Milford chronicle., 1909-12-03
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
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Friday, November 20.
The steam barge Flint, loaded with
limestone and salt. was burned on
North Point, Mich. but the crew was
rescued
Mrs. Harriet Hill, twenty-nine years
old, was killed In a roadhouse at Mum
sing. Mich, the shot coming through
the window.
The Virginia Western railway was
chartered at Richmond to build a line
100 miles long from a point in High
land county. Va, to Clifton Forge, Va.
Postmasters who loan United States
mail sacks in large quantities to other
than publishers and news agents have
been admOnished to heed the limita-
tions of the departments regulations.
Bradham hall. the girls dorSitory
Of the South Carolina State Agficul-
tural and Mechanical College for Ne
groes. at Orangeburg. S. c., together
with the dining hall and kitchen. were
burned.
Saturday, November 27.
Benjamin S. Cable, the Chicago law
yer, has accepted the assistant secrs-
taryship Of commerce and labor.
After cutting the throats OF Burt
Woods and John S. Smith, at Jackson
vile, Fla, Jesse Altman was shot and
killed.
Sixteen persons were injured when
q car at Denver, Colo, left the rails,
crashed over the curb and overturned
on the sidewalk.
With two automatic revolvers, VIII
liam Ward. sixteen years old, Of Gin
einnati, hel1 at bay q crowd Of angry
negroes until rescued by the police.
Edward R-aun, bartender, was ar
rested at Cleveland, o.. on the charge
Of assault to kill Arthur Dunn, an off, !
sial Of the Marine Firemen's union.
Morday, November 29.
The Logan Natural Gas and Trust
company, at THIN, o., has sued Jo-
seph Loudenslager for 9sO7s for stolen
gas.
tt Burley Tobacco society has Of !
fered to sell l20,OOOOO0 pounds Of to- I
bacco to the American Tobacco com
pany.
A feud at Houston, Tex, resulted in
the killing Of Paul and Lee Durham,
for whose death Ed Weber is under
arrest.
Caught by machinery. Michael Bo-
loga. fourteen years old, was dragged
into the elevators at Morea, Pa, and .
fatally crushed.
A steer belonging to George Drum
mer, near Marietta, Pa. stepped on
the cover of an old we'll and fell to the
bottom, forty feet below. where oft
was shot.
Tuesday, November 80.
One r ndred and forty horses were
crenaCed in a livery stable IRE at
Kansas City. Mo.
In a street duel with knives at Alicia,
near Bradford, Ark, Miss Nora Owens
was stabbed over the heard and killed
by Miss Stella Belk.
George Benton, a youth who tried
10 rob the Peoples bank Of Mazo-
mamie, Wis, was sentenced TO four
teen years in the state reformatary.
After killing William Walls and1
probably fatally shooting Hal Holland
While returning from a dance near
Dalton, Ga, Pickett Collum surren-
lered to the police.
Mrs. Mary Jones, whose chicken
,oop had been looted in Chicago seven
lines recently, shot q negro whom
he saw by the light of the moon
near the coop.
Wednesday, December I.
Baron Rosen, the Russian smbassa-
or to the United States, arrived on
he steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilia in
IewYork from abroad. accompanied
y his family.
The congressional party which has
cen inspecting the progress Of the
'ork on the Panama canal and exam
ling conditions in general In the
anal zone, have returned.
Telegraphers employed by the ILL
ois Central Railroad company In Chi
ago have demanded a wage increase
nd improved working conditions for
ie 1400 operators employed.
Five hundred million feet Of lumber
as destroyed by the recent tornadoes
! the south, according TO John A.
ruce, Of Stradsr, La, president of
lie American Lumber Traders Con-
ress.
Federal Judge Waddill, in the Nor
TX and Southern railway receiver
lip litigation at Norfolk. Va, has d.
Icted the issuance OF $442,s65 in addi-
onal receivers certificates for the
lrchase Of rolling stock.