The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-10-03
DOMESTIC.

OO11 1Ao ~.
John D. Rockefeller has boosted the
price Of oil in Chanute, Kan, and Pitts
burg. In Pittsburg all grades were
raised, with one exception, from two to
five cents a barrel.
Professor L. Eddy, the Oldest teacher
at the Kentucky State School for Deaf,
Danville, Ky, dropped dead while in
the schoolroom. Professor Eddy was
seventy-fve years old. He was noted
as an astronomer.
Bishop Potter frowned on the at
tempt of a clergyman in the Diocesan
Convention, New York, to pass reso-
luton condemning those blamed for
insurance scandals.
Four firemen were seriously hurt in
a 100000 blaze in Charleston, w. Va.
James B. M. Grosvenor, John q.
Reinhard and Count Luigi Cipriani
died suddenly in New York City. and
physicians said that their deaths were
due to the mad rush of city life
United States Senator John L. Dry
den. president of the Prudential Life
Insurance Company, began a propa-
ganda for his bill placing life insur-
ance in Federal control.
An organization to arrest and prose-
cute wife deserters was formed on the
east side of New York City.
Emma Goldman, the Anarchist,
opened a women's hairdressing estab-
lishment on Broadway, New York City.
John Hutchinson, living near San
dlsky, Ohio, was picking up coal along
the Hooking Valley track when struck
and killed by q train. He was worth
more than $4,000.
The barber shops of Normal, ILL.,, an
nounced their refusal to serve the six
Filipino students at the State Normal
University because their white custom
ers threatened a boycott unless they
placed ban upon the Filipinos.
After twenty-one hours deliberation
a jury found former Alderman James
Mol not guilty of accepting a $3.50
bride in the notorious water deal at
Grand Rapids, Mich.
The North Carolina Pine Association
has advanced the prices of all grades
of lumber, the advance averaging
about seyenty-five cents per 1000 feet.
FOREIGN.
The withdrawal of General Gomez
the Liberal candidate for President,
clarifies the political situation in Cuba.
President Palma will now be reelected
without organized opposition.
The Council of Professors at st.
Petersburg, Russia, has voted in favor
of the unrestricted admission of the
Jews to the University courses, and
has recommended the admission Of all
candidates for matriculation.
Dantzig, Germany, is to be gradually
transformed into a great naval base
by the Kaiser's officers, says a dispatch
from Berlin. This follows the advice
of experts. who declare Dantzig to be
of greater Importance than Kiel.
A cyclone struck Malmesbury, Cape
Colony, town of 5000 inhabitants, sit
uated thirty-five miles from Cape
Town, and reduced it to ruins. A num-
Der of persons We're killed.
The London (Eng) Daily Telegraphs
Toxic correspondent says that the
British Far Eastern squadron will as
semble in Toxic Bay early in October
after the ratification of the Russo-Jap-
anese treaty, and that the Japanese
feet will also assemble at the same
place.
Finnish farmers and fishermen gave
the visiting Gar presents of their pro-
ducts and catch, inviting him to call
often and get acquainted.
Twelve thousand spectators at bull
fight at Mines. France, broke up the
chairs, other seats and the boxes and
set fire to the barriers surrounding the
arena, because the matadors refused
to kill another bull as an encore after
they had despatched FIVE
Venezuela's action toward NJ Taigny
Is considered offensive by France, and
it is believed that NJ Rouvier will de-
mand a disavowal, There was talk of
a joint naval demonstration by France
and the United States.
NJ. Cavaignac. distinguished
French statesman and Minister of War
during the Dreyfus case, died sudden
ly in Paris.
A bomb was thrown at a Warsaw
bank. A serious ARRAY was reported
from Mini NOygorod, and measures
were said to have been taken to send
large forces of troops into Finland
1t was expected in Toxic, Japan, that
the Russian cruiser Noyik, sunk by the
Japanese near Krosakoysk, Island OF
SakhaIien, in August, 1904, will be
raised about the middle of next month,
Winnipeg. Manitoba, now has pop
ulati0n Of over $4,000
Canada's yield Of 2,250,000 gallons
OF crude petroleum during the last ifs
cal year fell far short of the country s
needs The importations Of petroleum
and its products amounted to about
22.0l0000 aall0Dss