The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-02-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

due university, has died at Lafayette.
Ind
Three persons were frozen to death in
New Jersey during Saturdays snow
storm.
solomon Roosevelt. builder of the FIRST
Atlantic steamers, has died at Della.
ware. o.
Brigadier General Harrison Gray Otis,
U. 5. v. has been appointed brevet
major general.
The coal. barge Oakland went down oft
the New Jersey coast on Tuesday Fonr
men were drowned
Minister Merry cabled from San Jose.
Costa Rica. that a revolutionary invasion
or Costa Rica was expected.
The wife and two sons of Enoch Ste.
venson We're drowned in a pond neal
their home at Eldora n j., on Tuesday.
The business portion of Glen Hazel
"a, for the second time in recent years
was almost totally destroyed by lire on
Thursday.
Two miners We're killed and one fatally
injured by an explosion of giant powder
at their camp near Monongahela. Pa, on
Thursday.
Leslie K. Kelley. the inventor of the
Kelley cure for the liquor habit has
died at Los Angeles. DIR. Kelley was IS
years Of age
Prlncess CantacuZene, who was Julia
Dent Grant, granddaughter of General
U. ). Grant, is i'll with typhoid fever in
st. Petersburg
President Barrows announces a gift OF
100000 for Oberlin college from the es.
tate of William Osborn of Pittsburg,
who died in Florida few weeks ago
The strike of the miners at Arnot and
Landrus, Pa, has been declared off after
battle of eight months between tn,
miners and the Blossburg Coal company
The balance sheets to Dec 81. 1899 OF
the American Steel and Wire company
read at the annual meeting yesterday
showed the net profits to be over ST.
100000.
Parishioners of the retiring pastor.
Rev. DIR. van Dyke, of the Brick Presby
terrain church. New York. have presented
to him a purse of $4,000 and a silver
loving cup.
Under the new pension system of the
Pennsylvania railroad 99S EMPLOYEES
have been relieved from service. The
aggregate of their pensions is 5000. DOC
per annum.
The battleship Wisconsin, now build
ing at the Union Iron works at San Fran
cisco, is fast nearing completion. She will
probably be ready for her trial trip be
fore July /.
The war department has issued the
statement that the receipts of public
funds of the Philippine Islands beginning
Aug. IL, 1898, and ending Dec. 81. 1899.
amounted to $6,696,0S0.
Rear Admiral William L. SAMPSON.
commandant of the Charlestown navy
yard. has had the offer of the presidency
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech.
nology and has declined it,
The state department has directed the
withdrawal of our claims to the islands
of Caygayen, Sulu and Cibutu all of
which lie without the boundary lines laid
down by the treaty of Paris
The next national convention of the
Populist party will be held in Sioux
Falls, 5. d., on May o. Representation
is based on the vote for General j. r.
Weaver for president in 1892.
The Nero, during its recent survey for
a transpacitc cable broke the record for
deep sea soundings. One sounding near
Guam island marked $500 fathoms, only
trihe short of six statute miles.
Memorial services were held in the as
sembly chamber at Trenton, N. j.. OH
Wednesday in honor of the late Vice
President Hobart. Attorney General
John w. Griggs delivered an address.
Charles Mcneil, a wealthy land owner
Of Cadillac, Mich. has purchased from
the Francis Palms estate of Detroit ID
$50 acres of hard wood land near New
bury. The consideration was S6ia.00n.
Washington's birthday was oh .c we'd
generally throughout Porto Rico .rh
stores were closed, and patriotic ada. cSs-
es were delivered by Governor General
Davis and Bishops Blenk and Whipple.
The Gallaudet Home For the Deaf and
Dumb at Poughkeepsie. n. Y. was com
pletely destroyed by fire Sunday night.
The 26 inmates were safely rescued. The
loss is about 5000, which is covered by
insurance.
Edwin Mayo of the "Puddenhead Viii
son" company dropped dead in the Cha.
teau Frontenac in Quebec. He was a son
of the well known actor Frank Mayo.
who died suddenly in Omaha about two
years ago.
school for girls in Pennington, Conn.
and sister of the late Noah Porter, for
mer president of Yale, is dead at the age
of SIS. She established her school about
80 years ago.
In Buffalo on Thursday Governor
Roosevelt unveiled Il tablet to the memo,
ry of the % members of the Sixty-fifth
New York volunteers who died during
and subsequent to service in the Spanish
American war.
Henry G. Miner, for many years well
known theatrical manager and at one
time a member of congress- died suddenly
at his home on Riverside drive. New
York city. on Thursday. Death was caus-
ed by apopleXy.
The first class battleship Kearsarge
was placed in commission with the usual
ceremonies on Tuesday ut the Newport
News Shipbuilding and Drydock COM
pany's yard. Captain A. NJ. Folger as
sumed command.
Thomas w. Balls heroic statue of
Washington, conceded to be his master
piece and the finest presentment of the
first president of the United States in
existence, was unveiled ut Methuen,
Mass, on Thursday.
General John McNulta of Chicago. well
known throughout the west because of
his Identification with the receiverships
of railroads and other great corporations,
died suddenly in Washington on Thurs
day from angina pectoris.