The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-02-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wide World
Briefly ana TerseIy Told.

/
J. N. Holmes, a prospector. was frozen
to death on Pixies peak, Colorado.
Felipe Agoncillo, Aguinaldo's repre-
sentative in Washington, has fed to
Montreal.
1t is reported in Washington that
Germany furnished Aguinaldo with
\ 500.0 900 marks.
The Cherokee-Dawes treaty has been
1fratifisd by the Cherokees by majority
of more than 1,500.
| Three persons were killed and four in
jured in a wreck on the Grand Trunk
at Finlay City, Mich.
Former Judge Elliot of the Colorado
supreme court is dead. He was born
near Mansfield, Pa, and was veteran
of the civil war.
DR.. and Mrs. Henry Elmo Keys of "A
West Forty sixth street, New York,
were found asphyxiated in bed at the
Ardsley Casino.
! Captain Charles e. Clark, formerly
commander of the Oregon, has been as
signed to duty as captain of the navy
yard at League Island, Pa.
The Mexican senate has confirmed the
appointment of Manuel Azpiroz as en-
bassador to the United States. Mr.. Az
/ piroz will leave for Washington at the
end of February.
| General Fitz-Hugh Lee, accompanied
| by his son, has gone to the Isle of Pines
in order to inspect it's sanitary condi-
tions, with the view to establish mill
| tary sanitarium there.
/ Inhabitants of New Mexico are much
alarmed on account ofsa series of earth
| quake shocks that have occurred re-
Gently. Many have betaken themselves.
! to prayers and fasting.
Mrs. Ethan Allen, wife of Colonel
Ethan Allen, grandson of the Revolu-
| tionary hero of that name, died at the
Metropolitan Opera House in New York
Wednesday night of heart disease.
/ Andrew Carnegie has offered the city
of Atlanta $1,000 for a free public liz
brary, the conditions being that the city
furnish the site and devote $4,000 year
to the maintenance of the institution
The steamers Justin and Celtic. now
at Mare Island, are being overhauled
and in few days will be ready to sail
for the Philippines. following the supply
| ship Centennial, which has just got
away.
A. J. Fowler shot and killed Tom OAR
nell at Silver City, N. M. Darnell went
| to Tampa as rough rider He was one
of the champion horsemen of the world.
1t is said the killing was in self de-
tense.
City and county consolidation in Cook
4 county and the abolition of 16 of the II
government bodies in Chicago has been
Endorsed by the Civic Federation joint
committee on constitutional revision at
| Chicago.
The jury in the $4,000 libel action of
ex-County Judge Luther M. Norton of
Newark, N. j., against George Ray and
Charles Warner Mills, publishers of the
Sodus Record, has awarded the plaintiff
cents damages.
General Kennedy and Major Wat
kins, the advisers of the war depart
ment on insular affairs, are going over
mass of papers bearing. on Cuban and
Porto Rican affairs coming within their
scope of investigation
Premier Sagasta is quoted as saying
he will Immediately submit to the queen
regent decree convoking the cortes
and declaring that he expects to have
majority of 80 favorable to the approval
of the treaty of peace with the United
States. -....
Colonel James A. Sexton, commander
| IN chief OF the Grand Army of the Re-
public and a member of the war investi-i
eating commission, died Sunday at Gar
field hospital, in Washington, from
complications resulting primarily from
an attack of the grip.
The corporation of Brown university
has ratified the choice of Rev. DIR. James
Monroe Taylor, now president of Vassar
college, as president of the university
He will assume at the opening of the
next college year the place left by DIR.
e. Benjamin Andrews.
Colonel Hiram M. Bledsoe, command
er of the famous Bledsoe battery dur
ing the civil war, is dead at his home
in Pleasant Hill. Mo. He was one of
the historic characters of the state He
/ served in the Mexican war and was
/ present at the capture of the City of
| Mexico.
The cold in Wyoming recently has
been intense. For the first time since
the storm all trains on the Wyoming
! division of the Union Pacific railway
are blocked. 1t Is estimated that 10000
sheep in southern Colorado are dying
of cold and hunger. Many f1ocks have
/ been abandoned by the herders.