Milford chronicle., 1909-03-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, March a.

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An aerial race from Berkeley, Cal,
% Reno, New, is being planned by the
kan Francisco Aero club.
Professor R. c. Barrett, holding the
chair Of political science in the Iowa
State college, at Ames, died at Des
Eoines, following an operation for
WAstoiditis.
Charles. the four-yearold son Of
David Einsig, Of 722 East King street,
York Pa, drank a quantity of carbolic
acid and will probably die from the ef-
fects Of the drug.
Declaring that she is neither tech
Bically nor legally a citz%n, and can
not vote, Viola B. Squire, Of Chicago
objects to being forced to pay per
sonal property taxes.
Friday, March s.
Alexandra Charpentier, the well
known French sculptor, died in Paris.
A bill designed to grant equal suf-
sTage to women was rejected by the
Massachusetts legislative committee
On constitutional amendments.
Fire in a big tenement building on
Seventh avenue, Brooklyn, caused the
death Of two members Of a family Of
Eve and serious injury to the remain
ing three.
Captain William Ferguson and his
wife Mary were drowned by the sink
ing Of the barge George H. Bates, a.
the Baltimore e Ohio railroad docks,
between st. George and New Brighton,
Staten Island, during Thursdays big
storm.
Saturday, March 6.
r. Mead Shumway convicted Of the
murder of Mrs Jacob Martin, was
hanged at the Nebraska penitentiary
in Lincoln.
Chicago manufacturers and meT-
chants believe that Taft's inaugural
speech will have a stimulating effect
on business.
James Hill was called to the door Of
his home near Eccles, W. Va, and
Rhot to death by Lon Jones, a negro, !
with whom he had some trouble.
After making extensive alterations
10 the furnace at Topton, Pa, the En-.
pire Steel and Tool company resumed /
work, giving employment to several /
hundred men.
Monday March 8.
In a fit of dependency Mrs Louisa |
Jones, of New York, committed sui |
eide at San Francisco.
An explosion at the Glass Run Pow
der works, near Pittsburg, lost 1900
pounds of powder sad almost killed
two men.
ro11f,,,r o,,t 81 nod 4bo fc,,r ,,oor- old /
son of Bradford Norton, of Monroe,
Mich, sustained a broken neck and
died in a few minutes.
For stealing $500 from the Ira
verse City (Mich) National bank, Of
which he was auditor, Ellsworth Hale
was sentenced to five years in Jail.
A band of MexicOn ore thieves at
tackled an American mining plant at
Guanajuanto. Mex, but were repulsed
by the Americans and one of them was
killed.
Tuesday, March g.
The 5000 employees of the Phoenix
Iron company, at Phoenixville, Pa.
had their wages reduced 10 per cent
Hereafter the English language will
be taught in the public schools of Qua
temala under an order of the minister
Of education.
First Lieutenant Edward L. Raines,
Twentieth United States infantry. has
been dropped from the roll of the army
for desertion.
William Jones. a negro, was put to {
death in the electric chair in Sing Z
Sing prison in New York for the muir !
der of Llewellyn Bum, at Hampstead, ]
L. l.. on Sept /, 1907.
While six-year-old Irene Smith was {
playing in Ninth avenue at the corner
of Fortv-ninth street in New York, an |
penny-in-the-slot weighing s
machine fell over on her and inflicted t
fatal injuries. f
Wednesday, March 10. b
Charles Quimby. who shot and killed S
BIS wife on Christmas morning, 1907 t
vas hanged at New Castle, Pa.
Mrs. Margaret Ellen Iiscom, the a
irst white child born in Chicago after S
is incorporation as a city in 1886, is d
lead in Bloomington, III. n
J. s. Richardson, of South Carolina, t
.hief clerk of the internal revenue
bureau, has been promoted to be reve- r
lue agent at Philadelphia. and he will fl
,e succeeded by f. ]. Starek, now in
Capers' Office.
Peter H. Smith, formerly Judge Of
he common pleas of Lackawanna
ounty, and later a judge of the state
uperior court, from which he retired
our years ago because Of failing
ealth. died in Scranton, aged fifty d,
even years.
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