passenger
liner on Lake Michigan
Moses King. publisher Of a handbook
of the United States and other well
known handbooks, died Of anaemia
at his home in New York.
Eight men belonging to a secret so
ciety Of blackmailers and murderers
were arrested near Johnstown, Pa.
charged with planning to kill, MAIN
and rob
Bernard Reeves, eight years old, and
his brother Charles, aged six years,
were drowned when a rowboat was
carried over a mill dam in Battle
Creek, Mich
Tuesday, June IS.
General John S. Kountz. past com
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army,
died at his home in Toledo. o.. Of
Bright's disease
Roy Terry a prominent citizen Of
Dallas. Tex. is under arrest charged
with numbering his brother Dr. Hugo
Terry. last March.
The steamer Tanana has arrived at
Seattle. Wash, with 100000 worth of
gold dust making total of S2,7O0,00O
recpfved So far this season
In a coal mine near Great Falls,
Mont. Moses Martindale. a miner. un-
covered a lizard about nine feet from
The surface and embedded in the solid
rock
Rev George F. Mason, until recently .
pastor of the First Presbyterian /
,hurch, Of Wilmington. Del. with his /
wife and three children, changed their
faith and we're confirmed into the .
Episcopal church by Bishop
Frederick j. Kinsman.
Wednesday, June t6.
William H. Buckler, secretary of +
he American legation at Madrid
Spain. has rendered his resignation
rom the diplomatic service.
Captain Samuel w. B. Diehl, COM
nander of the receiving ship Hancock
It the New ork navy yard, and a for
ner judge advocate general Of the
lavy. died on board the Hancock
Peter Zuaino a watchman whose
Iuty it was to walk ahead of a steam
oller and warn pedestrians Of their
fell IN front of the machine in
yhicago and was crushed to death.
C. F. Tatadoll, manager of the cleo
ric plant at Bolton, Miss, was shot
nd killed by Frank Melton. a mer-
hant. because he cut off the electric