The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-11-07
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photographic Photographs Of the
World's Doings

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or indorsed note for $4,000 in the
defunct Enterprise National bank of
Allegheny, Pa. The denial was sent
out from Philadelphia in response ito a
story that protested note signed or
Endorsed by the senator had been
found and that the dead cashier, I.
Lee Clark, protested it. On Friday the
comptroller Of the currency removed
from service Bank Examiner r. FL.
Madden on account of his failure to
discover the conditions existing in the
bank The report of State Treasurer
Mathues of Pennsylvania for October
shows that $685., 900 of the general fund
was deposited in the bank at the time
of the failure.
The Rev. DR.. S. Parkes Cadman, pas
tor Of Central Congregational church,
Brooklyn, addressing a Y. M. G. A..
meeting said, "All the good men are
not in the compass of two or three
churches or of two or three nations"
"Can man who worships wood and
stone 90 to heaven?" one Of his audi
tors asked. IF he worships wood and
stone and knows nothing better, why
should he not go to heaven| was Dr.
Cadman's reply.
Caught by a powerful gust of wind
while trying to make a landing at the
coal wharf at Mare Island navy yard,
the refrigerator ship Celtic crashed
into the cruiser Marblehead and into
the floating machine shop, damaging
them so severely that the Marblehead
may have to go out of commission, 1t is
said, while the machine shop was sunk.
The Celtic was not badly damaged.
Following the arrest of DIR. Percy D.
Mcleod, the Harvard Medical school
graduate, charged with having cut up
the body OF Susan Agnes Geary, whose
.dismembered body was found in two
suit cases, the police are searching for
the woman nurse who, 1t is said, will
practically clear up the entire mystery
of the girls death. The head has been
recovered from the harbor.
Some underclass men Of Cornell uni
versity creased the rails Of the Ithaca
Street Car company on grade, almost
causing loaded car to be wrecked.
The company offered $500 reward for
information leading to the conviction
OF the offenders. The university au-
fhorities are also working on the case.
The act is indictable as attempted
manslaughter
The New York Times Washington
correspondent on Sunday reported that
at the latest cabinet meeting every sec
rotary except Root protested vigorous
~ against the presidents recent order
directing cabinet members not to talk
for publication. Secretary Bonaparte
was especially opposed to 1t, calling it
a gag rule
The eleventh annual convention of
the New York State Federation Of Wo-
mems Clubs closed on Friday at Bing-
hanlton. The election of these direct
ors was announced: Mrs. Robert Nc
Vickar of Mount Vernon, Miss Emile
p. Bullowa Of New York, Mrs. Fred
erick Collins Of Elmira and Miss Syl-
veen V. Nye. !.
State Superintendent Of Insurance
Hendricks made public on Monday a
supplementary report by R. H. Hunter.
deputy superintendent of insurance,
and Chief Examiner Isaac Vanderpoel
on the condition of the Equitable Life
Assurance Society of the United States
at the close of business on June 30,
1905.
A Holbrook (Ariz.) special says that
remarkable mining project is being
carried out there. The object is to I'M
earth and smelt a gigantic meteor
which lies buried there. Assays of
fragments Of the meteor show them to
run high In silver, gold and lead, and
the meteor is estimated to be worth
$13OO0.O0O.
Denman Thompson, the veteran ac-
tor, who during the past twenty years
has been familiar figure to audiences
throughout the country as Joshua
Whitcomb in 1.-THE Old Homestead"
has retired from the stage. The con-
dition of his health will determine
whether the retirement will be perma-
nent.
The tunnel under Bakers hill, on the
Louisville and Nashville road, sixteen
miles west of Nashville, was complet-
ed on Monday, and the first trains
went through. The tunnel is nearly a
mile long and, with the approaches,
cost about 100000. The tunnel was
built through solid rock.
Relatives of Mrs. Margaretta Todd
who was found dead on the tracks of
the Reading railway in Philadelphia,
were examined there on Monday with
a view to learning what they knew Of
the affairs of the aged woman. The rel
atives are Of the opinion that Mrs.
Todd met with foul play.
The London Daily Mail publishes an
article contributed by John d. Rookie
Teller, entitled "How Became the
Richest Man In the World" Payment
for the article is to be turned over by
Mr.. Rockefeller to the Bible class In
New York OF his son.
President Roosevelt has requested
the Keep commission to investigate
the organization and methods Of sew
eral bureaus Of the interior depart
menb including the general and local
land Office the offices of the surveyors
general, the reclamation service and
the Indian service.
There is to be a national investiga-
tion Of the insurance business this win
ter, according to well authenticated re-
ports that have reached New York. II