The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-11-22
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Worlds Doings

handed down decision uphOlding the
constitutionality Of the Bowling law,
which enacts that witnesses shall no
longer be excused from testifying on
the ground that they might incriminate
or degrade themselves The action to
test this law was brought BY Jesse
Lewiston Of New York, who appealed
from decision Of the court Of general
sessions sentencing him to imprison-
ment fOA refusing to answer questions
in the Garfield gambling investigation
Charles NJ. Schwab, former presi-
dent Of the United States Steel corpora
ton, is quoted as saying that he In
tends to make In his Bethlehem Pa9
plant all sorts Of guns, gun forgings,
tools, etc. which require the highest
workmanship and to put the plant on
par with the Krupp works in Ger
many and those of Vicker's Sons q
Maxim company Of England
Secretary Shaw has announced a
call upon national banks holding gov
eminent deposits to the amount of 25
per cent OF their holdings, 10 per cent
to be paid on or before Jan. is next
and is per cent on or before March Is
next. This, the secretary estimates,
will bring into the treasury about
$25, 100000.
Before leaving Washington for st.
Louis Prince Fushimi of Japan sent to
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Hay, wife
Of the secretary of state; teakwood
chests mounted in solid silver, each
containing priceless silks, embroideries,
fans, carvings and other articles Of
japanese workmanship, as personal
gifts from the mikado
The bronze statue Of Frederick the
Great, presented to the American peos
pie by Emperor William, was unveiled
Saturday on the War college grounds
In Washington by the Baroness Speck
Won Sternburg, the wife Of the Ger
man ambassador. President Roosevelt
made the speech of acceptance.
President Roosevelt has removed
from Office Frank Fl. Richards, Unit
ed States marshal for the Nome dis
trict in Alaska, and has requested the
resignation Of Judge Melville G. Brown
of the Juneau district. The charges
against them are not made public.
Former Judge Alton b. Parker will
spend the winter in New York city at
the Hotel Netherland. He has engaged
the suit Of rooms formerly occupied BY
Marcus DAILY. The apartments front on
Fifth avenue and are the most ex-
pensiye in the hotel.
Government secret service officials.
aided by local detectives. after long
siege caused the arrest in New York
on Wednesday Of five men who have
taken in 100000 in profits from trust
ing rustics in two years by green
goods" transactions
Henry Medium, formerly United
States surveyor, has been found guilty
Of forgery on twenty-one counts by a
jury In the United States district court.
This Is the first conviction in the SO
called land fraud cases.
Announcement is made of formal
movement to hold in Chattanooga,
Tenn, in 1915 d worlds fair, to be
known as the semicentennial peace
jubilee exposition, commemorating the
end Of the civil war
According to statements fled it cost
Governor Elect Douglas Of Massachu-
sets $4,000 and Governor Elect Hig.
gins of New York $22,189 for cam
paign expenses
President Roosevelt, 1t is announced
has given the menagerie King Meneleh
of Abyssinia presented to him to the
National Geological park in Washing
ton.
Judge Alton n. Parker has establish
ed himself in the office Of Sheehan &
Collin, at 80 Nassau street, New York
for the practice Of law.
Andrew Carnegie has offered Allan
Ia, Ga, $4,000 for separate library
for negroes. The usual conditions ar,
required
Seven cases Of smallpox have beer
discovered among the students at this
University OF Michigan at Ann Arbor.
rrtMEe Four passengers wer,
49, killed and nine o.
more passengers an(
CASUALTIES. trainmen injured In {
rear end passenger train collision al
Elmdale. Mich, Wednesday, on thu
Pere Marquette railroad
The entire force Of workmen, four ii
number, employed at the gas plant o
the Dover. Rockaway and Port Oran
Gas company at Dover, Del. were as
phyxiated Thursday The victims wer'
discovered by George =. Bunnel |
former ennnaoyee, who ON visiting th'
plant found apparently deserted
with engina running under full heas
Of steam and scarcely any water Il
the boilers.
Lost In a fog and supposed by he
crew to be of the New Jersey coast
the steamship Sicilian Prince OF Thu
Prince line. from Palermo and Sagres
with 8a2 persons, mostly italian EN-
migrants, on board, went hard agrount
near Long Beach, n. X, Sunday. ri
forts to release the vessel have thu
far failed.
Samuel Hess, a senior at Lehigh uni
y yersity, son Of former State Senator ]
s. Hess, died on Sunday Of conclusion
OF the brain superinduced BY being
thrown In a flying tackle ia a football
game at Hellertown, Pa, on Saturda,
afternoon.