The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-06-21

United Skates Embassy" and United
States Consulate" no longer will ap
pear upon the embassy and consular
seals and in other places where they
formerly stood In their place on all
the new record books and seals will
appear the words American EN-
bassy" and american Consular Agen-
cy." There is a dignity and simplicity
about the term American that the
secretary likes, and there also are
about a dozen United States aside
from the United States of America.
The secretary of agriculture has di-
rected Chief Moore Of the United
States weather bureau to take imme-
diate steps to add wireless telegraphy
to the present equipment Of all vessel
reporting stations, SO that in addition
to reporting all vessels passing within
range of the stations the craft farther
out at sea may be reported.
President Loubet has conferred upon
the American ambassador, General
Porter, the grand cross Of the Legion
OF Honor, which is the highest grade
of that historic order. 1t is an honor
rarely bestowed even on chiefs of state
and ambassadors, and it is the. first
time it has ever been offered to rep
resentative of America.
Major General Henry G. Corbin was
on Thursday ordered to command the
division of the Philippines, succeeding
Major General J. f. Wade, the order
to take effect in October. General Cor
bin at present commands the division
of the Atlantic and department Of the
east. with headquarters at Governors
island, New York.
Santos Dumont, who comes with his
dirigible airship No to compete for
the prize in the airship contest at the
St Louis exposition, was one Of the
passengers on the steamer Savoie,
which arrived in New York on Friday
night from Havre.
Charles Stimmell, condemned pris-
0ner now confined in the penitentiary
at Columbus, o., who was respited by
Governor Herrick came within three
minutes of losing his life because of a
misunderstanding regarding the grant
ing Of a reprieve.
A check for $195, 057 on was on Thurs
day paid to the United States govern
ment by the Louisiana Purchase com
pany, this sum being 40 per cent of the
gross gate receipts from the day Of the
opening, April 30, to midnight of June
10.
The Amity dam, near Fort Lyons,
Colo, completed last year at cost Of
100000, has been torn out by the high
water in the Arkansas river. The
wreck is complete.
]. P. Spainer, representative of the
White Star line at Naples, Italy, is in
southwest Texas arranging for the col
0nization of 10000 families of Italians
Henry N. Burhans of Syracuse was
on Thursday elected commander of
the New York state G. A. r. at the an
nual convention in Rochester.
cpiMEs The North Coast linn
..,n tied, the finest train on
1870. the Northern Pacific,
SAooAl eastbound, was held
up on Thursday night one mile east of
Bear Mouth, Mont, the scene Of last
years holdup of the same train. The
engineer was killed in the fight with
robbers. The booty carried away is
estimated at over 100000,
Sheriff G. D. Harris of st. Croix
county, Wis, was shot and killed on
Saturday night while attempting to
make an arrest on a train near Fall
Greek, Wis. The man who did the
shooting and whose name is unknown
Jumped from the moving train and es
capped.
Chauncey Hotailing, aged forty years.
was jailed at Binghamton, N. Y, on
Sunday charged with the brutal muir
der of his three-year-old blind son,
whom he had siways abhorred because
Of his infirmities, and the attempted
murder of his wife.
The Rev. Decatur Edwards while
shooting at cats in his back yard at
Fredericksburg, Va, Saturday, acct
dentally shot and mortally wounded
Mrs. Lucy Mann, who was standing on
her back porch In adjoining premises.
Baltimore and Ohio passenger train
No 1, westbound, ran into an open
switch at vincennes, Ind, on Sunday,
colliding with freight train Of thirty
cars, resulting in the injury Of sixteen
persons
Emerson v. Hanley of Angelica,
N. Y, nineteen years old, was hit by a
pitched bah while playing on Friday
and probably fatally injured
BY an explosion Of gas from new
well on farm near Goheenville, Pa,
Sunday, two men We're killed and two
others seriously hurt.
Nine persons We're hurt by a col
lapse Of seats at circus performance
in Chicago on Saturday.
Miss Ficken, eighteen years old, died
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