The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

Briefly and Tersely Told.
! President Schurman of the Philippine
commission has returned to the United
States.
The transport Senator has sailed from
Manila with about 700 officers and re-
cruits and signal corps.
The torpedo boat Fox, built by Wolff
& Zwiclxer on the Pacific coast, has been
accepted by the government.
Lizzie MacNichol, the noted contralto
opera singer, died at her summer home IN
New Hampshire of peritonitis.
The ground assigned to the United
States at the Paris exposition has been
formally handed over to the commission.
Over $50 marines have started from
Jersey City for the Philippines. They
will be stationed at the Cavite navy
yard.
Admiral Dewey has arrived at Leg
horn, Italy, where he is confined on
board the Olympia by slight attack of
fever.
1t is. reported that United States Sen
ator Hayward has been stricken with
apoplexy at Brownyille, Neb. He was
delivering an address at Grand Army
.
reunion.
The Anti-imperialist league of Boston
has received from Andrew Carnegie a
check for $1,000 with which to press
further their opposition to the admins
tration's foreign policy.
kilograms have been received announc-
ing the death of Rev. DR.. Walter Man
ming Barrows of Greenwich, Conn.,, who
performed the marriage ceremony of Mr..
Perry Belmont and Mrs. Sloane.
Fire destroyed large part of the bust
ness section of Berea, village IA miles
southwest of Cleveland. Twenty-one
business places were burned. The loss
will be about 100000, with no insur-
ance.
A historic old church at Evanston,
Ills, sold for $50, has been marked for
conversion into a floating saloon and
dance hall on raft. In this church
Frances e. Willard read her schoolgirl
essays.
A pacing race for $4,000 between John
R. Gentry, Searchlight and Joe Patchen
was pulled off at Rochester Wednesday.
Gentry was first in both heats. Search
light won second place. The time was
.:O31a, 2:O414.
Robert L. Walker Of Poland, O., with
whom President Mckinley was once con-
uected in business, has filed petition in
bankruptcy. 1t was through a previous
failure of Walkers that Mr.. Mckinley
was forced into bankruptcy in 1893.
Small amounts of money are bequeath-
ed by the will of Mrs. Margaret Auze to
IL of fho NNipdcn,. hnfal IF
whom may have persisted with the tesla
tor in the fire on st. Patrick's day.
Mrs. Auze was a southern woman who
lived in the hotel.
1t is announced that Mrs. Lily Lang
try, the actress, was married July ~ on
the island of Jersey to Hugo Gerald de
Battle, % years of age, the eldest son
of Sir Henry Percival de Battle, Bart, a
retired general, formerly lieutenant colo
mel OF the Scots guards and Crimean
veteran.
At the Christian Alliance convention
at Old Orchard, Me-, on Sunday Rev. A.
B. Simpson raised $4,000 for foreign
missions. The greater part of the sum
was raised during the forenoon service,
but second collection was taken in the
afternoon, and pledges continued to come
in at the evening meeting.
The will of Joseph Benoist, who died
last week in Kansas City, proves to be a
most remarkable document. Although
he was an infdel, Benoist left all but
$4,000 of his fortune of $150000 to re-
ligious and charitable organizations. The
Christian Brothers college of st. Louis
is the principal legatee, getting about
$4,000.
James Tow, native of California, born
of Chinese parents, has enlisted in the
service of the United States in the Phil
ippines with the Thirty regiment,
United States volunteers. Tow has lived
all his life in California and was educat-
ed in the public schools of the state.
Before entering the service he parted
with his cue.
The total number of pensioners on the
roll June 80 was 991 $40, a decrease of
2,195. There were 40,991 names added
to the roll and 43, 1856 dropped. The re-
port shows the pension roll is decreasing
OF those dropped 81 ,345 were because of
death and S,S41 because of remarriage,
minors attaining their majority, failure
to claim pension and other causes
A check for $156, 2S2, signed by Dor
man B. Ream and Robert T. Lincoln
as executors of the estate of the late
George NJ. Pullman, has been paid into
the Cook county court to cancel the
lien against the estate under the inherit
ance tax law This is the largest pay
ment ever made under the Illinois in
heritance tax law. A strong legal fight
was made against the tax by the heirs.
jamestown, N. ", had fire Wednes-
day. -Four factories, two private dwellings
and a livery stable were destroyed. The
buildings burned include the Jamestown
Cane Seat Chair factory, American AK
and Tool company's works, Swanson &
Co.'S livery stable, two private dwell
ings, Brooklyn mills and Olson 81 Co.'S
table factory. The loss will foot in the
neighborhood of 100000.
An order has been issued directing that
ten additional regiments of infantry vol
unteers be organized for service in the
Philippines. The regiments will be mum
bered from to At and will be organized
at the following places in the order
named: Fort Smelling, Mimi; Fort Crook
Neb.; Fort Riley, Kan. Camp Meade
Pa; Fort Niagara, N. Y; Fort Leaven-
worth, Kan; Jefferson Barracks, Mo-.
South birmingham, Mass.
The bureau of construction Of the navy
department has ordered the work of out
fitting the converted yachts Wasp Frolit