Yale Honors John Pierpont Morgan With Doctor of Laws
Yale conferred on John Pierpont Morgan the honorary Doctor of Laws for his role in calming the last fall’s financial panic and as a descendant of Yale’s founder Rev James Mor n. Secretary Taft attended the commencement with other dignitaries as hundreds of degrees were awarded across several fields.
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James Morn
Morgan
Taft
Samuel James Elder
Boston
John C. Spooner
Wisconsin
Dean Kirchwey
Columbia Law School
William Vaughn Moody
Joaquin Nabuco
United States
Theodore T. Munger
Hugh Black
Union Theological Seminary
New York
Graham Lask
Otto T. Barnard
New York Trust Company
William Beach Olmstead
Pomfret School
John Meigs
The
Hill School
Magrane Coxe
Guatemala
Honduras
William Kent
Chicago
Tate
Farnam
Cleveland
Hadley
Grover Cleveland
Jeveland
Dr. Black
Mr. Taft
Corporation
Roosevelt
New London
Mr. Cleveland
Harvard Exercises End With Weathered Commencement
Harvard's 19th century commencement featured rain and damp air but strong attendance from graduates and alumni. Theodore Roosevelt Jr received an honorary degree. notable speakers included Dwight N. Robin and Charles R. Joy. Honorary degree recipients spanned Gorgas, Fenn, Leng, Willison, and Gannett, with a six-year board of overseers election concluding the day.
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Harvard
Eliot
Theodore Rooseson
Roosevelt
Sanders
Dwight N. Robin
Winchester
Charles R. Joy
Boston
Henry R. Shepherd
Cambridge
Harry RB. Platt
Brooklyn
Wal- Ter © Archiboult
Sanders Theatre
W. H. Morgan
C. F Perrin
Corporation
Courant
Curtis Guild, Jr
Suffolk
Middlesex
Charley Homer Haskine
Benjamin Johnson Leng
William Crawford Gorgas
Isthmian Canal Zone
William Wallace Fenn
Harvard Divinity School
William Chan- Ting Gannett
Rochester
Henry Newton Sheldon
Massachusetts Supreme Court
Charles Richard van Hiee
University of Wisconsin
Augustus Everett Willison
Obituary: Father Kilpatrick Dies After Illness at 53
Father Joseph F. Kilpatrick pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul church Williamsburg died last night at the Eastern District Hospital from appendicitis. He collapsed after mass on Sunday and underwent surgery but failed to recover. Born in Brooklyn fifty three years ago he was ordained in Baltimore thirty years ago and served at Babylon and St Ambrose in Brooklyn before becoming pastor here five years ago. Funeral will be Saturday morning.
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Sts. Peter and Paul
Wythe Avenue
Williamsburg
Eastern District Hospital
Father Kilpatrick
Brooklyn
Church of St. Mary Star of the Sea
Luqueer Street
Catholic Seminary of
Baltimore
Babylon
St. Ambrose’s Church
Sir William Whiteway Dies in St Johns at 81
St. John s Newfoundland report of the death of Sir William Whiteway former Premier, who passed away in St. John s at the age of eighty one. The brief notice notes his long public service and prominent role in Newfoundland politics.
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William Whiteway
Newfoundland
Death of Leopold Bloch in Carlsbad Germany
Rochester readers are informed that Leopold Bloch of Stein-Bloch Company died this morning in Carlsbad Germany after traveling there a month ago. He was a prominent member of several clubs in Rochester and New York City.
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Germany
Leopold Bloch
Stein-Bloch Company
Bloch
New York City
Major Joshua A. Fessenden Dies in Stamford at 83
Major Joshua A. Fessenden U S A retired died suddenly at his Stamford home from heart disease Born in 1841 in Rockland Missouri he served in the 1st Maine Cavalry and Sth Artillery received brevet ranks for Stone River and Chickamauga later became Stamford postmaster He was educated at Williams College and survived by his wife a daughter and two brothers including the late Samuel Fessenden
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Conn
Joshua A. Fessenden
Fessenden
Maine
1St
Maine Cavalry
Sth Artillery
Stone River
Tennessee
Chickamauga
Samuel Fessenden
Rockland
Williams College
Obituary notes for two former hospital and sports figures
Dr. H F Carriel longtime superintendent at the Central Hospital for the Insane in Jacksonville Ill died Tuesday aged 77. William F Traffley former Baltimore manager and Des Moines 1896 manager who led a world record 25 straight wins died in Denver from tuberculosis yesterday.
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Central Hospital For the Insane
Jacksonville
Ill
William F. Traffley
Baltimore
Des Moines
Denver
Death shadow over CCNY 56th commencement with Cleveland memory
At CCNY commencement speakers paid tribute to Grover Cleveland after his death. President Finley hosted with Henry van Dyke filling in for absent Governor Hughes. Van Dyke recalled Cleveland as a man of firm integrity and public service, urging focus on the living.
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Grover Cleveland
Charles E. Hughes
College of the City of New York
Finley
Cleveland
Hughes
Henry van Dyke
Commonwealth
Hotel de Hollande at Mayence Modernized for Rhine Tours
The Hotel de Hollande at Mayence has been thoroughly modernized and rests as a premier base for Rhine travelers. Located opposite the Rhine steamers landing, it offers full American-style conveniences and a practical starting point to store luggage while arranging trips along the river.
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Hotel de Hollande
Mayence
No Fireworks Before Fourth Ordered by Police Chief
General Bingham the Police Commissioner issued a strict order banning any fireworks or pistol discharges within the twelve hours before and after the Fourth of July. Permitted fireworks sellers may continue, but offenders will be arrested. Police conducted broad arrests yesterday and will enforce the decree.
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Bingham
Navy Engineers New Chief Barton Faces Oil and Turbine Shifts
Washington reports Rear Admiral John K. Barton installed as engineer in chief guiding the bureau of steam engineering. Key issues include replacing coal with oil for torpedo boat destroyers, selecting oil burning apparatus, and sweeping turbine adoption on warships. Movements list officers assigned, leaves granted, and ships’ arrivals and transfers across yards.
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Washington
John K. Barton
Engineer In Chief
Navy
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Barton
Engineer Corps
Bureau of Steam Engineering
Curtis
Ostend Hotels Add Hotel de la Plage to List
The Ostend hotels expand the roster with the Hotel de la Plage between the Hotel Splendid and the Hotel Continental. A boat service now ferries travelers from across to Ostend in about four hours, inviting a weekend stay to escape English Sunday dullness.
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DAILY
Sunday Tribune
London
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Clarige's
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Midland Grand
the Howard
Norfolk Street Embankment
England
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Liverpool
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Manchester
Queen's Hotel
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Isle of Wight
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Westminster
Jankfurt
Borel Sommer
Adopted Daughter to Fight Will in Paris Probate
Benjamin Hart, a Virginian who built a New York fortune and lived in Paris, died in May leaving his estate to Mme de Bie while disinheriting his adopted daughter Isabel Lucchesi Guillemin. Isabel, now Mrs. Jean Guillemin, has asked her lawyer Donald Harper to challenge the will in New York Surrogate Court at probate on July.
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Benjamin Hart
Hart
New York
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Isabel Lucchesi
Isabel
Jean Guillemin
Countess of Montebello
Vienna
Guillemin
M. Delcassé
Mme. de Bie
Mme. Guillemin
Donald Harper
Trial Testimony in Peters Perjury Case Continues
The Peters perjury trial resumes before Justice Goff after William Clifford pleaded guilty to taking 6000 dollars to sway eleven Municipal Ownership League aldermen for Recorder. Ex-Aldermen O Neill Kunze and Falk testified about votes and affidavits amid threats and contradictions. proceedings adjourned with the case to resume today.
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Justice Goff
William Clifford
Municipal Ownership League
Rufus B. Cowing
Francis J. O'Neill
Smyth
Judge Cowing
O'Neill
Miss Helen Taft Wins Bryn Mawr Scholarship
Announcement from Philadelphia on June 4 says Miss Helen Taft daughter of the Republican Presidential nominee won first honors among Bryn Mawr entrance candidates at matriculation exams and receives a scholarship. Miss Elizabeth Harlan of Chicago granddaughter of Supreme Court Justice Harlan also won a scholarship. four scholarships are awarded annually by the college.
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Helen Taft
Bryn Mawr College
Taft
Elizabeth Harlan
Chicago
Justice Harlan
Supreme Court
Target Records Achieved by Coast Artillery Rifles
Washington reports perfect target records by 83 inch rifles in the coast artillery corps. The 19th Company at Battery McDonough Fort Caswell North Carolina scored 10 for 10 at a 10 by 5 foot target moving five mph at 1600 yards in 38 seconds on May 28. A second run at Battery Lord Fort Moultrie South Carolina by the 16th Company on June 1 also hit 10 for 10 at 1230 yards moving nine mph, finishing in 36 seconds.
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Coast Artillery Corps
Battery McDonough
Fort Caswell
North Carolina
Battery Lord
Fort Moultrie
South Carolina
Helena Kirk author Helena M. Ames dies at 76 in Rhode Island
Mrs Helena M Ames known as Helena Kirk dies at her Weekapaug summer cottage near Watch Hill Rhode Island at age seventy six. A daughter survives her.
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R. Il
Helena M. Ames
Brooklyn
Helena Kirk
Weekapaug
Watch Hill
Weather Forecast and Official Record from Washington
Official Weather Bureau record shows high temperatures in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region with thunderstorms and a cooler night by 5 to 15 degrees. Forecasts predict fair and cooler days ahead for DC, Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, Eastern Pennsylvania, and Eastern New York with light to fresh west winds and pleasant temperatures in the central and western regions.
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New Jersey
Pennsylvania
New York
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Mexican Attache Davila Visits Pine Camp Maneuvers
Major Don Fortino M Davila military attaché to the Mexican Embassy in Washington arrives at Pine Camp New York. He tours grounds with General Grant, praises camp as ideal for large troop maneuvers and notes plans to reorganize the Mexican army after U S model. Regulars provide instruction as Kriegspiel war game captivates officers.
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Washington
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Mexico
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C. R. Jones
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W. G. Heaton
18Th Cavalry
WM. Elmore
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13Th Cavalry
West Point
65Th Regiment
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John T. Haines
11Th
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L. A. S. Chapman
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Vermont
Hunter H. Nelson
24Th
Hilton L. McGrew
J. F. Bell
Corps of Engineers
Fitzhugh L. Mimmigerode
New Hampshire
C. H. Miller
Halsted Dovey
G. L. Townsend
L. A. Dewey
12Th Infantry
Joseph F. Barnes
New Jersey
E. S. Stayer
John J. Mudgett
WEDDINGS OPEN WITH Cambridge couple married in city home
WEDDING notices report Miss Elva M. Pevey marrying Harvard senior Benjamin Wyman Morse at the Pevey residence in Cambridge with over a thousand guests. The Rev Frederick Marble officiated. In Duxbury Mrs Van Campen Taylor wed Russell W Moore, a New York banker, and the couple will honeymoon in Europe. Elizabeth Hazard and Harry Powers plan a June 27 ceremony in New York. A Horsford product ad closes the piece.
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North Avenue Baptist Church
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Duxbury
van Campen Taylor
William J. Wright
Russell W. Moore
New York
Elizabeth Robinson Hazard
E. C. Hazard
New Jersey
Harry Lord Powers
Trousseau
Vienna
Paris
CHAMBERLAIN FULLER WEDDING IN WARWICK NEW YORK
Doris Fuller daughter of Mr and Mrs James M Fuller marries Dr Aims A Chamberlain on Saturday June 2A 1008 at The Gables Warwick New York.
Obituary notices and funeral details from New York area
Mixed obituary notices with multiple names and funeral details. Hastings Hitchings Lydia Johnson William Kelly Ogden Mariana N. Watson and others appear with addresses in New York New Haven Utica and Calvary Cemetery. Public notices describe church services and memorials and guidance on local transit and services.
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Mas A. Hitchings
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Cal
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St Matthew's Church
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Graham Bei No
Washington Cave
Ogden
Chatham
N. J
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Memorial Church
Atham
New Haven
Hartford
Watson
William Livingston Watson
Grace Church
Utica
Desirable help quick at Tribune offices attracts applicants
Special notices invite employers to consult a file of applications for various positions now installed at the New-York Tribune office on Broadway 1364. Hours 9 am to 6 pm daily including Sundays, with subscription rates, domestic and foreign mail options, and extensive international office networks listed for readers and advertisers.
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