The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1915-04-23

Attended by many prominent men
! Including former Presidents Roose
yelt and Taft, the funeral OF Prof
Thomas r. Lounsbury OF Yale was held
from the college chapel at Yale.
Defenses OF the Panama Canal are
adequate for all purposes and in gooe
condition" according 10 Major Gener
| al Wood who arrived at New Orleans
from Panama.
Two hundred inmates OF the Chica
go State Hospital for the Insane were
rescued from fire that destroyed ar
annex. The loss is estimated at $50
900.
Newsboys from Baltimore called OF
President Wilson and presented a per
nit that would allow him TO sell pa
pers In the streets OF Baltimore.
Founders Day was celebrated At the
University of Virginia, Charlottesville
Va. by the unveiling OF bronze stat
ue 10 Thomas Jefferson.
Justice w. S. Gummere OF Newark
was reappointed Chief Justice of the
New Jersey Supreme Court by Gov.
ernOr Fielder.
Carrying provisions for 800 refugees,
the transport Sumner sailed for Tam.
pico, from Galveston.
An advance of 81 a ton was an
nounced In Pittsburgh by the more inn
portant steel shafting manufacturers.
Mrs. John Chapman, who was a fam.
Gus hostess when her husband was
editor of the Westminster Review
is an inmate of London poorhouse
She is 80 years OF age.
The Cuban Senate passed bill pro-
hibiting prize fights.
John Bryson of Comanche, Texas,
was shot and killed at the ranch of
his son near Ballinger. His assailant
is unidentified.
Charles G.. Dawes, a Chicago banker,
announced that he will build 500.
600 hotel for unemployed men in
Boston.
Two men were shot to death. and
several others seriously injured in a
battles between strikers and strike
breakers i'm Newark, N. j.
For publishing war news not ap-
proved by the censors, the French
Royalist newspaper "Libre Parole"
was ordered to suspend publication
for 4S hours.
The new $250,00o newspaper build
ing and plant Of the Springfield (Ohio)
Daily News" was opened.
The .avy Department despatched
the gunboat Nashville from Santo Do
mingo City to Port-au-Prince to take
on board Arthur Bailly- Blanchard.
DR.. Reeder, surgeon at the Ancon,
Panama, Hospital. used the membrane
Of an egg to draw a broken eardrum
together. The operation was success
full.
Mrs. Bowman III. McCalla, widow
of Rear Admiral McCalla, presented
10 the White House three wine glass
es owned and used by President John
Quincy Adams.
Brig. Gen. Samuel X. Schwenk died
at his home in New York from all
ments due to a bullet wound received
at the Battle of Cold Spring, during
the Civil War.
Firing his revolver to call police
man to rescue his father-in-law who |
was being beaten up, Joseph Dejos-
tina. of Jersey City, shot and killed
Albert Jenneff, aged 28.
A law school for women is a pos
sibility at Radcliffe College, as many |
Radcliffe girls are dissatisfied with the |
response of Harvard Law School au-
thorities to their request for admis-
sion.
Captain Jean Herail Of the French |
army, was acquitted in the court-mar-
tial before which he was tried for the /
murder of his wife after she had fol |
lowed him to the front in defiance of
an army order.
Abner Barker Magoun, founder OF
new thought" religion in 1895, died
at Rockland, Mass.