The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-10
DEATHS
OF NOTED
PEOpIE

American author, aft
rEorLE' er having been uncon-
scious for several days. Death was
caused by cirrhosis of the liver. Only
a servant was present at the time of
his death. Mr.. Fawcett was born in
New York in May 1S47. He was a
graduate of Columbia college, New
York.
In Milford, Mass, Tuesday, James
Fl. G. Cook, known as the Oldest prac-
teal printer IN the United States, if
not in the world, in his eighty seventh
year. Mr.. Cook was the senior pro-
prietor Of the Milford Journal AT
Bellows Falls, VT, his native place,
Mr.. Cook began learning the printing
trade at the age Of thirteen years.
Levi Stockbridge of Amherst, Mass.
for many years professor of agricul-
ture at Amherst Agricultural college
and former member Of both branches
of the state legislature, died In Florida
on Tuesday. He was eighty-four years
of age
In New York city on Wednesday
Ashbel P. Fitch, president of the Trust
Company of America, former comp
troller of the city and member Of con-
gress from 1886 to 1892. Mr.. Fitch
was born in Clinton county, N. Y, in
1S48
At his home in New York city on
Wednesday Of Bright's disease, Samuel
Hubbard Coon. member Of the edi-
torial staff of the American Press asso-
citation, aged fifty-one years.
In Washington on Wednesday, Lieu
tenant Commander John Newell Jor-
dan, u. S. n, from pneumonia. He
was forty-eight years old.
Samuel Parks, the one time car Of
labor in New York, died on Wednesday
in the hospital of Sing Sing prison
from tuberculosis.
EoaE,cN According to official
MoTEo advices at CONSTANT
nople, there has been
OF INTEREST. serious fighting in the
Sassun district of Asia Minor between
the troops and Armenian insurgents
numbering 1000 The troops lost TWEEN
ty killed and twenty-three wounded.
Twelve villages in the Talori district
have been destroyed, but whether by
insurgents or Kurds is not known.
There are 10000 troops in the disturbed
area. Private advices say that the
Kurds attacked two villages north Of
Sassun, losing twenty-six killed.
Late on Sunday an automobile in
which six persons, one child, were
driving was struck by the Basle-Paris
express on grade crossing at Roissy-
en-Brie, twenty-five miles from Paris.
All the occupants, who were Parisians.
were instantly killed, and the vehicle
was completely demolished.
Maurus Jokai, the Hungarian novel;
list, who was recently reported to be
seriously i'll, died on Thursday at Buda-
pest from inflammation Of the lungs.
He was seventy nine years of age and
one of the most celebrated writer's in
Hungary.
A Dutch column has captured the
Atchinese position In Tjantoe, Java,
after a hard fight, in which about 200
Atchinese were killed. The Dutch cas-.
uaities We're seven men Killeu ana nvt
officers and thirty eight men wounded.
a British parliamentary return just
issued shows that since 1851 and TO
1908 nearly 100000 Irishmen have
the exact total being 3,061,-
I'LL, equivalent to "a per cent of the
average population Of Ireland.
A hurricane has ravaged Cochin
China. About hundred natives were
killed, and great damage was done.
All the telegraph lines In Saigon were
destroyed
re r'n1 office buildings, with
RECORD. one smaller structure,
occupied By produce and grocery deal
ers, were completely destroyed by iisy
II Birmingham, Ala. on Sunday; loss
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