The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-03-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

Secretary Alger has abandoned his
proposed trip to Cuba and Porto Rico.
The jury i'll the trial of Jesse James
for train robbery has returned a verdict
of acquittal
There is a corner in eggs at Pitts
burg, and prices have advanced from q
to 40 cents dozen.
Two boys named Islip and Fair were
killed by an Erie express train at the
Hackensack river bridge.
Congressman Denis NJ Hurry is dead
in Brooklyn Of paralysis, brought on by
overwork in the last election.
The extradition treaty with Mexico
has been agreed upon and forwarded to
Washington for action by the senate.
New York state officers have decided
that the canal contractors shall receive
only what is due for work done and no
damages.
The battleship Oregon, accompanied
by the collier Iris, sailed for Manila on
Feb. 20. She should reach her destina-
ton about March Is.
The president has nominated John B.
Mcpherson of Pennsylvania to be Unit
ed States district judge for the eastern
district of Pennsylvania.
The armored cruiser New York, flag
ship of the north Atlantic squadron,
Rear Admiral Sampson commanding,
and the battleship Indiana have arrived
at Havana.
Among the passengers from Honolulu
on the steamer Australia We're A SOL
diers from the Kansas and New York
regiments, six of whom had been dis
charged. The others returned on ac-
count of illness.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News says that he has learn
ed on reliable authority that Archbish-
op ireland will be created cardinal at
the next consistory.
Benjamin j. Haywood ex-treasurer of
the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and
one of the joint defendants with United
States Senator Quay in the Peoples
bank conspiracy, is dead.
Concerns controlling 80 per cent of the
paper bag industry of the country have
formed trust, with 27,0OO,0OO capital.
Another combination is designed to con-
troll the silk thread trade.
Colonel Amos C. Babcock, an intimate
friend of Abraham Lincoln and prom
inent figure in the abolition movement
in the early fifties, is dead. He was
born in New York in 1928.
The wage conference at Fall River.
Mass, has resulted in the manufac-
turers promising to restore the II 10 per
cent cut of year ago, beginning April
3. The decision affects the whole city.
The Brook Iron company of Read
ing, Pa, has posted notice at its
works at Birdsboro of an increase of rs
cents a ton in the wages of the pud-
dlers, to go into effect April l. The new
rate will be $3.50 ton.
News has been received at Jackson,
Tenn, of disastrous wreck near Tu-
pelo, on the Mobile and Ohio railroad.
Six coaches, loaded with soldiers, were
overturned, and two of the inmates
were killed and six others seriously
hurt.
General Ludlow has ordered the de-
struction and disinfection of the Span
ish forts at San Diego, near Regla, in
order to make room for the camps of
the Eighth and Tenth regiments, which
will move from the Havana parks in a
few days.
A syndicate represented by Hugo vol
Retzenstein and including John c.. Tom
linson, Senior Rafael GOWN Senior Eus-
tbs, Senior Francisco Garcia and other
prominent people has purchased and
partly paid for Ia cigar and cigarette
factories in and about Havana.
The president has approved the bill
providing for a new custom house in
New York city, the bill appropriating
additional funds to buy more property
for the Brooklyn postoffice and the bill
appropriating $2OOOO,OOO to carry out
the provisions of the treaty of peace
with Spain.
Sara Jewett, at one time a prominent
figure on the American stage, is dead.
She made her debut on Sept. 8, 1872, at
the Fifth Avenue theater, New York.
Her first role was Mabel Wyckoff in
Bronson Howard's play, Diamonds. /"
Later she appeared in leading roles with
Augustin Days and A. M. Palmer's
companies.
The navy department is pushing the
settlement of the prize cases growing
out of the late war as rapidly as posi-
BILE, and the judge advocate general has
sent to the auditor of the treasury for
the navy the claims of the Nashville
and Marblehead for the seizure of the
Argonauta and the Marblehead, Reso-
Lutte and Annapolis for the seizure of the
Adula.
1t has been reported in Madrid,
though there is no official confirmation
of the rumor, that Senior Don j. Bru-
netti, Due d'Arcos, former Spanish min
lister to Mexico, will be designated min
lister to the United States on the re-
sumption of diplomatic relations. The
report that Senior Polo y Bernabe, late
Spanish minister at Washington, will
go TO Lisbon is officially confirmed.
Levi p. Maish of Pennsylvania is
dead. Mr.. Maish was in his sixty-sec-
ond year was a Democrat in politics,
had served in the Pennsylvania legisla-
ture and as a member of the Forty
fourth, Forty fifth, Fiftieth and Fifty
first congresses. He also had a credita-
BILE war record and was wounded sew
eral times. Since his service in con-
gress he had lived in Washington, en-
gagged in the practice of law.
Articles of incorporation have been
dIad with fha NaV Tareau eacrafar., 30