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...clerk in the banking house of Morton, Bliss & Co. Subsequently he bought a seat on the New York Stock Exchange, and became a Director in the Illinois Central. After several years of railroad experience with that and other roads, he was elected its President in 1887. The subsequent clash between Mr. Fish and the late E. H. Harriman for the control of the Illinois Central proved to be one of the epochal conflicts in the history of Wall Street. Mr. Harriman, who sought the Central as an outlet to the Union Pacific, broke with Mr. Fish in 1906, and after...
...Dromahair, County Leitrim, a band of republicans burnt the court house and looted the stores, carrying away quantities of foodstuffs and clothes. A fight at Headford, Galway, resulted in four rebels dead and four Free State troops wounded. At Glencar, South Kerry, another clash was reported, resulting in five rebels being killed and two being taken prisoners...
William Jennings Bryan is a member of the Presbyterian Church of Miami, Fla. Several presbyteries have made overtures to the General Assembly requesting that Mr. Bryan be appointed Moderator of the Assembly, which meets in Indianapolis on May 17. The avowed object is to precipitate a clash between those who accept evolution, upholding Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick and those who do not. The expressed object is to " exclude from the pulpit of First Presbyterian Church in New York a Baptist preacher [Dr. Fosdick] whose teaching is not in accordance with the Westminster Confession...
...University basketball team will clash with the St. Francis quintet of St. Francis College, Brooklyn, N. Y., in its last contest before the concluding game of the season with Yale on Tuesday. The game, which had been scheduled for 8.15 o'clock tonight, will be played at 5 o'clock this afternoon instead, because of the fact that arrangements have already been made for the use of the gymnasium in the evening...
Since the Crimson-Green Clash at Hanover Dartmouth has been three times defeated, by Cornell, Princeton and Yale, the scores being respectively 31-33, 15-22 and 22-26. The Cornell-Dartmouth game featured an extra five-minute period. In games with Columbia and Pennsylvania, Dartmouth won by scores of 32-29 and 19-17. The opponents of the Green have pilled up a total of 127 points against her 119. On the other hand the University quintet has scored 160 points against its opponents' 127, but it too was defeated by Yale 36-28. This is the fourth basketball...