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Lebaron Bradford Colt, 78, U. S. Senator (Republican) from Rhode Island since 1913, Chairman of the Senate Immigration Committee, died at Bristol, R. I., of heart trouble and nephritis. A Yale graduate, class of 1868, he was appointed U. S. District Judge for Bristol by President Garfield in 1881. In 1884 he became a U. S. Circuit Court judge, in 1891 (the year of its founding) a judge of the U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
Died. LeBaron Bradford Colt, 78, senior U. S. Senator from Rhode Island, of heart trouble and nephritis; at Bristol, R. I. (see Page...
...sons and daughters. Our sons have sat in Presidents' chairs.* We dare not deny to women ministers the high order of matrimony." The first result of the Gray report was uproar. One Madeline Southard of Winfield, Kan., dashed to the plat form and shook her fist in Bishop Bristol's face. But the report was sustained by a decisive majority. It gives women the right to preach, to baptize, but not to act as shepherdesses of the flock. Antifeminists had a strong ally in Rev. Jashwant Chitamber who pointed out that "the women in India have not begun to wear...
...recital of the great fights and fighters from James Figg, master of "the Foil, Backsword, Cudgel, and Fist" to the redoubtable Dempsey. There were, in the days when the knockout to the point of the chin was still unknown, such colorful fighters as Buckhorse, "singularly unsightly," Jack Slack (the Bristol butcher), Mendoza the Jew (founder of scientific boxing, the first boxer to go on the stage), Mr. Jackson (the first "gentleman" fighter), the Belchers, the Game Chicken, and Daniel Donnelly (an Irishman) of whom it was written...
House of Commons. By a vote of 343 to 13 the House rejected a pacifist motion introduced by Walter Ayles, a young Quaker Labor-Socialist, representing North Bristol, proposing a sweeping reduction in the British Army of 150,000 men. The authorized strength of the British Army is 225,588 all ranks, including 71,357 British Garrison in India, so the measure was tantamount to the abolition of the British Home forces, exclusive of the 135,000 Territorial (or Militia) forces. A small bloc of former "conshies," or Conscientious Objectors, were the only M. P.'s in favor...