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...Admiral Henry Ware Lyon. 84, U. S. N. retired; at Washington; of heart disease. Commanding the U. S. S. Dolphin, he took part in more engage- ments, captured more prizes than any other officer in the Spanish-American war. In 1889 as executive officer of the U. S. S. Trenton he was at Apia, Samoa, when possession of the island was contested by Great Britain, Germany, the U. S. When a tidal wave drove ashore the warships of the three countries, he ordered his doomed ship's band to play the "Star-spangled Banner" while lashed to the rigging...
Governor Morgan F. Larson of New Jersey, motoring by night from Trenton to Perth Amboy was startled as he passed through Princeton to have a rock crash through his car's window. Undergraduates swarmed about him, stopped his car, booed and jeered they knew not whom. Gravely Governor Larson got out, examined the shattered window, learned that the rioting students had just come from Cane Spree.* Goodnaturedly the Governor drove on, not waiting to see the students try to undress a besieged policeman...
Died. John Hemingway Duncan, 76, architect, designer of Grant's Tomb and Trenton (N. J.) Battle Monument; of heart disease; at Highland Beach...
...Trenton, N. J. celebrates 250th anniversary of its settlement. Nov. 5-7-Nebraska celebrates its Diamond Jubilee. Nov. 11-Armistice Day. Foreign News...
...Trenton, N. J., Mrs. Elsie Hudak sued for divorce, said: "My husband set me to watch a mouse hole in our home. . . . I let the mouse get away and he beat me severely with a broom handle...