Roosevelt the Honored Guest at Old Harvard
President Theodore Roosevelt attended the twenty fifth anniversary of Harvard class of 1880 as the honored guest. He took part in commencement events with Cambridge citizens alumni and college officials and entered into the ceremonies with notable vigor. Roosevelt traveled from Bishop Lawrence’s home to the Harvard yard for the academic procession toward Saunders and the day’s functions.
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Commercial Tribune
Cambridge
Mass
Harvard University
Roosevelt
America
Hughly
Commonwealth
William Lawrence
Harvard Yard
Saunders
Sigma Chi semicentennial celebrates birth at Miami University
Sigma Chi delegates and four living founders gathered at Miami University Oxford and Chester Park for memorial exercises and a lavish reunion. Founders General Benjamin P. Runkle Thomas Cowan Bell James Parks Caldwell and Daniel William Cooper attended. The day featured history reviews a kneipe frolic on the Chester Park return and a park lights night.
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Sigma Chi
Queen City
Chester Park
Miami University
Chester
Oxford
Benjamin P. Runkle
Washington, D. C
Thomas Cowan Bell
Portland
Ore
James Parks Caldwell
Biloxi
Wis
Daniel William Cooper
McComb
Charles Alling
Chicago
Sigma Chis
United States
Sigs
Guy Potter Benton
Rush Holland
Colorado Springs
Robert James
Easton
Walter Malone
Memphis
Joseph C. Nate
Beardstown
Ill
Howard Ferris
Cincinnati
Sig” Yell
Rockefeller gifts Yale $1 million endowment
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune from New Haven Conn June 28 President Hadley announced that John D Rockefeller gave $1,000,000 to Yale with another $1,000,000 from graduates totaling $2,000,000 in recent gifts. The funds will be invested to produce income and preserved as a university endowment.
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Commercial Tribune
New Haven
Hadley
Tornado Wrecks Town in Kansas Killing Six
A Rock Island Railroad dispatch from Fairbury Neb confirms Phillipsburg Kansas was struck by a tornado this evening. Six people are dead and many others feared dead as bodies arrive in Phillipsburg with reports of extensive country casualties.
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Commercial Tribune
Lincoln
Neb
Rock Island Railroad
Fairbury
Wilgon
Phillipsburg
Kan
Rock Island
Kansas
Nebraska
Philipsburg
Bernhardt to Tour America with 30 Week Engagement
London June 28 Shubert Brothers signed Mme Sarah Bernhardt for a thirty week American tour starting November 6 at the Lyceum Theater New York She will bring her Paris company to perform Victor Hugo's Angelo and Adrienne Lacouvreur now running there
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London
Shubert Brothers
Mme
Sarah Bernhardt
Lyie Theater
New York
Mme. Bernhardt
Paris
Victor Hugo
Angelo
Adrienne Lacouvreur
Mutinous Sailors Hold Odessa as City Burns
A Odessa dispatch says mobs set fires across the harbor area and ships burn while troops struggle to quell the riot. The Kniaz Potemkine battleship is in mutineer hands with guns trained on the city, many workers join the revolt amid barricades and gunfire.
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Kniaz Potemkine
Wreck injures twenty as church excursion car collides near Glen Este
A special Sunday School car from Sixth Presbyterian Church returning via the Cincinnati Georgetown and Ports mouth line collided head on with eastbound car No 24 near Glen Este. Twenty or more were seriously hurt including Stell a Clawson and several children. Motorman Johnson and Crotty acted to save passengers as wreckage and shattered windows filled the cars.
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Sixth Presbyterian Church
Eastern Avenue
Glen Este
Cincinnati, Georgetown,& Portsmouth
Cincinnati
Highland Park
Crotty
Johnson
Stella Clawson
Ricker
Mt. Carmel
Miss Clawson
Barbara Allen
Daniel Bigler
Mildred Clawson
Dolly Woodyard
Benny” Longman
Blroad
Explosion at Emporium Powder Plant Kills Nine
An explosion at Emporium Powder Company near Emporium Pennsylvania results in nine deaths and twelve to fifteen injuries. About a ton of dynamite detonated, destroying the mixing plant and packing facilities, while nearby storehouses hold millions of pounds of explosives. Emergency crews and crowds gather as survivors are treated and authorities assess the blast site.
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Commercial Tribune
Emporium
Emporium’ Powder Company
Ada Rehan Under Surgeon’s Knife
London June 28 Miss Ada Rehan the American actress was operated upon Monday for appendicitis. No complications ensued and she is making good progress toward recovery.
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London
Ada Rehan
Murderer Beats Woman 83 to Death Near Zanesville
In Coshocton County Ohio Mrs. Katherine Hughes 83 was found murdered at her home with a club blow to the head. A former suitor is suspected as bloodhounds are flown in and detectives summoned while posses form for a possible lynching. Her husband worked in the mines at the time of the crime.
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Omiltchuk
Commercial Tribune
Zanesville
Katherine Hughes
Simon Hughes
Cooperdale
Coshocton County
Pattison Wins Governor Nomination At Democratic State Convention
John M. Pattison of Clermont County secures the Democratic Governor nomination on the second ballot with about 400 votes on the first, aided by rural support and a Knox County switch for Lieutenant Governor to Louis P. Houck. Welty, Peck, Neal, McCann, Whitlock and others trail amid shifting county loyalties and strategic deals shaping the final ticket.
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Louis B. Houck
Knox County
Supreme Court
Hugh T. Mathers
Shelby
Commercial Trisuks Bureau
Outlook
Columbus
Ohio
Commercial Tribune
John M. Fattison
Clermont County
Hamilton
Cuyahoga
Franklin
Montgomery
Lucas
Franklin County
Welty
John C. Welty
Starke County
Pattison
Hiram D. Peck
Hamilton County
Cuyahoga County
Neal
McCann
Whitlock
Hunter
VanClear
Mr. Pattison
Fortune
Butler County
Ike Huffman
Clermont
Brown
Chance
W. S. Thomas
Clark County
Thomas
Bee
Hugh Nichols
Louis P. Houck
Knox’ County
Houck
Lawrence T. Neal
Clark
Knox
Senator Houck
Hugham Mathers
Shelby County
James A. Rice
Canton
Joshua M
European trip party departs Cincinnati on special train
The Commercial Tribune announces a 4 o clock departure from the Union Depot for its European trip group. A special Big Four train is prepared, expected to reach Miamisburg, Dayton, Springfield, and Columbus by scheduled times. A large depot crowd is anticipated to bid farewell.
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Commercial Tribune
Cincinnati
Big Four
New York
Central Union Depot
Miamisburg
Dayton
Springfield
Columbus
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Daniel W. Cooper
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Henry E. Howland
Frederick W. Keator
Washington
Edwin A. Alderman
University of Virginia
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Black Sea
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Sixth Presbyterian Sunday School
George Pobedionosetz
George the Vic
Torious
Tri Sviatelia
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Ekaterina NI
Dmiltchuk
Georgetown
East Linwood
Ohio Democrats
John M. Pattison
Great Powder Mill
Pennsylvania
Ada Regan
Undergdes
Charles E. Mason
SOR
Posses
Louis B. Rouce
Butler
Board of Public
Works
P. C. McGovern
Stark County
Charles £. Mason
Board of Public Works
Patrick C. McGovern
Guernsey County
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