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_The executive committee consists of
Lore served fifteen years as Chief Justice
Senator Root; Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University; John W. Foster, former secretary of state; Andrew J. Montague, Henry S. Pritchett and Charlemagne Tower. The finance committee includes George W. Perkins,
of the state, retiring in 1909. For many years Judge Lore had been president
Robert A. Franks and Samuel Mather.
of the board of trustees of the State College and extremely active in the
interests of the institution Augusto Pierantoni.-—Augusto Pier
By-laws were adopted stating the pur poses of the endowment to be such as
antoni, Professor of International Law and a delegate to the last parliamentary
were provided for in the bill passed by the last session of Congress, incorporat ing the movement.
conference at Washington, died recently in Rome. Among his translators was David Dudley Field, who made available for the English public his "Code of
International Law.”
He was born at
Oln'luary Judge William H. West.—]udge William H. West, who died March 14, in his eighty-eighth year, was one of
Chieti, Italy, on June 24, 1840. He served as a volunteer in Garibaldi's army, and later served in the war with
the founders of the Republican party
Austria. He was called to the chair of international law at the University
in Ohio. He was a leader in the Ohio constitutional convention and became
of Naples, and was later promoted to the University of Rome. He was chosen
Attorney-General and Supreme Court judge. He was a delegate to the national convention of 1860 and cast his vote for Abraham Lincoln. In the national convention of 1884 he pre sented the name of James G. Blaine for
senator in 1883 and served through four legislative sessions. He was the arbi trator for Italy at the Paris conference of 1885 concerning shipping in the Suez Canal. He was a founder of the
International Law Institute at Geneva.
President. Chief Justice Lore. — Chief
Justice Peabody.—Henry Clay Pea body, Associate Justice of the Supreme
Justice Charles Brown Lore of Delaware is dead, at the age of eighty years. He was a country-bred boy of a Methodist
Court of Maine, died at Portland, March 29. He was a native of Gilead, Me., and was educated at Dartmouth
Former
family, and for a short time he held a
College, reading law in the office of
place in the Methodist ministry. Leav ing the church for the law, he built up a profitable practice, and nearly forty
Gen. Samuel Fessenden of Portland. He was admitted to the bar in 1862, his partner being the late Hon. Aaron
five years ago became Attorney-General
B. Holden. In 1879 he was elected judge of the court of probate of Cumber land county. He was elevated to the Supreme Court bench by the late Gov.
of the state. Later he served in Congress as a Democrat, and when Thomas F.
Bayard left the United States Senate to enter Cleveland's cabinet Mr. Lore was barely defeated for the vacant seat by George Gray, now of the United
States circuit court of appeals.
Mr.
Llewellyn Powers in 1900 as the succes sor of the late Judge Haskell. He was
a past Grand Chancellor of the grand lodge of Maine, Knights of Pythias.
