Milford chronicle., 1909-07-09
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday July I.

Thursday, July I.
Five men Of the torpedoboat HUI
were badly scalded by the bursting OF
a boiler tube at San Francisco.
Charles Breneiser. a well known to
bacconist and one Of the wealthiest
men Of Reading, Pa, died, aged eighty
one years.
The pope confirmed the election OF
Rev Edmund Michael Dunno. chan.
cellor OF the archdiocese Of Chicago. tc
be bishop of Peorio in succession tc
Rt. Rev. John L. Spalding. resigned.
In the presence Of number oil
young persons at g lawn social al
Grundy Center. Ia, Laurie Rogers
aged eighteen. was instantly killed
when he attempted TO turn on an cleo
tric current to illuminate the place.
Friday July 2.
Policeman Henry Schnadle was Kill
ed in Chicago by a burglar he was at
tempting to arrest
George w. Reik of Maryland, was
appointed private secretary TO Post
master General Hitchcock.
Rev. Parry Thomas, formerly pas
tor Of the Little Church Around the
Corner" in New York, died IN Pueblo
Colo in a sanitarium.
About 1000 employees at the bureau
OF engraving and printing at Wash |
Ington were shifted from the monthly /
pay roll to the per diem basis.
The wages of the $500 men and boys
employed in the plant of the Maryland |
Steel company at Sparrows Point, Nd.
were increased 10 per cent thus re
storing the scale in effect prior t. |
April ! last
Saturday, July 8.
While worrying over debts Mrs
Mary Erckins committed suicide al
Harrisburg. Pa, by shooting herself
through the heart.
With a razor Daniel McNichols. OF
Yonkers. N. Y, killed his wife Alice
and then inflicted a probably fata
wound on himself
Martha Gray King. Of Ulster, Pa,
grandniece Of former President of the
United States James X. Polk, was mar
rled at Binghamton, n. Y, to Charles
Scott Miller.
Judge Kinkead. of the common pleas
court at Columbus. O.. fined Nelson /
Cannon. former agent of the Trinida
Paving company. Of Cleveland $50 /
on a plea OF guilty of bribing members
of the board of public service in the /
paving scandal
Tuesday, July 8.
From the shock of breaking an arm
ninety-yearold Mrs. Christina Ritchit
died near Washington, Pa.
One white man and three negroes
were drowned when a skin capsizeo
in a squall at Hickman. n Y.
Through mistaking carbolic acid
bottle for one containing whisky, L
D. O'Keney a policeman, Of Salisbury
n. c.. is dead.
For sending threatening letters tc
Rudolph Spreckels, Benjamin w
soule. Of San Francisco, was sentenc
ed to four years in the penitentiary
Because she insisted on going to q
moving uicture show. Edward Bailey
Of New Orleans. fatally shot his step
Doris Sweeney, aged sixteen
years.
Wednesday, July 7.
Emily Morgan coIored probably the
oldest resident of Georgia, is dead at
Columbus. at the age OF III years.
Lieutenant Commander William K.
7jse. executive officer of the gunboat
station ship at the naval
station at Tutuila, Samoa, died at that
place.
BY the collapse of a bridge over a
swollen STRAIN near Maryville, Mo.
Charles Daniels and John Brewer, two
farmer boys. with their team, were
drowned.
Benjamin Simcox. seventy-seven
years old. a veteran of the Crimean
war. and who claimed to have taken
part in the famous charge at Bala
zlava. died at Lexington, Ky.