The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-17
CRISP NEWS NOTES.
A Condensed Summary of Happenings the
Whole World Over.

Hawaii will establish quarantine
against visiting consumptives.
China has appointed LII Hung Chang
to negotiate peace with the Powers.
Fifteen persons We're killed in the
railroad accident near Rome Monday.
Many Beers are reported to favor
the annexation of the Transvaal by
the British.
Lord Russell, chief justice Of Eng
land, died Friday last as the result Of
an operation.
1t is reported that Senator Marion
Butler, of the Populist party, will
stump for President Mckinley.
Laying of the first cable connecting
the United States directly with Ger
many was started at Coney Island Sat
urday.
have reached Pekin and the news of
the rescue of the ministers is now
looked for.
A package of poisoned flowers sent
Monday to the Chinese Minister at
Paris was opened by his secretary
who was instantly taken ill.,
The Ameer of Afghanistan is mobi-
lizing forces of infantry and artillery.
1t is reported that an advance on the
Russian frontier is contemplated.
The liner Cymric had a terrible ex-
perience at sea on her last voyage
which ended in New York Sunday.
Fire ragged in her hold for thirty six
hours
A writ of extradition in the Nicely
case has been refused by Judge
Lacombe because Judge Wallace, of
the same court, issued an appeal to
the Supreme Court.
Coils P. Huntington, president of
the Southern Pacific Railroad, died at
Pine Knot Lodge, his camp in the Blue
Mountain region near Utica, N. T.,
early Tuesday morn ing.
1t is stated that the Empress Dowa-
ger had declared it was her intention
to leave Pekin and to transfer her
Court to another city before the allied
forces reached the capital.
During the aquatic races at Chau-
tauqua, N. Y, Friday last the bath
house dock collapsed, dropping several
hundred persons into six feet of
water No one was injured.
The bursting of fifteen inch
steam pipe Monday morning in the
plant Of the New York Steam Com
pany resulted in the death of three men
and the injuring of four others.
Major Frederick E. Prime, an en-
gineer officer of the Union Army dur
ing the Civil War and Chief Engineer
in Grants Mississippi campaign, died
at his home, at Litchfield, Conn,
Sunday.
The main provisions of the meat
law recently enacted by the German
government, affecting among other
things, the absolute prohibition of
American canned meats and sausages,
will take effect Oct. next.
There has been a slight change in
the betting on the presidential cleo
tion. The prevailing odds are now
5 to 2 on Mckinley. Even money is
offered that Mckinley Electors will
have so, 900 plurality in New York
State.
A train ON the Lehigh & New Eng
land Railroad Sunday afternoon
crashed into bus containing twenty
four persons near Slatington, Pa,
killing eleven. Ten of the party are in
hospital. Most of them are injured
mortal1y.
American money is now the official
currency in Porto Rico. August 1
the Spanish silver ceased to be a
legal tender, although the Government
announced that Treasury agents would
continue for an indefinite period to
exchange it at it's full former value.
The North German Tlovd steamar
Kaiser Wilhelm der Crosse, Captain
Engelbart, which sailed from New
York August Tor Bremen. made the,
record passage of any steamer sailing
from Sandy Hook to Cherbourg, cover
ing 8, 1874 knots in days, 10 hours and
a. minutes.
William Steinitz, who for years was
the champion chess player of the
world, died Sunday afternoon in
the Manhattan State Hospital, on
Wards Island. For months he had
been insane. He held the champion
ship for over twenty years but finally
met defeat at the hands of Lasker, a
comparatively young man.
Thomas O. Lawler, who figured in
the arrest and Identification of J.
Wilkes Booth as the assassin of
President Lincoln, died at Lynn,
Mass, Monday aged So years. The
day before Booth committed the
crime, Mr. LawleF who was proprie-
tor of the National Hotel barber's
shop, shaved the actor and cut his hair.
He was taken on board the monitor
after Booth had been shot to identify
the remains.