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...Fitzpatrick, $500, for the best cartoon. In the St. Louis Post-Dispatch he pictured the multiplicity of modern laws in contrast with Moses' famed...
Married. Joseph Pulitzer, publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and secretary of the New York World, second son of the late famed publisher, Joseph Pulitzer; to Miss Elizabeth Edgar, at St. Louis...
Hobo College, according to an Associated Press dispatch of yesterday, has given 150 diplomas and disbanded for the year. This institution, located in Chicago, has had more than 20,000 men on its roster in the past term. "One of the qualifications for graduation", says the dispatch, "was examination by a psychiatrist, the college faculty holding that prolonged vagrancy indicated a psychopathic condition." As far as a true vagabond is concerned, this is indefensible,--diplomas and examinations. What after all, is the use of vagabonding...
...Charges. Trouble was stirred up for Judge English by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and the charges were taken up by the House and investigated. He is alleged to have been tyrannical on the bench; unwarrantedly to have disbarred attorneys; to have allowed his appointee, Charles B. Thomas, referee in bankruptcy, to have improper privileges at the bar; to have had the funds controlled by the court deposited with banks of which he and the referee were stockholders; to have committed other "improprieties and irregularities" which constitute high crimes and misdemeanors. A subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee was last week...
...recent dispatch from Tokyo brings the news of the death of Baron Sumitoino, one of the most influential of Japanese bankers. Last year Baron Sumitomo, who was much interested in the development of Oriental studies at Harvard, and particularly in the Oriental Department to be opened in the new Fogg Museum, sent the University one of the few remaining copies of his invaluable catalogue of ancient Chinese bronzes...