The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerneIy Told.

mise.
The Belgian state railways have order
ed II locomotives from Philadelphia for
September delivery.
The Kansas City chief of police has of
fered to pay $25 out of his salary for the
body of each highwayman killed in that
city.
The commencement of work on New
York's rapid transit tunnel was celebrat
ed on Saturday with elaborate ceremo-
MES.
More than 5000 women have registered
in Cleveland in order to be eligible to vote
for a director OF schools at the spring
election.
Mrs. Wood. wife of the governor gen
eral of Cuba, became the mother Of Il ten
pound girl at the palace at Havana on
Thursday
The new United States naval hospital
at Mare Island, Cal, has been completed
and is ready to be turned over to the
government
The Merchants National bank of Rut-
land, Vt, has closed its doors, and the
cashier has been arrested, charged with
misrepresentation of funds.
One man was killed and two men were
blasting charge in the copper mine near
Somerville, \. j. on Friday
The jury in the trial of Camden On. j.
reporters for publishing report of an
alleged confession of Eli Shaw was dis
charged, being unable to agree
George Eastman, treasurer Of the East
man Kodak company. has given to the
Rochester .Athcnwum and Mechanics in
stitute property valued at 100000.
One million three hundred and three
thousand dollars for the payment of I'm
Gle Sans soldiers in the Philippines left
the New York subtreasury Tuesday.
The Rev. Thomas A. Hendrick of
Rochester was ch osen regent Of the Uni
versity of the State of New York to sue
coed the late Father sylvester Malone.
The sale of Wallace Estll of Aberdeen
Angus breeding cattle at Chicago broke
all previous records. Sevcnty-two head
brought Il general average of 500 each
Admiral Watson has sailed from Ma
| Mia for Hongkong on the cruiser Brook
| Ign. 1t is expected that he will transfer
his command to Admiral Remey at that
| port.
| Theodore Reynolds of Monson, Mass,
who was reputed to be worth almost
| $10,000,00O and third largest stakeholder
of the Boston and Albany railroad, is
| dead
The funeral of Edward 3. Webster.
| Jr., private of the Ninth infantry, who
was killed on July 1S last near San Luis
| IN the Philippines, was held at Geneva,
n. Y.
| Two cases of plague in Honolulu have
| been reported since the 10th inst. One
victim was Chinaman, the other Ha-
waiian, II guard employed by the board of
health.
The trials of the new Cunard steamer
| lvernia, built for the LIVERPOOL Boston
service, proved every way satisfactory
| The Iverna viii sail for New York on
| April IA.
| Fire has destroyed the plant of the Ia
| Der Felt works at Fredonia, n. Y, en-
failing a loss to the building and stock of
$4,000. As Il result about 80 employees
will be thrown out of work.
BY the death Of brother at Dawson
| City Mrs. NarciSse Tereaux, the wife of
poor laborer mt Champlain, n. y. he
comes heir to one-third of his fortune,
which is estimated at $1,000.000.
Michael MelIegin. boatswain's mate of
| the United States gunboat Machias, was
| killed and his brother Edward, fireman
| on the cruiser New York. was shot in the
| hip in street light at Galveston.
| Nearly 100 recruits have deserted from
Fort Slocum, n. Y, within the past
| few weeks because of the delay in send
| ing recruits at that station to Manila
Nearly 1000 nen are quartered there.
| The fast mail on the Atlanta and West
Point was wrecked at Ossanippa creek,
| Ga. One man. Reuben j. Oslin of At
| lanta, express messenger, was killed and
| Is people injured. some of them seri-
| ously.
Forty-eight young women were gradu-
| ated Thursday night from the women s
law class of the University of New York
Miss Katherine Reed, daughter of ex-
| Speaker Thomas b. Reed, was one of the
number.
Captain Thomas Wilen, president of
the Central National bank of Cleveland
and widely known vessel owner, has
died in Jerusalem of pneumonia. He left
Cleveland several weeks ago for an ex-
tended trip abroad.
Charles A. Towne. chairman of the Sill
yer Republican national committee, has
undergone a painful. but not dangerous,
operation at st. Luke's hospital in Du.
luth. He is now doing very well and will
be out in about two weeks.
Counterfeit $40. So and 81 notes are in
circulation in Rochester, and as a conse-
quence United States secret service men
are putting forth every effort to run
down the gang whose headquarters are
believed to be in that vicinity.
The monthly statement of the colec-
tons of internal revenue shows that for
the month of February, 1900 the total
receipts from all sources were $20,S09.-
$50 an increase as compared with the
same month in 1899 of 81, 160.659.
The Wilmington Methodist Episcopal
conference. which represents Delaware
and a portion of Maryland, has adopted
resolution condemning the army can
teen and the use and sale of liquor in
new possessions of this government.
The state department has been notified
of the death at Cologne, Germany, of
John A. Barnes. the United States consul
there. Mr.. Barnes was born in Ohio and
appointed consul at Chemnitz in 1892. He
was transferred to Cologne in 1897.
The employees of the bottoming depart
ment of DUN X McCarthy's shoe facto-
nv at Auburn, n. Y, numbering $50 men
and boys, quit work in a body Monday
morning. What they are out for the en-
ployees and employers profess not to
know