The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-05-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

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Briefly and TerseIy Told.
General Wilson arrived from Cuba or
the steamer Curityba.
A $95. 600 600 glue trust is being organ
lied in New York city.
Illinois coal operators have decided tc
raise 81 900 900 to fight strikes.
Thousands of sheep were killed by the
recent cold snap on Utah ranches.
The Memorial day parade in New
York city WI have 10000 men in line.
The cruiser Chicago has arrived at
Port Said on her cruise to South Al
RIGA.
General Menocal, it is said, will be
made secretary of public works in Ha-
vana.
In the annual athletic games Satur-
day Harvard won decided victory
over Yale.
The Rev. John Watson Clan MacLar-
END arrived in New York city from his
western trip.
Fire in the business section of Man
chester, N H.. destroyed property val
ued at 100000.
Former Governor Roswell P. Flower
died Friday at the Country club at
Eastport, N. Y.
1t is announced that the Columbia,
the new Americas cup defender, will be
launched June s.
The United. States cruiser New Or
leans has sailed from the Brooklyn navy
yard for New Orleans.
Hon. J. A. Hunter was killed at Los
tine, Or, by Mrs. G. r. Elliott on ae-
count of family feud.
The Columbia university crew won
the boat race with the naval cadets at
Annapolis by half a length.
The transport Meade was damaged by
striking a sunken wreck while leaving
the harbor of Ponce, Porto Rico.
William Armstrong, whom Lincoln
once defended successfully on charge
of murder, has just died at Ashland,
Ills.
Peter Hegelman won the 70 hour go
as you please race at the Grand Cen
trail Palace, New York. He made 407
miles.
Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale has re-
signed the pastorate of the South Con-
gregational church in Boston after a
service of 43 years.
President Mckinley has practically
promised to make a visit to Minneapolis
and st. Paul this summer or fall in con-
nection with a western trip.
Judge Baker of the federal court at
Indianapolis has decided that the heirs
of a man who WAS lynched may bring
suit against the sheriff for damages.
Two Chicago physicians claimed to
have discovered how to postpone the
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lions of the Emphatic fluid of animals.
The cruiser Raleigh, Captain Cogh-
Ian, has sailed for Portsmouth, N. H,
where she goes out of commission. She
will be thoroughly overhauled and re-
modelled.
A collision of passenger trains oc-
Cured on the Philadelphia and Reading
railroad at Exeter, six miles south of
Reading, Friday, and 20 persons were
killed and so or more injured.
Colonel Vifquain has rendered to the
president the services of the Third
Nebraska regiment, which has been
mustered out, but is willing to re-enlist
and take the place of the First Ne
braska now in Luzon, but soon to re-
turn to this country.
James A. Clemmer was hanged in
the Montgomery county (Pa.) Jail for
the murder in 1896 of Mrs. Emma p.
Kaiser. He went to his death bravely
and made no statement on the gallows.
Neither Clemmer's wife nor any of his
relatives were present.
Governor Roosevelt has granted a
communication releasing Joseph Jourdan,
convicted of murder in the second de-
gree in New York city in April, 1875,
and sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
The Communication is granted on the rec
ommendation of Judge Barrett, who
imposed the sentence.
DR.. Charles Augustus Briggs, who
was suspended for heresy by the Pres
byterian church, was ordained priest
of the Episcopal church Sunday in the
Pro- Cathedral, in Stanton street, New
York, by Bishop Potter. There was no
protest of any kind presented in answer
to the bishops formal challenge.
Cornelius Linehan has begun suit for
$4,000 damages against the Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham Railroad
company on account of the death of his
son. The son was one of Torrey's Rough
Riders and was killed in the wreck of
the military train at Tupelo, Miss, last
SpTlHS WllliO tiS lOSllIiSlll WAS Oh It's
way to Cuba.
E. F. Bogert, former postmaster of
Wilkesbarre, Pa, who was arrested
and suspended from office three months
ago charged with tampering with the
mails, has been arrested again, this
time on the charge of embezzling mon
ey belonging to the government. He
was held in $1,000 bail by United States
Commissioner Hahn.
The governor of Missouri has signed
the department store bill. 1t applies
only to stores in ST. Louis, Kansas City
and st. Joseph which employ Is persons
or more and taxes heavily all classes of
goods handled except one of the 70 class
es. 1t is contenied to be law of class
Legislation and will be resisted, and the
supreme court may pass on it's consti-
tutionality.
The American sculptor, Daniel Ches-
ter French, has been elected member
Of the Academia of San Luca, Rome.
The Academia of San Luca is the old
est art institution in Rome and is COM
posed of a limited number of associates
chosen from the famous sculptors.
painters and architects and called the
| ''Virtuosi." Mr.. French is the first
American to receive this honor.
The engineer detachment from Will
kts Point, N. ", the so members Of
which volunteered two weeks ago to
go to re-enforce Company of the en-
gineer battalion at Manila, has started