The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-05-31


IN excavating the bed of the Zuni
river in New Mexico for dam site
quite a number of well preserved mas
todon tusks and bones were found.
Some of the latter were ribs fourteen
feet long. The Smithsonian institu-
ton has been informed of the finds.
Three heads Of extinct animals were
discovered. They are about two feet
in length and fifteen inches in width.
Fifty-three Filipino men, women and
children, the families Of employees of
the United States military government
at Malabang, were surprised at mid
night while asleep by the Datto Ais
and a band Of Moros from the Rio
Grande valley and slaughtered. The
chief and his followers escaped before
the alarm could be given.
With the assistance of government
scientists the postoffice department has
begun movement to bar from the use
Of the mails the host of patent medi-
cine concerns and exploiters of propri-
etary medicines and nostrums which
chemical analyses show are incapable
Of performing the wonderful cures
claimed for them.
After having toiled year after year
for more than thirteen years at So a
day as custom house weigher in the
Havemeyer sugar refinery in Brooklyn,
Patrick J. Hennessy has suddenly
found himself to be the heir of $780,
600 left by an uncle in Australia.
A jury in the Kansas City (Mo)
criminal court on Tuesday brought in
q verdict Of acquittal in the case Of
State Senator Jesse T.. Jewell Of that
city, who was charged with soliciting
bride in connection with certain bak-
ing powder legislation in the last state
legislature
At Dallas, Tex, Wednesday night,
the general assembly of the Cnmber-
land Presbyterian church by vote of
1852 to 70 voted to submit to the pres
byteries, with recommendation that
it be adopted, the report of the com
mittee on fraternity and union.
After a trial in Washington lasting
nineteen full days James n. Tyner ex-
postmaster general and assistant attor-
ney general for the postofice depart
ment, was, on Wednesday, found not
guilty. The charge was conspiracy to
defraud the government.
Postmaster General Payne states
that the receipts of the postoffice de-
partment for the fiscal year ending
July next will be approximately
$144 100000 In 1896 the receipts of
the postoffice department were $780,
400. POS.
Argument In the case of Albert T.
Patrick, now in the death cell at Sing
Sing for the murder Of Millionaire
William M. Rice in New York city in
1900, has again been postponed, this
time until the October term of the
court.
The United States transport Kilpat-
rick, Captain Rogers, arrived in New
York on Saturday from Manila via
the Suez canal. She brought the bod
les Of sixty-four United States sol
diers who died in the Philippines.
After working for eleven years Rich
ard B. Painton, machinist of VIII
Transport, Pa, claims to have perfect
ed propeller by which 1t will be pos
sible to cross the Atlantic in less than
three days.
The Society Of Sons of the Revolu-
ton in the state of New York has pur-
chased the historic Fraunces' tavern
in New York city. 1t win take title
to the property on Aug. 1, 1904.
The plant of the Highland Power
company, on the Boise river, twenty
miles above Boise, Ida, has been swept
away by a flood, causing a loss Of
$150,00O.
President Roosevelt on Tuesday at
tended the annual prize day exercises
at the Groton (Mass.) school, where his
two sons are preparing for college.
Governor Odell of New York sailed
on Tuesday for Europe on the North
German Lloyd steamer Kaiser Will
helm der Crosse.