The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-01-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.


of the treasury. has died at Quincy, His
Elijah w. Blasdell, one of the found
ers of the Republican party, has died at
Rockford, His.
st. Louis has announced the compile
zion of the S5,000,000 fund for the
worlds fair i'll that city.
-Four people were seriously hurt and a
score more bruised and cut in a train
wreck at Perth Amboy, n. j.
An advance of 10 per cent has been
made to machinists in the New York
Central shops at Oswego, n. Y.
The British steamer Monarch has clear
ed from New Orleans for Cape Town
with / 100 horses for the British army.
The Grouse block. one of the largest
apartment buildings in Syracuse, was
damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000
DIR. II. II. McAulcy of Chicago claim,
100000 indemnity from Portugal for al
legged false imprisonment at Lourenco
Marques.
Thomas Nesbtt Carter, a well known
member of the New Jersey bar, has died
at his home in Newark, n. j., after a
brief illness.
In the seventh annual contest of the '94
memorial debate contest held at Cornell
S. S. Lowenthal, '01, of Rochester prov
ed the winner.
Stephen Van Rensselaer, Townsend, a
well known New York lawyer has died
at his home in Hampstead, on Long Is
land, after several months sickness.
The board of naval officers which has
been considering the establishment of Il
naval station on the south Atlantic coast
recommends a station at Charleston.
The United States Naval Academy as
ISOLATION has decided to continue the eff
forts of the Dewey arch committee to re
produce the arch in stone as a monument
to the navy.
The total value of gifts to Harvard
university during the past year is an
nounced to have been $531 80. The in
dividual donations have been announced
from time to time.
The Richmond Locomotive and Ma
chine works has received an order from
the Wabash railroad for 30 locomotives
the contract price of which will aggre-
gate about $650000.
The collections from all sources of thu
Havana custom house, Cuba, for til
month of December, 1900, were Sill.
295 while for the corresponding month
of 1899 they were 81, los 1870.
The Lakeside inn large hotel on the
northern shore of Bantam lake. neal
Litchfeld, Conn. has been totally de
stroyed by fire. The hotel. which was
practically new one, was valued at SO,
600
The Rev. John G. Fee, the noted abo-
litionist and founder of Berea college fol
the coeducation of races, has died at Be.
rea, Ky. He was 81 years old and had
resided at Berea since that city was laid
out.
Judge Walter S. Merrell, formerly a
member of the Connecticut legislature
and prominently identified with educa.
tiona interests, is dead, aged 10. He
was "A judge of the probate court for 20
years.
Joseph Yates Paige, for the past ten
years chief clerk of the comptroller OF
the currency. is dead of pneumonia He
was well known to the banking interests
of the country. Mr.. Paige was born in
Albany in 1850.
Mrs. Jennie Racine of Middletown, y
y. has secured verdict of S6,C00
against the Erie railroad in the supp emc
court al Goshen for the death of her hus-
hand. Touman Racine, who was killed at
grade crossing.
-Four hundred miners employed at No
colliery of the Kingston Coal company
at WilkcSbafre. Pa, have gone ON strike
because they claimed the company had
not lived nj TO its agreement as to the
wages to be paid
Postmaster Hibbard of Boston has re-
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