The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-06-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

logical seminary died at Litchfeld, Conn.
| The New York assay Office has sent to
the Philadelphia mint 30 tons OF gold
valued at $15,000.000, to be coined.
Colonel Edward Moale has been APP
pointed military governor of Puerto Prin-
cipe in place of General Carpenter.
Jewelry and clothing valued at $4,000
brought by Mrs. Dodge from Europe,
were seized at the New York custom
house.
G. p. Huntington has purchased 1850
acres of land in Virginia, on which will
be built reformatory for negro children
of that state.
announced the election of Professor
George Harris of Andover as president
of the college.
The Clyde liner Pawnee was burned to
the waters edge east of Cape Charles.
Her crew was rescued by the George W.
Clyde of the same line.
An extensive brewery combine has
been effected in Paterson, N. j., taking
in all of the breweries Of Passaic county,
involving $6,000,000 capital.
Mrs. James Platt aged 16 years, Of
Union Mills, Ind, gave birth to four
daughters. Three have since died, but
the fourth will probably live. The mother
weighs ITO pounds.
Fire in Oswego, N. Y, destroyed the
Oswego Crate factory and slightly dam
aged the Ontario Bicycle works and
Findlay's Machine works. The loss is es-
timated at $4,000.
The Rough Riders held an enthusiastic
reunion at Las Vegas, N. NJ, on the first
anniversary of the battle of San Juan
Hill. Colonel Roosevelt was given med
al by his late command.
Miss Edith Maud Caldwell, daughter of
DR.. William HI. Caldwell of Providence,
and Hon. Daniel J. Riordan, member of
congress from the city of New York,
we're married on Wednesday.
The funeral of Lieutenant Philip Van
Horne Lansdale. who was killed at Sa-
moa, has been held in San Francisco.
Bishop Moreland delivered the. sermon.
The church was crowded, the navy and
army being largely represented.
Among the passengers who have arriv-
ed at New York per steamer Kensington
from Antwerp was Edward Marshall, the
New York Journal reporter who was
shot at La Guasima. Mr. Marshall is
still suffering from the effects of the
wound.
The unskiled laborers at the Chicago
stockyards have won their strike and
nearly 1000 men who have been idle for
three or four days returned to work at an
increase of % cents a day. This brings
the wages of unskilled labor to the stand
ard of 1895.
Henry Bradley Plant, president of the
Plant Investment company, controlling
the great system of hotels and railroads
on the west coast of Florida and the line
of steamers from Tampa to Havana, died
suddenly Friday evening at his residence
on Fifth avenue, New York.
The Yale corporation has elected to the
membership of the corporation Rev.
Newman Smyth, D. D., of New Haven
and Rev. Newell NJ Calhoun of Winsted
Conn. Mr.. Arson Phelps Stokes, Jr., B.
A., Yale, 1896, was elected secretary of
the corporation to succeed Professor F..
B. Dexter.
The Boston Herald says that Admiral
Dewey will visit Boston before he goes to
New York, this forecast being based on
the reported statement of the United
States consul general at Halifax that he
has received word direct from Washing
ton that the Olympia will make Halifax
its first American stopping place.
Among the honorary degrees conferred
by Harvard university at commencement
were those of doctor of laws upon Jules
Cambon, the French ambassador to the
United States: General Leonard Wood,
U. S. A., military governor of Santiago,
Cuba; Arthur T. Hadley, president elect
of Yale university, and Admiral w. T..
Sampson.
Secretary of War Alger will stand for
election to the United States senate from
Michigan on a platform which includes
opposition to trusts and support of SEN
atorial elections by direct vote of the
people. Mr.. Alger confirms the state
ments made by Governor Pingree as-to
his combination of political interests with
the Michigan executive.
Abram Gould. a brother of Jay Gould,
has died at Salem, N. Y. For many
years he was purchasing agent for the
Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain
Railroad company. He leaves one son,
Fred, ages, p years. Mr. Gould's health
had been very poor for several months,
and recently, in company with his son,
he went east for rest. He was 56
years old.
The United States cable ship Hooker,
from New York May for Manila, has
arrived at Singapore The Hooker was
the Spanish line steamer Panama, cap
tured by the United States during the re-
cent war, and is the first ship fitted
out by the government as a cable steam
err. The equipment includes about $50
miles of cable and a large quantity of
land wire.
The United States collier Abarenda has
arrived at Valparaiso. The Abarenda
sailed from Old Point, Va, April 80 for
Page Page, Samoa. Besides the struc-
tural material for the wharf and coal
sheds at Page Page the Abarenda has on
board 2,400 tons of coal for the coaling
station which is to be erected at that
place and which is to be of the most
permanent character
Yale university has conferred honorary
degrees upon Rev. Professor George Adj
am Smith, Glasgow; Hon. John w.
Griggs, attorney general of the United
| States; Professor Charles S. Minot Nj.
D., Boston; Wrklicher Geheimrath
| Franz Won Rottenburg, curator of the
University of Bonn, Germany; Admiral
Francis M. Bunce, U. S. ~, retired.
Hartford, and Captain W. G. Wise, u.
S. N, Norfolk.
Captain Coghlan will go to Puget sound
as commandant of the naval station at
Bremerton. The original order was sus-