The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-06-21
LATEST News.
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/ Richmond, Va.--A law providing a
dne not exceeding $500 for using
ncuss'' words or other language calcu-
| lated to provoke breach of the
peace went into effect in Virginia
Vicar General Fitzgerald Dead.
Kansas City, Mo.-The Rev Thos.
Fitzgerald, pastor of ST. Mary's Cath
0lic Church in independence, Mo,
and vicar general of the diocese of
Kansas City. died in his home from
heart disease. He was sixty-eight
years old
Negro Murderer Lynched.
Mastadon, Miss Elmo Curl, a
negro, was lynched here, for shooting
w. P. Miller several weeks ago. when
Mr.. Miller went, at the head of
posse, to arrest Curl for writing an
Insulting note to white woman.
Indicted on Bribery Charge.
Washington, D. C.-The Federal
Grand Jury returned an indictment
against Peter G. Thomson, president
of the Champion Coated Paper Com
pany, of Hamilton. Ohio, charging at
tempted bribery in connection with
the furnishing to the Government Of
paper for postal cards.
Suicide Pact is Murder.
Montgomery, Ala.-The Supreme
Court held that If two men agree to
a suicide pact and one kills himself
while the other does not, the one
failing is guilty of murder in either
the first or second degree.
Boy Aviator Falls to Death.
San Francisco, Cal-When making
q practice fight in an aeroplane
glider, Eugene Speyer, seventeen,
fell to the ground from height OF
fifty feet, suffering injuries which
caused death. The glider was at
tached to an automobile. His mother
Is wealthy widow,
Bee Stings Kill Horses.
Washington, D. C.-Two horses
were stung to death by bees, and the
negro driver barely escaped with his
life. His face was swollen to twice
Its natural size and both eyes were
closed. The bees belonged to DR..
Reginald Munson, who lives on the
Virginia side of the Potomac, oppo-
site the capital.
Wiley Cannot Get Bail.
Los Angeles, Cal.-Raymond M.
Wiley, said to be the son of wealthy
business man of Rutherford, N. j..
who says he was formerly college
athlete, was held to the Superior
Court on charge of burglary. Bail
was fixed at $4,000, which he was un-
able to provide.
Anti-Negro Law Void.
frankfort, Ky.-The Court of APP
peals decided unconstitutional the
act of the last Legislature providing
that no negro Industrial school should
be located in any precinct in the State
unless the majority of voters of that
precinct voted for it's location. The
act was intended to prevent the loca-
ton of the Lincoln Industrial Insti-
tute in Shelby County.
Joy Riding Makes Teller Steal.
Detroit, Mich.--Daniel NJ. Shaver,
teller of the Lumberman' 8 State Bank,
Bay City, Mich, was arrested on the
charge of robbing the bank of $24,-
1850, which has been made good
by the stockholders. Poker playing
and auto Joy riding are blamed fer
the stealing.
Advance For Railroad Men.
st. Louis, Mo.-The Terminal Rail.
road Association, of St. Louis, an
nounced an increase of FIVE per cent.
in the wages Of its 5000 employees
who receive less than $500 month.
Bucketshop Operators Arrested.
Cincinnati, Ohio--Louis w. Eos.
ter, Ed He'll, Walter Campbell, J. M.
Scott and Arthur W. Baldwin, the
five members of the O'Dell Brokerage
Company, who were sentenced to jail
on. charges of using the mails for
bucketshop operations. surrendered
and they were sentenced to pay
fine of 5000 each and serve five
months in jail.
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