Major Smith may sue to test army board ruling
Major Clinton H. Smith of the 71st Regiment may carry his dismissal case to the New York Supreme Court via certiorari to challenge the Board of Examination’s decision. He argues he was not given a personal hearing and cites legal standards on examination into character and fitness. The regiment shows mixed support as the governor’s office says charges were dismissed as meritless.
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71St Regiment
Smith
National Guard
Albany Dispatches
Special Board of Examination
Roosevelt
Supreme Court
Tribune
Court of Appeals
Board of
Charles F. Roe
Peekskill
Bates
Tistment
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Mist
Putnam Bradlee Strong
68Th
Kopper
Yelt
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Ee Kopper
Colonel Kopper
Major Smith
Edward M. Hoffman
Export trade in iron signals continued market decline
Dispatches from Birmingham and Pittsburgh report further price cuts in iron and steel with No 1 foundry iron down to 16 per ton and bar iron cut from 2 cents to 1 1/2 cents per pound effective July 1. Industry voices warn that weak demand persists even as exports to Europe loom. The piece discusses output, shipping costs, and competition from English and German producers amid a cautious outlook for prices and trade balances.
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Birmingham
Ala
Pittsburg
Trial of Lieutenant Martin on forgery at Fort Hamilton
The court martial at Fort Hamilton concluded a forgery trial of Lieutenant Edward H. Martin with a post noon session to finish summing up. Defense counsel argued lack of motive due to ann owning stock and questioned responsibility under morphine influence. Prosecution rested with Brooke Payne summing up for the tribunal.
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Fort Hamilton
Brooke
Department of the East
Edward Hymes
Martin
Fort Hancock
Ann
Brooke Payne
Gussie McKee
Eighth-ave
Mine No 2 Disaster Enters Its Second Day
Glouster Ohio reports a gas explosion at Mine No 2 trapping two hundred miners at dawn. Three men Evans Joseph John McClelland and Aston Swanson died. rescuers saved most others though nights end, and a second and third blast ruined air fans. The mine owned by W P Read & Co of Chicago remains on fire. State Inspector Elmer G Biddison and Deputy Williams are on site attempting to smother the flames.
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Glouster
Ohio
Evan Joseph
John McClelland
Aston Swanson
Elmer G. Biddison
Williams
W. P. Read & Co
Chicago
Fire Appliance Monopoly Draws Real Estate Firestorm
The Tribune reports a practical monopoly by two firms over fire appliance installations in city buildings. Real estate offices fear mandatory use of specific fire boxes tied to department favors, facing $50 penalties for noncompliance. Several brokers called for explicit instructions while others advised clients to resist and possibly seek legal action. The dispute pits property owners against Fire Department control and Tammany officials amid elist?
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Tribune
Beckers
Fire Department
Frederick Pearce
Special Fire Alarm Signal Company
Rose St
Manhattan Fire Company
Pearce
Corporation Counsel's
Tammany
Educational outline of coming college commencements
Educational affairs outline lists commencements for Bowdoin Dartmouth Franklin and Marshall Haverford Hobart Lafayette Lehigh Mount Holyoke Smith St Lawrence Swarthmore Union Wells Wesleyan and more. Dates span June 2 to 27 with baccalaureate sermons, addresses by notable figures and cornerstone layings.
City Must Pay Prevailing Wages in Public Works
The Appellate Division upheld claims that New York City must pay the prevailing wage rate on public works. In McCann case administrator Daniel McCann sought $7,112 for higher wages due to a rammer's work with the Park Department from 1894 to 1895, while in McAvoy v Highways the court ruled the 1899 law did not repeal the prevailing wage duty. The demurrers were overruled and judgments entered accordingly.
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Supreme Court
Hugh McCann, Jr
Daniel F. McCann
Park Department
Justice Bischoff
Thomas McAvoy
Department of Highways
McCann
Replanting Broadway Trees for Transit Tunnel
West End Association seeks estimates from tree transplant experts to remove about 660 trees blocking the rapid transit tunnel on Broadway. Plans call for replanting between sidewalk and curb, along curb lines north of One Hundred Twenty Fifth Street to One Hundred Fifty Sixth Street, with costs ranging from 50 to 300 dollars per tree.
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West End Association
Upper Broadway
Broadway
Progress of the German Club and Yale expenses
Yale's German Club closes its year with junior officer elections and plans to host a Conried company from Irving Place Theatre. The article notes rising language interest, campus building plans, and that senior class expenses show many self supporting students, with 99 of 327 earning all or most expenses while still maintaining opportunities for poorer students.
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New Haven
Conn
Yale
Tribune
Treasury
Music
College Street
Conried
Irving Place
Hamilton College Progress with New Buildings at Commencement
Returning Hamilton alumni will see three construction stages at commencement in Clinton New York. Sigma Phi Hall is complete ground has begun for a commons hall and Truax Hall of Philosophy will be enclosed. Abel G Hopkins Latin professor volume published. John Crossley named gym instructor. Samuel J Saunders may become Childs Professor of Chemistry. Howard H Higbie resigns the Childs chair. Commencement runs June 24 to 28 with trustee election after Hawley term ends.
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Clinton
N. Y
Hamilton College
Sigma Phi
Truax
Howard H. Higbie
Childs
Samuel J. Saunders
John Crossley
Washington
Abel G. Hopkins
Joseph R. Hawley
Staten Island Academy Holds Sixteenth Commencement
Staten Island's oldest incorporated school, Staten Island Academy, held its sixteenth commencement in the Hotel Castleton audience room. A large crowd honored the class of ’6 as six graduates read brief themes and Dr. James H. Canfield of Columbia University delivered an address. Headmaster Frederick E. Parsiegtes presented the graduates in Winter’s absence, marking his sixteenth year of service.
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Staten Island
Staten Island Academy
Castleton
St. Paul's Church
James H. Canfield
Columbia University
William Winter
Frederick E. Parsiegtes
New Entrance Requirements Adopted at University of Michigan
Ann Arbor June reports that the University of Michigan literary department widens admission rules. Fifteen units are required, including three in English, three in mathematics, one in physics, and eight from a list with two units in Latin French or German among the eight. Additional subjects include Greek Latin German English literature history chemistry botany zoology biology.
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Ann Arbor
Mich
University of Michigan
Board of Regents
Baccalaureate Sunday at Columbia University
Tomorrow a Baccalaureate Sunday service will be held in the Columbia Symnasium at 1 p m with the Rev Dr Charles Cuthbert Hall delivering the sermon. The exercises include collects hymns and prayers for the President the country missions and other institutions. The services are open to the public.
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Wells College
Aurora
N. Y
George M. Colville
Professe Avert B. Hart
Harvard University
Columbia University
Columbia Symnasium
Charles Cuthbert Hall
Unclear university language on Latin and Greek unit requirements
The text states biology is composed of botany and zoology and cannot be counted by candidates. It specifies BA candidates need two Greek units and four Latin units, while BPhil candidates require four Latin units.
Columbia University Begins Commerce School Plans
Columbia University ventures toward launching a new School of Commerce as part of its affiliate institutions. With over five hundred graduates awaiting ceremonies, 128 MA theses are in progress. The Chamber of Commerce notes a $500,000 building fund goal. Fellowships include Tyndall for physics and Barnard and Drisler awards for research and philology.
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Morningside Heights
Columbia
Charles Cuthbert Hall
Union Theological Seminary
J. Howard van Amringe
J. H. Canfield
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
School of Commerce
Tyndall
Canin
Robert Bowie Owen
E. E
McGill University
Barnard
John A. Matthews
Drisler
Bert Hodge Hill
University of Vermont
Cornell Women Graduates Plan June Reunion and Luncheon
The Women Graduates Association of Cornell University will hold its second annual reunion and luncheon on alumni day June 20 at 1 p.m. in Sage Gymnasium. Interested alumnae should notify Mrs. E. J. Durand before June 13. The 1900-01 course catalog lists new classes across departments, with professors unveiling Neo-Hebraic and Sumerian studies, Latin sight translation, and modern European history among many offerings.
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Women Graduates’ Association of
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Sage
E. J. Durand
Eddy St
Schmidt
Chase
University of Cincinnati
Durham
Cole
Elmer
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Herder
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Guerlac
Segall
Northup
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Lee
Winans
Miss Brownell
Burke
Hammond
Ottman
Rommelkamp
Morse Stephens
G. M. Borden
Powers
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Samuel Gomers
American Federation of Laos
John W. Foster
Hutchinson
Trevor
Nichols
Bancroft
Carveth
Wilder
Stroud
Harris
Trenton Falls
Oriskany Falls
Lake Champlain
The
New University of Chicago Commencement Moves to June
The University of Chicago will hold its commencement in June for the first time, aligning graduation with the convocation in the following quarter. Dr. W. R. Harper will return from Europe to deliver the principal talk. A Chicago citizen donated 2500 dollars to fund a five year series of Russian literature lectures and possibly endow a chair in the field.
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University of Chicago
John D. Rockefeller
University of the
Windy City
W. R. Harper
Europe
Russia
Going to College. WVU author promotes higher education
Waitman Barbe of West Virginia University Morgantown has written a compact book titled Going to College. It argues for college attendance with business advantages plus deeper motives such as character, culture, and enhanced intellect.
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Waitman Barbe
West Virginia University
Morgantown
W, Va
Book Review Praises Education Tract and Its Notable Contributors
The tract highlights education’s power to enrich life and gathers voices from college presidents and educators. Notable names include Dr. William T Harris and presidents Eliot Dwight Patton Taylor Thwing Gilman Draper Angell Harrison Harper and others. The author avoids dogma, backing points with prominent authorities and quotations.
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Eliot
Dwight
Patton
Taylor
Thwing
Gilman
Draper
Angell
Harrison
Harper
C.K. Adams
Seth Low
Thomas J. Conaty
C. E. Norton
B. A. Hinsdale
Depew
Flower
William L. Strong
Edward Everett Hale
Law admission to Iowa bar after three years study
At the last session of the Iowa Legislature a law was enacted requiring three years of law study and a preliminary general education substantially equal to a three year high school course as conditions for admission to the bar. Cambridge Mass The Harvard Child Memorial Library reports 3487 volumes, up 453 since last October. St Louis adopts portable schoolhouses with eighty seats per room to ease overcrowding. Bryn Mawr College grants 57 bachelor degrees plus three February graduates. nine earn M A and one seeks Ph D in hydrozoa regeneration. Vassar College announces $50,000 biology laboratory fund completion. $25,000 from New England donor helped by Boston alumni group. building planned for next year.
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Iowa
Cambridge
Mass
Committee On the Child Memorial Library
Harvard University
Department of English
Harvard College Library
St. Louis
Journal of Education
Bryn Mawr
Penn
Bryn Mawr College
Poughkeepsie
Vassar College
New England
Boston
Vassar Alumne Association
Handel Detained At Quarantine For Disinfection
The Lamport & Holt steamer Handel arrived from Rio Janeiro Bahia and St Lucia under Captain W Partridge with her own captain O Penrice onboard. Penrice fell ill with yellow fever after leaving Rio and was landed at Bahia for hospital treatment. The Handel remains at quarantine for disinfection.
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Lamport & Holt
Handel
Rio Janeiro
Bahia
St. Lucia
W. Partridge
O. Penrice
Penrice
Ex-Congressman Sanford breaks arm in polo accident
Amsterdam June 8 Ex-Congressman John Sanford a member of the State Racing Commission sustained a broken right arm today after being thrown from a polo pony A doctor at the scene attended him and said his injuries were not serious
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Amsterdam
John Sanford
State Racing Commission
Smallpox Cases Bury in Fall River and Westport Factory
Four new smallpox cases were found in Fall River Mass since yesterday afternoon, all in houses already under quarantine. At Westport Factory five more cases developed, and all Flint Village schools have been closed.
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Fall River
Mass
Westport Factory
Flint Village
Leelanaw reports erupting volcano near Babuyan Islands
Captain O J Storrs of the transport Leelanaw reports a long quiet volcano at Dedicas Rocks Babuyan Islands has resumed activity. The Leelanaw passed within three miles of the rocks observing steam from the crater and disturbed waters around the island near where the cruiser Charleston was lost.
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San Francisco
O. J. Storrs
South Seas
Dedicas Rocks
Babuyan Islands
Charleston
Heavy Wheat Gains Push Prices to Session Highs
Prices rose amid bullish crop damage and speculative buying in the Northwest and by professional operators who retreated as the day ended. July jumped from 75 to 77 1/2 cents, closing strong, with foreign buyers aiding demand and total daily volume near 8.1 million bushels, the heaviest in months.
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Northwest
Bryan Delegates Close Count Ahead of Kansas City
Chicago reports Senator James K. Jones of the National Democratic Committee will arrive early next week. William J. Bryan will meet him soon after and plan the Kansas City Convention work. Twenty four states have held conventions with 456 delegates instructed for Bryan. Maryland and New Jersey remain unpledged. Maryland has sixteen delegates and New Jersey twenty. Bryan needs about 184 more pledged votes under the two thirds rule to capture the nomination.
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the Chronicle
James K. Jones
Nationa Democratic Committee
William J. Bryan
Kansas City
Bryan
Maryland
New Jersey
Coffey Seeks Early Hearing On Committee Case
Isaac M. Kapper for Senator Michael J Coffey travels to Kingston to press Court of Appeals Justice Parker to calendar Coffey v the Democratic Geneva Committee for June. Machine leaders aim to defer until after primaries to target Coffey's bid for re election. Ex Senator David B Hill and Justice Maddox had supported Coffey, Maddox ruling for reinstatement before appellate division reversed it.
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Isaac M. Kapper
Michael J Coffey
Kingston
Chio Justice Parker
Court of Appeals
Coffey
Democratic Geneva Committee
David B. Hill
Appellate Division
Justice Maddox
Recital at Miss Berghs Studio Highlights Singing Schools
At Miss Lillie D Angelo Bergh studio on Broadway and Fifty second street a junior class of the D Angelo Bergh Synthetico Professional Course for singers held a song recital. Pupils presented French German Italian and oratorio styles as part of their certificate event.
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Lillie D' Angelo Bergh
Broadway
Fifty-second St
d'Angelo Bergh
Otis Day Arrives in Rochester with Military Leaders
In Rochester today Colonel Welch of Buffalo commander of the 65th Regiment and Lieutenant Walter Edgar Hagan of Company I made preliminary arrangements for quartering their commands for Otis Day. The 9th Regiment of Pennsylvania, about six hundred strong, will be here by invitation of the Chamber of Commerce. General Joseph Wheeler is expected to attend. The Genesee Valley Club extended hospitality to visiting officers of organizations.
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Welch
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65Th Regiment
Walter Edgar Hagan
9Th Regiment
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Chamber of Commerce
Joseph Wheeler
Genesee Valley Club
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