The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-01-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy ToEs1.


Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy ToE&.
The miners of G. Pardee. & Co. at Lat
timer, Pa, have gone on strike.
Many vessels overdue at Pacific coast
ports have been given up as lost.
Outrages by insuuectionary Greeks are
reported from the Indian Territory.
The new well at Beaumont, Tex, is
producing $4,000 barrels of oil day.
Thieves attempted to wreck the Union
Pacific overland express near Kearney,
| Neb.
Harvard has decided to send an expedi-
ton to visit Iceland, Greenland and Lab
rador.
Rochester and New York capitalists
have combined to control Genesee water
power.
The Philippine commission has passed
an act establishing department of pub
lie instruction.
! Ex-County Judge John G. Hubert,
aged 81, the oldest member Of the Sara
toga bar, is dead.
The Texas legislature has elected j..
w. Bailey of Gainesville United States
senator to succeed Horace Chiffon.
Mrs. Henry Mcdonnell has been burn
I'd to death at her home in Newburg, n,
Y. She was alone in the house, and a
lamp exploded.
The first batch of 80 leading insurrec-
tionists who have been ordered to be de-
ported to the island of Guam sailed on
the transport Rosecrans.
+. NJ. Simmons, chairman of the state
Democratic committee, has been elected
United States senator from North Caro-
lima to succeed Marion Butler.
United States Senator Knute Nelson
has been reelected at st. Paul by the
Minnesota legislature. Moses E. Clapp
was chosen for the short term.
Governor Odell has decided not to in
terfere in the case of Lorenzo Priori, the
convicted murderer of Vincenzo Garguso,
and the convicted man must die.
President Caroline Hazard of Wellesley
college made the announcement of gift
of 500, 900 toward the endowment fund of
that institution. The donor is not named.
Twenty families have been rendered
homeless by fire which partially destroy
ed six tenement houses in Jersey City.
The damage caused by the fire was $780,
600.
DR.. William HI. HI. Parkhurst, SO years
of age, is dead in Frankfort, n. Y. He
was one of the oldest doctors in the
Mohawk valley, having been in constant
practice since 1889.
The battleship Wisconsin has been ac-
cepted by the navy department subject
to the usual three months reservation.
No date has yet been set for putting the
vessel into commission.
Two persons were seriously injured and
35 others slightly hurt in a fire which
destroyed the Stewart hotel two story
frame structure in st. Louis. Forty
guests lost their clothing.
Fire at Spring Lake, N. j., has de-
stroyed the Sussex hotel and two other
buildings owned by Mrs. S. e. Uric of
Philadelphia. 1t is believed that incen-
diaries started the flames.
The Williamstown colliery, controlled
by the Pennsylvania railroad, has sus-
pended operations on account of differ
ences between the company and the OPP
eratives over the hours of work.
Horace d. Upper, a prominent ice
dealer of the town of Colonc, N. Y, was
caught in IL revolving shaft at his ice
house on the Mohawk river, near Cohoes,
and his head and one arm torn from his
body.
George w. McGinnes, a wealthy re-
tired merchant of Princeton, n. j., was
found frozen to death in the garden of
his home. He was so years old, and for
several years his mind had been de-
ranged.