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The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02
DEFENSE OF MR GAGE
ic Administration Does Not Seer to Re Wrong Now.

That may be a very fine defense ot the practice of deposi;ing many mil- lions of public money in banks which NIT. Gage has sent to congress in re- sponse to certain resolutions of in- quiry. But the question remains whether Mir. Gage has completely re- futed a certain speech made by Will liam Mckinley on a certain occasion.
 That speech was made when Cleve- land was president the first time, and that was some years ago. But princi pies do not change with the times, though some people change their principles with the times. At that time Mir. Mckinley declared that it was all wrong to deposit over S60,000, GOO of the public money in national banks. And he grew red in the face with right eous Indignation as he thought of the odious favoritism 10 pet banks which such disposition of the public money implied.
 If it was wrong then to deposit some s6l GOO ,00O of the public money in banks it is certainly wrong now to do the same thing with over Ss7,0O0, 600 of the public money. Mir. Mckinley was then very impressive in his declaration that if there was any more money in the public treasury than was required to meet current expenditures it should not be handed over to banks to be loaned for their private profit, but should be applied to the purchase or re- demption of United States bonds in order to save interest to the dear peo- pie.
 Well, MT. Gage tells us there is a surplus now, and we all know that there are bonds of the United States that can be bought in the market. Then why does not Mir. Mckinley order Mir. Gage 10 go into the market and buy them and save interest to the dear peo- pie instead of turning over sS7, COG, 900 of money to ''pet banks" for them to lend out for their own private profit ? Was Mir. Mckinley a demagogue 13 years ago or is he wickedly coddling some pet banks now? Let us hear Chicago Chronicle.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02
THIS YEARS ISSUES.
Republicans Are Fixing Up the Whole Programme for the
 Democrats.

There is something amusing abom the energy which republican leaders display in making the democratic plat form for 1900.
 Senator Aldrich, in his opening speech on the gold bill, took great pains 10 tell his hearers just what the democratic issues were to be and exact ly what the republicans were going to do about it.
 This is a harmless sort of diversion for the republicans, and if they enjoy il it is quite as well that they should keep up the farce indefinitely.
 One thing is certain, however, and that is the republicans cannot make is- sues and force the democrats to assume responsibility for them.
 In the first place the democrats are quite able to choose their own ground, and in the second place it is too early yet to set squadrons in the field for battle which will not open before June or July next.
 Of course the republicans would like to choose issues. They would be pleased to put trusts, imperialism and administration blunders of all kinds in the background and get up a contest over questions suggested by themselves and on which they think they could win the fight.
 There will be many issues before the people in the campaign of 1900. Tue democrats will not look to the opposi. tion for a selection of those issues, and Senator Aldrich has wasted his breath in attempting to tell in advance what the democratic party is going to do.
 Let the able republican senator pos. sess his soul in patience. In good time he will know what issues will be taken up by the democrats and he can be as. sured that they will be of a character to interest the people and to make it lively for the republicans.-Chicagc Democrat.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Anna NJ. Bowen, dean of the Wom- sn's Hall at the Northwestern univer- sity. in Chicago, died of heart disease on the 2sth. She was native of Chica- go, a graduate of Cornell university, and later spent two years in Germany. At Leipsic she was the first woman al- lowed the full privileges of the semi nary. After her return from Germany she, for time, did editorial work for tue New York Nation. She was 27 years old.
 Two safe blowers were killed and third badly wounded by Quincy Qll.) police officers on the night of the 27th. They were pointed out as sus- poets by the proprietor of the hotel at which they registered, and when con- froited by the police showed fight. Burglar tools and skeleton keys were found in their baggage and upon their persons, showing conclusively their nefarious calling.
 The eighth annual bonspiel of the Northwestern Curling association opened in Milwaukee on the 29th.
 The lurid daily press reports of the tremendous British losses in the aban- donment of Spion Kop are not war ranted by official reports, and are, evil dently, the product of vivid imagina- tens. They certainly could not be ca- blr6 from the front.
 According to a Boer account of the Sp;on Kop affair, by way of Lourenzo Mgrquez, Delagoa bay, the British left i,500 dead on the kop when they with drew. The story is regarded as a gross congregation.
 What is believed to be the best as- phalt deposit in Mexico is about to be developed. It is near Tampico, and is controlled by Mexicans who have re- fused from Americans offers to oper- ate the plant. The plant will be oper. ated wholly by Mexicans.
 The present week promises to see the end of the Kentucky contests. SO far as the legislature is concerned. |. likewise seems probable that there will be two state governments exist ing, each claiming to be headed by the riglitful and legal governor. The whole state of Kentucky is at the mercy of smallpox. With the dis ease prevalent in about thirty-five counties, the state board of health fines itself without money and power less to fight the disease.
 Estimates made by Tacoma (Wash1 shipping men show that about l5,000 men are intending to reach Cape Nome by the first steamers from Puget Sound and Dawson. Two thousand of this number will go from Seattle. and the others will go down the Yukon riyeI.
 It it rumored at Washington that the action of the Baroness Hengelmueller, wife of the minister from Austria Hungary, in declining to accept the escort of the Mexican ambassador at the diplomatic dinner at the White House, will probably result in the withdrawal of Hengelmueller from Washington.
 The police of Quincy. H., late on the night of the 27th and early on the morning of the 2sth, succeeded in ricding the country of 8 couple of safe blowers. They were shot and instant. Y kiiled, and third badly wounded and captured. They were fixed for business.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

The question of establishing a de- pertinent of the government to be known as the department of com mercc, with cabinet officer at it's head, was discussed ct considera ble length by the senate committee on commerce on the 25th.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

The house committee on laobr. on the 25th. heard President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor and the representatives of other labor organi- zations in favor of the bill to prohibit interstate commerce in convict-made goods.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02
MT. Gage willing to have his off

-Mr. Gage willing to have his off
 cial acts investigated by congress sional committee? To be sure. What has Mir. Gage done that is not indorsed by the administration? And will not the committee appointed by republic. an speaker be in hearty accord with the administration, and therefore sure to declare that Mir. Gage has acted the part of a great and good patriot, and wise fnancier?-Omeha World Herald.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

The dreadful tension under which the London public suffered in the ab- sence of news from Gen. Butler, was relieved, on the 18th, by the report that a night attack on Spion kop, un- der Gen. Warren, on the night of the 23d, had been successful, giving the British troops commanding position overlooking miles of Boer intrench- ments, which were thus rendered un- tenGble. Gen. Woodgate was mortally wounded, and died on the 2ath.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

report on our Asiatic trade, pre- pared by Mir. Frank II. Hitchcock chief of the foreign markets section of the agricultural department, shows that there has been great development O. our trade with China and Japan during the past decade, the year 1899 breaking all records. It is the exports that are increasing, imports scarcely holding their own.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

Otto Miller, a prominent farmer re- siding near Hastings, Neb., has mys- teriously disappeared. He was last seen on the 10th, since when no trace of him ean be found. His friends believe he has been murdered. The only clew to the missing man is drops of blood lbout his barn. A searching party has been organized.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

On the 2sth the war department mace public an important report from CapI. W. R. Abercrombie. Second in- fantry, who commanded the Copper Rive~ exploring expedition in Alaska lass season. The chief topic treated in the report is the laying out of the great trans-Alaskan military route from Port Naldes, Alaska, to Port Egg bcrr, on the Yukon.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

X favorable report was made from the house naval committee. on the 2eth.. on the bill to restore the historic fs.gate Constitution, the cost to be borne by patriotic societies of Massa. ehgsetts
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02
An InsinuatIon,

Husband-That tramp I met at the gate told me he weighed 250 pounds.
 Wife-What story teller! Why, he told me when I fed him that he only weighed hundred.
 "Hes, my dear, but that was before nc had eaten those biscuits of yours.''- Detroit Free Press.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

Gen. Buffers dispatch to the London war office, on the 2sth, stated that Spion kop was abandoned on account D. lack of water, inability to get ar tillery there, and the heavy Boer fire. His whole force withdrew south of the Tugela river with the evident intention Df reaching Ladysmith by another toItt.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

Ger. Greedy experienced quite a set- back in the steady improvement of his condition in the shape of cold, con fracted while on visit to the war de- pertinent on the 26th. He is confined to his bed.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

Tie board of directors of the Amer ican Window Glass Co. met in Pitts burgE, Pa, on the 25th, and ordered aI-other cut of five per cent. op single strength and five to ten per c.nt. on double strength. A ten per ceI |. cut Was also made on large brack' is of double strength. The last cut, about a month ago, was 33 Ia per cent The slash in prices is the result of the re- cent war declared on the independent manufacturers.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

Tkr house committee cn mileage, on the 2oth, discussed the claim of Brig amounts to about SI 1000. A majority of the committee are of opinion that he i- not entitled to this money, as he was not sworn in.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02
Infornafion

Willie-Pa, what's the meaning of fin Ge siecle?
 Pa-Oh, that's-aw-one of these wa ter bicycles, with fins or 1t like fish, Philadelphia Record.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

Not even a cigarette or a seidlitz powder could be bought in Baltimore Dn the 2sth. For the first Sunday in many years every cigar store, gro- eeJy, bakery and the like were closed up tight. The police were kept busy aii day taking the names of boot blacks, newsboys and others for pres srtation to the grand jury.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

The question of salary and mileage allowance for Mir. Roberts is to be con- siuered by the house committee on ac- counts. There is about s1 ,o00 on mile age, and like amount for salary con diiionally due Mir. Roberts, but there is some doubt as to whether these sums should be allowed.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

Y The biggest order for mules for use in the Transyaal yet placed in the Kansas City (Mo.) market by the Brit ish government is, it is understood, now under consideration there. Local films are also said to be bidding on furnishing the British with 1000 horses, to replace those sent to South Africa.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

In accordance with the policy of re- leasing all the chartered transports on tfeir return from the Philippines, the guartermaster general, on the 29th, di- rected an inspection of the City of Pekin, City of Sydney and the Tacoma, with n view of putting them out o; commission as government transports.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

The senate, in executive session, on the 29th. decided. by a vote of 21 to 3s. rot to reconsider the vote by which the Samoan treaty was ratified.
The Forrest City times., 1900-02-02

Among the passengers who arrived al New York, on the 29th. on the steamer La Normandie. from Havre, was M. Jules Cambon. Fres-sh ambas- sadcr to the United Statec.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06
TROLLEY POSSIBILITIES.

Commenting on trolley possibilities,
George W. Durham, president of the
Hartford & Springfield Railway Com
pany, who is at the head of a mum
Der of traction magnates whose pur-
pose it is to provide continuous
trolley line from New York to Bos-
ton, in recent interview stated that
his company will charter cars for any
length of time to parties of tourists.
The cars will be of the buffet pattern.
Sleepers may come later, but for the
present it is considered preferable
that tourist parties should stop over
for the night wherever they may find
it most convenient. Ultimately the
New England trolley system is to be
extended through the White Noun
tain region and up to the shores of
Lake Champlain.
The New England syndicate also
hopes to make arrangements with the
Metropolitan Traction Company for
the running of it's cars over the Metro
politan system to any part in New
York
All of which goes to show that the
trolley is bound to become more and
more conspicuous in daily life
throughout New England as we'll as
elsewhere in the world.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06
AN IMPORTANT MATTER.

Baldwin Latham, well-known
English authority on sanitation in
recent address on the question of
drainage made many interesting
points which are applicable to Morris
town He said in part:
There are houses, there are groups
of houses, there are whole villages,
there are considerable sections of
towns, there are even entire and not
small towns, where, within or Just
outside each house, or in spaces com
mon to many houses, lies for an
indefinite time, undergoing foetid
decomposition, more or less, of the
putrefiable refuse which house life,
and some sorts of trade-life, produce
excrement of man and brute n
and pended slop-waters; sometimes ~
unintentionally stored out of sight
and recollection in drains or sewers
which cannot carry them away; some
times held in receptacles specially
paw NASO w AuNOA us
privy -pits and other cesspools for ex-
crement and slop-water, and so-called
dust-bins receiving kitchen-refuse and
other filth, And with this state of
things, be it ON large or on small
scale two chief sorts of danger to life
arise; one that volatile effluvia from
the refuse pollute the surrounding air
and everything which it contains {;
the other, that the liquid parts of the
refuse pass by soakage or leakage into
the surrounding soil. To a
really immense extent, to an extent
indeed which persons Impractical in
sanitary inspection could scarcely
find themselves able to imagine, dan
gers of these two sort are prevailing
throughout the length and breadth of
this country, not only i'll their slighter
degrees, but in degrees which are gross
and scandalous And state all this
in unequivocal language, because
feel that, if the new sanitary organi-
cation of the country is to fulfill its
purpose, the administrators, local and
central, must begin by fully recogniz-
ing the real state of the case, and
with consciousness that in many in
stances they win have to introduce
the rudiments of sanitary civiliza-
ton ="
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06
Fourth Congressional District Convention.

The Republican voters of the Fourth Con
gressional District of New Jersey, comprisins
the counties of Hunterdon, Morris Sussex nd
Warren. are requested to select delegates to q
Congressional District Convention, to be held
at Trenton, on Thursday April 10Th, 1900. at II
a. M, for the purpose of selecting two dele
gates and two alternates, delegates to the Re.
publican Nation~l Convention, which will
assemble at Philadelphia on June 10, next, for
the nomination of candidates for President
and Vice President to be supported at the next
General Election.
The basis of the representation under this
call will be one delegate for each one hundred
Republican votes cast at the last Congre- sion
al Election, and one for each fraction of the
same above fifty, In each election district
provided that each election district shall be
entitled to at least one delegate,
The place and time of holding caucuses for
election of delegates to be fixed by the Repub
lican County Committee.
J, Walter Ingham, Chairman,
Frank r. Owens,
Stephen X. Large.
W. H. Wilmot.
N. H. Hart,
Benjamin E. Knox,
Charles F. Hopkins,
William f. Coils.
April 4. 1870.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06
TO END PAssAIC POLLUTION.

! The State Sewerage Commission has
determined to make the adequate
cleansing of the Passaic River its first
work, and to this end has asked the
municipalities which are now sewer
ing into that river to make known to
the commission their views as to the
most feasible method of disposing of
the sewage of their respective COM
munities and speedily abating the
nuisance. This action is tentative,
the commission having power, under
the law, recently enacted charging
It's powers, TO fix the date at which
river pollution most cease, but the
commissioners feel that public opinion
is now so aroused that the cities and
towns along the Passaic will not act
without the pressure of the law.
1t is believed that general agree
ment will be reached within few
months. either to erect plants for the
scientific treatment of the sewage of
the Passaic River Communities, or
else build the uch-discussed trunk
sewer to the sea. The former plan
seems to be in favor with most of the
commissioners, but W. T. Hunt, the
chairman of the. commission regards
the trunk sewer projects as the more
feasible. and the commission will
agree to the plan most in favor with
the municipalities directly interested.
Whichever plan is adopted, the cost
will be enormous, but the new law
provides for the formation of sewerage
districts and the issuance of long
term, low-interest bonds on the credit
of the municipalities, so that the
work will not be burdensome.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06
IT'S BRYAN's NOMINATION.

The recent action of the Democrats
in the District of Columbia in choos-
ing two out and out Bryan men for
delegates to the Kansas City Conven-
ton is highly significant, because it
shows that the talk of beating Bryan
for the Democratic nomination is sim
ply talk. nothing more.
1t is true in New Jersey as else
where that many of the old time lead
ers are anxious to have some other
candidate named, but Bryan has the
votes to carry the convention and they
know it.
The District of Columbia is politi-
cally a part of Maryland, more than
of any other State Bearing this in
mind if men like ex-senator German
could make an impression anywhere,
it should have been in Washington.
That is where the principal rivals of
ex-Colonel Bryan are best known and
most influential. If those opposed to
him could make no Roadway then
what reason is there to imagine that
they can affect the tide which will
send Bryan votes from this State
and from other States in sufficient
numbers to carry the convention for
the 16 to | advocate.
Nothing within the bounds of or
binary contingencies can prevent him
from being made the candidate of his
party in the ensuing National struggle.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06
GEORGE RICHARDS DEAD.

The death of the Hon. George
Richards, which occurred at New
Orleans on Tuesday morning removes
one who for years past has been prom
inent and influential not only in Nor
ris County affairs but in state, finan-
cial and manufacturing circles as
we'll.
Mr.. Richards acquired fortune by
his own energy and foresight. His
position gave him commanding in
fluence in political affairs which was
enjoyed by few party leaders. He
was always identified with the Re-
publican party and for many years he
was generally consulted before inn
portant nominations were made in
Morris County. The deceased was a
firm believer in and a supporter OF
home industries, and to his untirina
efforts and energy is largely due the
success of Dover as a manufacturing
center. He took deep interest in
the Morris Plains Hospital, of which
he was manager and president OF
the Board of Managers for many years
Mr.. Richards will be generally missed
but nowhere will his loss be more
severely felt than in Dover.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06
ABOLISH GRADE CROSSINGS.

The sad accident which occurred at
Sneeden's crossing on Tuesday even
ing very forcibly calls public atten-
tion to the imperative necessity of the
abolition of grade crossings We I'M
derstand that at a recent meeting of
the Lackawanna officials, a number
of our leading citizens, including the
Mayor and Aldermen, held at the
residence of DIR. H. n Dodge, there
was practical unanimity as to the de-
STABILITY and feasibility of track
elevation or depression in Morristown.
The plan proposed includes the place
where the fatal accident occurred
1t is great wonder that we have
not had many more such accidents at
the grade crossings here and the rail
road company ought to proceed with
the proposed improvements on ar
early date. Meanwhile it might be
well to put gate at Sneeden's cross
ing which could be easily operated
by the man in the tower house neal
the gates at the Normandy Parl
crossing.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-04-06
A SENSIBLE PLAN.

If the plan of Mrs Caroline K.
Sherman, chairman of the high
school committee of the Chicago
Board of Education is passed upon
favorably at its next meeting, the
high school girl who can make her
own dresses or cook successfully, or
the high school boy who can make
a table or mount collection of
biological specimens, will receive as
much credit for the work as the
student who is proficient in Latin,
Greek, or trigonometry.
The idea is to give credit which
will count toward securing gradua-
tion diploma to such pupils who,
after their second year, do work on
the outside which is of benefit to
them. By this course Mrs Sherman
hopes to make the high school more
practical even than the introduction
of the so-called business courses
would tend to make it.