Evening star., 1945-10-21
Fifty Years Ago

of public school build
How Schools ines, explaining that
Are Named many of them stand
as memorials to men
who have. as a rule, achieved national
or local distinction" Sixteen commem-
grated Presidents. Others kept alive the
names OF Joseph Henry, scientist; Sam
uel F. B. Morse. telegraph inventor;
Francis P. Blair. ST., friend of education;
George Peabody, philanthropist: Lucre-
tia Mott, Quaker abolitionist; Thaddeus
Stevens. "antislavery advocate; Wen
dell Phillips, orator John A. Logan, ''ad-
vocate of higher education for the Ne
gro" William Dennison, Seth Ledyard
Phelps. Maj. w. T. Twining. District
Force, w. w. Seaton, Joseph Gales, jr.;
John w. Maury, J. H. Blake, William A.
Bradley, Samuel N. Smallwood, Thomas
Carberry, John T. Towers and Thomas
Corcoran, Mayors of the City of Wash
ington; Walter D. Addison, clergyman
W. w. Curtis and William Cranch,
School Board members; ]. Ormond Will
son, school superintendent; Strong John
Thomson, teacher; Peter Lenox. alder
man, and James Wormley hotel pro-
prietor.
American Marines had been landed
in Korea, said The Star of October IS.
1895, following dis
Murder OF orders at Seoul
Korean Queen British and Russian
detachments also, it
was indicated, had been sent to the
scene OF trouble. The wife of the Ko-
rean King, woman of great force of
character had disappeared and was
believed to be dead. What actually had
happened did not become known Tor
many years. The fact was that she was
murdered by japanese soshi. probably
acting on orders from Tokyo. But the
Mikados government ''emphatically de-
MED" that her demise was due to the
japanese" either officially or unofhcially,
presidency of the United States was
IN Ponce Court on
Mrs. Lockwood October l6, 1895, ac-
Denying Libel cording to The Star
of that date, hotly
to deny that she had libeled E. L. White,
lawyer and real estate dealer, by post
ing sign on his Office door, suggest
ing that he owed her rent. Two
men allegedly had been engaged to
watch Mrs. Belva Ann Bennett Lock-
wood, and they testified that they had
seen her putting up one of the Offend
ing placards. Her defense was "a
full and complete denial of such
dirty and contemplate trick" Mr..
Whites contention was that he knew
of no one else who had any spite
against him." The Stars report did
not specify that he was not in debt
to "the defendant"
A congress of men and women in
terested in communion with the dead
was in session in
Convention of Washington half a
SpirituoIists century ago last week,
and The Star for Oc-
tober II, 1895, gave an account of it's
proceedings, including transcript of
"a platform" reasserting: "We affirm
a knowledge of the continuity of all
life and it's continuance of operation
in accordance with intelligent law, and
we affirm knowledge of conscious
spirit individuality after transition with
the power of communication under
proper conditions. We also affirm
that the laws of spirit progress and
evolution are manifest in this life and
are not interrupted nor suspended by
the dissolution of the physical body
and that advancement comes only
through individual effort" Edgar w.
Emerson, Mrs. j. j. Whitney, Miss
Maggie Gaule and Miss Maggie Waite
gave addresses and tests"
The Star Of october 18, 1895, featured
report on the official speed trial of the
new battleship In
Speed Test for diana between Cape
The tndjono Ann and Boone Island
of the coast OF Massa-
chusetts. Averaging over Is knots an
hour. the new vessel made the stipulated
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