The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-11-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

Tor public library In San Juan, fort0
Rico.
Henry B. Harrison, governor of Con-
necticut from 1885 to 1887, is dead at
bis home in New Haven, Conn.
President Roosevelt has promised to
visit the Charleston Is. O. exposition
On Lincolns birthday Feb. IL.
The Standard Oil company is to es-
tablish refinery at Port Richmond,
Cal, and a new steamship line to the
orient.
Henry G. Baird, oldest member of
the Bradford county Pa) bar, died at
Athens, Pa, Thursday, aged eighty
one years.
The condition of Mrs. Julia d. Grant,
the widow of General Grant, who has
been i'll for several days, is considera-
bly, improved
The Illinois supreme court has or
dered capital stock, including fran
chises, of Chicago corporations to be
assessed for taxation.
Cresceus, driven by George Fl. Ketch-
am, at Minneapolis, Mimi, Thursday,
1di1tu W OlCah LIS ONA IONOAA Va ~-sN%@/4i
going the mile in 2:051a.
The steamship Roanoke has arrived
from Nome, bringing 600 passengers.
The Roanoke is the last boat of the sea-
son of the Nome passenger fleet.
Andrew d. White, ambassador to
Germany, sailed Thursday on board
the Deutschland after a fortnight spent
in this country on private business.
Forest fires are raging along the slope
of mountains in Tazewell county, Va,
between Graham and Flat Top Yards.
The entire mountain is sheet of flame.
A Boer colony will be established in
wyoming. A tract of 100000 acres has
been secured for the purpose in the val
ley of the Green river in SweetwateI
county.
Mrs. Asenath Burnett is dead at her
home at Cape Vincent, N. Y, aged 1902
ing Original Daughters of the Ameri-
can Revolution.
BY an explosion of a Colts automat-
ic gun at Fort Leavenworth Monday
Captain Charles T. Menoher and five
men of the Twenty eighth battery of
field artillery were wounded three Sc
verely.
A whale forty feet long made its ap
pearance in Montreal harbor Wednes-
day. 1t got stranded in shallow water
near Victoria bridge and was captured
by Engineer Nelson of the harbor
board.
Ernest Seton-Thompson, the well
known writer about wild animals, has
received permission from Justice Bis
choff in the New York supreme court
to change his name to Ernest Thomp-
son Seton.
The New York State library has out
grown it's present quarters in the state
capitol and has been compelled to lease
for term of years building near the
capitol for the storing Of 100000 dupli-
cate volumes.
Mrs. WI Ting Fang wife of the Chi
nese minister to the United States, ar
rived at San Francisco on Tuesday
on the steamer Gaelic from China. She
is accompanied by her daughter, Miss
WI Su Ching.
Delmar, a town of about 1000 inhab-
itants in the extreme southern end of
Maryland, has been almost wiped out
by fire. Nearly 250 people are home
less, and the property loss is estimated
at about 100000.
The largest order for motive power
and equipment ever given at one time
by western road has been placed in
the east by the Denver and Rio Grande
40 locomotives, 20 passenger cars and
1000 freight cars.
At mass meeting of the mill opera
tiyes of Fall River, Mass, Wednesday
two of the five unions-the Spinners'
and Loom Fixers' voted against a
strike Monday next, and as result
there will be no strike.
Australian" Jimmy Ryan was knock
ed out Wednesday in the second round
of a twenty round contest at Music
hall, Louisville, KY, by Jack Root OF
Chicago. The fight was for the mid
dleweight championship of the west.
James McGarry, known in Chicago
as the original of ''Mr Dooley," from
whom Finley Peter Dunno gathered
his inspiration for this famous char
acter in humor and philosophy, died in
the Cook county Qll) hospital Tues.
day.
In aid Of the Mckinley memorial
fund Governor Yates of Illinois has
issued a proclamation to the people of
the state urging them to contribute
both as a mark of esteem to the late
president and as rebuke against an
archy.
The secretary Of the treasury says he
will resume the purchase of short 3,
short 4 and short per cent bonds ON a
basis of 1.726 and of long per cent
bonds on basis of 1906. He reserves
the right to discontinue purchases at
any time.
Washburn college, at Topeka, Kan,
has received gift of $4,000 from a
Boston man, who gave the money on
condition that his name be absolutely
withheld. He specifies that the money
shall be used for building an astronom-
ical observatory.
Warren Cannon of Des Moines, Ia,
breeder of registered cattle, has secured
eleven of the seventeen known mulley
Hereford cattle in the United States for
the purpose of establishing a distinct
new breed of cattle to be known as rhe