The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-24

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military who inspected the port few
months ago and was struck with its
lack of protection in case of war. The
necessary guns have been ordered in
England and will be delivered in Van
couver this summer. The Notifications
will be located on Point Grey and
Point Atkinson.
The republic of Mexico has officially
signed a decree granting. a concession
to the National Waterworks and Guar
anty company Of Scranton, Pa, to con
struct a waterworks and sewer system
for Monterey, city of 100000 peo-
pie The concession will involve from
100000 to $3,0O0,000
Fire has destroyed Elevator B at
madam Pacific railway and valued at
$250,00O There were about 100000
bushels Of wheat in the elevator-at the
time, and it, together with the struc-
ture, is a total loss.
The sealing steamer Aurora arrived
dl 6cl. JOutl % ~. dCoOdys WILL tAiC
remains of Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., as
sistant editor of Outing. who persisted
in Labrador last October.
Fire destroyed twenty-five houses in
the Montreal suburb Of st. Henri, rem
dering thirty families homeless.
Fire has destroyed Hastam's saw
and single mills at Nanaimo, b. e.;
loss, $4,000.
cpopr,Mc The international chess
a--a,ne masters tournament,
rSe'n0' which opened in Cam
bridge Springs, Pa, on April %, was
concluded Thursday night, Marshall
winning the first prize and Lasker and
Janowsld dividing second and third
prizes Marco was placed fourth and
Showalter fifth, while the sixth prize
was equally divided between Schlech
ter an Tschigorin. Thus two Amer
leans and five Europeans were prize
winners.
The fifth annual parade of the Road
Drivers Association of New York was
held Saturday afternoon under highly
favorable auspices Between 300 and
400 turnouts participated in the event,
which was by far the largest and most
brilliant of its kind ever seen in the
city
Jimmy Britt and Young Corbett have
been matched for the featherweight
of the world. The fight
will take place in San Francisco, but
the date has not been set.
At the Norris park IN. " race track
on Saturday Africander won the hand
leap by head after one of the most
splendid efforts of his brilliant career.
ropE,cM An American citizen
.,orre named Perdicaris and
his stepson, British
Or in EnE0 = subject, have been car
ried off by the well known Moroccan
bandit Raisuli and his followers and
will doubtless be held for a heavy
ransom. The captiyes were staying at
Perdicaris summer residence, only
three miles from Tangier, when the
bandits attacked and captured them.
BY a majority of 55 Premier Balfour,
on Wednesday night, successfully de
feated an attempt to upset the British
upon the fiscal question.
An interesting debate characterized by
some heated exchanges took place, re-
sulting in the premiers reiterated de-
termination to shelve the question of
fiscal reform until the next parliament.
The Wellington (New Zealand) cor
respondent of the London Times says
that, Notwithstanding the preferential
tariff, the returns for the last quarter
show large increase in the imports of
foreign goods, especially from the
United States, and decrease in those
from Great Britain.
According to dispatch from the vail
of Bitlis Asiatic Turkey, seventeen viii
lagos have been destroyed by Arme-
MAN insurgents in the district of Sas-
sun. More than 600 Armenian fam
lilies have taken refuge in Mush,
town in Bitlis
Georgiana, dowager countess of Raj
vensworth, aged sixty, has startled
London with the most sensational bit
of scandal of the season by marrying
her coachman, aged twenty-eight.
At an auction in Christie's rooms.
London. last week Holbein minia-
ture Of Frances Howard, duchess of
Norfolk. realized the unprecedented
sum of $13. $50.
An imperial edict, voluntarily issued
at Picking, opens to the commerce of
the world the ports of Chinanfu, Wei
shien and Choutsun, on the Shangtung
peninsula.
Santos Dumont on Sunday in Paris
made successful half hours trial
with his dirigible balloon No. Z, which
ne will take to the St Louis exposition.
So