Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1910-04-08
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


TWO negro murQeIerS condemned II
death in the electric chair and a white
man charged with highway robher,
escaped from the Norfolk. Va county
Jail by cutting their way through the
roof Of the prison and lowering them
selves by rope made OF bedclothing
Roy Koegele. thirteen years old and
/ his fourteen yearold comrade John
Gerlicky we're playing cowboy ar
Cleveland o. Gerlicky had taken his
f fathers revolver 70 make fhe pl3r
nfeuke AS Buffalo Bill he rcd TIE
7 gun at Koegele and the latter dropUe
with a bullet through his chest He Is
not expected 10 recover.
Friday April T.
Bneadier General John Luke Tier
non. c. S. A.. retired. is dead at Bat.
falo. n. Y He entered the army as
second lieutenant 80 1862. retiring af-
ter forty years continuous service.
Eleven hundred negro men. women
and children. in one Of the American
Tobacco company's stemmeries at
Louisville. Ky. struck The strikers
were disorderly and the police were
called out
Harlow n Higginbotham seventy
two years old former president Of the
Worlds Columbian Exposition al Chi
eago. is reviving memories Of the Civil
War by tramping from Hot Springs
Va. TO Clsrksburg. W. Va by wagon
roads Mr. Higginbotham says he is
maging the journey for the pure
pleasure Of walking
Saturday, April ?.
Twenty-eiSht insane foreigners left
Stockton, Cal, on special cars for New
York. whence they viii be deported
James A DOnnelly. British consul dt 1
Savannah Ga. died suddenly AT his /
home Of heart failure He was born in .
South America siNty-three years ago. I
Two Italians fought a duel in a New .
York street not far from the East Side
water front One of them was killed .
by a shot fired straight through his
head. His adversary escaped.
Or. James G Cumming, director Of /
the Pasteur institute Of the University
Of Michigan announced the discovery
Of a new method for the treatment of
hydrophobia Dr. Cumming uses
virus
Monday, April 4.
Charged with embezzling $4,000
rom the Bank of Pine Valley. WetzeIl
county. W Va Cashier Ezra Mayheld
vas arrested.
To succeed Robert NJ. Lafollette i'm
he United States senate, Samuel A.
'oOk, Of Nunah, Wis. has announced
lis candidacy.
Elizabeth and Anna Ashton. Dan
lille girls are in Jail al Shamokin
"a. charged with breaking into a
leading railway coach and starting a
ght
The central convention Of the Lay
mems Missionary Movement OF the Re.
ormed Church in the United States 2
hitch meets in Sunbury Pa April u {
nd IS, will be a notable AFFAIR. I
Tuesday April 5.
The First National bank OF Ran 9
0lph. Neb.. was robbed Of $4,000 by |.
Tree masked men who bound and
jagged Town Marshal Carroll.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans re- c
red, in an interview at San Antonio. '
ex.. deplored the fact that congress :
i'd authorized only two battleships il
stead of four
The two Japanese who were arrest =
at Manila for attempting to pur ,
lase photographs OF the Notifications :
Corregidor have been released upon =
ders from Secretary Of War Dickin- :,
n
While singing a solo in the Grace =
Discopal church. at Honesdale. Pa. y
ISIS Minnie Smith struck her heac ',
.ainst a lighted gas jet. lgniting -
rye picture hat The soloist cooll1 - -
moved her headgear and handed il =.
one Of the male members of Ia, :,
DIR
Wednesday, April s. ?
Fred Lampev fttyfve years ola y
IS gorel 70 death by an infu-iate 81,
j at Lawrenceburg. Ind, while his en-,
'ther, eighty years old, looked on PI
werless m-
Harry e. NcAllister. son Of a promt IA
Mt city official Of Baltimore. who Az
Il college TO Join the army and who VI
serted viii be given a term of two -
ars in the federal prison 4
More than 800 saloons have been
ed ont NJ business by the people Of
anty Michigan counties Sixteen =
mites voted wet" There are now
~ dry and forty-three wet" coun-
s IN the state.
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