Milford chronicle., 1910-01-07
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.
Thursday. peeember so.

Coudrey, Of the Twelfth congressional
district, shot and killed himself in his
apartments at the Buckingham alub
In st. Louis. No
Joseph Macksley. aged thirty-three
years, who killed eighteen-year-old
Caroline Hunt and shot her parents.
Stephen Hunt and wife. Monday night
was captured at Toledo. o.. by police
at an obscure hotel
Miss Johnny Preston seventeen
years Of age shot herself at Willow
Springs Mo-. because she had run up
eome small debts at a store DR.
Abram Mullinix. seventy-two years old,
who was called fell across the bed
and died of apoplexy.
Friday, December 81.
Because she said he was lazy. John
A. Johnson killed Mrs Anna Shelley
on Dec IS at Medford Wis johnson
was sentenced to life Imprisonment
by Judge Parish.
Mrs 3. ] Milhan, known ir wild
west shows as the cow girl" died at
Ponca City, Mich. She was riding for
q moving picture concern, when her
horse fell upon her.
Two men were killed and four 9TH
ers injured at Traverse City, Mich,
when the brakes on a Pere Marquette
logging train failed to work and ten
cars crashed down the incline into a
snow plow.
Saturday, January I.
Mrs. Charles 3. Spencer. wife of a
railroad engineer, and mother of four
children, was found burned to death
after q fre had destroyed a shed at
the real Of heI home al Battle Creek
Mich.
Plunging over a cliff sixty feet high !
to the bottom Of Blanco Canyon. at
Floydada Tex, Mrs. s. R. Beck. thirty
Eve years old, and her ten-yearold son
we're burned to death in the debris Of |
their wagon and household effects
Henry Bell, q negro was hanged IN |
the jail at Dawson, Ga for the muir |
der of VIII Jackson. another negro. at
Graves Station, about year ago. Bell
passed the coffin that he was to be
buried in and cody patted it with his
hand.
Monday, January 8.
Hundreds of thousands OF opera.
tives in mills IN Massachusetts and
Rhode Island had their working hours
shortened to f1fty-six per week. new
labor laws becoming effective.
Fearing both mob violence and at
tempts at reseut, officials at Greenup.
KY, removed to Cattlettsburg Mrs
Sarah R. Higgins. charged with the
murder of William Culberson.
Drinking a toast to Happy New
Year" in his saloon. at Chicago. Jacob
Minsberg put down his glass to find
q robbber opening fire on him. He re-
fused to open the cash drawer and was
fatally shot
Tuesday, January 4.
At a meeting of the Butte Miners
Union at Butte, Mont. the miners by
a big vote decided to keep their
hands of the switchmens strike at
Great Falls.
A fast freight train composed of
oil tank cars and cars Of merchandise
en- the Wabash Railroad was de.
stroyed by FIRE on the edge Of Logans-
port The oil exploded
Matthew Whittall, operating car
pet mills in Worcester and Palmer.
Mass. employing over 1900 hands.
announced that his mills will go on
a fifty-six-hOur schedule with no re- /
duction in wages. Piece workers are I
given a raise Of per cent. !
Clarence Carney was shot and /
killed by his 65-year-old mother-in-law. g
Mrs. Sarah Grifith. at Dresden, Mimi
She had met him at a neighbor's to (
discuss a quarrel Of long standing. S
Carney fired three times at the wo-
man. who stood her ground. firing FIVE c
times and killing him. d
Wednesday, January 5.
The American Institute of Electrical ?
with a membership Of over {
5000 will hold its annual convention
Ia Charlotte. N. c.. on March %. "a ?
md 25. b
Orders were received at the Brooks p
11ant of the American Locomotive Il
at Dunkirk, N j., for sixty 0
,ngines. forty for the Lake Shore and Il
.wenty for the Nickel Plate
Unable to rescue her seven-year-old 5
laughter from their burning home, u
Mrs. p. Helsen was compelled to stand =
~ and see the house in Westwood. o
Mich, and her child burn to death.
William o. Carter. thirty-hve years
I'D. shot and killed Mrs. Belle War. 81
Ter. aged forty years, at her home. n
29 West Camden street, Baltimore, p
I'd, and then committed suicide. Car
er was married. n
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