The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-11-18
SUMMARY or THE NEWS.

WuSteQsS wiz man mas prOken loOS0
again and is charged with soaring Connec-
ticut voters.
Secretary Long has ordered that the tor
pedo boats at the Navy Yard remain in
commission.
French Army chiefs have plan to let
/ Dreyfus be liberated without vindication
in public trial.
Great Britain has given Chicago an extra
ordinary order for the chief ingredient of
smokeless powder.
vickers, Sons, & Maxim, English ship
builders, may establish branch for build
ing warships in this country.
The Attorney General of Ohio will push
the fight against all the branches of the
Stal I'D Oil Trust in that State.
The steamship Croatan of the Clyde Line
was destroyed by fire near Cape Charles.
Five persons persisted in the flames.
Four whaling vessels arrived at San
Francisco from the Arctic bringing cargoes
of bone and sperm oil worth $3.50, 600
Anthony Post, twelve years old, picked
up live electric wire in Newark, N. ]. and
5000 volts passed through his body. He
may die.
Fire at the National Capitol wrecked the
United States Supreme Court room, ruined
the valuable law library and destroyed
priceless records
Vermont bank robbers dragged two cur
ious citizens from the street, bound them
hand and foot and then resumed their at
tack on the safe.
Spain viii evacuate, and the United
States occupy Puerto Principe Nov. %,
General movement OF troops to Cuba will
begin Dec. l.
The American Sugar Refining Company
has virtually completed contract by which
the entire sugar crop of the Hawaiian
Islands, amounting to 250, 900 tons, will be
delivered to the company
The Paris Temps announced upon semi
official authority that Major Marchand's
position at Fashoda being untenable. the
French force at that place will be forthwith
instructed to evacuate.
The steamer Panama, which was rumored
in despatch from New York to have been
wrecked off Cape Maysi, has arrived at
Havana. She landed eight passengers and
left for Key West.
Gov Black of New York has appointed
Frederick A. Ward of Brooklyn as JUS
tice of the Supreme Court to fill the yacan-
cy caused by the resignation Of Justice
Augustus VanWyck-
The Crew of the wrecked schooner Jen-
ME +. Wiley, who had subsisted for twen-
ty-tlrree days ON seaweed and raw fish,
were brought to New York by the Ward
line steamship Saratoga.
General bIanco will leave Havana
November 20. Preparations are being
hurried forward for his departure, and
he will doubtless go to Barcelona,
leaving General Parade to close up
matters relating to the final evacua-
ton of Cuba.
The Figaro" says that at the in
stance of the Court of Cessation an
other seizure of papers has bee made
in the house of a person who had re-
lations with Major Esterhazy, and
many letters belonging to Esterhazy
have been handed to the court.
A despatch from Paris says that
great reaction has set in among poll
ticians against the cost of French
colonizing enterprise which will posi-
bly, result in the Nile question settling
itself The real danger is in the Chau-
4 Whist press, which continues to howl
I for war.
The London Coroners jury which
4 has been investigating the death of
! Harold Frederic, the correspondent of
the New York Times, rendered YER
/ diet of manslaughter against Kate
Lyon, member of the late Mr.. Fred
cries household, and Mrs. Mills,
/ Christian Scientist.
The Echo de Paris prints despatch
from Toulon saying that the entire French
Mediterranean squadron is ready to sail
and that leaves of absence, even for day,
have been stopped. Repairs upon ships
are being pushed with the greatest activity
and forts and batteries are undergoing
special inspection.
Emperor William is much displeased
over several Earring incidents of his
trip to Jerusalem. The reply of the
Vatican to his notification of rights
acquired at Mount Sion is considered
Extremely curt, while on all important
occasions the French Consul General
attended in order to assert Frances
guardianship of holy places.
At a banquet given in his honor
Emperor William delivered a speech
in which he said he was deeply moved
at the thought of standing in place
where Saladin, the most knighty of
rulers, had once sojourned. He as
sured the Mohammedans of his i'm
perial friendship and proposed toast
to their health and prosperity.
Beresford in China.