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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-16
AGUlNALDo.

General Otis correspondence with the
Washington authorities relative to affairs
at Manila, where he is in command of
General Merritt's corps during the lat
ter's absence at Paris, seems to portend
serious trouble with Aguinaldo in the
settlement of the Philippine question, he,
it is reported, insisting on joint occupancy
with the Americans of the city of Manila.
It is not to be denied that this daring in
surgent chief, backed by some $4,000 saw
age warriors, is capable of creating first
class difficulties in the path of the Amer
lean policy of Philippine government, and
it must be admitted that the insurgents
are entitled to fair consideration in the
final issue and that they should not be
relegated to relationship with Spain
from which they cut loose by successful
revolt AT the same time it is impossible
for our government to consent to terms
projected by Aguinaldo, or even to rec
ognize his existence in any conclusions Of
settlement.
We are touched, however, BIZ his earn
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-16
A WEEK OF GOLF.

This is an Olympian week in Morris
town. and the CHRONICLE tenders hearty
greetings to the golf contestants and golf
champions present in multitudes from
many quarters at home and abroad. The
growth of the recreative game of golf-a
safe, polite and scientific outdoor sport
that has now attained to national proper
tions and numbers tens upon tens of thou
sands of ardent participants and yotaries
has been nowhere more enthusiastically
and generously fostered than in Morris
town; and it is for this reason, among
other excellent reasons, we doubt not,
thato charmingly situated and historic
city was selected as the theatre for the
magnificent golf events that crowd the
program for the present week.
Morristown is delightfully."- interested,
aforementioned and hospitable in appre-
citation of the distinction thus conferred.
and bespeaks unruffied joy for her hosts
of visitors; and, meanwhile, must not be
overlooked the engaging labors, liberal
and untiring zeal and efficient prepare
ton and resource of the Morris County
Golf Club through which the contests
for the amateur golf championship of the
United States, under the authority of the
United States Golf Association, are be-
ing decided on the admirable local links.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Miss Mary Dana is at Saratoga.
Mrs. A. M. Brooks of Morris avenue is
in Boston
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Caldwell
are at Mrs. Underhill's
Mr. and Mrs. Charles D. M. Cole and
family are at Mrs. Underhills
Mrs. Vincent B. King of Maple avenue
is visiting relatives in the South.
DIR. and Mrs. Fayette Smith are at
Mrs. Stephenson's until October 1.
Miss Cecil Hosmer is the guest of Miss
Annie Rowland Ford of James street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry w Buxton and
family have returned from Bay Head
Mr.. and Mrs. w. Allston Flagg and
family are home from Northeast Harbor
Miss Jessie johnson of Elizabeth was
the guest of Mrs. Elliot Smith last week.
Miss Mary Adrain Hall left town this
morning to visit friends in Hartford, Ct
Mrs. w. j. Westcote and Mr.. and
Mrs. Knox of New York are at Mrs
Tunis's.
Samuel Sutton has been visiting his
sister, Mrs Cyrus T. Loree of Washing
ton street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Trenor Parke are the
guests of Mrs Julius Catlin Catlin at
Fairholme
Mrs. H. A. Henriques has returned
from Rockport, Mass, where she spent
the summer.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Freeman have
returned from Water Mill, where they
had cottage.
Miss Caroline Brown has returned
from visit to the Misses Lidgerwood at
Shelter Island.
George Little of Troop A reached
home last Saturday at midnight in ex-
cellent health
Mrs. Marston Niles Of California is the
guest of Mrs. Nathaniel Niles of Monta-
tiquoi, Madison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward L. Winslow
were guests of Miss Margaret Lanier
Winslow this week.
Foxhall Keene and l. F. Curtis were
guests of Fl. Mex. Twombly of Madison
during the golf tournament
Miss Helen Shelton has returned from
Mantaloking, where she has been the
guest of the Misses Siedler.
Rev and Mrs. E. E. Butler Of Madison
have returned from Richfield Springs,
where they spent the summer.
| Mr.. and Mrs. II. Ward Ford have re-
turned from Seabright and are occupy
| ing their Morris avenue house.
/ The new house of Mrs. Elias Ames is
nearly completed and will be ready for
! occupancy the LIST Of October. Mr. and
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POLITICAL LAsslTuDE.

There are few State elections in the
autumn and they do not occur in close
political commonwealth. Nevertheless,
the August and September contests have
always hitherto taken on national in
terest because they were found to index
the popular expression likely to assert
itself in the general elections of Novem-
Der. IT, too, anything could potentially
augment the national attention to these
exemplary contests we should imagine
that the incident Of sswar year full of
dramatic association and tragic situation
ought to do so. In our past history the
political struggles that followed imme-
diately upon the conclusion of success
full war-and our wars, though few, were
always successful-have been invariably
marked by heavy and enthusiastic voting
and sometimes by pyrotechnical surprises
among the results.
Thus far in the present year-a year
luminous with victories in war at once
startling for its activity and brevity and
for the magnitudeof its advantages to the
nation and the world the elections that
quickly follow disclose in the paucity of
ballots and absence of public interest a
condition of unprecedented political las
situde. If not that, what? And why?
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THE ASSASSIN.

The descending scale of human deprav-
ity terminates at assassination. Lower
than that the british instinct of utterly
abandoned nature can find no level.
When the assassin is not irretrievably a
devouring mailman, irresponsible for his
acts, he is cringing, white-livered cow
ard and an insult to the shape of man.
Wherever in the dark of his own bosom
he turks and lusts for the wantonness of
Misunderstanding his deadly poignard for
light and courage to kill he is the sick
LEST and most loathsome thing that God
let's squirm along the nightside of His
footstool.
The shocking assassination Of the Aus
trian Empress at Geneva-of an invalid
woman abroad after the blessing of
health restoration, kindly queen with
out an act of oppressiveness to answer for
and the spouse of weak potentate await
ing dying realm-has startled the uni
verse with horror, not for the reasons
here outlined-not wholly because the
victim was frail and harmless creature
but to find that even among assassins
one murderer may be unspeakably mean
er and more fendishly brutal and cow
ardly than another.
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Mrs. G. Tatnall Nichols will occupy the
house in which Mrs. Ames is now living.
George Lord Day has been cruising in
the Mediterranean this summer on his
yacht, The Fleur de Lys.
Miss Nellie Bryce sails tomorrow on
the Campania with Mrs Trenor Parke
for six weeks trip in Europe.
Mr. Hall, brother of Edward j. Hall
of Kadenah, has just returned from
Porto Rico and is the guest of his brother
Mr. and Mrs. Pierre j. Smith and
family have returned from Martha's
Vineyard, where they have had cot
tage this summer
The engagement of Mason Young, Jr.,
to Miss Frye of Nutley, which was form
ally announced this summer, has been
broken by mutual consent
Mrs. McAllister Hess and Miss Reta
Clarkson Metcalfe. who have been
spending two weeks at Saratoga Springs,
have returned to Morristown
Mrs. Percy R. Pyne of BernardsvilIe
and Mrs. A. d. Russell of Morristown
were members of the committee who
welcomed the Eighth New York.
Mrs Hitchcock and Miss Mary Hitch
cock will go abroad the 1st of October
and spend the winter in Dresden, where
Miss Hitchcock will study music.
Joseph NJ. Kelly, who is the Trenton
correspondent of the New York World
and the Eve,aiag Sun, spent the early
part of the present week with friends in
this city.
Sidney Graves Mather, who will be
remembered as one of our Morristown
boys, returned home from Porto Rico on
Saturday with Troop c. Brooklyn Cayal-
ry, of which he has been a member
for sometime He reports Porto Rico a
fine country, with many fine oppor-
tunities for business investments.
Edgar F. Randolph has reached the
Rockies. where, with a friend. and ac-
companied by guide and several pack
mules, they expect to spend several
weeks hunting large game, of which re-
ports say the woods and mountains are
full Through the courtesy of Captain
Knivers of the regular army,
who is stationed in the Yellowstone
Park, Mr.. Randolph and his party were
permitted to pass through the Park car
rying their rifles, an unusual occurrence.
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FOURTH DISTRICT REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
SIGNAL CONVENTION.

The Republican voters of the Fourth Con-
gressional District of New Jersey. comprising
the counties of Hunterdon, Morris, Sussex
and Warren. are requested TO select delegates
to Congressional convention to be held at
Newton. in the County of Sussex, on Saturdas.
September "a 1898. at II O'Clock noon, for the
purpose of nominating candidate for Con-
gress. The basis of the representation unoer
this call will be one delegate for each one
hundred Republican votes cast at the last
Congressional election, and one for each frac-
ton of the same above fifty, in each township,
ward and borough. provided that each town
ship, ward and borough shall be entitled to at
least one delegate. The place and time of
holding caucuses for election of delegates 10
be fixed by the Republican County Committee
of respective counties.
G. L. CHovEY, Chairman,
ELIAS B MORT.
S. K. LARGE.
w. q. WILMoTT.
J. WAITER INGHAM.
GEORGE NJ. SHIPMAN,
HORACE E. RUDE,
JOHN L, SwAYzE, Sec'y.
Committee.
Dated at Dover. N. j.. the End day of Sep
TENDER. 1898.
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RULES FOR VISITORS.


At a recent meeting of the Board of
Managers of the State Hospital for the
Insane at Morris Plains existing condi-
tons made it Unnecessary to lay down the
following rules for visiting to the insti-
tuition:
No visitors can be admitted on Sunday.
Because one half of the attendants are
excused to attend religious services in
the morning and an equal number are
occupied in caring for those at the chapel
in the afternoon, patients cannot be
taken to the reception rooms to receive
visits on that day.
Regular visiting days and hours are
Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays of
each week, from 2 to 5 o'clock in the
afternoon.
In case Of serious illness of patients the
Medical Director may permit their rela-
tives or guardians to visit said patients
at times other than those designated
above as regular visiting days and hours.
While the managers of this hospital
desire to afford taxpayers and all others
reasonable facilities to observe what the
State is doing for the most unfortunate
class of its citizens, the board finds it
necessary to discourage visits Of mere
curiosity seekers. The Medical Director
is therefore authorized and instructed to
decline to admit excursion parties to the
wards, and to allow no loud converse
ton among those visiting the wards,
especially personal reference to the
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REV. EUGENE A. FARRELL.

Rev. Eugene A. Farrell, rector of st.
Peters Roman Catholic church at Belle
vile, died at the rectory on Wednesday
morning of pulmonary trouble, after an
illness of two months. He was born in
Brooklyn in 1916, entered st. Charles
College, Ellicott City, Md, graduating
from that institution and Seton Hall coll
lege at South Orange. In 1885 he was
sent to st. Joseph's Church, Jersey City.
He had a charge at Denville, afterwards
officiating as curate attached to the
Church of the Assumption of this city.
From Morristown he went to Bergen
Point, and thence to st. Mary's, Jersey
City, after which he assumed charge of
Mendham and Basking Ridge mission.
About three years ago he left Mendham
to assume charge of his last parish. Fa-
ther Farrell was of genial disposition,
a faithful worker, and he will long be.
held in affectionate remembrance by his
many parishioners and friends in this
city as well as by those in other parishes
where he ministered.
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GoIf-The Social Side.

All the news of the players, the scores
and the games can be found in another
article, but in this we want to consider
Tournament week socially, for, begin
ming Monday morning, Tournament
week has been a great social success.
A prettier scene than the one at the club
grounds can seldom be seen. Before
in the morning the people began to
assemble and at . in the afternoon there
were frequently four and five hundred
present. Some followed the players,
others went to the tent and had after.
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JAMES E. BABCoCK

James E. Babcock, aged 20, died at
Jacksonville, Fla, on Monday of typhoid
fever. He was a member Of Company
NJ. Second New Jersey Volunteers, and
was the first Morristown soldier to give
his life for devotion to country during
the recent war. Two brothers, Samuel
and John, live in this city. For several
years he was employed at st. Bartholo-
news school. Private Babcock's body
will arrive today with an escort from
Jacksonville and win be buried with
military honors
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OBITUARY.
CHARLES N. PARKER.

At Saranac Lake, on Tuesday, Charles
N. Parker, a well known business man
of this city, died in the SD year of his
age. For several years past Mr. Parker
had been troubled with lung affection
for which he sought relief in the day
climate of Arizona, where by life on a
ranch he was greatly benefited. The
early summer was spent near Hacketts-
town. On August 1. accompanied by
Mrs, Parker and his daughter Alice, he
located at Saranac Lake, in the Adiron-
dacks, where he was at the time of hie
decease, which, though not unexpected,
came suddenly.
Mr.. Parker was born at Scipio, near
Auburn, in 1S45. At the age of II years
he ran away from home, enlisting in
regiment Of New York volunteers, serv-
ing from so to So, and earning a
sergeant's stripes. At the conclusion of
the war he engaged in grain raising in
connection with his father on farm at
Perry, New York The climate proving
too rugged, he studied photography at
Rochester, later with his family spending
some time at Los Angeles, coming to
Morristown from the California coast
about fifteen years ago.
His artistic productions soon secured
recognition, and for many years he en-
joyed well merited reputation for
superior work, The immediate cause of
his death was due to lung trouble caused
by over exertion in making bicycle
trip from Morristown to Split Rock Pond
several years ago. Deceased married
Miss Julia A. King of Perry, who with
two sons, w c. and l. c. and daughter
Alice, survive him. The funeral services
will be held at the residence of his
parents in Perry, and the interment will
be made in Evergreen Cemetery of that
place.
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FRIeHTFuL BATTLE LOSSES.

The reports by the British General
Kirchner of the recent operations of his
military expedition in inter-Egypt give
no clear idea of the aggregate forces en-
gagged at Omdurman and Khartoum and
therefore no datum for an estimate of the
per centage of the losses in battle, nor is
there statement of the Anglo-Egypt
casualties, which must have been severe;
but the slaughter of dervishes was fright
full, 10000 being killed and 10000
wounded.
By comparison with the heavier battles
of modern wars this is the largest show
ing of killed and the greatest per centage
of killed to wounded, but not the greatest
total of both. The per centage of deaths
to wounds in battle remains unvaryingly
in the locality of 20-that is to say, one
killed in five hit. At Omdurman one fa-
tally resulted to about two and half
hit, the total loss to the Mahdi's follow
ers being 26, 500. We suspect indeed we
have seen it asserted THAT Kirchner's
soldiers dispatched hundreds, possibly
thousands of wounded dervishes.
This loss of 26.5O0 in nominally sin
gle engagement was exceeded but once in
the present century and that by the Con-
federate losses at Gettysburg. While no
published estimates of these have ever
been in agreement and no official data in
detailed form exists for calculating them
with acceptable accuracy. yet in the army
of Lee itself the Judgment was enter
tanned as conclusive that it had crossed
the Potomac recruited up to ~, 600 men,
and had recrossed after the Gettysburg
campaign with force of little more than
40, 600 indicating loss of from 10000
to 81, 900 men, the largest of the century,
though this per centage of 43 in losses
was equalled in 1862 by the Federals un-
der General Pope, whose force at the
Second Manassas battle was but 30, 600
men and his losses about ii, 1000.
DEMOCRATIC harmony in Camden
county has received set back, and the
regulars" under the leadership of
Gambler Thompson have the whip in
hand and viii appoint the committees
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noon tea; some sat on the piazza, and all
talked. The green of the grass made
perfect setting for the light dresses and
red coats and the different groups were
most effective. There was large num-
Der of guests present, including Foxhall
Keene, who was the guest of Mr. and
Mrs. H. Mex. Twombly; DR.. Dana of
Philadelphia, who is the guest of Miss
Dana; George D. Fowler, who is Allston
Flaggs guest: Mr. and Mrs Trenor
Parke who spent few days with Mrs.
Parkes mother, Mrs. Julius Catlin; Miss
Frances Griscom of Philadelphia; Miss
Beatrice Hoyt of Southampton; Miss
Bayliss of New York, who is the guest
of Mrs. Frederic Van Beuren; Mr.. and
Mrs Edward Winslow of New York who
were the guests of Miss Margaret Lanier
Winslow; Cecil j. Allen of the Com
naercsdJ Advertiser, who was Alexander
H. Tiers guest. Among the many Nor
ristown people who were at the club
nearly every afternoon were Mrs. George
Macculloch Miller, Mrs. Fl. w. Miller,
Mrs Revere, Mrs. E. @. Keasbey. Mrs.
F. s. Hoyt, DR.. and Mrs. Hughes, Mrs.
Letchford, Mrs. Dickson and her mother,
Mrs. Young, Miss Hopkins, Mrs Pitney,
Mrs Mahlon Pitney. Mrs. H. G. Pitney,
Jr., Mr.. and Mrs VIM Youngs Marsh, Mr..
ann Mrs. S. G. Winship, Mrs. Ames,
Miss Alice Bushnell, Miss LouiseW Walker,
Miss Egbert, Mrs. S. Fisher johnson,
Mrs. Chisolm, Mr. and Mrs. Gustav E .
Kissel, Mr.. and Mrs. Rudolph II. Kissel,
Miss Kip, Charles A. Kip, Mr. and Mrs.
A. H. Tiers, Mr.. and Mrs Robert F. Bal
lantine, Mr.. and Mrs. G. 6. Frelinghuy-
ten, Mrs F. W. Merrell, the Misses and
Mr.. Chambers, J. R. Brinley, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. D. Woodward, Mr. and Mrs.
George Sanford Wylie, Miss King, Mr..
and Mrs R. Ell. Thomas, Miss Eleanor
and Mr. Bushnell, Mrs. and the Misses
Catlin, Howard Coghill, A. w. Colgate,
Miss Cornell, Mr.. and Mrs. E j. Hall
and the Misses Hall, Mrs. Murray S. Day
and Miss Alice Day, the Misses and
Robert Granniss, Mrs Arthur Dean,
Miss de Barry, Miss Bertha Macy, Mrs.
A. G. Downing, Mrs. and the Misses
Slade, Mr. and Mrs. Shipper, the Misses
Evans, DR.. and Mrs. Evans of. Morris
Plains, Mr.. and Mrs w Allston Flagg,
Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Foote, DR.. and Mrs.
Henriqueh Miss Foster, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
B. Frost, Mrs. Stockton, Miss futile, Mr..
and Mrs Richard Williams of Madison,
Miss Winslow. Mrs. Macbeth, Miss
Chew, Mrs. and Miss Wood, Mr.. and
Mrs. John O. H. Pitney, Mr. and Mrs.
Walsh, Mrs. w. ]. Westcote, Mrs. Knox,
the Misses Underwood, A. G. Van Tassel
Sutphen, Mrs Day, Messrs. Revere, Mr..
and Mrs. II. P Phipps, Mrs Nathaniel
Niles, Mrs, Robert 81. McCurdy, Mrs. H.
Ward Ford, Joseph Forbes, Mrs Emory
McClintock and her guest, Miss Long
acre, Stewart Mackie, s. Fl. Little, Miss
Little. the Misses Mills, Mrs. w. Roscoe
Lyon, Mrs. Luther Kountze, Mr.. and
Mrs, F. M. Hurlburt, the Misses Hurl-
burt. Mrs and Miss Hoy, Mr.. and Mrs.
H. Mex. Twombly, Mr. and Mrs. Ar
thur James and George Little of Troop
A, who was warmly welcomed home
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Republican State Convention.
HEADQUARTERS REPUBLICAN
STATE COMMITTEE,
TRENTON. n. J., August %, 1898.

The Republican voters of New Jersey are
requested to select delegates to State con-
vention to be held in Taylor Opera House in
the City of Trenton. at II O'Clock M. on
Thursday. the I'D day of September, 1898, for
the purpose of nominating candidate for
Governor to be supported at the. ensuing
election.
The basis of representation from each coun-
ty under this call will be one delegate for each
200 Republican votes cast at the last guberna-
torial election in such county. and one for
each fraction of the same over one hundred
The county committees of the several counties
shall decide the method of apportioniug and
shall apportion the delegates within their
respective counties,
THE number of delegates to which each
county will be entitled under this call is as
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THE Democratic convention which will
meet in Trenton on the 28th inst. will
consist of 1851 delegates. The Fourth
District is entitled to 1874, divided as
follows: Morris Al, Hunterdon 80, Sus-
sex %. and Warren 81.
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The Republican voters of Morris County are
requested to meet in their several townships.
boroughs and wards at the places above
designated, on
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9Th. 1898,
and elect delegates to the county convention
to be held at the Baker OPERA House In the
city of Dover on
MONDAY. OCTOBER 10th. 1898,
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, tor the purpose
of nominating County Clerk. Senator and
two members of the General Assembly to be
supported at the ensuing election.
The several townships and wards are entitled
to delegates to this convention as follows:
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THE Democratic Congressional situa-
ton in the Fourth Congressional Dis
trict is this: If the Hon. Johnston Cor
nish desires it, there will be no contest
no complimentary votes, not even for
Elias Christopher Drake of Morris, who
really has led himself to believe he is a
ssbigger" man than Mr.. Cornish.