Cambridge, Mass., May 27.—A no
tice posted yesterday at Radcliffe
•College stating what the graduating
class shall and shall not wear com
mencement day started a near-revo
lution among the seniors. Here are
some of the rules which Miss Mary
B. Reed, marshal, demands of the
class to observe: _
A girl must wear a plain tailored
shirt waist with long sleeves, a plain
white skirt, academic gown, black ox
ford shoes-and black stockings, comb
under the hat and no barrettes, no
jewelry, no flowers, no ornaments on
the hair, as ribbons or bows, no rats
or puffs.
Every one of these rules is obnox
ious to the seniors, but one in par
ticular they take umbrage at. Ac
cording to the rebels, a barrette is
essential to the complete parapher
nalia of every well-dressed woman
and are not frivolous and unessen
tial like rats and puffs.
Coney Island, May 27.—A disas
trous fire visited this resort and de
' stroyed Dreamland Park, the loss be
ing $2,000,000. Six babies and an
J. incubator were also burned.
Washington, May 27.—Rev. Major,
a Seattle pastor, offered the prayer
at the opening of Congress to day.
He also called on President Taft,
who informed him that there was a
possibility that he would visit the
Pacifie coast this summer.
noMIeai
IN ALASKA
Chicago, May 27.—The middle
west is again sweltering from the
heat and many deaths are daily re
sulting from prostrations.
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Philadelphia, May 27,—After giv
ing various Methodist institutions
and organizations $29,000 the will
of Francis Magee, a carpet manufac
turer of this city, which, was probat
. ed, remembers many old employes
who the testator said “helped him
to make his fortune.” Twenty-six
employes are given amounts ranging
from $100 to $500.
New York, May 27.—Thomas Ry
an, the tobacco king, underwent an
operation for kidney tribule and his
condition is serious.
CABLEGRAMS IN BRIEF
Washington, May 25.—President
Taft has denied pardons-to Bankers
Walsh and Morse, who are serving
terms in the penitentiary.
Queenstown May 25.—The steam
er Ivernia is on the rocks with
seven hundred passengers aboard.
Washington, May 24.—The House
has passed a bill for immediate state
hood for Arizona and New Mexico,
but requires the former to vote
again on the recall of judges and the
latter on the provision of making its
constitution easier of amendment.
Washington, May 25.—Secretary
of War Stimson is being considered
as a candidate for the vice-presidency
on the same ticket with President
Taft. Senators Cummings and Bor
ah are also aspirants for this honor.
Washington, May 25.—Senator La
follette says that $200,000 was used
to secure Lorimer’s election to the
Senate.
Washington. May 25.—The Dem
ocrats will caucus on the wool sched
ule June 1 and in the meantime no
business will be transacted in the
House.
Lake Maaonk May 25.—Dr. But
ler, in an address delivered here last
night, explained the scope of the
Carnegie endowment for internation
al peace.
Atlantic City, May 25.—Rev. Mat
thews, of Seattle, who is attending
the Presbyterian assembly, declares
that every pastor should give the
church ten per cent of his income.
Washington, May 25.—The battle
ship Michigan leads the navy in
marksmanship.
Seattle, May 25.—The steamer
Alameda sailed last night, her prom
inent Cordova passengers including
Henry Bratnober, of the London Ex
ploration Company who is going
north to inspect the gold quartz
properties at McKinley Lake; Secre
tary Callbreath and H. Taylor, of the
American Mining Company, who ex
pects to establish chapters in Alas
ka; Frank Jordon, James Arnott and
wife.
Washington, May 25.—In the case
of the Humboldt Steamship Company
against the White Pass railroad the
Circuit Court of Appeals directs the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
take Jurisdiction over the Alaska
railways.
St. Petersburg, May 25.—The czar
demands that the Turkish troops be
removed from the frontier.
Washington, May 25.—Governor
Walter E. Clark and wife, of Juneau,
will remain at the capital a month
longer.
Washington, May 25.—Chairman
Smith offers a resolution that the
joint committee appointed to visit
Alaska this summer be given auth
ority to hold hearings on matters af
fecting the territory at any place
they may see fit.
Washington, May 25.—Represen
tative Sabath introduces a resolution
in the House for an investigation of
the express companies.
Denver, May 25.—During an alter
cation Louis Vonphul, the aeronaut,
shot and fatally wounded Frank Sen
wood.
Mexico City, May 25.—President
Diaz has been ill with a fever for
the past five days, which has de
layed his resignation, in consequence
of which the mob is indulging in fre
quent riots and on Tuesday night
a dozen men were killed.
London May 24.—Charles Wert
heimer, who recently died, left $2,
000,000 to Jewish charities.
Washington, May 24.—Senator
Jones and Delegate Wickersham ap
peared before the Senate Territorial
committee and urged favorable con
sideration of a home rule bill for
Alaska.
Portland, May 24.—Arrangements
are being made by Alaskans here for
ai». Arctic Brotherhood meeting to be
held in Chicago.
Kansas City, May 24.—A second
attempt has been made to dynamite
the home of W. Griffith, principal
of the Booker Washington school.
Seattle, May 24.—The grand jury
is still busy returning indictments,
all of them being in connection with
the affairs of the last city adminis
tration. The list now Includes Col.
A. J. Bletben, Managing Editor Clar
ence B. Blethen, City Editor Chaun
cey Rathbun, all of the Daily Times
ex-Chlef of Police Wappenstein, Mike
Powers, Frank Clancy, Chas. Berry
man and Ludovic Dallagiovaca. They
are charged with being Implicated in
different forms of graft and there is
considerable excitement over the im
plication in crime of those connect
ed with the leading afternoon news
paper
Veracruzi May 27.—President Diaz
has arrived here and will take a
steamer for Spain.
New Mexico, May 27.—The inde
pendent rebels agree to a peace pact,
and no further trouble is anticipated.
Washington, May 27.—The troops
are to remain at the Mexican bor
der indefinitely under General Grant.
STRAIN P¥lG
Washington, May 27.—Senator
Lorimer, of Illinois, may resign be
fore the second investigation into the
charges of bribery against him is be
gun.
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New York, May 27.—The Amer
ican Bible Society is celebrating the
conclusion of its ninety-sixth year by
announcing the completion of a
$500,000 subscription fund which
will enable it to take advantage of
the conditional gift of Mrs. Russell
Sage for another $500,000. With
the gift of a third $500,000 from the
estate of the late John S. Kennedy,
the trust funds of the society will
reach nearly $3,000,000.
ALLrED TRADES TO
STRIKE
Vancouver, May 27.—It has been
decided that fifty-two allied trades
will go on a strike June 5.
Doyle, Cal., May 27.—The fall of
a giant meteor caused the earth to
tremble and the shock was felt for a
distance of thirty miles.
OF MEREST TO
New York, May 27.—Colonial
gowns and millinery of revolutionary
times take their place among the
art treasures of the world in a col
lection just presented to the Metro
politan Museum of Art here. It is a
collection not to be duplicated any
where in the country, representing
in historical sequence the life of a
family and the social life of colonial
days.
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New York, May 27.—Mrs. E. H.
Harriman plans to build a great uni
versity on the Pacific coast, and will
likely locate it in Washington state.
Los Angeles, May 27.—It has been
practically agreed that the trial of
the McNamara brothers, dynamite
suspects, will begin this fall.
New York, May 27.—Alfred Deoro
broke the world's pool record, by
making a run of eighty-one balls.
New York, May 27.—Claus Spreck
les has enlisted the support of the
wholesale grocers in the cause of the
sugar trust, against which such a
bitter fight is being waged.
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Charleroi, Pa., May 27.—Despond
ent because she had been refused em
ployment with a carnival company
which appeared here last week, Sar
ah Ague, aged 16, jumped from the
bridge over the Monongahela River
between Monesen and Charleroi
shortly before noon today and was
drowned.
She went to the grounds where
the carnival company was loading
its goods and applied to the man
ager to be taken along as a dancing
girl. The manager refused on ac
count of her age.
After an hour's search the body
was recovered. The girl’s father was
notified of the suicide and was here
when the body was taken from the
river. He is heart-broken. Mr.
Ague could give no explanation of his
daughter’s act.
New York, May 27.—Joseph Sap
orana, an 18-year-old office boy, is
dying in a hospital here today as the
result of a fistic duel with his cousin,
Joseph Erada. The battle, fought in
the basement of a down-town office
building last last night, was waged
to decide the rivalry of the two boys
! for the heart and hand of a girl that
they both loved. Erada won the
fight and the girl with a stinging
blow w’hich felled his rival, and Sap
orana wrung his hand in congratula
tion. An hour later the latter be
came unconscious and surgeons
| found that his skull w^as fractured,
j Erarda was locked up.
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Madison, May 27.—The Wisconsin
state legislature has passed a wom
an’s suffrage bill.
Washington, May 27.—John W.
Gates, the capitalist, has revealed
the secrets of the United States Steel
| Corporation to the congressional in
vestigating committee.
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McCUTCREON GRIFFITHS, Props.
The Port Seward military band is
touring southeast Alaska, giving con
certs.
The Indian police service in south
east Alaska is to be resumed on July
1st.
Two theatrical companies will tour
Alaska this summer.
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