The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-11-07

of Boston university Professor Hinck-
ley G. Mitchell, against whom charges
of unsoundness in doctrine were made,
was removed from the faculty of the
university, with which he had been
connected for twenty years.
Ina speech at Topeka, Kan, Thurs
day, ex-State Senator Hanna Of Clay
county declared that President Roose-
welt was Populist and that the Pop
ulists would hold their national con
vention in 1908 and nominate him for
president.
Charles Fl. Darling has retired from
the Office Of assistant secretary Of the
navy, which post he has held since
Dec. 10, 1901. He is succeeded by Tru-
man H. Newberry Of Detroit, Mich,
who took the oath of office on Wednes-
day.
The monthly statement of the gov
ernment receipts and expenditures
shows that for the month of October
the total receipts were $50, 492,691 and
the expenditures $55, 710,037, leaving a
deficit for the month of 1921, 346.
At meeting held in Cleveland May
Tor Johnson introduced Governor Joseph
W. Folk of Missouri as his choice for
1.-THE Democratic nomination for the
presidency in 1908 and predicted that
he would be the next president.
Rev. George FL. Ferris, pastor of the
Calvary Baptist church Of New Haven,
Conn, and one of the most prominent
Baptist preachers in the state, has ac-
.cepted a call to the First Baptist
church of Philadelphia
Former Governor Levi P. Morton will
build an industrial home and reading
room In the village of Rhinecliffe, ~,
at a cost of about $4,000 Mr.. Nor
toms summer home, Ellerslie, Is near
Rhinecliffe.
Negotiations for q new commercial
agreement between the United States
and Germany have been opened by
Ambassadors Tower at Berlin and Am
bassador Won Sternburg at Washing
ton.
State Superintendent Of Public Works
Franchot has announced that he has
fixed upon Nov % at midnight as the
date for the official closing Of the New
York state canals for the season.
The national executive committee Of
the Womans Christian Temperance un-
ion has voted to hold the next national
convention in 1905 at Hartford. Conn.
The date has not been set.
President Roosevelt has issued the
regular annual Thanksgiving procla-
nation, setting apart Nov. 30 as the
day for the expression of gratitude.
Governor General Wright of the Phil
ippines sailed for San Francisco on
Saturday All classes Of the popula-
ton gathered to do him honor
1t Is expected that the first class bat
tleship Connecticut, building at the
navy yard in Brooklyn, will be finished
in little more than month.
James J. Hill has closed his deal for
the purchase of the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad, say st. Louis fnan-
ciers and brokers'
President William R. Harper of Chi
cago university is said to be dying Of
the cancer Of the stomach that has
afflicted him. nl IS
Drought threatens serious injury to
California crops. In some parts Of the
state no rain has fallen since May 8.
1t is rumored in railway circles that
the Southern Pacific railroad will be
continued to the City Of Mexico.
The United States circuit court Of APP
peals has refused new trial to Cassie
4 L. Chadwick.
Manila is to have fifty-two miles Of
sewers and more than ten miles Of wa
ter mains.
cp,mre Three children were
s.,n killed and thirteen per-
~ sons injured as the re-
SASoAI LES suit Of gas explo-
sion on Sunday in Ishpeming, Mich.
Milton /. Andrews and his compan-
ion, Milda Perrie, accused Of assault
ing and robbing an Australian in
Berkeley, Cal were found dead by the
police in their room in San Francisco
Andrews, who, it is said, left remark
able record of crime behind him, is
suspected of having been guilty Of
three MURDERS among them that Of
Bessie Benton In Colorado Springs,
Colo, in 1904
In Minneapolis. Mimi, on Saturday,
Mrs. James Brennan, stepmother Of
four children, shot and killed three Of
the children, fatally wounded the
fourth and is herself dying of self
inflicted wound. Brennan and his wife
frequently quarreled about the chill
dren.
James Squires, a, member Of the AL
ton Qn.) High school football team,
died from the effects Of an injury re-
ceived Oct 81 in game with the
East st. Louis High school team He
received a kick on the knee which re-
suited in blood poisoning.
On Tuesday a passenger train on the
Rome, WATERFOWL and Ogdensburg
railroad bound for WATERFOWL collided
head on with freight engine drawing
two cars near Liverpool, six miles from
/ Syracuse, N. Y. -Four railroad employ
ees were killed and one was seriously
hurt.
Believing that he was shooting at a
burglar, Hayden R. Craft a well
known hardware merchant OF Union
town, Pa, killed his daughter, Mrs