The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-02-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings OF the Wide world
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

likely to be nominated for governor OF
Iowa.
The Union Pacific has issued $40 o0O,-
600 bonds for the Southern Pacific pur-
chasa
The Rochester Tumbler works at
Rochester, Pa, have been burned; loss,
100000.
Izincoln's birthday was observed by
banquets by many patriotic, political and
social organizations throughout the coun-
try.
All the nurses of the insane pavilion of
Bellevue hospital, New York, have been
dismissed because it was found that
patient had burned himself on a radi-
ator.
B. B. Vandeusen, superintendent Of the
Remington Typewriter works at Lion,
N. ", died very suddenly at his home
there Wednesday evening from heart
failure.
The United States ambassador to Eng
land, Mr.. Joseph II. Choate, has recely-
ed in behalf of Professor Pickering of
Harvard the gold medal of the Royal
Astronomical society
Two persons dead, five others badly in
jured and financial loss of $1,000 is the
summary of damage caused by a fire that
occurred in four story brick dwelling on
Harrison avenue, Boston.
The British steamer American, Cap
tain Howell, under charter of the British
government, cleared from New Orleans
for Cape Town with / 100 horses for the
British military service.
Private James e. McConkey, United
States marine corps, who is said to have
been the first American soldier killed in
the Chinese war, has been buried at Os-
wego, N. Y, with full military honors.
Rev. Jonathan Weaver, bishop emeri-
tus of the United Brethren church and
an aged divine widely known in religious
circles, is dead at his home in Dayton,
o. His religious career began in 1871.
Connecticut, Louisiana, Tennessee and
Washington have been selected as the
names of the four warships authorized
by the house and the bill for the con
struction of which is now pending in the
senate.
Alexander w. Longfellow, brother of
the American poet, Henry w. Longfel-
low, has died in Portland, Me-, aged sc
years. Death was due to old age. He is
survived by a widow, two sons and two
daughters.
In Freeman, Steuben county, N. Y,
the house in which Mrs. Cora Fish re-
sided with her three children was de-
stroyed by fire, and Mrs. Fish and her
daughter Annie, aged years, persisted
in the flames.
DIR. William Rice, one of the Oldest
practicing physicians in Trenton, died
suddenly at his home there on Wednes-
day night from heart trouble, aged 60
years. DIR. Rice was mayor of Trenton
in 1879 and 1880.
Former Lieutenant Governor Henry G.
Bates of Vermont has been offered by
ton of judge in the Philippine Islands,
and he will accept the appointment. The
salary will be So, 800 per year.
The monthly statement issued by the
bureau of statistics for January shows
that the imports of merchandise amount
ed to 500, 100, 1914, of which $27 ,373, 454
was free of duty. This was decrease
from January, 1900, of $5,700,000.
Fire has destroyed the Flatbush car
stable of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company in Brooklyn, causing a loss of
100000. The fire started in the clean
ing room, but its cause is unknown. One
hundred and ten cars We're destroyed.
Joel G. Rumble has been convicted in
Newburg, n. ", of murder in the sec
ond degree. The jury was out ten min
utes He killed Arthur Morgan of the
town of Chenille last July. The jury
in the first trial of the case disagreed.
DIR. Henry G. Hill, assistant surgeon of
the One Hundred and Twenty eighth
New York volunteers, has died in Lock
port, N. Y, of Bright's disease, aged 50
years. DR.. Hill was prominent in Re
publican politics. He was born in Yer
mont.
Mrs. S. G. Davis, residing at Norway
Ridge, Wis, has discovered that she is
an heir to the late Millionaire William
M. Rice, who is alleged to have been
murdered Sunday, Sept. %, 1900, in New
York city, and whose lawyer, Patrick, is
now in jail waiting trial.
Fire in Syracuse has caused damage
amounting to $50, 700, the losers being as
follows: j. Nj. Andrews, groceries, $6,-
900; Dibble 4 Freeman, restaurant, 81
900; S. Rosenbloom Il Sons, furniture,
$4,000; Andrews and Whitlock blocks,
$1,000; other tenants, $1,000.
Lorenzo Priori who murdered Vincen-
20 Garaguzo in New York Dec IL, 1898,
has been put to death in the electric chair
in the state prison at Sing Sing. 1t re-
quired two shocks to kill him. He left
with the priests who attended him a
statement declaring his innocence.
The Lattimer CPa.) strikers who went
out three weeks ago because of the alleg-
ed unwarranted discharge of two drill
runners have decided to return to work
and operations will be resumed at the coll
liery as soon as the mules are taken back
into the mines and necessary repairs now
in progress are finished.
Ralph White, an aged farmer, who was
recently convicted of murder in the sec
ond degree for the killing of his nephew,
Joseph White, at Sweet Valley, Pa.
committed suicide in the county Jail by
hanging. He used sheet fastening one
end to the door of his cell. The prisoner
had been sentenced to 10 years imprison-
ment.
Governor Odel on Thursday sent to
the senate the nominations of Lispenard
Stewart of New York to be president
and State Treasurer j. b. Jaeckel and
G.. V. Collins, state superintendent of
prisons. to be members of the new state
prison commission. Mr. Stewart is desig-
mated as president of the commission.
The nominations We're confirmed.
Mrs. Thomas Q. Plat, wife of the SEN
ator from New York state, died of heart
disease after n long Illness at her home