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THE NEWS.
Domestic
Rev. Dr. James Riley Johnson,
Who was pastor of the First Univer
salist Church, Baltimore, during the
Civil War, died in Nyack, N. Y., at
. the age of nearly 92 years.
Samuel M. Felton, president of thej
Mexican Central Railway, and for-1
knerly president of the Chicago and
Alton, has returned from Mexico:
City, to live In Chicago.
Mrs. V. C. Boak Fenner, who re-;
cently was fined for -an alleged at-i
tempt to extort money from the Rev.i
Perley Powers, died at Chicago of|
poison self-administered.
Miss Agnes Irwin, dean of Rad
cliffe College, announced to the stu
dents that she would lay down the
duties of her office at the close of
her fiftieth year.
George Kauttenberger, baggage
master for more than 22 years on
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
Railroad, has been arrested on
charges of stealing.
Making the claim that the Lack
awanna Steel Company and other
concerns at Buffalo are enabled to
undersell it because of cheaper fue!,
the United States Steel .Corporation
is understood here to have demanded
of the Pennsylvania Railroad and
other Lake shipping lines that a
raise in coal freight rates be’placed
in effect immediately.
Charles Brewer, a farm hand of '
near Middletown, N. Y., who was
run over by cars and killed, claimed
to have been Charley Ross.
The wife of Col. Wm. A. Tucker,
U. S. A., fainted while testifying
against her husband before an Army
retiring hoard at Chicago.
Dr. Carroll D. Wright, former
United States commissioner of labor,
is seriously ill at Worcester, Mass.
James Burrell Angell has resigned
as president of the University of
Michigan.
Geronimo, the noted chief of the
Apaches, died at Fort) Sill, Okla
homa. ,
The state’s case against Carl Fis
cher, the New York lawyer indicted
for attempting to bribe a witness dur- •
lng a recent trial, in which the lawyer
was charged with extorting money
from Joseph E. O’Brien, a Philadel
phia decorator, was presented to the
jury.
Information regarding the alleged
practice of brokers hypothecating the
securities of clients was obtained by
the legislative committee investiga
ting the various exchanges in New
York. '
Miss Elizabeth Liston Cochran,
daughter -of a Philadelphia banker,
and Count Georges Ginoux de Fer
mon. of France, were married.
The naming of a permanent com
mission on the tariff was urged at j
the first National Tariff Convention, j
in Indianapolis, Ind.
The Cunard liner Mauretania has
broken the day record run at sea
by steaming 671 knots, or 755 miles,
in 24 hours.
Leslie Coombs, aged 19, was
electrocuted at Dankemora, N. Y.,
for the murder of Harry Hoerner.
Foreign
Mrs. Elizabeth Bird, principal
beneficiary under the will of the ;
late Samuel Roebuck, of Brooklyn, f
keeps a little grocery in a poor sec- 1
tion of Northampton, England.
The Danish cruiser Heimdal arriv- :
ed at Copenhagen with a hole in her i
larboard side, the result of a col
lision with the British steamer As
trakan.
The International Opium Confer- !
ence at Shanghai declined to consid
er the medical aspects of the opium
question or means of curing the
opium habit.
Reports that Austria-Hungary has
sents an ultimatum to Servia in the
matter of the mobilization of her
forces are discredited.
Advices from Japan state that the
government has forbidden emigration
to the Pacific Coast of the United
Btates.
President Gomez of Venezuela
gave a brilliant farewell dinner at
the Mlraflores Palace, in Caracas, ■
in honor of W. I. Buchanan, the
American special commissioner.
Five persons were killed and 78
Injured by the collapse of a floor
in a hail in Valencia, Spain, where
lots were being drawn for conscrip
tion.
Tang Shao Yi, special Chinese
commissioner, brought his British
visit to a close and crossed the Chan
ael to Paris.
Rescue parties got out 32 of the :
148 miners imprisoned in the West
Stanley mines, near Durham, Eng
land.
Hllmi Pasha, the new Turkish
grand vizier, outlined the govern
ment program in the Chamber of
Deputies.
The Agrarian bill which dissolves
communal institutions passed its
first reading in the Douma.
Queen Helena has undertaken the
reconstruction of a town on the out
skirts of Messina.
The officers of the American sup- j
ply Bhlp Celtic were taken to Mount i
Vesuvius.
Heavy earthquakes were felt j
throughout the Island of Porto Rico. ;
Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandro- ;
vitch died in St. Petersburg.
A larger crowd than usual gath
ered at Westminster for the state |
opening of parliament by King Ed
ward, who was accompanied by
Queen Alexandria.
Montreal coal dealers and manu- j
facturers will protest against any
increase in the duty of 60 cents a )
ton on soft coal coming from the ;
United States.
Ambassador Griscom presented to
Queen Helena $250,000, the gift of
the American Red" Cross for an or
phanage for earthquake victims.
The body of an eight-year-old j
child was found in Marseilles torn by
28 knife wounds.
Several mo*e women were stab
bed in Berlin Ey the unknown "Rip- 1
per.”
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The inauguration of President
William H. Taft will cost about SBO,-
000, reckoning on the basis of Mr.
Roosevelt’s, on which $83,000 was
spent. Its expenses will be paid by
the people who attend it and buy
tickets to the parade stands and the
inaugural ball. If there is a deficit
it will be met but of a guarantee
fund, subscribed to by business men
of Washington. The only direct ex
penditure by the Government will be
a small appropriation for the extra
policing and lighting of Washington.
So far as the law of the land is con
cerned, it will be fully Complied with,
New Mistress of the White House
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MRS. WILLIAM HOWARD , TAFT.
If Mr. Taft and Mr. Sherman take a
trolley car to the Capitol, and, after
being sworn in, stroll off into the
j country for a game of golf. The re
j mainder of the ceremony, the parade,,
i fireworks and inaugural ball, is the
! unofficial function of the people of
Washington.
Mr. Taft’s will be our thirty-first
regular inauguration, not counting
; the unscheduled swearing-in of Vice-
Presidents succeeding to the highest
I office through thedeathof Presidents.
The first inauguration was held in
New York, the second and third in
Philadelphia and all of the remaining
twenty-seven in Washington.
General Washington was nearly
two months late for the first set inau
guration day, or at least the "first
Wednesday in March,” 1789, pre
scribed for “commencing proceed
ings” under the new Constitution.
The officers of the first Congress fried
to get its members together on that
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The Mother of President Taft, Who
Died During His Recent Tour
Around the World.
day, which happened to fall on March
4, but because its members were
mostly farmers, loath to leave their
: plantations before the spring plant
-1 ing, there were continuous adjourn
ments on account of "no quorum” for
more than a month, or until April 6,
1 when the electoral vote was counted.
Newsy Gleanings.
i Several more women were attacked
by a stabber in Berlin.
Dr. James Ewing urges the value
of vivisection in cancer research
work.
Americans and Cubans in Havana
joined in a ceremony of commemora
tion of the destruction of the Maine,
eleven years ago.
As a result of the trip of engineers
to Panama with President-elect Taft
it is said in Washington. D. C., that
there will be no change in the plans
j 0 f the IsthmianJjanal.
THE NEXT PRESIDENT
William Howard Taft was borq at Mt. Auburn, Cincinnati, Ohio, on September
15.1857. His fatl\er Was Hlphoqso Taft, and m ot h er was Louise M. Torrey,
both of New England stock- Upon graduation from Yale University in 1878, Mr.
Taft became a newspaper rt
reporter and studied law in
Cincinnati. He was assistant
prosecuting attorney of Ham
ilton County in 1881-82. and
was appointed by Governor
Foraker Judge of the Su
pericr 'ourt in 1887. l .
Ip 1886 Judge Taft mar- ~ | BBRSKsm.
ried Miss Helen Herron.
daughter of the Hop. John
Herron, of Cincinnati. Their
children are Robert Air-hcq
so. a s:u c 1 e r, t at Yale. Helen. AtJfllil
a student at Bryn Mawr. ar.d jHL, </\
Charles Phelps 2d. rov) in . JPP£\< 'HHIHm A
cqe of ihe public schools ir> hi xL
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Judge Taft left tb,e bench fjM
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After three year? he was ap
pointed Judge of the Sixth o?8v -Wy
United States Circuit Court
m Ohio, which post he re
sicn.ed after seven years'
| service, when m March, 1900,
| Presiderg McKinley appoint
j ed him chairiqaqof 'he Phil-
I ippiqes Commissi ol !- Three
| times he was offered a Fed- - " “
1 e'rai judgeship, but he steak WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT.
fastly declined, arid t\e lejt
Plrilippinr.e Islands on February 1, 1904, to becoir\e Secretary of War He con\-
; pleted tbe pacification o\ Cuba in 1906. and Y\e T\as seer* tl\e principal director cf tl\e
'WcrK of digging tbe PJr an\a Canal.. Last year Y\e n\ade a cour of tt\e -World.
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THE NEW SECRETARY OF STATE.
SENATOR PHILANDER C.KNOX, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Committees were thereupon appoint
ed to notify Washington and Adams,
the victors, and the latter managed to
coach It from Massachusetts to New
York in time to appear at his post on
April 20.
But the ship of state had to drift
ten days more without a skipper and
with only the first mate In command.
Meanwhile Washington was journey
ing to New York on horseback, pass
ing through triumphal arches and
over pathways of flowers strewn by
pretty maidens in the towns traversed.
At last he arrived at Governor Clin
ton’s house, in New York, and on the
morning of April 30 his carriage was
thence escorted by a body of troops
and a civic parade to the old City
Hall. This set the precedent for an
Inaugural parada
Prominent People.
•Lord Dalmeny, son of Lord Rose
bery, is to wed Miss Dorothy Gros
venor.
Dr. Lovejoy Elliott, of New York
City, defended the ethical qulture
marriage.
A transfer of lana recorded in West
Point, Neb., shows that Speaker Jos.
G. Cannon recently sold 1400 acres
to Ferdinand Novak for $84,000.
Dr. Charles A. Eaton, of the Madi
son Avenue Baptist Church, preached
on “What Would Jesus Do in New
York?”
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Halls ot Congress.
When the postal savings bank bill
was before the Senate Senator Hey
burn, of Idaho, spoke In opposition
to It.
It was reported that Representa
tive Fitzgerald, of New York, would
succeed John Sharp Williams on the
Rules Committee of the House.
Senator Kittredge declared that a
Panama lock canal will cost $400,-
000,000, and with Senators Foraker
and Teller, advocated a change to
the sea-level type, the estimated cost
of which i5j.247_.000,000.
AND VICE-PRESIDENT.
James Schoolcraft Sherman was born in Utica, N. Y„ on October 24,'1855. His
parents were Richard U. and Mary Frances Sherman, both °f English descent. Mr.
Sherman was graduated from Hamilton College in 1878, and was admitted to the bar
the leading bariKs of Central
JAMES SCHOOLCRAFT SHERMAN. New YorK. aqd l\e becatqe
its a po : itior\ rj/e
occupied at tt\e tirqe of tps electiop. He is also president of ttje New Hartford
r\ir\g Company, organized by t\is father ii\ 1881. Mr. St\ern\ar| is treasurer ai\d cirair
niar\ of tl\e board of trustees of ii\e Dutclr Reformed Ct\urcl\ irt Utica.
Washington’s second swearing In
at Philadelphia In 1793 was the first
March 4 inaugural.
Adams was inaugurated in the
House of Representatives, Philadel
phia. Jefferson’s was the first at
Washington. Monroe established the
precedent for taking the oath on the
east portico of the Capitol, although
he was sworn the second time in the
House on account of the intense cold.
J. Q. Adams, his successor, also took
the cath indoors. Jackson re-estab
lished the custom which has prevailed
since. Jackson was the first Presi
dent to attract a large pilgrimage of
admirers to attend the inaugural cere
monies. ■
German sharpshooters were dis
tributed upon the roofs of the houses
lining the route of Lincoln’s first in
augural procession to and from the
Capitol. ]
Grant’s first inaugural paradf:
marched In eight grand divisions. An,
preciatang Grant’s strained relations
with Johnson, the inaugural commit
tee proposed to drive the two to the
Capitol in separate carriages abreast,
but this angered Johnson. He ab
sented himself from the entire cere
mony, and Grant rode to the Caytitol
with General Rawlins.
Grover Cleveland’s first Inaugura
tion eclipsed all previous ceremonies
in one respect, the crowds from out- j
side numbering 160,000. The hold
ing of the ball that year In the Pen
sion Office set a precedent followed
ever since. Although Benjamin Har
rison’s inauguration day watt prob
ably the wettest, 80,000 men ’paraded
in the rain, and the ball broke all
records with an attendance of 12,000,
while the Inaugural committee real
ized a surplus of $26,000.
A unique feature of McKinley’s
first inauguration was a mounted de-.
tachment of special aids, composed
of the sons of ex-Presidents. He re
viewed bis second parade within a
large case of plate glass, placed In
Tbe Fieh'i of Sports.
Christy Mathewson will coach the
Harvard pitcher* for the next two
weeks.
Charlie Murphy wants the National
League to take* care of Pop Anson by
making him supervisor of umpires.
Fred Buelow, who caught for the
Detroit and Cleveland teams, has
been signed by Jimmy Casey for the
Montreal Club.
Jimmy Austin, the new inflelder of
the New York Americans, led the
whole couutry in base stealing last
season with. ninety-jevin steals.
YOUNG TAFT, THE “YALE MAN.”
Taken in 1877, When Mr. Taft Was
Twenty Years Old.
the centre of his reviewing stand to
! protect him from the increment
■ weather. Mr. Roosevelt was escorted
i to the Capitol by veterans of his fa
mous Rough Riders, and until 6.15
that night he stood reviewing a par-
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Mr. Taft’s Father, Alphonso Taft;
Died in 1891.
ade, among whose novel features
were a troop of cowboys in full re
galia, commanded by Seth Bullock,
Women In the Day's News.
A women's Short Skirt League has
been formed in London. The mem
bers, according to Woman’s Life, bind
themselveß to wear dresses which
will not sweep the floors and pave
ments, and so gather up dust and
microbes.
Miss Margaret J. Dunn has lived
for five years out in the woods for
her health. Both winter and summer
she has taken this rigorous treatment
in the Highlands of Scotland, and
speaks highly of the benefits of the
snow bath_