Milford chronicle., 1909-05-28
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, May 20.

8 Nulutsts lIoAn Lee oAIh Lena DAA6' -
whom he was married in Oakland
Cal, last July.
While testifying in court in a dam
age case. DR.. R. Bruce Burns, a promi
nent Philadelphia physician, was
stricken with paralysis and removed
to a hospital in a critical condition.
The survivors Of the famous fight
ing Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry
will erect a tablet in memory Of the
late General William J. Palmer, OF
Colorado Springs. in a prominent place
in Palmer hall, Colorado college.
Friday, May n.
Plans were completed for the IN
yelling at Hodgenville, KY. May 81,
of the Abraham Lincoln memorial
statue.
Charles E. Barber a member Of the
Aero Club of America, died in bis
home at Warwick. N. Y, OF injuries
sustained when his automobile was
struck by a locomotive.
Pennsylvania State Forestry Com
missioner Robert S. Conklin snnounc-
ed that the $500 acres Of forest land
bought in Westmoreland and Somerset
counties had been constituted a state
reserve. the first to be established on
the Ohio river watershed.
Saturday, May %.
Clarence Herbert Freeman, former
national checker champion. died at
Providence, r. !.
Catholic laymen of Denver, Colo,
are preparing to send a petition to the
pope asking for the removal Of Bishop
Matz. of the Catholic diocese Of Colo
rado.
In the presence of their little daugh-
ter, Eugene PEBBLES, a young iron
moulder. apparently insane. killed his
wife at Norfolk, Va, in a boarding
house kept by the victims twin sister.
Armed with a small base ball bat.
Miss Clara Anderson. a servant in the
household of L. S. Schwabacher. vice
president Of a wholesale hardware
company at Seattle Wash. attacked
burglar in the family residence, knock
ing from his hands jewelry said to be
worth $4,000 and driving the thief from
the house.
Monday May "a.
T. G. Bush. formerly cartoonist for
the New York World, died at his win
ter home at Camden, S. G.
The Florida house voted a $4,000
appropriation for a silver service for
the battleship Florida, now under CON
struction.
Thieves entered the shoe store Of
Samuel Goldberg, at Vineland, N. J.,
and carried away 100 pairs of shoes,
S31 in cash and a check for $3.50.
A stone found in Wisconsin, bearing
Runic characters and the date 1852,
was made the basis of a claim that
Norsemen discovered America earlier
than Columbus.
Wells Post. G. A. R., Of Columbus,
O.. has adopted resolutions condemn
ing the erection Of a monument to
Captain Henry Wirz. former com
mander of Andersonville prison.
Tuesday, May 25.
President Taft sent to the senate
the nomination of Colonel Richard T.
Yeatman. of the Eleventh infantry, to
be a brigadier general.
In closing their convention at Bos-
ton. the Order of Railway Conductors
chose Jacksonville, Fla, as the place
for the next biennial convention.
Three lives were lost in a collision
between the steamer Western States |
and the tug Princeton in the harbor
off the United States life saving sta
ton at Buffalo. n. Y.
After a trip of 5000 miles, without a |
cent in their pockets Arthur Crane, |
aged seven years, and Joe Crosby /
aged nine years. both Of Saginaw,
Mich, arrived at Toledo, o.
Wednesday, May 20.
Five children were fatally burned |
Turing commencement exercises in g
private school at Central City, Ky.
George A. Dayton, of Boonton. N. j.,
committed suicide in the Central hoteli
At Boston by inhaling Illuminating
gas
Lovett Davis. a negro, charged with
attempting to criminally assault a six
white girl, was lynched
It Pine Bluff. Ark.
Mrs. Lizzie York Case. well known
writer of verse and prose for newspa-
,ers and magazines, died at her home
lear Baltimore, Nd, aged seventy-two
'ears.
President Taft issued an executive
rider directing that when holidays fall
N Sunday, all government employees
untitled to a holiday shall be granted
cave on the Monday following.