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

ENpElcM An American citizen
$500 named PerdIcaris and
his stepson. British
~ ~ = subject, hove been car
ried off by the well known Moroccan
bandit Raisuli and his followers and
will doubtless be held for heavy
ransom. The captives were staying at
Perdicaris summer residence, only
three miles from Tangier, when the
bandits attacked and captured them.
The Tibetans have occupied several
villages in the rear of the British ex-
petition, blocking communications.
They ambushed eight mounted infan-
try who were conveying the daily post.
Re-enforcements were dispatched, and
they repulsed the enemy, Furnishing
them severely. Previously the British
attacked the enemy, who were occupy
ing post north of Gyangtse, defeating
them with severe loss.
won Evans, a son of DIR. John Evans
and a grandnephew of the late DR..
Thomas Evans, the American dentist
in Paris, is dead in that city from the
effects of bullet wound inflicted I'M
der mysterious circumstances.
M. Delcasse, foreign minister Of
France, has informed the diplomatic
representative Of other nations that
the recall of NJ. Nisard as ambassador
to the Vatican is absolute.
The Danish scientific expedition to
Greenland, under the leadership of
Erickson, has arrived at the Danish
colony of West Greenland after much
and suffering
At the Paris sale of the jewels of the
late Princess Mathilde pearl necklace
which Napoleon |. gave to the queen of
Westphalia was sold for $4,000 francs.
nEnrue In Philadelphia, Mon
1865 day, afaer long ILL,
" W. ness, Colonel Angus
PEoPLE- tus G. Buell., veteran
of the civil war and later widely
known as war correspondent and au-
thor of standard "Life of John Paul
Jones' Colonel Buell. won his mill
tary title before he was twenty years
old. He was born in Norwich, N ",
Sept. "a, 1847. He served in the army
of the Potomac from 1868 to 1865.
Colonel Buell. was connected with the
survey operations for the Port Arthur
defenses.
In Oswego, N Y, on Wednesday,
Chevalier Auguste Weigand, the cele-
brated organist and composer, who
was organist of ST. Paurs Roman Cath
Ollie church, of appendicitis. Weigand
was born at Liege, Belgium, fifty-two
years ago.
IN Springfield, O., Monday, J H. Ill
rich, president of the Ohio Coal Deal
ers association and for two years pres
ident of the National association, of
blood poisoning as the result of inju-
ries sustained in runaway
In Phenix, Ariz., Monday, Thomas
Murphy, proprietor of the Murphy Iron
works of Detroit, Mich. Mr.. Murphy
was sixty-nine years Of age and had
been suffering from Bright's disease
In st. Louis on Wednesday, of heart
disease, John w. Kaufman. one Of
Missouri's wealthiest citizens and most
prominent financiers.
~ rae The Illinois Republic
-.-,. an state convention,
tired out by eight days
OF POLITICS. frpitIass voting IN tho
gubernatorial nomination, has taken a
recess for week. The fifty-eighth ball
lot resulted: Yates, 483; Lowden, 1924;
Deneen. 1854; Hamlin, 113; Warner,
So; Sherman, 46; Pierce. 20.
The Alabama Democratic state con-
vention on Wednesday gave no in
structions to delegates to st. Louis. but
the resolutions adopted recited that at
the present tiMe Judge Alton B. Parker
is the most available and acceptable
candidate for the nomination for the
presidency and that the sentiment Of
the convention is for his nomination.
At the Ohio Democratic state conven-
ton on Wednesday state ticket was
named and delegates sent to st. Louis
unrestricted, but bound by the unit
rule. The Hearst men were hopelessly
defeated
-ur r,pr All the blu siness
a@-r houses Of any impor-
lance, large number
of private residences the principal no
tel and the passenger depot in Yazoo
City. Miss. a town Of 6.000 people, for,
ty-five miles from Jackson, were de
stroyed by fire on Wednesday. A total
of 200 buildings We're burned, and the
loss is estimated at over 100000