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...Government in the letting of contracts for hospitals. Last week the case was given into the hands of the jury. The jurymen were immured for almost five hours. During that time, the defendants sat smiling and chatting with friends and their attorneys ? Elwood Godman for Mr. Forbes, ex-U.S. Senator James Hamilton Lewis for Mr. Thompson. Senator "J. Ham," as he used to be known when he was "the best dressed man in the Senate," smiled through his fuzzy yellow-brown whiskers. At length the jury came in with its verdict. The clerk read...
Died. Cornelius Cole, 102, oldest ex-U. S. Senator; in Los Angeles. He was a placer-miner in California in '49, knew well the bravest days of the Golden State?the stagecoach, the pony-express, the vigilantes. Lincoln's friend, he heard the Gettysburg address, was with the President on the day of his assassination. He was one of the twelve who organized the Central Pacific Railroad; the last of that stern company of senators who impeached President Andrew Johnson...
...After hearing an eloquent plea from Henry Morgenthau, ex-U. S. Ambassador to Turkey, on behalf of Greek refugees from Asia Minor, now practically destitute, the League decided to increase a loan to Greece from 6,000,000 to 10,000,000 pounds...
...France (French)?Milton S. Hershey (chocolate); Anna Case, soprano, onetime of the Metropolitan Opera Company; 50 ex-U. S. Volunteer Ambulance Drivers, to revisit the Western Front...
Married. Felton Elkins (Manhattan), son of William L. Elkins (Philadelphia street railways), grandson of the late Charles Felton, ex-U.S. Senator from California, to Mrs. Lansing Kellogg Tevis (Manhattan); in Manhattan. This was the third marriage for each, divorces having terminated all the others. She was characterized as "the first woman in Society to bob her hair...