The Morris County chronicle., 1908-10-13

Muchmore, of Summit. The ceremony
will be performed at The home of the
bride on Morris avenue, October 10Th,
at six o'clock.
The adyenturers of Harvard and
Yale who slipped out of Gravesend
bay in the gray Of the morning of
Sept. Is on the old yacht Mayfower,
which had defended the Americas cup
against Sir Tom Upton, to hunt for
pirate treasure off the coast of Jamaica
has come to grief in hurricane off
the coast of Florida, The brave May
flower is a wreck somewhere in the
gulf stream by this time, probably
sunk deeper than the galleon filed
with Spanish gold she sought. The
five men, each one of whom had proved
his mettle on CORY football fields of
the north, were saved by mere fruit
steamer and reached Chesapeake bay
on their way to Baltimore.
A Baptist conference in Brooklyn
the Rev. Dr. Spencer B. Meeser said
that in one county In Michigan 440 d.
vorces had been granted, and in $50 Of
them no defense was made. He char
acterized 1t as traffic In virtue. DR..
Neeser said that many Of the causes of
divorce were hidden and due to false
ideals Of the marriage relations. He
said that when the state permits di-
vorce and remarriags i" II abetting inf
deity. % s~@~g A1NH : Nfn
Its life ended, the big English oak
known as the Prince of Wales tree,
which was planted in the mall in Cen
trail park, New York, In 1860 by King
Edward VIII, then Prince of Wales,
was cut down. While travelling in
this country the then Prince of Wales,
using the ''incog." Of Baron Renfrew,
planted this tree and an American elm
The elm is still in a fourishing condi-
tion.
An employee Of an ice company In
Middletown, N. Y, while. delivering
ice discovered frog in the center Of a
cake. The ice was melted and the frog
taken out. After it had been exposed
to the sun for about ten minutes the
frog commenced to hop about. The
ice from which the frog was taken had
been in storage for two years.
For ten minutes business was sus-
pended in Juuge Blanchard's court in
New York while Mrs. Flora Avery, aft
er being separated from her daughter
Myrtle for fourteen years, kissed and
embraced her. Mrs. Avery's first hus-
band after quarreling with her in
Spearfish, S. D., deserted her, taking
the child with him.
Seventy-five thousand dollars worth
of railroad property slid into the Mis-
sissippi river near New Orleans when
section of earth 300 feet long and
about 200 feet wide caved In. The
avalanche carried along seven freight
cars and four lines of railroad tracks.
High water undermined the bank.
In the midst of the celebration in
honor of the founding of Philadelphia
by William Penn boy was born who
is direct descendant of the recently
much lauded Quaker. The arrival is
William Penn Gaskell Hall, Jr. He is
Of the eighth generation.
Joseph M. Brown was elected gov
ernor of Georgia, defeating Yancey
Carter Independence league) by
large plurality. The constitutional
amendment making the ownership Of
property voting qualification was ap-
proved.
A table showing how New York city
money is wasted in purchasing school
sites at prices from 30 to 800 per cent
above the assessed valuation was COM
piled by the committee on congestion
Of population.
Miss Sue Woods, daughter of SUI
preme court justice, was the third to
die in Charlotte, N. c., from rare
disease called pellagra. The malady is
traceable to bad corn.s
About twenty squirrels attacked
farmland while he was up a tree
picking chestnuts at, Littleton, N H.,
and bit him SO badly that he needed
doctors care.
A Reno (Nev.) judge refused to di-
vorce the actress, Virginia Harmed,
from the actor, b. Fl. Sothern, because
she failed to ''grace the court with her
presence"
Prompt action by the keeper and his
men in putting out fire In the loft Of
the White House stables saved the
presidents thoroughbreds from de-
struction.
The health department of Chicago
says that the dust and SCOT In the air
OF that city is three times as great in
quantity as In the atmosphere of Lon