The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-04-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and Tersely Told.

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Prairie fires are doing much damage
in Nebraska.
Former United States Senator Tabor
died at Denver.
A reduction of Pullman sleeping car
rates is announced
Vice President Hobart is reported to
BE little improved.
The divorce colonies in North Dakota
are unusually large.
Three thousand bricklayers are on
strike in Philadelphia.
Governor Roosevelt has returned to
Albany from Michigan.
Thirty cases of smallpox have been
reported in Windber, Pa.
Assistant Postmaster General Heath
has arrived in Porto Rico.
Two men were badly hurt in a freight
train wreck near Arcade N. Y.
DR.. James B. Gibson, well known
oculist. died at Colorado Springs.
The Boston useum has been dam
aged by fire to the extent of $4,000.
The north Atlantic squadron has sail
ed from Port of Spain for Barbados.
The United States furnished Argen-
tine Republic $500 bicycles last year.
Peter Hegelman won the "a hour foot
race in New York, covering 120 miles.
The United States Industrial commits
sion has decided to investigate trusts.
The auxiliary cruiser Yosemite has
arrived at New York to fit out for Ma
Mia.
The Churchill House, one of the finest
hotels in Michigan, was burned at AL
pena.
Many cargoes of salt are being ship
ped from San Francisco to Russia and
Siberia.
New industries are to be introduced
in Sing Sing prison to employ the idle
convicts.
Floods in Montana have done great
damage, IL lives having been lost al
Glendive
Moses w. Dodd. founder of the pub
fishing house of Dodd, Mead & Co., is
dead at Sc.
The story that Admiral SIMPSONS
fleet was to go to England is denied in
Washington.
The postoffice at North Enid, o. T.,
was looted by thieves and the postmas-
ter murdered.
The president has been urged to APP
point ex-Representative Fischer gen.
eral appraiser.
An immense vein of gold and copper
bearing ore has been discovered in
North Carolina.
Elder John A. Hook, widely known
preacher and missionary, died
at Concord, N. H.
Two fine Sevres vases have been pre-
sented to President Mckinley by the
president of France.
In New York city house was set on
fire by the suns rays focused through
an electric light bulb.
General George L. Andrews, retired,
died at his home in Brookline, Mass, on
Tuesday, aged 70 years.
Boston is undergoing smallpox
scare, and fears are entertained that
the disease will become epidemic.
The United States treasury received
three $1,000 bills from some conscience
stricken person, unknown.
Richard Derrick, clerk in the New
York assembly, was stricken at his desk
and died in few moments.
A crazy barber in East Haddam,
Conn, shot a farmer and was pursued
and slain by posse of citizens.
Cowboys held up the cashier of the
Alamo Gordo (New Mexico lumber
works and escaped with $50, 900 in scrip.
The New England cotton mills adj
vanced wages an average of 10 per cent,
between 10000 and 100000 hands being
affected
The jefferson day banquet of the
Monticello club of Chicago has been
abandoned because of Democratic dis
sensions.
The Greater Chicago project, having
in view the consolidation of the munich
pal and county government in that dis
trict, has been defeated.
The Neptune Wrecking company of
Sweden has reported to the navy de-
partment that it is not possible to raise
and repair the sunken Cervera fleet
near Santiago.
A cable dispatch from London states
that the United States ambassador Mr..
from his recent indisposition and has
gone to Bournemouth with his family.
Aguinaldo has issued a decree direct
ing that Spanish shall be the official
language throughout the archipelago
and protesting against the American
pretension to force the use of English
on the natives, who do not know it.
A private cablegram from London
says w. S. Stratton has sold his ia
nous Cripple Creek gold mine, the In
dependence, to the Venture company
of London. The price Is not stated, but
it is believed to be not less than so, 000,-
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The Illinois house has passed bill
providing for the erection in Springfield
of new Lincoln monument at cost of
81, 900 900. The bill appropriates $780,
900 and provides that 100000 be raised
by popular subscription. Congress will
be asked to appropriate the balance.
Eastman Cotter of Philadelphia, con-
victed of conspiring to aid and abet
William N. Boggs in the latters theft
of $107 900 from the First National bank
of Dover, Del, of which Boggs was
paying teller, has been sentenced to pay
a fine of $4,000 and be imprisoned for lS
months.
A deadly riot at Pana, Ills, the most
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