Milford chronicle., 1910-05-06
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, April %.

Chinese laundryman at Bostol. Conn.
was arrested.
A letter. about his command at West
Point. written by Benedict Arnold a
month before his attempt to turn that
fortress over to the British. sold for
s2s5 at an auction sale in New York.
Nina Anthis. thirteen years old.
committed suicide in school by drink.
ing carbolic acid She left a note in
which she said her foster mother had
/ scolded her. She asked that she be
buried with a favorite doll and Welding
ring that had been left by her own
mother.
Friday. April 2e.
The National Tube company at
Pittsburg has posted notices that all
wages will be advanced May l. The
amount will be from to per cent.
The abolition Of the contract labor
system at the Kansas state peniten.
tiary will date from the time the con
tract held by an overall manufacturer
expires
Major Eduardo LOres. commander Of
the rural guard Of Cuba. is in Wash
!ngton to purchase from the United
States guns and equipment for his
5000 men and horses.
Governor Stubbs. Of Kansas. receiv
ed letter from a widow at Oswego
asking permission to wear mems trou.
sers. The letter says the widow is sup
porting a large family which necessi-
tates outside work.
Saturday, April 80.
The New York senate judiciary com
mittee has refused to report the wo.
man suffrage bill
Harry Dahl a carpenter, despondent
because Of i'll health killed himself
and his two boys at Chicago by turn
ing on the gas.
Thomas Bailey. said by the police
to be one of three safe blowers who
robbed the National Bank Of Chats |
worth, ILL.,, of $4,000, was arrested in
Chicago.
A mistrial was declared in the case !
Of Junius A. Williamson at Peters
burg, Va, charged with the murder Of
his young wife Williamson's wife died |
suddenly and suspicion was arounsed. !
williamson was arrested. broke Jail |
here and enlisted in the army. He was |
recaptured at Fort Russell. Wyo.
Monday, May 2.
It is expected that New York will
be chosen as the place for the Inter
national Aviation meet to begin on
Oct %.
Detectives. representing the Anti
White Slave society of Philadelphia
raided a number Of houses In Shame
kin, Pa.
A special jury at Boydton. Va. ac-
quilted B. F. Cogbill and W. L. Cack,
Jointly accused of misappropriating
$4,000 funds Of the ruined Mecklen-
burg bank.
Swollen creeks. receding. showed
that thousands of acres of farming
and between Shamokin and Sunbury,
Pa. had been ruined by coal dirt
washed from culm banks.
Tuesday, May 3.
While conducting services in Ham
Iton college chapel at Utica, n. Y.
President NJ Woolsey Stryker fell to
he platform in a faint Physicians say
le will soon be in ordinary health
In a moment Of temporary aberra- ,,
ion Mrs. Idora Webb shot her hus
,and. Alfred S Webb in Manchester
Va. and then turned the revolver on
lerself. She died in a local hospital !
Ir. Webb's wound is not fatal
Two hundred head of prize-winning ;
poultry. five horses and five cows were
iestroyed by fire at Great Neck L. l..
N a farm where Miss Louise Grace
nd Miss Lucille Alger had raised
ONE Of the best known dogs and poul :
ry exhibited at recent shows. A.,
Wednesday, May 4.
In quarrel at the polls at Staple I
on. Ala. NJ. P. Mathes fatally stabbed
!. P. Ward, who then shot Mathes to
cath Ward is dying.
The Henshaw bank at Henshaw
". has closed its doors. The reason
IT the suspension was the assignment
T merchant who owed the bank
1900. 7
Tie strike of thirteen longterm con. ]
let, in the county camps at Reids !
lid Ga. is ended. Twelve able-bodiea
uaids gave the thirty men a sound
hi1ping and the strike spirit oozed
ut,
Mayor A. J. Horlick of Racine, Wis. cC
-iying his automobile ran over and in
HID Harry Thompson the seven &C
aa-old son Of a workman in the H9r- ia
II factory. The accident was due to ca
llinding storm. NJ