Milford chronicle., 1909-07-30
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.

John Goode. eighty years OF age,
statesman. lawyer and soldier, died at
Norfolk, Va. following a stroke OF
paralysis suffered several weeks ago.
Escaping from his stall, a mule be
longing to BankO Rick, of Bethel, Pa.
travelled sixteen miles over strange
roads to his former home in one night
one million dollars of free advertis-
ing for a campaign against tuberculo-
sis was voted by the joint convention
of the National Bill Posters and the
Southeastern Bill Posters at Atlanta
Ca
Upon conviction by court martial for
passing bogus checks and failing TO
pay his debts, Major Charles J. T.
Clarke, Twenty-sixth infantry has
been dismissed from the army, &C
cording to an announcement at the
war department.
Thomas Swangler an expert fisher
man, fell into the Delaware river at
Bristol. Pa, and was drowned.
Claude Tator, twelve years old, of
Rhinebeck N. Y, died at Vassar hos
pital Poughkeepsie, Of tetanus, as the
result of burns received on July 4.
Benjamin Wilmot Haggard, for the
past three years disbursing officer of
the United States house Of represen-
tatives. died in AlgOna, Ia. OF tuber-
culosis.
State Senator Oscar C. Bayles was
shot and killed by David K Smith at
MonroeviIle. Ala, as a result Of Bayles
efforts to obtain a pardon for Isaac
and Jesse Shirley who are serving
terms for the killing of Jim Smith,
brother of David
Myrtle Cross, eighteen years old
was acquitted at Cripple Greek. Colo.
on the charge Of having murdered her
sweetheart, John Phillips.
Reports from points in northern
Ohio show that an estimated loss of
100000 was caused by a storm that
swept over that section ON Friday.
Three men were killed and two in
1ured in a head-On collision between
southbound passenger train No. 13I
and northbound train No. 20 on the
Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad al
Royal, Ill.
Jennie Smith, a young white woman
from New York, was sentenced to the
city stockade at Macon, Ca. having
been arrested in a room with Miles
Reid. a negro waiter. who was sent to
the chain gang.
A Chicago woman, about TO be con
mited to an asylum, killed herself and |
her two sons.
Two sisters were drowned at Port |
Huron, Mich, one trying to save the |
other from death
The Diehl-Schilling furniture plant |
near Easton, Pa, was destroyed by |
fre, entailing a loss Of $4,000, partly
Insured.
Secretary OF War Dickinson has or
iered the commissary general Of the
army not to purchase any goods from
.rusts or combinations in restraint OF
.rade.
George P. Richardson, facing trial
or larceny and temporarily in an in
iane asylum, applied to the courts in
Boston not to release him, alleging he
8 still insane.
Residents of Catawissa, Pa, unaDIe
% withstand the binding clouds OF
lust, sprinkled a number Of the streets
With oil
Matthew Gill, a retired iron mer
.hant, shot and killed himself at his
lone at Radnor. near Philadelphia
While Respondent from illness.
An omnibus bill authorizing the con
truction Of bridges across various ;
waters of the United States
'as passer BY the house Of represen.
atives.
Samuel S. Spellman, whose wife is a
store proprietor in Cleveland,
filed himself by inhaling gas at st. /
ouis because he did not have money
, give to a grandchild
John w. O'Hara, American consul to
antos, Brazil has resigned because
{ III health
A sufferer for some time from heart
Isease. Miss Ida Gray, nineteen years
d, dropped dead on the street in
Baillie P. Waggener celebrated his
xty-second birthday by entertaining Z
1000 children Of Atchison, Kan, and
Ichison county at Forest mark