The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-06-06
FOREIGN.

An excursion train bearing 400
working people from Tuscumbia, Ala,
to Iuka, Miss, was derailed near Dick
son, Ala, but no one was hurt.
BY the collapse of log barn which
they were helping to raise w. NJ. Brook
and J. NJ. Boldt were instantly killed at
Albion, Mich.
David H. Moore, a protege of Sena-
tor Foraker. has been appointed inter-
nal revenue collector for the Eleventh
District of Ohio.
Charles Keuhn, messenger for the
Yorkville Bank, of New York City, was
held up by four men during business
hours in a crowded street and robbed
Of an empty bag.
For the first of new Bellevue Hospi-
tai buildings to cost $10,O00,O00, the
Board of Estimate of New York City
appropriated $S50,000.
Jimmy Hope. leader of the band
that robbed the Manhattan Bank in
1873, and lifelong burglar, died at his
home in New York City.
A. H. Hummel, the noted New York
City criminal lawyer, obtained writ
from the Appellate Division of the Su-
preme Court prohibiting Judge Davy
from further action in the case of the
Indictment against Mr.. Hummel, pend
ing a hearing before the higher court.
In a cloudburst at Rhea, Ore, Mrs.
j. H. Nunemaker and three children
were drowned.
The report of the Frick Investigating
Committee ON the affairs of the Equit-
able was made public in New York
City, after being presented to the
Board of Directors.
The tenth quadrennial congress of
the Loyal Legion met at Milwaukee,
Wis. with General ID. Mem. Gregg of
Philadelphia. Pa, presiding.
Mayor Weaver, of Philadelphia, Pa,
got the designations of the Assistant
Directors of Public Works and of Pub
tic Safety and at once filed their places
with well-known citizens in accord
with his policy.
General Linevitch reported Japan
ese advance and repulse in the valley
of the Tsin River.
Mr.. Hay reached London, England.
He is reported to be still far from well.
Servia is reported to have sent an
other ultimatllm to Turkey, demanding
reparation for the seizure of papers at
the Monastir Consulate.
The Isthmian Canal Commission
voted to pave Panama City streets vt
once as a preventive of epidemics.
AS King Alfonso of Spain was leay.
ing the Theatre Francois. in Paris,
France, six horses of his escort SHE'D,
throwing the troopers who were riding
them.
In the palace of the Governor-G Gem
eral at Barcelona, Spain, bomb was
exploded. causing serious damage. Ten
arrests were made
The Moroccan question has again as
sumed serious aspect by the accept
ance of the report that the Sultan has
refused to carry out the French plans
Unless they are approved by an inter
national conference.
Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the Norwe
gian poet, in speech at Aalborg, Nor
way, on the consular crisis, said that
Norway, with her population Of TO-.
100000 persons. must be free.
Secretary Hay was in Paris. France
f%~ a three-day stay. He refused All
social and official invitations, but went
for motor car ride in the Bots de
BOulogne with Ambassador McCormick
and former Ambassador Porter.
The Roumanian Government threat
ened to break relations with Turkey
unless demands for reparation were
met.
AS a result Of the renewal of hostiIi
ties between the Armenians and Mos
lens twenty-five Armenians were
killed at Nakhichevan, four Of WHOM
akend was DESTROYED and several Ar
menians killed