The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1904-04-12

land, made SOTFp
in fight with Kb&AA cCoy at the Len
OK club. Standing sdx IN mes taller ana
weighing over severity y 'uiius iioie
than his pale faced opESh@A ne ~as
beaten almost insensible id feAA man
four minutes. Placke never l&Al
glove on Mccoy Before the first f0tiffA
ended Placke was covered with blood
from his neck to his waist, and both
eyes were almost closed.
The swimming team of Yale univer-
sity, which held the intercollegiate
championship of the United States,
was defeated Wednesday in Chicago
by the team of the Chicago Athletic
association. The victory of the local
men was complete. they capturing ey-
cry event.
rHE FIRE AT Lyons, Ga, Sun
a-oaan day, the railroad de.
nIeo pot and two whole
blocks were destroyed by flames start
ed by stroke of lightning. Besides
the Seaboard Air Line depot, several
loaded freight cars, the Lyons Progress
presses and fixtures, a hotel and the
furniture and the dwelling of Mrs. L.
M. Brown were wiped out.
In Jersey City, N. j., Monday night,
for hours firemen battled with fierce
fire, fed by gallons of oil, which start
ed at the branch supply station Of the
Standard Oil company. Three 400 GAL
lon tanks exploded, and the ware
houses and stables were destroyed.
A fire ON Monday swept West Tam.
pa, Fla, and caused loss to cigar
making firms which will exceed $780,
600. The only death loss so far as
known is that of Cuban baby, which
was burned in one of the cigar fac
tories.
At Easton, Me-, Tuesday, two of the
largest potato houses in this country
were destroyed, together with 5000
barrels of potatoes. The total loss Is
estimated at $4,000
The nail department of the Americas
Steel and Wire company's plant at
Rankin, Pa. was on Monday burned
down, causing a loss of from $4,000
to 100000
The graded school building at Middle
bury, VT, was destroyed by fire Sun
day. The property carried an insur-
ance of $50, 1000; loss about 100000
The paper mill of the Holingsworth
& Vose company at East Walpole,
Mass, was destroyed on Tuesday The
loss is 100000, fully insured.
1EArue At Washington Court
or norro house, O., Sunday, s.
Stacker Williams, one
of the most widely
known Freemasons in the United
States. Mr.. Williams was grand mas
ter of the Ohio grand lodge of Masons
from 1885 to 1888. He possessed the
largest private library ON Masonic top
les known.
At his home in st. Louis on Tuesday,
Isaac G. Baker, aged eighty-four, who
for many years had been director in
the Continental bank of that city. Mr..
Baker was born in Connecticut and
was one of the first pioneers to es-
tablish fur trading posts in Iowa. Kan
sas and Montana.
At the Cook County hospital in Chi.
cago, Sunday. Carol Norton, the noted
New York Christian Science lecturer
and member of the Christian Science
board of lectureship, as the result of
the injuries Sustained in a street car
accident.
At Lakewood, N. j., Tuesday, Thorn
as Sears Young. one of the Oldest di-
rectors of the Equitable Life Insur-
ance company of New York. He was
born in Brewster, N. Y, June %, 1913.
Colonel John Fl. Savage died ON
Tuesday at his home in McKinnville,
Tenn. He was in his eighty-ninth
year and was veteran of the Florida,
Mexican and civil wars.
At Nashville, Tenn, Sunday, Fred
erick Augustus Chase, for over thirty
one years professor of science in FisEe
university. He was born in North
vile, N. Y, in 1888.
Henri Oft, proprietor of the Silver
Spring hotel in Catskill, n. Y, and at
one time we'll known brewer of New
York city, died on Tuesday, aged fifty
four.
IN TIE The entire system or
r,E,n the Cleveland n d
Southwestern Trac-
ton company was on
Saturday tied up by strike OF mo-
tormen and conductors. There are
100 men in the employ of the COM
pany, and every one of the number
obeyed the order to strike The strike
was precipitated as a result of the re-
lusal of the company to remove Cen
eral Manager Nichols, who is charged
with making rules held to be unfair
by the men.
Labor troubles which for month
have threatened to make the building
season of 1904 in New York city Il
repetition Of 1903, with it's long and
costly strike. have been ended more
quickly than they arose. Twenty thou
sand men, skilled and unskiled, re
turned to work Thursday on more than
S5O,0O0000 worth OF now buildings.
After twenty-five weeks the strike O.
the pollShers and buffers ut factory /
Of the international Silver company AT