Word: washington
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Chief Engineer Oscar W. Hadley, United States navy (retired) died yesterday at his residence in Washington...
...President will leave Washington this afternoon for New York to witness the opening of the New York and Brooklyn bridge. He will be accompanied by Secretary Folger, the secretary of the navy and Mrs. Chandler, the postmaster-general and Mrs. Gresham, the attorney-general and Mrs. Brewster. The length of the President's stay in New York has not yet been determined...
...Washington Warren died in Boston Saturday night...
...last evening to hear Dr. F. W. Putnam's lecture on "Recent Discoveries in American Archaeology." Dr. Putnam was detailed by the Peabody Museum last summer to investigate and report upon the contents of the mounds in the Little Miami valley, and accordingly, in company with Dr. Metz of Washington, he was employed from May until December in conducting a series of explorations, which have resulted in adding largely to the stock of information possessed concerning the American mound builders. In his lecture last evening Dr. Putnam was necessarily unable to describe but one of the groups of mounds which...
Commodore R. W. Shufeldt has been appointed superintendent of the navel observatory at Washington...