The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-07-12
Mr.. BRYAN Wont Run Agnin.

III statement 10 the puDllc w. j.
Bryan says in effect that he has no in.
tention of seeking a third nomination
for the presidency Mr. Bryans an
nouncement is in answer to an article
in an eastern paper specializing on his
plans as Il political leader. Mr.. Bryan
said; Il am not planning for another
presidential nomination. If | We're,
would not be editing paper. If | ever
become a candidate again. it will be be.
cause it seems necessary for the al.
vancement of the principles to which
| adhere, and that does not now seem
interest in politics for several years
yet if 1 live, and l can be relied upon
to support those who as candidates adj.
vance Democratic principles and who
can be intrusted to enforce them if
elected"
Mrs. Carrie Nation, arrested in Kan
sas City on charge of obstructing the
street, was arraigned before Police
Judge McAuley, fined $500 and given
four hours to leave the city. The judge
warned Mrs. Nation if she was found
in the city after the time set she would
be arrested and placed in Jail. She
agreed to leave town and 10 minutes
later boarded a street car for Kansas
City, Kan.
The division of insular affairs of the
war department announces that the
internal revenue collections in the de-
n mi, o1n mt of M hon l
Islands, for the calendar year 1900
were $106,79 The supervisor of in
ternal revenue for this department re-
ports that the people, as a rule, pay
their taxes promptly and without COM
plant and says that largely increased
revenues for the year 1901 may be
safely predicted.
Mrs. &. w. Walker, postmistress at
Elizabeth, Pa, has resigned, and Unit
ed States postotiice inspectors have
discovered a shortage of 81 200 in her
accounts. Mrs. Walker is a widow and
the mother of five children. Her oldest
son, aged IS, was her assistant. She
ident Mckinley. Her family is one of
the best known in the Monongahela
valley, her husband having been well
known river captain.
Justice Jerome has decided to hold
Albert r. Patrick, the Rice will claim
ant. to await the action of the grand
jury on charge of murder. Patrick's
chief accuser is Charles f. Jones, the
late Mr.. Rice's valet, who in confess
sion made to Assistant District Attor-
ney Osborne declared that he had kill
ed Mr. Rice at the instigation of Pat
rick and that the lawyer had forged
second will of the aged millionaire in
order to get possession of his great
fortune.
The state department has been adj
vised that Marquis di Carbonari, the
minister of Italy to the Argentine
Republic, will succeed Baron Fava as
ambassador from Italy to the United
States The marquis has had an extern
sive diplomatic experience, having
served in Washington as one of the at
taches of the Italian legation about ten
years ago He will receive a substan-
tial promotion by his new appointment
rising from the rank of minister to that
of ambassador,
We saw n man with load of shelled
corn the other day which he had haul
ed into market from his farm He had
scattered about three bushels of corn
on the highway between his home and
the depot all for want of cloth to
cover crack under the end board of
his wagon box. We knew man who
had stolen Il load of wheat to be trailed
and caught by just such a trick
The annual adjustments of postoftice
salaries and allowances thus far made,
to take effect July | next, provide for
4 ,730 promotions of postoffice clerks
and for the appointment of 1880 addi-
tonal clerks at postotfices throughout
the country.
John Albert Skoog, alias Albert Jen-
son, one OF the most skilled counter.
feitcrs in criminal history, is dead in
Bellevue hospital, New York city, from
wounds self inflicted on April 8 when
he was arrested for trying to pass spu-
rious 80 kroner notes.