The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-01-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Happenings of the Wide World
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

A Harvard student has invented a new
instrument to measure bones.
The battleship Wisconsin has been
turned over to the government.
The Philippine commission has COM
pleted municipal government bill.
The Wells Fargo company has opened
reference libraries for its employees.
Forty-six tons of gold and silver were
received at the Seattle assay Office in
1900.
The First National bank of Chicago
made net profit of $739,S32 for the
year 1900.
The president has ordered the prefer
ence in the civil service of veterans of the
war with Spain.
Drain of Mexican money to China and
India has caused a crisis in Philippine
monetary affairs.
Frank James, ex-outlaw and bandit, is
pushing his candidacy for doorkeeper of
the Missouri legislature.
District Attorney Baird of Hawaii has
received orders to proceed against the al
legged trusts in Honolulu.
Not an application for admission into
the Pringle Memorial home at Pough-
keepsie has been received.
William Westlake, the inventor, has
died at his home in Brooklyn. He was
born in Cornwall, England, in 1921.
Two children were cremated at Shaw
NUT, Pennsylvania mining town, in
fire which also consumed their home.
The Penn Petroleum company's plant
at Coroapolis, Pa, has been almost COM
pletely destroyed by fire; loss, 100000.
A lone highwayman held up the stage
near Hot Springs Junction, A. T., secur-
ing about $50 from the private express
box.
Samuel Macdonald, who murdered
Auditor Morris of the war department,
has died in a Washington hospital from
self inflicted wounds.
DIR. r. V. X. Montfort, for 40 years
superintendent of public schools of New
burg, N. Y, is dead. He was born in
Fishkill village in 1885.
Select Councilman A. B. Lidstone of
Scranton, Pa, dropped dead while deliv-
ering an address at the annual banquet of
Hiram lodge of Masons.
A mail pouch containing 100000 in
negotiable paper and an unknown amount
of money was stolen from the Wyandotte
(Mich.) station Thursday night.
Hon Francis B. Delehanty, judge elect
of the city court of New York city, has
resigned as a member OF the New York
state board of mediation and arbitration.
Henry s. Eastman, the only surviving
member of Commodore Perry's squadron
that opened the japanese ports many
years ago, has died at his home in Berke-
ley, Cal
Edgar G. Burnz, who killed and robbed
the postmaster of Scarsdale, N. Y, has
been found guilty of murder in the Sec
ond degree and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment.
Daniel Addison Head, president of the
Home Insurance company of New York
city, has died suddenly, supposedly of
heart disease, at his home near West
Orange, N. j. He was SO years of age.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna favors change
in the tenure of Office of the president of
the United States and believes Il single
term of either six or eight years dura-
ton would be an advantage to the coun-
try, both from a financial and a moral
standpoint.
Governor Roosevelt has pardoned An
ME Walden, who is serving a life SEN
tence in Auburn prison for the murder of
her husband, James Walden, a horse
jockey whom she shot and killed at the
door Of the house of woman who had
come between her husband and herself.
John Hubbard, aged 81 years, an onion
grower living near Florida, n. Y, visited
a cairvoyant recently. who told Mr.. Hub
bard that he would not live until New
Years. The information preyed on Mr..
Hubbard's mind, and he drank two
ounces of laudanum and died in a short
time
DIR. ID. X. Pearsons of Chicago com
pleted his great bcnefactions for the nine
teenth century, amounting to more than
$1,000, 600 by mailing a check to Garlic
ton college. Mortified. MINI. The last
donation makes total of $4,000 which
DR. Pearsons has given to the Minnesota
institution.
A new concern which is to deal in ice
and fight the trust has been incorporated
at Newark. y. j., with a capital stock of
S125, 600. II is to be known as the Con.
sumers' Ice Company of Newark. The
incorporators are Henry II. Dyer. FL
wood f. Robbins and Albert j. Backes,
all of Newark.
The president has ordered that the mil
itary reservation at Nome. Alaska. be
made Il public reservation under control
of the war department and that the mil
itary reservation previously set aside near
the east side of the mouth of the Nome
river be known as the Fort Davis militia
ry reservation.
Under date of Shanghai, Nov ~, the
American Bible society has received re-
port from the Rev. John r. Hykes. its
agent in China, in which he says that the
missionaries who are safe in Tai-yuen-fu
are Graham McKie, Miss Chapman, Miss
Way and Mrs. Ogrcn and child. Mr.
Ogrcn was killed.
Moses Colt Tyler, professor of Ameri-
can history in Cornell university, has died
in Ithaca after an illness of three weeks.
He leaves a wife and one daughter. the
latter the wife Of Assistant Librarian w.
III. Austen. and a son. Professor Tyler
was considered one of the greatest his
torical authorities in America
Jesse II. Davis, Edward O. Dean and
Clinton l.. Marshall. three nurses con
nected with the Mills Training School
For Nurses, have been held accountable
for the death of Louis H. billiard on
Dec. - while an inmate of the insane
pavilion in Bellevue hospital by II jury
before Coroner Edward r. Fitzpatricli
The navy department has ordered the
gunboat Scorpion to proceed at once to
La GuayEa, Venezuela, to replace the
Hartford at that port. The dispatch Of
the gunboat is due to the troubles grow
ing out of asphalt concessions, the pur-
pose being to afford all due protection to