The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1902-03-14
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
and T@rseIy Told.
Miss Alice Roosevelt and Senator T,
G. Plat arrived in Havana.
Pillsbury won second prize in the
chess tournament at Monte Carlo.
The vault of the Farmers bank OF
rownvilIe, Pa, was blown open and
robbed.
A great theatrical benefit is to be
held in Paris for the Mckinley memo
rial fund.
The strike on the Rocky mountain di-
vision of the Northern Pacific was
more serious.
| Several engagements between Rus.
sian troops and Tunguses were report.
ed in Manchuria.
Charles Guden and Colonel Norman
s. Dixie still maintained separate of
fees as sheriff of Kings county, N. Y.
Wednesday,, March IL.
France has decided to have large
exhibit at the st. Louis fair.
Governor Taft was reported as doing
well after an operation in Cincinnati.
More earthquake shocks have oc-
Cured at Shamaka, in Russian Trans
caucasia.
The Chinese government has protest
ed against the re-enactment by the
United States Of the exclusion law.
The heaviest wind, rain and hail
storm in the history of the city visit.
ed Omaha, Neb. Many buildings were
wrecked.
Tuesday, March IL.
| Anxiety is still felt for Cecil Rhodes
by his physicians.
A woman and her nine children were
burned to death at Matane, Que.
The Eliza Dawson House at vassar,
the gift of John d. Rockefeller, was
opened.
Federal officials at Knoxville, Tenn,
were accused of violating the civil
service law.
The sons of Damad Mahmud Pashay
the sultan's brother-in-law, were SEN
fenced by default to life Imprisonment.
The IL. l. Dupont de Nemours & ca. Is
powder plant, five miles west of Keo-
kuk, Ia, was badly damaged by an ex-
plosion. Two men were killed outright,
and third will die.
Monday, March 10.
An outbreak of cholera was announc-
ed from Mecca.
Sealing crews numbering about 5000
men are on strike at st. Johns, N. f.
Forty-two of the large Wholesale
dealers in paper in New York city have
formed an organization.
Colonel w. II. Cody, Buffalo Bill,''
is getting together company of 5000
Swedes whom he will take to Big Horn
valley, in Wyoming, as colonists.
A three story frame house was NOV
ed from Greenwood to Bennums, in
Delaware, twenty miles, while the
family remained in the building.
Mrs. Mary johnson of Louisville,
KY, has just been married for the
sixth time. Two of her husbands are
dead. two more divorced and another is
in prison for bigamy.
Saturday. March 8.
Fire at Hudson, N. Y, caused loss
of $4,000.
The French senate passed the ship
bounty bill.
King Edward laid the foundation for
the new Royal Naval college at Dart
mouth.
The court of appeals upheld the in
dictment against Police Captain Her
lihy of the New York force.
A New York aquarium turtle awoke
and ate a fish breakfast after sleeping
foodless for thirteen months.
The Rev. DR.. Joseph Parker rebuked
King Edward for brewing beer and
violating the English Sunday.
Friday, March Z.
Four steamers were fast in the ice
In Newburg bay.
Two fishing schooners were wrecked
on the New Hampshire coast. No lives
We're lost
The steamer Alexandria, Hamburg
American line, is to convoy the kaiser's
new yacht to Hamburg.
Osman Pasha has been condemned to
death 1t is said the sentence win be
COMMITTED to life imprisonment,
The Metropolitan Street Railway
company of New York has announced
a system of pensions for superannuat-
ed employees.
The American liner Waesland collid-
ed with the British steamship Har-
monides and sank OF Holyhead, wales.
Two lives were lost.
One thousand men and boys went on
strike at the Natalie colliery, operated
by the Shamokin tPa.l opal company.
because Of the binohthly payment law
not being strictly observed.