The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-02-01

| 600 is realty. This estate is distributed
among the members of the Armour fam
| lily, the legatees ia the petition being
Malvina g. Armour, widow; ]. Ogden
Armour, son, and Philip d. and Lester
Armour, gfandsons.
A lantern which dropped from the
hand of the night Waterman in the boiler
room of the Continuous Rail Joint COM
pany in Troy, N. Y, caused fire which
for a time threatened to be serious. The
entire fire department was called out to
prevent the spread of the flames to other
parts OF the building, and the fire was
finally confined to the boiler room and the
machine shops. The loss is about $25,-
600.
Governor Allen of Porto Rico, accord
ing to the provisions of the bill on the
subject, has appointed the following COM
mission to represent Porto Rico at the
Buffalo PanAmerican exposition: j. T.
Silva, a banker and merchant; Brioso, a
councillor, and Fishback, former major
of volunteers. The salary of the commits
sioners will be So per diem and expenses.
The bill appropriatas $4,000 for the Por-
to Rican exhibit
State Senator Cornelius r. Parsons Of
Rochester is dead at his residence in that
city, after long illness from a complica-
ton of diseases, aged So. The senator had
suffered for years from acute stomach
trouble, which increased in violence until
the end. He was born in the town of
York, Livingston county, May %, 1912,
and in 1867, when but % years DID, was
elected a member of the common council
of Rochester and had almost continuously
since that time occupied public office.
Rear Admiral Kautz, who has just
been relieved from command of the Pa
cifc station, was placed on the retired
list yesterday on account of age. He
has had a long and distinguished career
of which nearly Is years We're spent at
sea. During the Samoan trouble about
two years ago Admiral Kautz was in
command of the American forces in that
quarter, and it was mainly through his
firmness and conservatism that serious
international complications were averted.
Walter G. McAlister, William A. Death
and Andrew j. Campbell, who were
found guilty of murder in the second de-
gree for the killing of Jennie Bosschieter
on Oct. IS, 1900 by the administration
of choral and subsequent assault to-
gether with George J. Kerr, who plead
ed non vult to charge of assault, have
been sentenced in Paterson by Judge
Dixon. McAlister, Campbell and Death
were each sentenced to 30 years impris-
onment at hard labor and Kerr to 10
years Imprisonment at hard labor.
On the New York Stock Exchange
January cotton rose over $40 bale in
less than an hour on Monday, and when
it sold at 1234 cents a pound it was
higher than any person in this day and
generation had seen it before. This re-
markable advance was the outcome of
the most cleverly planned and quietly di-
rected corner in the history of the cot
ton trade. Howard Wilson, a meek and
modest looking young man of about 80
years and a partner of the firm of Fernie,
Wilson & Co., has the credit for conceiv-
ing it.
The Countess de Castelane's share of
the income from the estate of her father,
the late Jay Gould, has been tied up,
with the exception of 100000 per an
mum, by decision of Justice Beach in the
New York supreme court, pending the
trial of the suit of Asher Wertheimer, the
London dealer in bric-a- brac and objects
of art The Countess de Castellane is to
have 100000 a year for the support of
herself and children, and the remainder
of the income is to be held by the trus-
tees under Jay Gould's will subject to
| Wertheimer's suit for $3S5,O00 claimed
| by him for goods bought by the Count
and Countess de Castellane.