The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-11-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings OF the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy TO1A.

cut off by ice from the outside world Tor
the winter.
General Bates reports the capture Of
33 insurgents, six of whom murdered
seven persons last spring.
The big corn deal in Chicago has been
settled BY Operator Phillips making pri-
,vate terms with the big shorts"
Floods in the Monongahela and Allie
.gheny rivers at Pittsburg have done
much damage and caused the loss Of
three lives.
The official count Of the vote of Idaho
in the recent election shows 57,914 votes
cast. The highest Bryan elector has
2,216 plurality.
Vincent Cody, the oldest prisoner in
point of service in Sing Sing, was re-
leased on pardon by Governor Roosevelt
after SO years in prison.
Two children persisted and three dwell
ings occupied by miners were destroyed
by means of fire in Plymouth, near Me
Keesport, Pa. on Tuesday night
Frederick j. Pickard, who built the
Columbus, Sandusky and Hooking rail-
way and for a number Of years was its
vice president and general manager, is
dead.
Mrs. Hiram Hinsdale who distinguish
ed herself by her heroism during the
civil war and who rendered valuable
service to the government as a spy, has
died in Detroit, aged 90.
Governor Roosevelt since Jan. /, 1900,
has granted five pardons and 20 commu-
tations of sentences. Those pardoned in
Guided Carey Bates, John Sullivan, Max
Huestedt, James Kelly and Saul Jacobs.
Lawrence M. Jacobs, one of the experts
in the loan and currency division of the
treasury department, has been appoint
ed statistician Of the Philippine com
mission He viii proceed to Manila at
once.
Major Brennan, one of three men ar
rested for dynamiting property of the St.
Louis Transit company during the recent
street railway strike, was found guilty
by jury and sentenced to Imprisonment
for ten years.
Joseph Smith of Fort Plain, aged "a
years, one Of the best known fnanciers
and land owners in central New York
is dead. Deceased was a prominent
member Of one of the oldest families in
the Mohawk valley.
Robert e. A. Dorr, president Of The
Mail and Express company and publisher
of that paper, is dead at his home in New
York city. Death was due to a complica-
ton of diseases. Mr. Dorr had been in
i'll health for about six months
The official vote of Indiana in the presi-
Dental election has been announced. The
total vote for the highest elector on the
Republican ticket is 336,063 The total
vote for the highest on the Democratic
ticket is 309,5S4, making the plurality for
Mckinley 26,479.
John w. Hendrie, one of the most
prominent and wealthy men of Connect
cut and distinguished by his philan-
throphy and gifts to educational institu-
lions in various parts of the country, has
died at his residence in Sound Beach.
He was born Nov. 10. 1921.
William Simms, colored, who shot and
killed his wife, Lille Belle Simms, at
Dunbar, Pa, on Aug. 16, 1899, was
hanged on Thursday in the Fayette coun-
ty (Pa.) Jail in the presence of 600 peo-
pie. The execution passed off quietly
Simms met his death unfinchingly.
DIR. Rufus p Lincoln, an eminent
throat and lung specialist, has died at his
home in New York city after an opera
ton for appendicitis. DR.. Lincoln had for
many years occupied a very prominent
position in the medical world and was
frequently consulted by foreign physi-
clans.
Trinity Methodist church, Oswego, N.
Y, has been entirely destroyed by FIRE
1t is believed the fire was caused by Il
defective electric wire. The church was
built in 1S4S and rebuilt in 1881. The
loss on the building, organ and furnish
ings is $4,000, with insurance of only
$4,000
Nathaniel Wells, a well known chemist,
has died in Washington at the age of 107
years. He was a long time friend of Oar
win, Spencer and Huxley. Mr.. Wells was
strong and well until about four years
ago. He probably held the record for voy-
ages around the world, having made the
trip % times.
Fire has practically wiped out the ex-
tensive cement plant of William Krause
& Sons of Philadelphia located at Mar
tins Creek, Pa. The damage will reach
S200,0O0 most of which is covered by in
surance. About 200 men were employed
at the works. The plant will be rebuilt
without delay.
While returning by steamer detach-
ment of Americans landed at San Vicente
and attacked body of rebels, killing sew
en-. A branch party attacked a band be-
yond Palestine, killing five and capturing
10. The Americans had no casualties.
There has been considerable wire cutting
in that district.
The United States surveying corps
found over 100 dead bodies in a swamp
just west of Galveston on the island
where they had been deposited by the
storm of Sept. s. The unburied dead
were in an out of the way place near the
county road and had not been discovered
by the burying parties sent out after the
storm.
The state department has received a
telegram from w. Godfrey Hunter, Unit.
ed States minister to Guatemala and
Honduras, saying that he had received
from the Honduras government $4,000
in gold in full payment of the claim of
the United States for the killing of Frank
Pears of Pittsbnrg by a Honduras soldier
in January, 1899
BY winning the football game Satur.
day Yale administered to Harvard the
worst defeat in Is years. 1t was one of
the most decisive victories in the history
of the game. 1t was a contest abound
ing in brilliant plays and was watched
by more than 10000 spectators, who flied
every seat around the great amphithe,
alter at Yale field. The score stood %
to 0.
Governor Elect b. B. Odell, Jr., has
announced the appointment of James c.
Graham as his private secretary and j.
G. Mcknight as executive and personal
stenographer to the governor Mr.. Gra-
ham is young Newburg lawyer and has
oarvod fxro farms III, tho accon, hi. ra,,