Jan. 8. Capt. D. P. Foley of the revenue cutter service is a member of the board which is announced to meet at Baltimore, Md., today, to consider applications. Jan. 11. Julius L. Foy, a St. Louis (Mo.) member of the society, dies. Jan. 24. Col. John Y. F. Blake, who led an Irish corps against the British army in the Boer War, was found dead today in his home, New York City, from gas asphyxiation. His death is believed to have been the result of accident, as there was no evidence of self destruction. Colonel Blake had served a long period in the United States army. Jan. 24. Annual meeting and dinner of the Society. It was held at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston, Mass. Thomas B. Fitzpatrick of Boston presides. February. This month appears the statement: Colonel Paul St. C. Murphy, a Brooklyn man, has assumed command of the Marine Corps stationed at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Colonel Murphy succeeds Lieutenant-Colonel Mahoney, who has been assigned to the Marine Corps in the Philippine Islands. Colonel Mahoney has been in command of the local barracks for nearly two years. Feb. 2. Death of Rt. Rev. William Stang, D. D., Roman Catholic bishop of Fall River, Mass. Bishop Stang was a member of the Society. Feb. 9. Death in New Bedford, Mass., of John B. Sullivan, a member of the Society. Feb. 21. Hon. John Cunneen, former attorney-general of New York state, dies at his home in Buffalo. March. Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw of Boston, Mass., widow of Colonel Shaw, died this month. She was a daughter of Ogden Haggerty of New York. At the sale of the Doherty estate, New York City, Stephen McPartland, of McPartland & O’Flaherty, paid $382,550 for a plot 100x100, at the southwest corner of 8th Avenue and 43d Street. This was at the rate of over $38 per square foot.