The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-08-11
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.


Happenings of the Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.
Admiral Dewey has arrived at Naples
The Second Oregon regiment has been
mustered out.
The storm did considerable damage in
the vicinity of New York on Saturday
William 7. Somerville, a brother-in-
law Of Senator James X Jones of Ar
kansas, who is in Geneva, has received
a letter from the senator in which he
says, IL think l am much better, and
hope to go home entirely WE'LL
Notice has been posted in the York
(Pa.) rolling mill announcing a raise Of
puddlers' wages from 1915 to 81 per
ton, to take effect today This is the
fourth raise in wages in the York mill
since last spring.
Rev. j. Hughes Parry, pastor of the
Moriah Welsh Calvinistic Methodist
church of Utica, N Y, died yesterday at
Lake st. GATHERINGS, six miles from
Poultney, VT, of exhaustion following
fast of AZ days, undertaken in the hope
of securing relief from chronic ailment
Colonel William e. Sim, manager of
the Montauk and Columbia theaters, in
Brooklyn, died on Wednesday at Pitts
field, Mass, aged 60. Colonel Sim had
been for many years a prominent figure
in the theatrical world, having success
fully managed playhouses in Baltimore.
Philadelphia and other cities as well as in
Brooklyn.
Smallpox has broken out again in
various parts of New York state, and
DR.. Smelzer, secretary of the state
board of health, says it is in a great
measure due to the persistency of physi-
clans in diagnosing cases Of smallpox as
chicken pox. The latest cases reported
are at Cato, Cayuga county, and Seneca
Falls, Seneca county.
No new cases of fever have been Off
cially reported in Santiago, and none has
developed among the American troops
within the last ten days. The local Gu
ban physicians praise the effective meth
DDS of the military governor, General
Leonard Wood, in fighting the epidemic.
They say the Spaniards could have done
as well if they had tried, put that the
latter were too lazy.
/ he most disastrous cyclone that ever
visited Florida completely annihilated
Carrabelle, Mcintyre and Lanark Inn.
AT Carrabelle only nine houses remain Of
a once beautiful and prosperous town.
Communications from the mayor state
that 200 families are without homes or
shelter, anu many are completely desti-
tute. OF Mcintyre only two mill boilers
mark the site Of the town Lanark Inn.
the famous summer resort, was blown in
to the gulf.
The decree of Bisnop Jansen of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Belleville
Ills, communicating the members of
ST. Patrick's congregation of East st.
Louis, who are in rebellion against his
authority in the matter of appointing a
German born priest to succeed an Irish
American rector, went into effect when
the communicates held a meeting in de-
fance of the preate. Last Sunday the
decree was read in every church in the
Belleville diocese, and at largely at.
tended meeting the members of st. Pat
ricx's decided not to submit to it.
Mayor shblidge of Philadelphia
has received from Admiral Dewey a
letter in which the hero of Manila re-
grets his inability to definitely accept a
reception on the part of that city. In his
letter Admiral Dewey says: at is with
regret that / cannot at this time accept
the offer Of a reception, as ] do not feel
it would be prudent to make any engage
ments for the future. My health has not
been very good and besides the Philip
pine commission, of which l am still q
member, will probably meet in Washing
| ton shortly after my return. In that case
! should feel bound to break all engage
ments.'
In recent decision rendered by Judge
Windes of the Illinois appellate court
sitting as circuit judge, it has been
decided that striking workmen may
use persuasion to induce other men to
quit work for firm against which a
strike has been ordered. They may also
visit the factory or plant of the company
and use whatever peaceable means they
can to prevent others from working for
the concern or induce those who are at
work to quit. The decision was announe-
ed in the suit of Frazer & Chalmers,
manufacturers, who last week secured an
injunction against the Iron Molders'
union restraining the organization from
approaching or in any way influencing by
personal contact the men who took their
places or intended to do so.