The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-02-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Happenings of the wide worI,
Briefly and TerseIy Told.

DIX new bedford fishermen have been
| lost by being caught in a school OF
| whales.
Upward of 10000 Filipinos have sworn
| allegiance to the United States in Iloilc
province.
| A fire in big croekery store in Chica.
| go caused loss of between $500, 900 and
| 100000.
Captures, arrests and seizures of arms
| continue in the unpacifed districts of the
| island of Luzon.
The late Benjamin D. Silliman's will
| provides for requests of $4,000 to Yale
and $4,000 to Columbia.
Adelbert S. Hay, the United States
| consul at Pretoria, has sailed from Cape
| Briton.
Fire has destroyed a large portion OF
| the Bog0ta Paper company's mills at
Hackensack, N. j., causing loss OF
from $4,000 to $4,000.
Secretary Long has signed contracts
with the Newport News Shipbuilding
| company for two armored cruisers to
cost upward of $7,500,000
By the death of Benjamin D. Sillimar
| of Brooklyn Yale will obtain from the es
! tate of his brother, Augustus e. Silliman
an endowment of $4,000 for a lecture
ship.
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel William T.
Simms has died in New York city, aged
| Sc years. He was a member of the Nine
| ty-second New York volunteers in the
civil war.
General Funston reports that prac-
tico1Iv oil tho otvo ni1ad =, !,
district have been dispersed with the ex-
| ception of disconnected bands in the
| mountains.
The Office of the United States internal
| revenue collector in Peoria, Ills, has
been entered by burglars, who broke
open the safe and stole war revenue
stamps believed to amount to 100000
| in value.
William L. Warner, a prominent Dem
| ocratic politician of Jamestown, n. Y,
| deputy internal revenue collector under
| the Cleveland administration, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the head
in his Office.
On Jan. 16 the thermometer at Dawson
| fell to SO degrees below zero. A message
| from Forty Mile the same day said that
| it was rs below. The coolest recorded
before this was in 1896, when it was not
| quite 6S near Forty Mile.
| Mrs. Lucy Wilhoite is conducting a sa.
| loon wrecking crusade in Wichita. Up to
| this time eight saloons have been raided
and $4,000 worth of property destroyed
by women in Kansas. Saloon men expect
a general temperance crusade.
Charles +. w. Nicely, the former chief
of the bureau of finance of the Cuban
postoffice department, who was arrested
in Rochester in May last, charged with
embezzling $4,000 of the department
funds, is now in Havana awaiting trial.
1t is announced in Trenton that Chief
| Justice Depue of the New Jersey su.
| preme court, who was reappointed last
| week, will retire from the bench next
| November. Justice Depue is over &c
years old and has been on the bench fol
| 80 years.
The four story brick building at lbs
| William street, New York city, occupied
| by Lehn & Fink, wholesale dealers il
! drugs and druggist supplies, together
with its contents, was totally destroyed
by fire and water. Loss will reacl
| 100000.
General Macarthur reports to the wal
department that the Hancock arrived al
Manila on the 9th inst. and that the
transport Pennsylvania sailed Monday
for San Francisco with 10 officers and
4S7 enlisted men of the Thirty -sixth vol.
unteer infantry.
Peter ]. Cunningham, a hero of the
battle of San Juan Hill, has died at his
home in Liberty, n. Y He went through
the war in Cuba and received bullet in
the right lung at San Juan. -Four weeks
ago he was granted pension of $50 d
month and SOL back pay.
Hamburg. the peer of any thorough
bred that ever faced a starter. of roya
blood lines and kingly in appearance, was
knocked down to w. c. Whitney at Mad
ison Square Garden for 100000 the sec
ond highest price ever paid at public auc
ton for horse in America.
John d. Rockefeller has sienifed
through ! w. Cowles of Cleveland q
| trustee of Oberlin college. his WILLINGNESS
to give 100000 toward an endowment
fund of 100000 now being raised fol
the college provided the entire amount
shall be raised by the first of next year.
Repiamin n SiIlimon who was in b;s
n;noty.cixtb ve,r has died ot b;s howe
| in Rrool,lvn Mr. Sillimon was dist;n.
,,,iebod lowver and tbe Oldest mamhor ~
the bar of the state of New York. rs
well as the oldest living alumnus OF
Yale. His last illness was bronchial
pneumonia.
Two freight trains collided on the Del.
aware. Lackawanna and Western rail.
road near Elmhurst, Pa, instantly kill.
ing Fl. ]. Beat. brakeman. and iniurine