The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-05-13
The Mitchell Capitai
THURSDAY, MAY IL, 1903.
NOTE AND

AL Concord, N. H., hon. JOHn MILL
ball-88 years old-has just accept
ed the presidency OF a bank.
Wednesday receipts at the United
States treasury came within $79,-
441.32 of equalizing the days dis
bursements.
Marion Avery, 13 years old, of AL
derson, Penn, recently shot an
osprey or fish eagle, measuring five
feet four inches from tip to tip, at
Harvey's Lake.
Worcester, Mass, has increased the
salary of Superintendent of Schools
Lewis to $4,250 ay ear. His assist
ant is paid $4,000 a year. Worcester
has $4,000 school children and about
700 teachers.
McGill University authorities COM
plain of the law requiring Chinese
students who go to Canada to be ed
ucated to pay a tax of $500. The
Montreal Gazette" says the people
who think will add their objections
to those of the university.
Jude George Gay Of Delaware and
the United States circuit court cele-
brated his sixty-nfnth birthday on
Tuesday. He was graduated from
Princeton University in 1859 and
was admitted to the New Castle coun-
ty bar in 1868.
Miss Ida Shaw King, dear of the
Woman's College at Brown Univer-
sity, has refused an invitation to be-
come dean of Bernard College. Miss
King had previously declined a call
to Radcliffe College. The salary Of
fered at Barnard vas $4,000 a year.
A class of thirty-nine was grad
uated at the ninety-seyenth annual
commencement of Princeton Theolo-
gical Seminary last week. The COM
mencement exercises were made the
occasion of the celebration of the
400th anniversary of the birth of
John Calvin.
William r. Grebenstein, an %electri-
clan, who lost one eye and suffered
injury to the other through a flash of
electricity in a power house of the
Boston Elevated Railroad, has been
awarded a verdict of 100000 dam
ages. Theasuit was tried in the Mid
dlesex superior court.
The international Harvester Com
pany of the United States has bought
sites for branch plants at Croix (near
Roubaix) in France and at Neuss
(near Dusseldorf) in Germany. An
estimate makes the cost and the
working capital OF the two plants
about $5,79O,OOO.
Judge M. Fl. Willis, in delivering
a charge to the grand jury at New
Martinsville, w. Va, directed it to
indict church societies and church
workers who obtain money through
the medium of rafles. He said that
persons who obtain money in this
way should be treated the same as
ordinary gamblers.
Charles Turner Hughes, to whom
Thomas A. Edison, his employer for
many years, gives credit for the de-
velopment of the trolly car, died at
his home in East Orange, N. j., on
Tuesday. Edison said that if. it were
not for Hughes the trolley might not
yet be developed. Hughes began
work on a plan to apply electricity to
the running of surface cars in 1870,
the year that he Joined the Edison's
staff.
At a public meeting in Chicago n
night last week, in celebration OF the
twenty-third anniversary of the Hay
market riot, Chief of Police Shippy
announced that before his term en-
pires every officer who fought in that
riot, and who has since left the de-
partment with a good record, will
be reinstated. Previous speakers had
urged that the veterans be given pref
erence over civil service applicants.
Observation-Disclosures Fred w.
Fleitz of Pennsylvania is about to re-
sign. This is the way he explains
his leaving the public service: Il
think It's about time. I've been
about the twenty-five years. and I've
had this Office for eleven years. Fur
thermore, I've always had a strong
curiosity to know how it feels to re-
sign q $1,000 job, and I'm going to
find out and at the same time dis
prove the old saw that few die and
none resign"
Rev. DR.. Workman, who in 1907
was dismissed from the professorship
Of Hebrew and Old Testament exige-
sis at the WESLEYAN Theological Col