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The Green Bag

_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.