The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-01-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

Briefly and TerseIy Told.
Fire in ]. Curley's carriage factory in
Brooklyn on Monday did 100000 dam
age.
Minnie French, the actress, died sud-
denly Wednesday morning in New
York
The Anglo-American joint high COM
mission resumed it's sessions in Wash
ington on Thursday.
The American steamer Catania is be-
lieved to have foundered at sea, 25
men losing their lives.
Governor Richards Of Wyoming and
Governor Pingree of Michigan were in
augurated on Monday.
Father Chadwick, the chaplain of the
i'll fated Maine has been assigned to the
Washington navy yard.
The Republican majority of the Maine
legislature renominated Eugene Hale
for United States senator on Wednes-
day.
officials of the interior department
have decided to establish a complete
system of schools in the Indian Terri
tory
| The Electric Companyof America filed
articles of Incorporation Thursday at
of sos 900, 900.
gave a brilliant and largely attended
New Years reception at the White
House on Monday.
Mrs. Mary Cummisky was beaten to
death Monday morning in her home in
New York. Her husband James is ac-
cused of killing her.
house at Springfield, Ills, was entered
by parties unknown Monday and $3.50
stolen from a drawer.
Cushman K. Davis was renominated
for United States senator by the Re-
publican majority of the Minnesota leg
islature on Wednesday.
President Mckinley told Senator
Platt Wednesday he would nominate
Joseph H. Choate for ambassador to
the court of st. James.
Senator j. c. Burrows was renominat-
ed for United States senator by the Re-
publican majority of the Michigan leg
islature on Wednesday.
Some Connecticut folks have been in
vesting money in an alleged Belgian
lottery which the Belgian vice cg,5sul
declares has no existence.
Four miners were killed in Jumper
mine at jamestown, Cal, Monday by
the dropping of skip, which fell 1870
feet to the bottom of the shaft.
Mrs. Bloomfield Fl. Moore, well
known American woman and friend and
financial hacker of Keely, the motor in
ventor, died in London Thursday.
Joseph T. Marean and Almet F. jerks
Of Brooklyn took the oath Of Office as
justices of the supreme court in the
Second judicial district, Brooklyn, on
Friday.
Miss Olive Harrington Sampson,
daughter of Admiral Sampson, was mar
ried to Henry Harrison Scott Of San
Francisco at Glen Ridge, N. j., Wednes-
day evening.
Frederick Graves, son of the owner
of the Hotel Cadillac, and Miss Carolyn
Minerva Huestis an actress, eloped
from New York to New Jersey and
were welded there Monday night.
William NJ Irish, manager for the
Standard Oil company at O1ean, N. Y,
dropped dead at railway station at
Youngstown, o., Sunday, while waiting
to take train. He was 10 years old.
Daniel La Forte, known by his Indian
name as Tel es-La, president of the
Six Nations and a principal in the case
of the Onondaga Indians against John
Boyd Thacher in the supreme court, is
dead.
Representative Nelson Dingley of
Maine is critically ill at his apartments
at the Hamilton House in Washington
with an attack of pneumonia Because
of his age much concern is felt over his
condition.
Near New Concord, o., Baltimore
and Ohio freight train going down
grade broke into two sections Monday.
The sections collded, derailed damag
ed several cars and killed two men who
were stealing ride.
A pension Of $50 a month has been
granted to Mrs. Ida B. Haskell, widow
of Brigadier General Joseph t. Haskell,
who was wounded at the battle of Ell
Caney in July and died therefrom in
this county on Sept 16.
Or. j. B. Angel, ex-minister to Tur-
key, delivered an address Wednesday
night in the Central Congregational
church. Brooklyn, on the work of Amer
lean missionaries in Turkey and the at
titude of the Turkish government to-
ward them.
The secretary OF war has issued an
order for the mastering out of about It,,
900 volunteer soldiers. The list includes
the Sixty-ninth New York, now at
Huntsville, Ala, and the Third New
Jersey and Fifteenth Pennsylvania, now
at Athens. Ga.
The robbery of diamond jewelry val
ued at $4,000 from the apartments of
Nine. Frances Saville, the prima donna
at the Madison Avenue hotel, New
York, was reported to the detective bu-
reau. A waiter who disappeared Is sus-
! pected by the police.
The village OF Carthage, N. Y, Sun
day experienced the second great fire of
it's history. The business portion of the
4 town was destroyed. Owing to the in
tense cold the fremen were unable to
work the engines for several hours. The
loss win reach $150,000.
AT the annual meeting of the New