Milford chronicle., 1910-01-21
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday, January IS.

AoN H. a. ~ nSlH5 sti uth Dg IfelBL
train.
Walter Morrison and John Atkinson
sentenced to be electrocuted at r,
leigh. n c., we're reprieved for sixt
days by Governor Kitchin because tn
electric apparatus Is not yet complet,
Plans are making at Pittsburg for
celebration next year of the frs
steamboat navigation on the Ohio. !
Is said that an uncle of ex-Presiden
Roosevelt was the builder of the frs
steamer to navigate the river. II I
planned to have ex-President Roose
welt as the chief personal feature.
Friday, January IA.
Fourteen persons were injured. on
fatally and five seriously. in an expo
sion Of gas in palm garden owned b,
Henry Messerschmidt at Pennington
Wis.
A plan was launched at the meetinl
o fthe board Of directors of the Georg,
Washington university in Washington
to raise 100000 as an endowment
fund within the next three years.
Carl Wascher, fifteen years old
stopped a Baltimore & Ohio passenger
train within ten feet of a burning
bridge west Of Weltsboro. Ind. by sig
Mailing the engineer with a red hand
kerchief. Passengers in the four crowd
ed coaches made up a purse of 800.
Saturday, January IS.
Alexander Hilger. aged sixty-fve
years. was killed by a locomotive on
the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne & Chicago
railroad at Leetsdale. near Pittsburg.
while saving his daughter from the
same fate.
Calogaro Siragusa. who was sen.
fenced to three years following his
conviction Of a charge Of circulating
counterfeit money at Williamsport.
Pa, was given an additional two years
for an attack upon a deputy United
States marshal.
Trembling and pleading that he be
taken to some other place for fear of
mob violence. Henry Smith. the negro
convicted with three others of mur.
dering Walter F. Schultz. an artist OF
Chicago. at Alexandria Va. was sen
tenced to be electrocuted. Smith de-
elared that he was not afraid to die in
the chair. but he did not want to be
thevictim of mob.
Monday, January II.
Arrested at Terre Haute. Ind. Harry
Epperly admitted having three wives
living.
Pellagra killed Mrs. Sadie Clemens
an inmate of the State Hospital for the
Insane at Elgin, ILL.,
Blood poisoning. following an Injury
TO one foot. killed John W. Greiden.
thai. former state bank commissioner
II Kansas City, Kan.
The death sentence was imposed at
ILL.,. on Willis Clark. col
ored. who killed a motOrman and
wounded and robbed a conductor on an /
East st. Louis car.
Tuesday, January ts.
The bill admitting Arizona and New
Mexico to statehood was adopted in
the house and will now be sent to the
Ienate.
Frank Phillips. an employe Of the
Q. NJ. Holt plaid mills. at Burlington,
Va. was caught and wound around a
Ihaft, receiving perhaps fatal injuries.
Former Governor George P. Werts,
,ne of the best known Democratic
politicians in the state of New Jersey,
lied at his home in Jersey City from
pneumonia
James Lavine. colored. employed at
he Friends school at Arlington near
Jorristown. Pa. who was convicted OF
obblng the pupils Of that institution,
vas sentenced to eighteen months i'm
risonment in the county Jail
Wednesday, January 10.
Mrs. Margaret Collier Graham au.
hor and magazine writer is dead at
or home in Pasadena. CAL aged
ixty-two years.
About 1000 operatives In all have
one out on strike In Fall River. Fish
rville. Fltchburg and at several other
oints in Massachusetts because of a
in wages caused by the new
fty-six hour law. 5
Losing his balance as he was cross.
lg a plank over the elevator shaft OF {
le new Union Theological seminary l
New York. Alexander Boes. fore
an of a gang Of plasterers. fell seven {
ories and was killed {
Papers have been signed in Balti-
ore by two OF the three interests j
the A. S. Abel estate trans. {
rring to Charles II. Grasty control
the stock in the A. s. Abel com !
my. which publishes the Baltimore {
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