The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1880-02-13
NEWS NOTES.
Eastern and MIddIa Slate,

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was nominated For auditor general and Henri
Greene for fudge Of The supreme Court. A full
! list OF delegates to TIE national convention at
| Chicago was Rhpointed, and the convention,
| by = vote of 1873 TO lib, instructed the dele
| gates to support General Grant as the nominee
for President and TO vo e as unit on all
| questions. A motion to instruct the 1eleEattA
TO vote for Senator D. aims Has lost BY a vote
| OF Q5 to l54. The hiatform adopted deprecates
| iarthet financial legislation; condemns I" tink-
ering with the tariff" dsapproves of CON-
lnercial treaties; censures tho Democrats tor
" attempting to cripple tho government"
calls for honest elections and denounces sc acts
such ns those in Maine"
Henry Moett, who killed his vile and her
paramour Mt Taghkanick, near Hudson, N. T.,
September IL last, has been sentenced to be
hanged on March 10. The prisoner asked that
he be hanged in public and that he be allowed
In hour and hall to speak.
On the day alter the recent heavy storm the
Bodies of eight men belonging to wrecked
vessels were washed ashore in the vicinity Of
Sandy Hook and Long Branchs
The New York Herald has subscribed the
mgniHcent sum of 800, 900 to aid the famine.
Stricken people OF Ireland.
At an inquest held in Philadelphia on the
body OF Henrietta Brest, q blind girl, nine
years old, it was shown that the helpless child
by her mother. When the girls body was dis
covered it had been partially eaten by rats and
covered with vermin. The coroner said it
was the worst case of depravity he had ever
encoumtered The Jury found that the girls
death was due to the mothers intemperance
and neglect, and he was committed to jail.
The body OF Miss Dolly Hartman, beauti-
tul school girl who died at the age of eighteen
at her home in Allegheny City, Pa, was
hFTvnv ne11 49, *
ton, Pa, At death she expressed preference
for cremation. This was the fifth cremation
at the Washington furnace and the second of
a woman.
Adolph E. Borie, General Grants first Sec
Rotary of the navy, died in Philadelphia the
other day, aged seventy-one years. Mr..
Borie had been prominent merchant of
Philadelphia. He was with General Grant on
his recent tour abroad.
Governor Davis, of Maine, In his message
refefs TO the late difficulties and recommends
ADMINISTRATION OF the whole subject of count
ing the election returns.
Later reports show that during the recert
heavy storm at least eight vessels were
wrecked and ten lives lost on the New Jersey
coast.
The publication in the New York city papers
that Mr.. D. J. Whitney, chairman OF the
committee Tor the enforcement of law OF the
Society for the Prevention of Crime, was col
Letting what he termed black list" made
up of the names of persons OF wealth and as
surned respect ibility whom his detectives
found irequenting gambling houses and other
places of ill-repute, has caused great deal of
indignation and much i'll feeling against the
society. The secretary of the society pub
fishes csrd asserting that the society does
not authorize any espionage or the making OF
any lists except of names of witnesses Tor the
prosecutions which it has undertaken.
Senate subcommittee, consisting OF Sen.
ators Wallace, Garland, Mcdonald, Hoar and
B air has held two days session in New
York city, examining witnesses in regard to
alleged Illegal arrests made by United States
Supervisor Davenport and his marshaIs on
election day in 1878.
Mrs Sarah Dillin ham, thirty-three years
old, wife OF a farmer living near Londonderry,
N. H., was outrageously assaulted and then
shot and probably fatally wounded by her
nephew, Frank Dillingham;, twenty years old.
Alter committing ii e crime Dillingham; made
an unsuccessful attempt to commit suicide and
then surrendered himself. His aunt was found
unconscious with rope around her neck and
a bullet hole in her head.
Two white and three colored prisoners were
publicly whipped few days ago at Newcastle,
Del.
Western and Southern States.
The contract for an electric light of 10000
candle power, to be placed in the dome OF the
Wabash (Ind.) county court house, intended
to light that city, has been let to the Brush
Electric Light Company, of Cleveland, Ohio,
tor 81, 800 The agreement states that should
the Light prove unsatisfactory the city shall be
at no expense.
dispatch from Fort Buford, Daksta, says
that fierce and bloody battle recently took
place in that vicinity between two bands of
Indians one of which had stolen some horses
from the other. The marauders were pur-
sued and in the fight that followed fiiten In
dams were killed and the ponies recaptured
The Milwaukee county hospita on the farm
in the town of Wauwatosa, Wis, was de-
stFoyed by fire tde other day, and Mrs. Chris
tine Nelson, feeble minded woman, ninety
years of age, and Fred Schorff, an insane
man, persisted in the flames.
The officers of the Kansas freedman's relief
association have been directed by the direct
ors of the association to devise some method
of diverting the constantly increasing emigra-
ton of colored people to other States than
Kansas.
A negro cabin on the plantation of Captain
William Stack, thirteen miles north of Co
lumbia, S. c., was burned the other night
Two men, woman and six children persisted
in the flames.
At Baltimore Count Eugene Mitkiewicz
was indicted by the grand jury for obtaining
Sl6, 600 worth of coal under false pretenses
and was lodged in Jail.
The county court house at Dallas, Texas
has been destroyed by fire. The building cost
100000 and the loss is about halt that
amount
fire which destroyed Chinese wash house at
San Francisco.
Three burglars entered the bank at Knox
vile, H., seized and bound President Runkle,
who sleeps in the building, and after gagging
and beating him and burning his feet in
shocking manner to compel him to reveal the
combination of the safe lock, they left with
$4,000 which had not been locked up. There
was time lock on the safe and Mr.. Runkle
was unable to give the combination.
The supreme court of Georgia has refused to
grant q new trial to Cox. who was sentenced
to imprisonment for life for the murder OF
Colonel Aston. The case will be carried to
the supreme court of the United States.
The Iowa house of Representatives, by
vote of 81 to 81, has adopted resolution for
submitting constitutional amendment to the
people making women eligible to the legisla-
ture.
During squall schooner was capsized at
Grand Manan, N B., and John Nesbet, Frank
Robinson, John Larry, Mrs. Lindsay and Mrs.
Franklin were drowned.
From Washington
The House select committee on the state OF
the law respecting ascertainment and deolara-
ton of result of election of President and
Vice-President has accepted the report of the
subcommittee in favor OF Representative
Bicknell's joint resolution proposing con-
stitutienal amendment to provide for the cleo
ton of President and Vice-President by the
people," The committee has stricken ont
that portion of the resolution providing I" that
contest in any State shall be passed upon by
its highest Judicial tribunal" and with this one
change has instructed Representative Bicknell
to report the resolution favorably to the
House.
The House committee on agriculture, with
one dissenting vote, (that of Representative
COVERT accepted the Aiken bill making the
department Of agriculture an executive de-
partment.
A report made or the information OF Con-
gress by Secretary of War Ramsey shows that
the organized strength of the militia force OF
the different States consists OF las general Of
hcers, COS regimental, field and staff officers,
and 6, 1893 company officers, making a total of
$500 commissioned officers. OF non-commis-
stoned officers, musicians and privates there
are 1887. The unorganized force or men
available for military duty in the United
States is put down at 6,5l6, 758.