Review of reviews and world's work . DR. NILO PECA.\H.\. (Who as Vice-President of Brazil succeeded to therresidency on the death of Dr. Tenna.) . .. .The American Sheet & Tin Plate Company,in a suit tiled in Pittsburg, asks damages of$200,000 from fifty-six alleged leaders in thestrike at its plants in Newcastle. August 13.—The controversy between theChicago street railways and their employees issettled at a conference of the .Ex-Gov. S. R. Van Sant, of Minnesota, is electedcommander-in-chief of the Grand Army of theRepublic. August 15.—Fire on the Cunard liner Lucaniacauses the ve
Review of reviews and world's work . DR. NILO PECA.\H.\. (Who as Vice-President of Brazil succeeded to therresidency on the death of Dr. Tenna.) . .. .The American Sheet & Tin Plate Company,in a suit tiled in Pittsburg, asks damages of$200,000 from fifty-six alleged leaders in thestrike at its plants in Newcastle. August 13.—The controversy between theChicago street railways and their employees issettled at a conference of the .Ex-Gov. S. R. Van Sant, of Minnesota, is electedcommander-in-chief of the Grand Army of theRepublic. August 15.—Fire on the Cunard liner Lucaniacauses the vessel to be sunk in her dock atLiverpool. August 16.—Mr. Curtiss makes three flightsin his aeroplane at .Excessive heat isreported in the Middle West, the temperature reaching 110° Fahr. in Muskogee, Okla Walter Wellman starts from Spitzbergen in hisdirigible balloon for the North Pole. August 17.—The railway employees in Swe-den refuse to join the strike. 292 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF Photograph by The Bradley Studio, N. Y. RKV. \V. R. HUNTINGTON^ (For a quarter of a century rector of Grace Prot-estant Episcopal Church, New York City.) August i8.—A German fleet of ninety war-ships leaves Kiel for the summer maneuvers inthe Baltic President Bryan, of Franklin Col-lege, Indiana, is elected to the presidency ofColgate University, in New York. August 19.—The mimic war game in ]\Iassa-chusetts comes to an end u-ith the victory of the Red, or invading, army Seven cadets are dismissed from the United States MilitaryAcademv at West Point on approval of the President The State of Arkansas files sviits against sixty-five insurance companies, askingpenalties of $65,000,000. OBITUARY. July 21.—Samuel William Johnson, professoremeritus of agricultural chemistry at Yale Uni-versity, 79 Herr Karpeles, the German writer and journalist, 61. July 22.—William L. Riordon, writer on New York City politics. 48 Baron Detlev von Liliencron, the German author, 65.
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