The Morris County chronicle., 1904-06-14
NEWS OF "A WEEK
photographic Photographs Of the Worlds Doings


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taliation on whites John Sims and lis
manager. Rudolph Cato of the Sims
& Williams plantation IN Trail Lake.
Miss, have been killed and three ne
groes have been put to DEATH
In full view of hundreds of pleasur
seekers in Fairmount park, Philadel-
phia on Sunday two boys, aged twelve
years, were drowned In the Schuylkill
river before assistance reached them
Jacob Wurm, miner, and his neph-
ew, Leo Wurm, both of Frugality, Pa.
were on Sunday instantly killed by
lightning, while another nephew, Hen
ry Wurm, was seriously injured.
In Ithaca, N. Y, on Sunday two per-
sons were seriously hurt and eighteen
others injured in collision between
two street cars on curve.
ME,ue ar President Diaz of Mex
~. leo has issued formal
decree announcing the
0ono' end of the Maya war
In the Yucatan peninsula after four
years. duration. The war cost many
lives, as the climate is unhealthy for
troops from the table lands. Many of
the Mayas are now peacefully at work
on plantations and have settled down
to civilized course of life.
Tacna and AFRICA in Chile, were
shaken by tremendous earthquake at
/ :35 a. nj. Monday. The inhabitants
ran into the streets in their night
clothes. The walls of many buildings
were cracked and the sea agitated, but
so far as reported no person was killed.
Hon. j. Norman Ritchie, judge of the
supreme court of Nova Scotia, is dead
He was the third member of his fam
lily to occupy a seat on the bench of
Nova Scotia. He was seventy years OF
age
Peace terms have been agreed upon
between insurgents and the provisional
government in Santo Domingo under
Commander Dillingham's influence,
and the revolution is at an end.
The Cuban government is consider
so that all the claims of the revolutions
airy soldiers may be paid
IN THE Becoming somewhat
E,r,n impatient at having
Of polIT,cs been left out of the
'SS. Democratic councils
and conferences of late, the radical
wing of the party in New York, which
focked around William J. Bryan in the
last two presidential campaigns, has
decided to hold state convention OF
its own in Cooper Union June is in or
der to send a protesting delegation to
st. Louis against the nomination of
Judge Alton B. Parker for president
The Democrats of Colorado on Tues
day named delegates to the national
convention at St Louis The delega-
ton goes uninstructed. The adherents
of William r. Hearst attempted to
pass resolution instructing for
Hearst, but it was defeated by vote
of 379 to los. The platform indorses
the Kansas City platform of 1900
Figures given out from Hearst head
quarters in New York city represent
him as leading all candidates for the
Democratic presidential nomination in
the number Of pledged delegates,
Hearst having 1S0 to Parker's 175 and
Gormans 40, Olney of Massachusetts
and Wall of Wisconsin bringing up the
rear with 26 each.
The Utah Democratic state conven-
tion finished its work and adjourned
on Thursday. The six delegates to the
national convention will go uninstruct-
ed Four Of the six, 1t is understood,
are against William r. Hearst, with
leaning toward Judge Parker as first
choice. Two delegates probably will
support Hearst.
Judge George Gray of the United
States circuit court is candidate for
the Democratic nomination for presi-
dent against his will. The six dele
gates from Delaware to the st. Louis
convention were instructed for him
by practically unanimous vote in
the state convention at Dover on Tues
day.
Rhode Island Republicans are in high
spirits over the outcome of the town
elections. For the first time in fully
ten years they made clean sweep on
Tuesday and carried districts which
heretofore have been solidly Demo
cratic.
The Idaho Democratic convention ad-
journed on Monday after Incorporating
the so called anti-Mormon resolutions
in the platform and .instructing the del
egates to vote for w. Il. Hearst for the
presidential nomination.
Oregon in the state election-on Mon
day rolled up the usual majority of
about $4,000 for the Republican state
ticket The only state officers voted for
We're supreme justice and food and
dairy commissioner.
nEArus AT his residence in
- s,a-sn Brooklyn, on Satur-
day, Walter Steuben