Milford chronicle., 1909-10-08
CO%DEHSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. september 80.

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As the outcome of a quarrel Ben
Tingle was shot and killed by his
brotherin-law. Lonnie Rushing, on the
road near Wingate. N. c.
While demented from brooding over
the death of his wife, John Champion,
a pearl hunter, fired his shanty boat
in the Ohio river at Paducah. KY, af-
ter Staying his eldest son.
Joe YAK. thirteen years old, and his
brother Scott, aged eleven, grandsons
of Jie Bedore, a st. Clair Flats resort
keeper, near Detroit, Mich, chased a
floating bundle Of clothing with their
rowboat, and toWed to shore the body
of their dead mother. who died Of
heart disease before falling into the
river.
Friday, October I.
AS the result of a hazing by four
schoolmates, Albert Whitticker, Of
River Park, east of South Bend, Ind,
is in a serious condition.
Lucius H. Bigelow, head Of the mu-
sic publishing firm Of Blgelow & Main,
New York city, died at his summer
home at Ridgefield, Conn, in his sew
enty-second year.
Three passengers were injured and
a dozen others badly shaken up when
the Niagara Falls train on the New
York Central collided with an east
bound through freight at Wilson. N. Y.
Dr. Alfred NJ. Webster, general sec
retary of the New Era association, a
life insurance organization. was found
lying dead on the floor in the offices
of the association at Grand Rapids,
Mich. will. bullet hole in his head.
Saturday, October 2.
George Washington Moore. founder
of Moore and Burgess Minstrels, and
known in sporting circles as Pony"
Moore. died in London.
Jewelry valued at $4,000 and $1,000
in coin was stolen by a robber who
shot and killed Con Ying. wife of All
Luis. a rich Chinese merchant Of San
Luis Obispo, Cal
Presumably struck by rock while
leaning ont Of the cab window, Engi-
neer T. Conley, of an Iron Mountain
freight train, was killed while passing
through a tunnel near Cricket, Ark.
The state Of Oregon will collect from
the estate OF the late f. H. Hartman,
as soon as the appraisement Of his
railroad property is made, approx
mately S5e900O as an inheritance tax.
Monday October 4.
Run over by a fire engine respond
ing to an alarm in Altoona, Pa, A. Del
Blonde. aged nine years died.
Mausdale and Danville junk dealers
confessed stealing a hOt-air furnace
from c. C. Barger in Bloomsbury, Pa.
Charged with dynamiting the home
of a steel trust official at Youngstown,
o.. John Bailey has been arrested at
Muncie. Ind
Alarm is caused among white neigh
bors by the restlessness Of 5000 Chey- |
enne Indians on the Sheridan reserva- |
tion. Wyoming.
Because she refused to marry him,
Charles L. Miller, an engineer. broke |
into the room of Miss Phoebe Arm
strong at Chicago. murdered her and
then killed himself
Tuesday, October 8.
Mrs Eta Jarvis Shepard. wife Of
Seth Shepard. chief justice of the Dis
trict of Columbia court Of appeals, died |
in Washington.
Ray Lamphere, who was convicted |
as an accomplice of Mrs. Belle Gun
ness. is dying from consumption in the |
Jail at LapOrte, Ind
Delirious from fever, following wounds /
received in a fight in a saloon, Police
man w. H. Irwin threw himself from .
a third story window Of a hospital at
Detroit. Mich, ard was killed.
John White. twenty years old. SEN
fenced to four years for robbing
store at Rayville. La. now admits that
he stole in order to be with his moth
er. Mrs. Bette White. who two years
ago murdered her husband and was
to twenty years.
Wednesday, October 6.
The body of Charles 3. Wahl, aged
years missing for some
days. was found in the Schuylkill river
at Reading, Pa.
The Governor John Albert Johnson
commission has been organ
lied at st. Paul. Mimi to raise fund
Of s25.OOO for a memorial to the late
Governor Johnson.
Thomas J. O'Brien. United States
ambassador to Japan. sai!el from San
for his post in Toxic, after
4 visit to his old home in Michigan
and other pr Fnts in the east
Hugh Mcintosh. the fight promoter
left London for Paris to try and ar
rance a meeting between James J.
Jehries and Jack Johnson for the
worlds heavyweight championship.