The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-08-10
CRISP NEWS NOTES.
A Condensed Summary Of Happenings the
Whole World over.

The Newchang forts and the Chinese
city OF that name have been taken
by the Russians.
Severe forest fires are raging along
the line of the West Shore railroad
IN the vicinity of Schenectady, N. Y
Property estimated to be worth
81, O0O, 600 was destroyed by fire in the
lumber district of Ashland, Wis,
Saturday.
Field Marshal Count Won Waldersee
of Germany has been selected by the
powers as commander Of the allied
forces in China.
The races for the Upton Cups,
offered by Sir Thomas Upton, will be
sailed from starting line in the
lower New York bay on Sept. IL, IL
and 10.
Census returns from Chicago will
be disappointing to the residents of
that city. There will not be such a
great gain in population as was ex-
pected.
Lii Hung Chang says that if the al
lied troops advance to Picking the
Chinese must fight. This means the
Chinese government against the
foreigners.
Andrew D. White, American Ann
bassador to Germany, arrived in New
York Monday on the steamship
Deutschland. He is in excellent health
and spirits.
A dispatch from Pretoria says
Gen. Lord Kitchener has surrounded
Generals DeWet and Steyn and will
capture their entire commands of
5, 900 men this week.
Capt Frederick Jerome, an old-t time
sailor, who has the credit of saving
over 1000 lives during his career, died
in San Francisco Monday. He was
born in the south of England in 1928.
Transvaal advices declare that Gen
BadenPowell was wounded during a.
recent engagement at Rustenburg.
when the Beers, according to their ac--
count, took some prisoners and cap
tured S24 wagons.
Former Congressman Charles A.
Towne of Duluth, Mimi, who was
nominated for vice-president on the
Populist National convention has
sent a letter to the committee of
notification declining the nomination
Gen. Zebulon York, one of the
dashing figures of the Confederacy,
died at his home, in Natchez, Miss,
Sunday. He participated in the
battle of the Wilderness and was
made Brigadier General June 2,
1864
Union Pacific eastbound passenger
train No. 4, was held up by train
robbers ninety miles this side of Dem
yer. The passengers in the Pullman
sleeping cars were robbed of their
money and valuables. One man, for
refusing the robbers demands, was
shot and killed.
Mayor Ashbridge of Philadelphia
has not been heard of since July 30.
He went to San Francisco July 16
accompanied by Mrs. Ashbridge and
registered at the Palace Hotel. He
left there on July 23 saying he was
going to the Yosemite Valley. All
efforts to trace him since then have
failed
The British Consul at Tien Tsin
officially announces that the advance
of the allies began last Saturday. A
severe battle was fought ON Sunday at
Pei-Tsang twelve miles beyond ITEM
Tsin. The foreigners lost 1900
killed and wounded. The chief
sufferers were the Russians and
Japanese.
Two convicts escaped from Auburn
New York State prison Monday The
men are Albert Dean and Edgar Pratt.
Dean is serving fifteen year sentence
for kidnapping Edgar Pratt is an
Otsego County man. He was received
here June 49, 1897, on a sentence of
seven years and six months for burg
larry and larceny.
Blue Jackets, marines, ex-soldiers of
the Ninth Infantry, and refugees
crowded the decks of the transport
Logan, from Taku, via Japan, which
reached her dock in San Francisco
Monday. There were men, women and
children, on the vessel direct from
Tien Tsin who had escaped from the
mobs of Boxers and the imperial
Chinese troops.
A tornado accompanied by terrific
hail and rain storm, started near
Thompson, N. D., Saturday morning
and swept to the northwest through
rich farming country. A strip of
country ten miles wide and hundred
miles long was torn by the furious
winds Houses were wrecked and
hundreds of barns torn to pieces The
wheat and oat crops were pounded in
the ground by the hail.
Superintendent Beggs of the Mil
yankee Traction Co. has issued an
order that motormen shall not wear
celluloid collars. Because his collar
was celluloid Charles Sanders was
injured so seriously that his recovery
is doubtful. Sunday, while he was
tinkering with the motor, the con-
troller came in contact with his col
lar. There was flash, and a ring
of fire encircled his mock in an in
slant. The motorman is suffering
terribly from his injuries.