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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

London, April ia dispatch from
General Kitchener, dated Pretoria,
April II, says; "Plumer has occupied
Bathfont, capturing 10 prisoners and a
number of rifles and ammunition.
Douglass column has occupied Dulls-
troom. Six Beers were killed. On
General Kitchener's advance from
Lydenburg the Beers blew up Long
Tom Thirteen prisoners were cap
tured. Elliott's division has brought
in large number of cattle"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
Frapwell-spencer.

A very pretty and quiet wedding took
place yesterday noon when William H.
Frapwell of this city was married to
Miss Adella Spencer of Chicago.
The marriage took place at the home
of the brides guardian George Brown on
Water Street the Rev. Wyanant Wander
pool officiating.
The bride was dressed in white and
Carried large bunch of white roses in
her hand. Victor A. Wiss acted as best
man. The presents were very handsome
and numerous. After the wedding
breakfast served by Day, Mr.. and Mrs.
Frapwell left for Meridian Miss. where
Mr.. Frapwell has been appointed super
intendent of the gas light works of that
city. His many friends wish him sue
cess in his new home.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
General Funston and Aguina1do at the
Eden Musee.

For over six months the management
of the Eden Musee has been expecting
the capture of Aguinaldo and has had in
readiness figures of all the chief officials
in the PHILIPPINES. AS result, within
four days of the capture of Aguinaldo
the Musee had on exhibition wax group
showing General Funston making the
capture. The group occupies central
alcove and the background is made to
represent the military camp where the
capture took place. Both General Funs-
ton and Aguinaldo appear in the uni
form of their respective armies. The
figures have been made with unusual
care and are excellent in detail. Many
other interesting wax groups have been
placed on exhibition during the past few
days. The mysterious pictures have
gradually grown in popularity. How
they are taken or how produced is a
mystery. They give scenes in which
inanimate objects come to life, and
fairies and COLLINS vie with each other
in making things interesting. While
looking at these pictures it is hard to
realize that the pictures are not SUPER
natural and that there is actually taking
place what is Represented,
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
Reduced Excursion Rates South.
Special Occasions.

The Southern Ry. will sell for the fol-
lowing special occasions reduced round
trip tickets:
NEW ORLEANS, LA, May Z to 8.
one fare round trip from Washington,
account Southern Baptist Convention.
NEW ORLEANS, La, May 10 to IA,
Interstate Cottonseed Crushers, one and
one-third fare certificate plan.
ASHVILLE, N. c., May II to II, Su-
preme Council Royal Arcanum, one and
one-third fare on certificate plan.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, June IA
to 18, National Electric Medical Associa-
ton, one and one-third fare on certifi-
cate plan.
MEMPHIS, TENN, May 25 to 81,
Confederate Veteran Reunion. Washing
ton to Memphis and return, $500.
Perfect Pullman and Dining Car SER
vice on all trains. For further. informa-
call on or address, New York Offices, 271
and 1885 Broadway, Alex. s. Thweatt,
Eastern Passenger Agent
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

The reception rendered Senator Stokes
on Friday night at his home in Millville
was an important event socially and po-
litically for South Jersey. Notwith-
standing the desire on the part of some
to bring forward the Senator as a guber-
material candidate, the gentleman from
Cumberland county insists that he is for
Franklin Murphy, who he thinks, would
prove ver- strong candidate. The
Senator agrees with other senators that
"the recent record of the Republican
party is one on which we lean make a
great campaign for the voters of the
State. He is of the opinion that 1.-The
voters OF the state are becoming more
intelligent each.year. I predict Repub-
lican success on the good record of the
Republican party"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

Dover has new sensation in the form
OF society woman afflicted with KEEP
tomania, who has been operating at all
the recent social events.
Riverdale is the possessor OF a genuine
Carrie Nation Ratchet, sent by one of its
ladies with request that saloon de-
stroying club be formed
The Rockaway Record has new pub
Usher in the person of George L. Morrell.
Its owner, William Burd. Jr., has Legun
course of theological training.
The Somerset Inn and all the cottages
at that place are being repainted. f. &
K. Mackenzie, of Mendham, have the
contract and now have thirty men en-
ployed on the job.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

Justice Dixon has filed the opinion of
the Court of Errors and Appeals in the
case brought by minority stockholders OF
the American Smelling and Refining
Company to enjoin the purchase of the
property of NJ. Guggenheim's Sons, Its
Importance lies in the construction
placed by the court on the 4Sth and 10th
sections of the General Corporation act.
Vice Chancellor Stevens maintained that
the court could not go beyond the de-
cision of the board, of directors as to the
value of property to be purchased by
the issuing of stock. The Court of Err
rors, however, holds that it must be
clearly shown that the value of such
property is at least reasonably near the
price to be paid, and that the action of
the directors is subject to review at the
instance of any stakeholder who con
siders himself aggrieved.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

Albany, April 19.-Governor Odell
has vetoed three legislative measures.
The most important of the three bills
is the measure of Assemblyman
Schneider amending the police pension
act for the city of Buffalo. The bill
member of the police force who had
served 80 years. The second vetoed
measure is that of Assemblyman Kai-
ser, authorizing Senaca Falls to issue
bonds for bridge purposes. The third
bill vetoed is a measure of Assembly
man Ellis, relative to digging along
highways
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

Commenting on MIR. Flynn's modified
water contract, the Jersey City Journal
says:
Before the contract is modified there
should be a clear and binding under
standing between the city officials, the
contractor and the authorized represen,
tatives of the Canal Company and the
railroad company that the city is to have
the quantity provided for in the original
contract and the reversion of the Canal
Companys right to part of the flowage
of the Rockaway."
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
The Constitutionalist of Plainfeld r

The Constitutionalist of Plainfield re-
marks
Two questions came up before the
Borough Council at its recent meeting
which are of the greatest Importance to
that municipality. They were the ques-
tions of the municipal ownership of the
water and electric light plants and the
introduction of sewers Municipal
ownership is still debatable question
but a system of sewers the borough must
have and it is only question of time be-
fore such system is put in operation.
AS for the question of system of
sewers for the borough, it is one which
must be answered and at no distant day.
Plainfield has had an experience from
which North Plaintield may profit with
advantage. There is no doubt but that
North Plaipfield will go very carefully
before selecting means of sewage dis
posal. A system of sewers is not SO diff.
fcult as is the dispose of the sewage
afterwards. There will be the same
choice which faced Plainfield, a sewer to
tidewater or disposal plant of some
nature. The same obstacles, which con-
fronted this city, will be in the path of
the borough. How they will be over
come will be matter of interest to resi-
dents of city and borough alike.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

The Geological Survey Board of New
Jersey figures that there is valuable
timber in the state in addition to its
wealth of scrub oak and pine fit only
for kindling wood, and that it is possible
for the government to realize half mil
lion of dollars annually therefrom OF
course the plan contemplates the i'm
provement of the forest lands under the
direction of men skilled in forestry,
who would see to the protection of the
timber and promote its growth.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
ITEMIzED ACCOUNT FOR BOARD
OF HEALTH.

The Montclair Town Council on Mon
day refused to grant the Board of Health
an extra appropriation of 1873 until it
had submitted an itemized statement of
the amount already expended. The
board recently asked for $1,000 for ex-
penses in the case of a smallpox incurred
patient.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
George H. Daniels, general passenge,

George H. Daniels, general passenger
agent Of the New York Central & Hud-
son River Railroad. says "that for every
800 of capital stock of the New York
Central, the employee receives $19. 10, the
stockholders S. and the state govern
ment So 10 per annum." There certainly
is no injustice in such conditions. The
worker gets, surely,a proportionate share
to that of the investor. The man earns
more than the dollar. The government
gets fully as much as government
should get.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

There has been some chirping among
the Democrats, says the Jersey City
Journal, about the possibility of electing
a Democratic governor in this State next
fall, but a careful examination of the
election returns should correct such
alteration. There will be ten Congress
sional districts, and the official returns
last fall show this distribution of the
votes in these districts;
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
FRONT RANK WORK AT STATE
HOSPITAL.

The officers and managers of the State
Hospital at Morris Plains may we'll refer
with pride to the twenty fifth annual
report of that admirably institution, Just
issued. 1t was opened in 1875 with 292
patients, removed from the state asylum
at Trenton. After lapse of twenty five
years 81 of the original 292 patients now
remain, 18 have recovered, 90 were dis
charged improved, 66 unimproved and
149 died in the institution without hav-
ing regained their reason. The total
number of patients who have been ad-
mitted is 5,766; of this number 2,229
have been restored or improved. There
were 233 patients admitted last year, 272
being first admissions. AT the close of
the year there were 1880 patients in the
hospital, 696 men and 1913 women. The
hereditary faint is admitted in more than
one-fourth of the admissions, while over
indulgence in alcoholic stimulants, NOR
Prime, cocaine and epilepsy are also re-
sponsible for the commitment of large
number of the patients.
1t might be well for the officials of
several counties at present considering
the establishment of county hospitals for
the insane to study this report, and to
personally inspect the work at the Nor
MS Plains Hospital. 1t is conducted as
economically as its advanced methods
of treatment will warrant. The large
percentage of patients restored to health.
the small death rate and the general
good health of the institution easily
place it among the foremost in the
world.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

The holding of the United States Su-
preme Court on Monday in regard to
divorce DEGREES obtained in states other
than where the parties have established
their legal residence, as husband and
wife, is most sweeping in its character,
and will have the effect of practically
destroying the advantages of the Dakotas
and other western states as divorce
colonies.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

The progress made in the observance
of sanitary laws is shown by the fact
that in New Haven, which has had
several hundred cases of typhoid fever
in two weeks, the public school pupils
are required to drink boiled water ar d
the faucets have been sealed. Such d
procedure would have been ridiculed a
few years ago. Now it is accepted as a
hygienic necessity.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
SOUTH SIDE Of PARK. near Market ST.. MoRRIsToWN NJ

Inasmuch as. the recent action of
Sheriff Virtue Of Essex county, in seizing
number of slot machines, is fully war
ranted by law, CONSERVATION is quite
general throughout the State among
owners or lessees of machines, which
are still run in defiance of law, order
and decency.
1t is needless to say that Sheriff Baker
has no sympathy with law breakers
and violators of the law against gamb-
ling, as well as other law breakers, will
receive short shrift at his hands.
A recent decision by the Court of APP
peals of Maryland is important. since it
shows not only that the sheriff's action
was fully warranted by the law, but that
officers of the law have no possible
excuse for failing to stop this form of
public gambling.
The case was that of one Henry Wag-
ner, who sought to replevin slot machines
seized by the Baltimore police. The
Court of Appeals held that:
1. Laws authorizing the seizure and
destruction of property when necessary
to protect the health. morals or peace of
society are not in conflict with the con-
stitutional limitations prohibiting the
taking of property without due process
of law, since such laws are within the
police powers of the State.
2. Replevin will not be against the
Baltimore Police Commission to recover
slot machine intended and designed for
gambling and incapable of any legiti-
mate use, which is seized and held by
such commission, as evidence against
defendant, without the institution of
criminal proceedings against the owner
before or after the seizure, since Balti-
more city charter, making it the duty of
such commission to preserve the peace
and prevent crimes and nuisances, au-
thoriZes such seizure.
In its opinion the court draws a COM
parison between the burglars kit of
tools and the slot machine, and the
possession of counterfeit money is fur
Their illustrative. There is no room for
doubt, under this opinion and according
to the views held by our own courts,
that the mere possession of slot ma
chine designed for gambling is an infrac-
ton of the law; that the seizure of such
machine by the police is fully author
lied by law, without legal proceedings,
and that there is no recourse for the
owner or lessees of the slot machine.
1t will be seen, therefore that those
who buy or leese gambling slot ma
chimes may lose them without hope of
compensation, to say nothing of the dan
ger of criminal prosecution. In short, the
courts have discovered the one true way
to stop this form of gambling. No
manufacture would be willing to lease,
and no one would be willing to buy a
machine which might be carted away
and destroyed at any moment by a
sheriff or police officers.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

The Rutgers Riverside Presbyterian
Church of New York has extended a
call to Rev. DR.. William R. Taylor of
the Brick Presbyterian Church of Ro-
chester. one of the strongest of the
churches in that city. His acceptance
of the metropolitan call. which is prob
able, will be loss to Rochester and his
church in Western New York and DIS
tinct gain to the denomination in New
York City.
The health officials Of Paterson have
traced three of the many cases of small.
pox which are now worrying Paterson
ties to New York.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
Nixon-Evans.

Miss Pattie Evans and Herbert Nixon
were married last evening at o'clock
at the home of Mrs. John H. Berry,
Phoenix avenue, sister of the bride,
by Rev. Alfred Evans of kidgefield
Park, a brother of the bride. Miss Mel
lie Nixon, sister of the groom, was
bridesmaid and Charles E. Smith was
best man. Miss May Beach played the
wedding march. About thirty persons
witnessed the ceremony. The house
was beautifully decorated with plants
and cut flowers. The bridal couple left
for short wedding trip amid showers
of rice.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

Vancouver, B. c., April 19.-Four
people are dead and seven probably
fatally injured as the result of an ex-
plosion on the steamer Ramona, which
plies on the Fraser river. One of the
plates in the rear of the boiler blew
out, tearing away the whole front of
the vessel and knocking into the water
all those in that part of the steamer.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

Pittsburg, April 19.-There will be no
strike in the plants of the American
Sheet Steel company. The trouble that
broke out in McKeesport last week and
which for a time threatened to cause
general strike of all union iron and
steel workers in the country has been
settled in an amicable manner.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

A bill placing automobiles under mum
icipal control is on its way through the
New York Legislature. There is man
ifest need for greater care on the part of
those in charge of these vehicles, and if
it is necessary to put them under strin
gent regulations, let that course be
speedily adopted.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

The use of the surplus revenues of the
State to the reduction of the State
school tax has been the pet hobby of
Senator Stokes of Cumberland, and he is
entitled to public gratitude for his sue
cess. The saving to the taxpayers of
Warren county is estimated at SIS, 900.
-Hackettstown Gazette.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

School teachers in Hoboken will here
after receive the maximum salary of
$40 in fifteen years, instead OF twenty
five years, the Commissioners of Public
Instruction having adopted a new
schedule.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

Havana, April 19.-Senor Betancourt
has been appointed to the vacancy on
the commission appointed by the Gu
ban constitutional convention to go to
Washington, caused by the resignation
of Senior Berriel The commission will
start for Washington tomorrow via
Tampa.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

The usually will informed correspon-
dent of the Jersey City Journal COM
ments on the changes which the continued
illness of General Sewell may make in
the political situation as follows:
Senator Sewell was born in 1885, and
consequently this is his Goth year, and any
serious impairment of his health is bound
to cause speculation as to what will be
done in case the impairment should be
such as to make retirement from pol
itical activity a necessity. In case he
should be physically disabled it might
be necessary to appoint a Senator adj
interim, and gossip suggests the names
of ex-Attorney-Generel John w. Griggs
and Franklin Murphy with the possible
succession, though this is considered
such remote possibility that little at
tention is paid to it by those who are
responsible for party management.
In case such an untoward result
should be developed, it would make quite
sharp contest for the Gubernatorial
nomination. The withdrawal of Pitney
left the field clear for Murphy, but there
were others who thought they might
succeed in case Murphy should decline.
Among these were Senator Reed of
Somerset, Senator McCarter of Newark,
David Baird of Camden and others.
Senator Reed is understood to have
given.up the idea and decided that he
should be the first representative from
the new Fourth Congressional District
embracing Mercer, Somerset and Hunt
erdon. This leaves McCarter and Baird
still in the field as possibilities though
it is by no means certain that other con-
didates would not crop up, but this is
pure speculation, and may, it is to be
hoped, be part of the political history of
another decade; still it is part of the
current political gossip and it has colored
much of this winters political move
ment."
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

The Democrat who will be nominated
for Governor will be entitled to the chief
place at the wake which will be held
under Democratic auspices on Novem-
Der 6 next
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
Mrr. Dny GROWING weaker.

Canton, o., April 19.-The condition
of Mrs. Judge Day continues very crit
ical. Her physicians stated that while
there has been no decided change the
patient is slowly growing weaker.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19

The outcome of the election next
month will depend more upon the quail
ity of the candidates that are nominated
rather than on the party they represent.
The Independent voter is here to stay
He is liable to be.heard from about this
time
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-04-19
BIG DEFICIT
Sensational Statements In the
House of Commons.
GREAT COST OF THE BoBR WAR.

Double the Expense of Crimean Cam
paign - Increased Receipts From
Income and other Taxes sadly In-
adequate-New Taxes Needed.
London, April 19.-The house of COM
mons, which adjourned from April 3,
resumed it's sessions yesterday. Every
seat was occupied when Speaker Gully
took the chair at 3:20. There were 81
questions on the calendar. The house
proceeded to business at once.
The Right Hon. A. J. Balfour, gov
eminent leader, said that the rule pro-
viding that all business under consid-
Grafton at midnight should be inter-
rupted and postponed on certain days
would be suspended in order to allow
the consideration of certain budget
resolutions and loan resolution to be
concluded.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, chancellor
of the exchequer, in presenting the
budget said that in the last few years
he had happily been able to congratu-
late the country ON it's financial posi-
ton. This year his position was not
quite so satisfactory. AT the same
time the exchequer revenues showed
no sign of decrease.
Sir Michael stated that it was esti-
mated that the total expenditures this
year would amount to f1S7, 602, 900, of
which E5S,320,000 would be for carry
ing on the war.
The chancellor of the exchequer said
the receipts from the income tax had
been remarkable, amounting to f26,-
100000, or E1,12O,OOO beyond the esti-
mates. Within IL years the amount
of assessable income had increased by
f120,000,000.
He estimated the total expenditures
for 1902 at E1S7 100000, while the
revenues at the present rate of taxa
ton would yield only within $4,000
600 of this amount. He was therefore
compelled to provide for this deficien-
cy.
Revenues and Expenditures.
The budget report shows that the
total revenues were f130, 3S5,000 and
the expenditures E183,592,0OO. OF the
expenditures f6S,000,000 was on ac-
count of the war in South Africa.
The chancellor said he must ask the
committee to extend the borrowing
power of the government considerably
in excess of f41, 100000 he had asked
for in the first instance. He must
now increase the demand to 100000
900. There seemed no prospect of the
Transvaal or Orange River Colony
contributing to the cost of the war for
several years. The war could no
longer be considered a small affair, Sir
Michael said, as it had cost the gov
eminent f153, 100000, or double the
expense of the Crimean war.
After the speech of the chancellor of
the exchequer in the house of commons
Mr.. John Redmond, the Nationalist
leader, asked what interest Ireland
had in the war which led to this ex-
traordinary, disastrous and disgraceful
financial situation. He protested
against fresh taxation which, he said,
imposed great injustice upon Ireland
that already, as admitted by the gov
eminent commission in 1893, was
greatly overtaXed He severely at
tackled Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain.