The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1901-10-04
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

numbers 553 exclusive of special stu
dents. The Russian government has
begun systematic relief to the famine
sufferers in nineteen provinces. - /.
Pierpont Morgan has purchased ia
nous landscape by Hopbema for. $l1O,-
600. Lord Kitchener has asked for
25. 900 more seasoned mounted men and
for power to hang rebels, traitors and
murderers without reference to- the
home government. 1T is estimated
that the steel workers strike cost the
companies $15,0O0,00 and their en-
ployees $4,000, 900. Rev. DR.. w. G.
Gray, the venerable editor of The In
terror, the Presbyterian weekly of Chi
cage, is dead A ship was recently
chartered in Philadelphia to carry the
first full cargo of Pennsylvania anthra-
cite coal ever shipped to Europe from
the United States. The cargo is to be
5000 tons. The Westchester Horse
Show was great success notwithstand-
ing the spell of weather on Wednesday,
The so-called Giants are sixth in the
list and will probably finish even lower
down the scale. The International
Salt Trust has been Incorporated in New
Jersey with copital Of $50, 900, 900. 49,
A recent sale of stock of the Bank
of New York was made at 600.--The
number of national banks under the new
currency act has been increased to 637
and circulation increased $104, 427.S
Chou Flu, the Provincial Treasurer,
has begun the payment at Pekin of near
ly 5000, 900, 900 taels as indemnity to ma
tive converts Oh account of the Boxer
uprising and the loss of their property.
President Roosevelt will not be given a.
public reception at New Haven while at
tending the Yale centennial.--Presi-
dent Roosevelt has appointed John s.
Dean as United States District Attorney
for Kansas Goldman, arch
anarchist, was not allowed to speak in
Chicago last night, as advertised. T.
Two ticket scalpers were fined $50 each
on Wednesday in Cape May for illegal
traffic in railroad tickets. DR..
Wallace McMullen of the Park Avenue
NJ. E. Church, Philadelphia, has been
called to the pastorate Of the Madison
Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church,
New York. Dr. McMullen is an alum
nus of Drew Theological Seminary .---
The English cricketers are having a
walk over with the Yankee players.
The strike of the teamsters in San
Francisco was lost by the union. "A
report is current in Glasgow that if Sir
Thomas Upton fails to win the Ameri-
cas- cup in the present contest syndi-
cate Of West Scotchmen will immediate
ly challenge for it. While she lay dy-
ing in the Wilkesbarre Pa, poorhouse
a large banking firm was searching for
Mrs. Harry Minich to place 100000 in
her hands. Mrs. George Sturgent.
her husband and son were ia
tally burned and two children se-
verely injured in Pittsburg on
Monday by the thoughtlessness of Mrs.
Sturgent who poured kerosene oil on a
cook stove in order to hurry breakfast.
Mrs, Mckinley continues to take two
drives daily if the weather permits and
is said to be growing stronger .-
F. Lafferty Of Philadelphia. aged 13
years was recently strangled to death
by grapes which he was eating
Admiral Vacarel has prepared a re-
port for presentation to the Queen Re
gent for the necessary funds for naval
defenses, and proposing, in the event of
their being refused, that the Spanish
navy be abolished The plague has
broken out in Smyrna.