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...City Bank of Rochester, N. Y., suspended yesterday, owing to the misappropriation of $333,000 of its funds by its president...
...required number pay, the tickets can be had on Wednesday A. M.; if not, the money will be refunded at that time. Each person paying and signing should state the length of time he will be away. To members of the society not going to or passing through N. Y. there will be allowed, on presentation of membership ticket at Sheldon's ticket office, 276 Washington street, Boston, a discount from the regular fare nominally greater than others can obtain. Each member will be able to purchase as many tickets as he desires, and non-members can secure from...
...EDITOR OF THE N. Y. EVENING POST - Sir : The other day my son, aged about fifteen years, asked me the meaning of a certain objectionable passage in a play of Shakespeare, which, he said, he was instructed by his school teacher to analyze. Surprised that the boy should have such subject matter given for his lucubrations at so early an age, I made inquiry at the school, at the same time expressing my desire that he should receive other subject-matter for his studies in composition. I was informed in reply that, as the boy was understood to be preparing...
...depot, together with sixty cars, ten locomotives and a wharf belonging to the Manhattan Beach Railroad Company at Bay Ridge, N. Y., were destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss...
...Y. World thinks that the Harvard-Yale game "showed that the rules are not sufficiently strict in regard to the penalties for foul tackling. For this offense the penalty should be the removal of the player guilty of it from the field during the half-time in which it was committed. In regard to the block game, the only rule likely to put a stop to that is to make so many safety touchdowns equal to a regular touchdown. Four touchdowns are equal to a goal, and it would be well to make four safety touchdowns equal to a regular...