The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-31
NEWS OF "A WEEK
Photographic Photographs Of the Worlds Doings

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Dy rne neavIry laden canoe sinking in
deep water.
At Louisville, KY, Thursday, thir-
teen persons were killed, three fatally
injured and five hurt by an explosion
of boilers, which totally demolished
the towboat Fred Wilson off River
view park.
Miss Marion SENEGAL, aged twenty
years, and Florida SENEGAL, aged six
teen years, daughters of Narcisse Sene-
cal, Southbridge, Mass. were drowned
on Tuesday night by the capsizing OF
boat.
william Richard Of New York city
and Fred Trapham ~of Guridan, La,
were accidentally drowned in tank
Of oil at the Gulf Refining company 9
plant at Port Arthur, Tex, on Monday.
John Poianis, seven years old, fell
headlong from bridge ninety feet
above the Housatonic river at Still
River station, Conn, on Monday and
escaped with only few slight bruises.
On Wednesday ten men were suffo-
Gated by sulphur fumes in mine tun.
mel near WilIiamstown, Pa. Fifty 9th
ers were brought out unconscious, but
recovered.
Alfred Morgan, a lawyer, aged sew
enty-five years, was burned to death In
his home on Sunday in Vineland, N. ].
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SPORTING A great auction sale OF
$1,000 trotting horses opened
0'"o Monday at the Read.
vile (Mass.) race track. The chief con-
signments are those of the late NAL
colin Forbes of Boston and of Thomas
w. Lawson Of Boston. The Forbes
stock included the famous trotter Bin
gen, 2:06A, for which $4,000 was re-
Gently refused, and the famous Nancy
Hanks, one time holder of the worlds
record. The former sold for $4,000,
the latter for $1,000.
Ormonde, the world famed horse, is
dead at the Menlo Park stock farm,
near San Francisco. Ormonde, who
was foaled in 1888 and owned by the
Duke of Westminster, won every race
that he started in and earned for his
owner in stakes the sum of $142, 1926
He also had the distinction of winning
all three of the great events of the
British turf-the Two Thousand GUN
ca, the Derby and the st. Leger, He
was sold to his late owner for $3.50, 00C
for breeding purposes.
Amid the rousing cheers of $4,000
persons The Picket won the rich
Brooklyn handicap, one and a quarter
miles. at Gravesend, New York, by a
head from the favorite, Irish Lad
Proper was third, two lengths back
with Hermis fourth, a head away.
The Oxford University Athletic club
in behalf Of Oxford and Cambridge
universities has sent v challenge t
Harvard and Yale to hold an athletic
meeting in London this summer.
IN THE Almost complete paral
r,r,n ysis of lake commerc,
has followed the strike
or LABOR. of the masters and ri
lots of the great lakes. Already more
than 100000 men have been thrown
out of employment, and capital esti
mated to approximate $3.50, 100000 hal
been tied up. The strike has affected
fifty lake ports.
Estimates are that not less than 70,
600 employees have been dropped from
the railroad payrolls of the eastern
part of the country. With the excep
ton of the panic period beginning IL
1893 the present reduction Of railway
help is the most general known at any
one time. Dizziness Of freight traffic Il
the cause assigned.
On Tuesday the New York teamsterI
decided not to go on strike in sympa
thy with the freight handlers, oilers
and firemen of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford roads marine de
partment. A threat has been made t,
call out all freight handlers of all ths
roads entering the city.
Over 200 bridge builders throughout
Connecucut nave returned to work al
the result Of an agreement signed be
tween the big construction companie.
and representatives of the. union.
whereby the former agreed to the de
mand for an eight hour day ut so cents
an hour.
1t is announced that the men who
went on strike few weeks ago in the
various shipyards of New York and
vicinity are returning to work under
the old terms.
In Boston on Wednesday 1000 paint
ers and decorators went out on strike
The men had demanded an increase il
wages Of 20 cents day, which was re
fused.
NEWS or A serious battle has
onp been fought In SantC