The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1899-03-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and Tersely Told.

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s. Davies Warfield has been appoint
ed postmaster at Baltimore.
Half a block has been burned in Port
Dawson, Alaska; loss, $4,000.
The president has appointed POI Sec
md lieutenants in the regular army.
The British steamship Brator strand
ed off Cape Henry life saving station.
Mrs. Emily Maria Fish, wife of Ham
ilton Fish of New York, died in Wash
ington.
The annual New York state supply
bill calls for $1,251, 146, against $1,7S8, $50
last year.
Professor James Hoppins resigned the
chair of history of art in Yale School of
Fine Arts.
A mild form of smallpox epidemic
prevails among the colored people Of
Washington.
Frank N. Sheldon, on trial at Au-
burn, N. Y, for wife murder, commit
ted suicide in Jail.
The Republicans of Rhode Island have
renominated Governor Elisha Dyer and
the other state officers.
The Democratic city convention of
Chicago has nominated Mayor Carter
Harrison to succeed himself.
Colonel Jack Chinn has been indicted
for threatening to assault former State
Senator Bronston in Lexington. KY.
The rates on postoffice money orders
drawn on Cuba will hereafter be the
same as rates on domestic money or
ders.
The American National bank of Lima,
o., mysteriously robbed in December,
| has decided to go into voluntary liqui-
dation.
The New York state assembly has
passed bill for an East river bridge
from Fulton street, New York, to
Brooklyn.
! The Democrats of Rhode Island at
their annual convention nominated
George w. Greene, mayor of Woon-
socket, for governor.
"Dr." Nancy Guilford, accused of the
murder of Miss Emma Gill in Connect
cut, is i'll, and her trial at Bridgeport
has been postponed.
Governor Roosevelt will go to or cago
on April as a guest of the Hamilton
club and will stop at Ann Arbor, Mich,
to deliver an address.
New York's foreign commerce has
decreased $50, 900, 900 in the last fiscal
year, according to the Chamber of Com
merce report, just issued
| Eleven masked and armed men bound
three employees of the Sayre and Ath-
ems Traction company at Athens. N. Y,
blew open the safes and stole $175.
John Hoffer of Buffalo fell into pan
of boiling sap in the sugar bush of
Dana Green in Bennington, N. Y, and
was so badly sca1ded that he died.
Frank A. vanderlip, assistant secre-
tary Of the treasury after several
weeks serious illness at his home in
Chicago, has returned to Washington.
Lieutenant Colonel Charles G. Sharpe
testified before the army board of in
quiry that beef furnished the troops at
Camp Thomas was hauled in dirty wag-
ons and that some of the beef was filled
with vermin.
| The management of the Manchester
| IN. H) cotton mills has decided to
raise wages for weaving in No. / mill
10 per cent, to take effect April 3. All
reductions in wages that went into eff
feet in January, 1898, are to be restored.
By bequest of Herbert Stewart,
wealthy New York engineer and con-
will has been probated in this city, Yale
university will receive fully $4,000 to
establish the Herbert Stewart scientific
fund.
The British ship Bridstonhill has been
chartered by the government to carry
merchandise for the troops at Manila.
She is to be paid the lump sum of $780,
500. The Bridstonhill can carry cargo
of about $500 tons and should make the
run in about As days.
Thrasher Meade, the notorious negro
train robber, safe blower and bandit
has been sentenced in Mississippi to the
federal penitentiary for 20 years. In
passing sentence Judge Niles expressed
regret that he could not under the law
sentence Meade to DEATH
DR.. William Lewis, the secretary of
the North Carolina state board of
health, says smallpox is steadily in
creasing in that state He reports the
disease prevalent in II counties, and a
letter from Burlington, 40 miles from
Raleigh, states that there are II cases
there.
Papers have been filed with the sec
rotary of state of New Jersey increasing
the capital stock of the Havana Elec-
trio Railway company from $1,000 900 to
$10,00O.000. Articles were also filed in
creasing the capital stock of the Inter-
national Traction company from $685.
900 to $15 900. 900.
The United States transpo t Sheridan,
which sailed from New York on Feb. 10
for Manila, has arrived at Port Said.
The troops on board the Sheridan are
the Twelfth United States infantry and
a battalion of the Seventeenth United
States infantry, all under the command
of Colonel Smith.
The American ShlpbuiIding company
has been Incorporated at Trenton, N. j.,
with a capital stock of $4,000 900. The
objects of the company are the building
and equipment of ships. vessels, wharfs
and docks and the transportation OF
goods and passengers also manufac-
turing and mining Of all kinds.
Orders have been issued for the mus
ter out of the First Texas at Galveston
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