Carnegie Institution Formed In Washington With Carnegie Gift
The Carnegie Institution trustees announced plans to form a Washington based research body funded by Andrew Carnegie. The gift may be 19 million in 5 percent bonds to support investigation and higher education, with a board including Grover Cleveland and Carroll D. Wright and meetings set for January 29.
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Washington
Board of Trustees
Carnegie Institution
Andrew Carnegie
Carnegie
Board of ‘Trustees
Charles D. ‘Walcott
Abramss. Hewitt
Daniel CC. Gilman
John S. Billings
Charles D. Walcott
Carroll D. Wright
United States
United States Senate
House of Representatives
Smithsonian Institution
National Academy of Sciences
Grover Cleveland
New Jersey
Henry L. Higginson
Massachusetts
District of Columbia
Secretary of State
Tees
Princess of Monaco asks Pope for divorce in Rome
Monaco Prince sends envoy to Rome seeking a papal interview on divorce from the Princess of Monaco. Isador de Lara, a Portuguese composer, is named as the cause of the breach while the princess enjoys a villa life on the Algerian coast and vows not to return to her husband’s realms.
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Rome
Isador de Lara
Algiers
de Lara
Princess of
America
New Orleans
Michael Heine
Mary Alice Heine
France
Duc de Richelieu
Aguillon
Fronsac
Albert
Prince of
London
Department
Atsue
Vatican
Mary Hamilton
Tassilo Festetics
Vienna
Thief Steals Necklace In Fifth Avenue Jewelry Theft
A well dressed man on January 9 on Sixth Avenue smashed Edward Burgess's loan office window and fled with a diamond necklace valued at 2200 dollars and diamond rings totaling 5000 dollars despite a crowded street. The article also notes debate over Philippines legislation with differences between Taft Commission and War Department bills and possible presidential preference for the Lodge bill.
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New York
Edward Burgess
Sixth Avenue
Philippines
House
Senate
War Department
Congress
President Favors Lodge Bill
Senator Lodge introduces a bill in the Senate advancing a key policy measure. The proposal backs a lodge bill with implications for governance and legislative procedures.
Arnold's Skull Broken in Suspected Killing in Maynard
Medical Examiner Hoyt examined George W. Arnold's body in Marlboro after his death in the W. A. White woods at Maynard. He found death from a head wound that fractured the skull. The report goes to Judge Boynton tomorrow, with no further action expected until public release.
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Hudson
Hoyt
Marlboro
George W. W. Arnold
W. A. White Woods
Maynard
Chinese Empress Dominating Autocracy in Forbidden City
In Pekin on January 9 the Dowager Empress asserted sole control by holding an audience in the Forbidden City's sacred hall. Her breach of a dynastic ban signals she aims to bar foreign diplomats from direct access to the Emperor, while offering to receive counsel and send letters to foreign ministers.
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Pekin
China
Forbidden City
Riot at Sal Hungary over The Sign of the Cross
A riotous anti British demonstration occurred in Sal Hungary during the presentation of Wilson Barretts play The Sign of the Cross. Police forced the halt and clearance of the building as papers praised the protest.
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Vienna
Sal
Hungary
Wilson Barrett
Ham Reopens Famous Case Over Trust and Divorces
Boston lawyers note the case of Foster Ham and Mary Jane Ham involves multiple divorces across Illinois New Hampshire and Massachusetts plus a will by Cyrus Ham creating a long running trust A 1891 probate appointed Foster Ham as executor and the dispute centers on whether the trust should revert to Foster or pass to Jennie S Twombly and her heirs with the suit now before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.
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Boston
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Foster Ham
Cyrus Ham
Illinois
Mary Jane Ham
Ham
New Hampshire
Jennie S. Twombly
Edgar F. Twombly
Frank S. Ham
Middlesex Superior Court
Lowell
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Supreme Court
Beheaded by a Train in South Framingham Fatality
South Framingham January 9 T. P. Hoban was struck by a Boston and Albany train while crossing the tracks near the station and killed instantly. The body was mutilated with the head severed and other parts scattered about ten feet. Hoban, 40, worked in the coal yards and leaves a widow and three children.
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South Framingham
T. P. Hoban
Boston & Albany
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