The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-05-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and Tersely Told.


York state reformatory at Elmira Wed
nesday night
Brown university has announced the
gift of five $4,000 donations from Prov
idence alumni
The number of fish planted in the wa
tiers of New York state during April
amounted to 10,2S6,020.
Admiral Iichborn reports that work on
the battleships Kearsarge and Kentucky
is practically completed.
The presbytery of Washington city has
voted to petition the Presbyterian general
assembly for new creed.
Five passengers on Northern Pacific
local freight train near North Yakima,
Wash, were robbed of 5000 by six high
waymen.
Five New York corporations have serv-
ed writs of certiorari on the state tax
commission to test constitutionality of
franchise tax law.
Burglars entered the First National
bank of East Brady, Pa, and dynamited
the safe, taking everything in sight, in
Guiding the pennies.
The employees of the Evansville pa
Iron works, 300 in number, have been
notified of a per cent increase in wages
the increase to count from May ].
Lightning struck a loaded trolley car
on the Hoboken- Passaic line and set ii
afre. A boy and woman were slightly
burned, but no one was badly hurt.
Marie Rosalie Dinse, the first woman
to jump from the Brooklyn bridge. is
hopelessly insane. The doctors declare
there is no chance for her recovery.
Fred w. Atkinson, principal of the
Springfield fMass.) high school, has been
elected by the Taft commission superin.
tendent of instruction i'll the Philippines
Two rebel attacks on the American
garrisons in the Visayan islands recently
have resulted in the killing of $50 of the
enemy and the wounding of two Ameri-
cans.
Mrs James H. Gilbert wife of the
president of the New York state board of
mediation and arbitration, has died at
Syracuse. She was one of the founders
of the Alpha Phi fraternity and Il singer
of note.
Jim Howard, who was named by Gull
ton and other witnesses as the man who
probably fred the shot which killed Goe-
bel. has surrendered to the Kentucky au-
thorities.
Herman Brucks of Newark, n j., aged
35 years, employed in the English plaster
mines at Oakfeld Corners, n. Y, was
crushed to death beneath seven tons of
falling rock.
Charles Ingersoll, the defaulting treas,
urer of Tompkins county, N. Y, has been
sentenced to four years and six months
Imprisonment at Auburn and to pay a
fine of $4,000
Edward Clifford. after six respites, was
hanged in Jersey City on Tuesday for the
murder, committed five years ago, of vii,
ham q. Watson, superintendent of the
West Shore railroad.
General T.. o. Bragg, formerly com
mander of the famous "Iron brigade, :"
was thrown from his horse and seriously
injured at Fond du Lac, Wis, Wednes-
day He is "A years old.
During a riot between strikers and.
workmen at the Buttonwood mine of the
Parrish Coal company at Wilkesbarre
Pa, some 20 men were badly injured. in
GLIDING Superintendent w. r. Smith.
Fire has destroyed the plant of the
Reed Fertilizer company of New York
at Eastwood. The plant employed about
% men and was valued at about $4,000
-Four freight cars on the side track were
also burned.
DIR. John Stockton Hough. retired
physician and one of the best known men
in New Jersey because of his activity in
all movements for the securing of good
roads. has died at his home in Ewing,
near Trenton.
A tornado swept through San Antonio,
Tex, Monday and caused loss aggre-
eating over 100000. No loss of life is
a. tbr II
leres of three barracks were demolished,
and the officers quarters We're unroofed.
A three story brick building in the bust
ness center of Kansas City collapsed on
Monday. burying seven persons in the
ruins. 1t is believed none of the injured
will die. John w. Moore, aged 20 years
former mayor of Kansas City, was most
seriously hurt
The monthly bulletin for March issued
by the New York state board of health
shows that the number of deaths through
cut the state was 1908. or this num-
Der 100 died from typhoid fever "a from
scarlet fever, 1868 from consumption
and 591 of old age.
While crossing the Western Maryland
railroad tracks at AIillbrook, Pa, Jacob
B. Hege of Marion, who was driving II
milk wagon, was killed by train strik.
ing the team. Heges young granddaHgh-
ter, who was also in the wagon, was hurl-
ed into a field, but was not injured.
c. f. W. Medley, chief financial agent
of the United States postal department
in Cuba and one of the most prominent
government officials in Havana, has been
held in $4,000 bail by Commissioners
Shields in New York city on charge OF
emhezzIing $4,000 from the postoffice
funds.
William Alfred Jones, who enjoyed a
considerable literary reputation during
the forties and was a contemporary of
Washington Irving, William Cullen Bry-
ant, Richard Henry Dana and other well
known literary men of that period, has
died at his home III Norwich, Conn, aged
SO years.
Half dozen distinct tornadoes occur.
red in central Kansas Sunday afternoon
following a day of exceedingly high TEN
perature. Two people are known to have
been killed and three injured. Wires ars
down in the affected districts, making il
impossible TO accurately sum up the dam
age done.
Herbert w Bowen, United States min
ister and consul general at Teheran, Per
STA, has had conferred upon him by tn
snah OF Icrsia the decoration of eth
grand Gordon of the Lion and the Sun
The decoration is one of the first class
Before he eau accept it permission mus
be granted by congress.
Advices from Brewster county, Tex
state that neg discoveries of rich quick
silver deposits have been made Their
during the last few days and that anoth