The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-10-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

ADMIRAL Dewey has returned to Wash
ington.
4 The cruiser Brooklyn has left Hampton
Roads bound for Manila through the Suez
| canal
Admiral Dewey on Friday laid the
cornerstone of Dewey hall at Mortified
university, Mortified, VT
The Dismal Swamp canal, in Virginia,
surveyed by Washington and abandoned
for 100 years, has just been reopened.
Captain M. B. Stafford of the Thir-
teenth infantry, who was wounded last
week near Malabon, Luzon, is dead.
Rear Admiral Sampson has retired
from command of the north Atlantic
squadron He is succeeded by Rear Ad-
miral Farquhar.
Immense forest fires, miles in extent,
are raging in the mountains of West
Virginia. Millions of feet of lumber are
| being burned up, and other property is
in imminent danger.
The sound steamer Nutmeg State, ply
ing between New York and Bridgeport,
Conn, was burned off Sands Point, near
! Stamford, Conn, early Saturday morn
| ing. At least IL lives were lost.
Five robbers held up the Northwest
! ern limited at De Kalb, Ills, on Satur-
day and blew open the safe in the ex-
| press car. 1t is not known how much
| booty they secured. A reward of $4,000
has been offered for their apprehension.
Governor Roosevelt has appointed EN-
mons j. Swift of Forestville, state excise
inspector treasurer of Chautauqua coun-
ty in place of Thomas Hutson, removed.
| Swift was nominated by the Republicans
of Chautauqua county for the Office of
| county treasurer
Emory p Close, United States attor-
ney for the northern district of New
York, has been committed to the Buffalo
1 State Hospital For the Insane. 1t is be-
lieved that financial worry and overwork
have made him incurably mad. His
| symptoms are of paresis.
George Wanko, pugilist, of Washing
ton, Pa, has been found guilty of man
slaughter in causing the death of Felix
| Carr of st. Adams, w. Va, in a glove
contest near Parkersburg w. Va, re-
Gently. The penalty is from one to five
years in the penitentiary.
The trustees of the chamber of COM
merce of Portland Or, have voted to ask
| the war department for a readjustment
of the customs in the Philippine Islands.
A reduction of so per cent in the specific
| duty was requested on number of arti-
cles, such as fruits, pork, butter and
| cheese.
The president has ordered the promo
ton to grade Of brigadier general in the
regular army of the following colonels:
| Colonel A. G. M. Pennington Second ar
tillery; Colonel Royal I. Frank First
artillery; Colonel Louis H. Carpenter,
Fifth cavalry; Colonel Samuel Oven
shine, Twenty third infantry; Colonel
Daniel w. Burke, Seventeenth infantry
BY direction of President Mckinley
! General William r. Shafter is retired
| from active service Oct. 10 as brigadier
general, u. S. A., under the provisions
| of the act of congress approved June 3,
| 1882. He will remain in command of
the departments of California and of the
| Columbia under his commission as major
general United States volunteers, until
further orders.
The Manila newspaper Patria has been
| suppressed and it's editor, Senior Utor, a
Spaniard, placed under arrest on charge
| of printing and publishing seditous doc
uments. For some time the Patria has
been hostile to the Americans. Recently
pamphlets attacking the Americans and
the friendly Filipinos have been circu-
lated, and the police believe that Utor
wrote and printed them.
The French minister of the colonies, M.
Decrais, has received an official dispatch
announcing that Captain Voulet and Cap
tain Chanoine of the outlawed French
expedition in the Sudan, whose members
recently massacred most of the members
of the expedition under Lieutenant Colo
mel Klobb, sent to arrest those officers
on charges of cruelty and insubordina-
ton, have been shot by their own men.
Joseph Wood, the oldest engineer in the
| United States, has died at Red Bank,
| N. j., aged 80. He was fireman on the
John Bull the first locomotive ever oper-
ated in this country. The engine was sent
from England in 1880 and given its first
trial near Bordentown, Mr.. Woods ma
tive town. He was the inventor of
] Woods improved frog the steam whistle
and steam pipe and other railroad appli-
ances.
The war department has made public
the annual report of Brigader General
| II. G. Merriam, commanding the depart
ment of the Colorado. Only the most
casual reference is made to General Mer-
RAMS operations in Idaho during the
mining riots. He states that this feature
| OF Jne year WOTk Has dIeduy DSeH Iully
covered in separate report transmitted
to the war department This report has
not been made public UP to date.
Mail advices from Iloilo state that
| there Is great tension between the Visa
! vans and Tagalos growing out of the
Tagalos holding Araneta, leader of the
| Visayans, prisoner since the threatened
| Visayan revolt against Tagalo DONNA
ton month ago. The Visayans are in
! censed to the point of rebellion. While
the Tagalos nominally control only the
military organization of the so called Fill
| ipino republic, they have crowded out the
| Visayans from the civil branch, whereat
there is great discomfort.
The following schedule of transports to
| sail from San Francisco this month has
been prepared by the quartermaster de-
| partment: Oct %, Newport, with 50 Off
| GERS and 512 men: Manuense, with % Of
ficers and $50 men; Tartar, with 45 officers
and / ,161 men. Oct. 25, Kenmore, with
% officers and 1871 men; Picking, with 70
officers and 1,065 men. The Olympia and
the PENNSYLVANIA will leave for the north
early next week to take the Thirty ninth
| regiment from Portland. The Hancock
will be ready to sail about the 9th.
The publisher of a Cincinnati trade pa
per has just received an inquiry from
! Smyrna, Turkey, for ready made frame
| houses or cottages of two stories, with