Milford chronicle., 1909-12-24
CONDENSED rEws ITEMS.
Thursday. December fs.

Cumberland Gap. Tenn. was destroyed
by fire.
A. F. Woods. director of the depart
ment Of plantology Of the agricultural
| department at Washington. was elect
ed dean of the Minnesota State Agri
cultural college. at Minneapolis, to sue
eeed J. W. Olsen. resigned.
AT the Portland, Ore, Live Stock
Exchange the highest price ever paid
for cattle on the Pacific coast pre-
vailed. The grand champion steer sold
for s25 a hundred pounds. The grand
champion COW sold for $1O.25 a hun
dred pounds.
Friday December II.
The nomination of William ]. Mills
TO be governor of New Mexico was or
dered favorably reported by the senate
committee on territories.
w T. Jones, prominent sportsman
and capitalist OF New York city, was
thrown from his mount while fox
hunting near Greensboro, N. c., and
received serious injuries.
Clasped in each others arms. Jo-
seph and George Adams, brothers, ten
and fourteen years old. were found
dead on a railroad track at Elizabeth
N. J.. having been shocked to death
by a high power electric feed wire
that had fallen from above.
Saturday, December 1s.
Major General Walter F. Sutor, who
fought under Grant at Vicksburg and
h,
died at Salt Lake City, Utah
The property of the Young Mems
Christian association in Cleveland.
O.. has been sold to make room for
the erection of a $2,OOO0OO hotel by
New York capitalists.
A court martial will convene at Fort
Leavenworth Kan. on Dec. 27 to try
Major f. N. Jones. Jr., a student of
the army school of the line at this
post It is reported that he is to be
tried for neglect of duty.
The body of Lem Kaley, who was
found Dec 5, bound. gagged and blind
folded. dead at Canton. o.. from the
blows of a club. was claimed by Hans
of Chicago, who says the body
is that of his nephew. Louis I.ezenbet
Monday, December 20.
Two men are read and a coal mine
at Hartford Ark, is on fire, the result
Of a premature explosion.
In line with the curtailment policy
two big cotton mills at Lowell. Mass
have shut down for ten days. making
$500 idle.
Attempting to cash a $4,000 draft |
on a Kansas bank. George R. Plante, |
to be a wealthy resident of /
Utica, N Y. was arrested at Denver, |
Colo.
Unable to agree, the jury at Union
City. Tenn, which tried two alleged :
night riders for killing Captain Quen-
in Rankin. was sent back for further
elaboration
Tuesday, December 21.
Judge Horace H. Lurton was con
irmed by the senate as associate jus
ice of the supreme court
Charles Brandt, chief Of the mail
md record division of the adiutant
,eneral's Office of the war department,
lied in Washington from diabetes.
Major Charles P. BOlles a Confeder-
te veteran and the engineer who
uilt the first battery and laid out the
orts which withstood such terrific
by the Federal fleet dur
lg the Civil War, died at Wilmington,
!. c. aged eighty-six years.
Accused by his daughter Lillian,
light years old. of having given his
-ife. Josephine NJ Ehrhardt. a powder
,hich caused her death by strychnine
Theodore Ehrhardt. Jr.. the
lther and husband is in jail at Den
er Colo, pending investigation by
le police.
Wednesday, December %.
After an exciting campaign Walla
raila Wash. has voted wet by a ma
irity of 622
Governor Swanson granted a stay Of
yecution for thirteen days in the case
Howard Little, convicted of muir
,ring six persons in Buchanan coun-
. Va
Francis c. Whitehouse. treasurer
Id general manager of the Peiepscot
lper company. and widely known
roughout the paper making and the
mber trade, died at Topsham Ne
Contracts for the building OF naval
,spitals at Chelsea. Mass; Newport.
l.. and Portsmouth. n. H.. at a cost
$S4S.000. were awarded by the navy
partment to the Noel Construction
mpany. of Baltimore
Reports from eighteen cities read at
e closing session of the Executive
ssion Workers Conference of the
lited States and Canada in New
,rk showed that an increase of ST.
1000 in offerings for foreign mis-
ms had been pledged.