The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings Of the wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

San Jose scale has appeared in the or
chards of Orleans county, n. Y.
A camel has been born in the Central
park menagerie, New York city.
Half the striking miners in the Pitts
burg district have returned to work
Nearly 400 new laws were passed by
the New York legislature this session.
The business portion of Ravenna,
Mich, has been burned with loss of
100000
1t is estimated that the surplus under
the war revenue tax on July / will be
$70,000,000
Governor Roosevelt has signed bill
prohibiting gambling on New York state
fair grounds.
Serious rioting is reported at San Juan,
Porto Rico, growing out of the labor
troubles there
Mayor James NJ. Seymour Dem) has
been reelected mayor of Newark, N. j.,
by 1000 plurality.
Directors of the Baltimore and Ohio
have voted to issue $6,400, 900 of common
stock for betterments.
The New York presbytery has accepted
the resignation of Rev. DR.. A. G. Nc
Giffert from the ministry.
The Kentucky court of appeals has de-
cided against Governor Taylor, holding
that it has no jurisdiction.
The building trades strikers of Chicago
are said to be living on the cooperative
plan and able TO hold out year.
Former State Senator Richard Higbie
of Babylon, n. Y. member of the Re
publican state committee, is dead.
Eastern capitalists have purchased
10000 acres of land in northern Fayette
county, Pa, for coal mining purposes
A sergeant and a corporal of Company
/, Eighteenth infantry, We're killed in a
severe fight in Capiz province, island of
Panay.
The engagement Of Miss Alta Rookie
teller, daughter of John d. Rockefeller
to r. Pal1nalee Prentice of Chicago has
been announced
The steamship Knight Bachelor, Cap
tain Paine has cleared from New Or
leans for Cape Town with 1872 mules
for the British army.
The Sans Souci Opera House block
and the Schaffer building at Balston
Spa, ~ y, We're burned Sunday. Loss
Sl3O,000, insurance $4,000
Ebenezcr Burgess Ball. the nearest sur
viying relative Of George Washington
has died in Washington. He was 81
years Of age and unmarried.
A complete steel house has been ship
ped from Philadelphia to Prince Yoshi-
bito at Tokyo, and 81 locomotives and
tenders were shipped to Russia.
a few days ago the wife of James Fur
man, colored man, 60 years old, Of
Washington, y. j., presented him with
son. He is the father of 26 children.
General G.. NJ. Randall, U. S. A., com
mander Of the department of Alaska, has
sailed from Seattle for Skaguay, where
he will select a site for an army post
BY the death of John Halstead, a re
tired tea merchant of New York city,
Cooper Union has been made "A residuaIy
legatee Of his estate of over 100000,
The president has announced the nom
nation of John T. " Gridley. son of the
late Captain Gridley of the Olympia, to
be second lieutenant in the marine
corps.
The physical laboratory, one of the
largest and finest buildings OF Lehigh
university at Bethlehem, Pa. has been
burned. The loss will probably exceed
100000.
Lieutenant Gordon, with company of
the Sixteenth infantry, while scouting
near Aparri, Cagayan province, engaged
230 Insurgents. Lieutenant Gordon was
wounded
Fire in Brooklyn on Monday threw be-
tween 200 and 800 men out of en-
ployment and destroyed several factories
The damage is estimated at from $780,
600 to 100000
The president of the town of Samal,
province of Bataar Luzon. and another
prominent native have been assassinated
because they We're known TO be friendly
to the Americans
The United States government has
awarded to the Oceanic Steamship com
pany a ten years contract at 81 a mile
for carrying the Australian and English
closed mails across the Pacific.
The First parish church in Concord
Mass. has been destroyed by fire. The
church was ON the site of the famous
structure built in 17l2, in which the first
provincial congress was held in 1775
David Hammond one of the most
prominent hotel men in New York city,
has died, aged about 20. He was pro
prietor of the Grand, the Gilsey. the
Bristol and the Murray Hill SUCCESSFULLY
Lieutenant Colonel Webb c. Hayes OF
the Thirty-frst infantry. son of President
Hayes, has been discharged honorably
from the United States army at his own
request He has been serving in the Phil.
ippines.
For the second time in three years the
extensive department store of Joseph
Horne & Co, at the corner of Fifth
street and Pennsylvania avenue, Pitts
burg, is in ruins I he loss is over ST.
100000.
The viii of the late Miss Addie d.
Mills of Middletown, n. Y. which has
been filed for probate, bequeathed proper
ty worth about 100000 to the Rev.
James A. O'Connor of New York for
mission work.
A tremendous upheaval of land is re-
ported to have occurred on Nooksack
river, ten miles west of Mount Baker.
Wash What had once been a valley and
bed of the Nooksack river is now a hill
40 feet high
Carl Claussen, one of the best known
German newspaper editors in the United
States has died in Cleveland. aged 81
years Mr.. Claussen was for several
years editor in chief of the Illinois Stats
Zeitung, at Chicago.
The pattern shop of the Carnegie Steel
company at Homestead was burned down
Saturday night Numerous valuable pat
terms and many armor plate drawings
that were to be submitted TO the navy de-
partment were destroyed
The Compressed Air company of the
borough of Manhattan. New York city.
with capitalization Of $1,000 900. Of
which S753,000 is preferred stock, has
fled articles OF iucOrDOraf iOn with tha