The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1909-07-22
NOTE AND COMMENT.

II. ardel are at WORK on q history
0f the Roosevelt administration.
The court of sessions at Chelms-
ford (England) has a new bible-the
gift OF a gentleman in the town. Wit
nesses had been kissing its old bible
eve since 1850.
a Chicago lawyer, who was seek
Ing divorce from his wife, testified
on the witness-stand that he had said
''cuss words" only twice in his life,
and that on both occasions she was
responsible for his sinful language.
a London comedian escaped jury
duty month before last by pointing
ont to the court that under an old
bnt unrepealed act Of Parliament all
~play-actors are rogues and vagabonds
and that therefore he was ineligible.
The judge excused him.
Pennsylvania auditor general de-
cides that the payment of mileage to.
associate judges is illegal, and when
Associate Judge Yeager of Roaring
Greek presented his bill for attend
ance at the last term ,of court it was
feturned to him with an item Of 1910.
for travel expense stricken out.
a lot@of college students, boys and
iris, sailed from Boston Wednesday
son d cattleship bound for the other
8 aide. The girls, mostly from Welles-
10y. accompanied by teachers and 9TH
9rchaperons, have quarters in the
cabin. The boys are on the cattle
dsck, having decided to work their
WaySoyer.
Work was begun this week at the
Westinghouse shops in Pittsburg on
switchboard that will be the larg-
ast III the world. It Is for the New
York terminal Of the Pennsylvania
Railroadsand will cost 100000. All
The switches 4 the terminal will be
eontrolled BY electricity and all
|Sthroughgthe one switchboard.
The Broadway-Lexington avenue
enbWay ii New York will be a two
|#Aecker Il the plans approved by the
(spnblic service commission and the
sboardSof estimates are carried out. It
Wex Originally planned to place all
3sfpurtracks onsone level but proper
1atyN0wners objected on account Of the
Ifsnllarrownessg Of the avenue.
NE journal of Commerce has a
Aletter fromia New York business man.
MAY modestly suggest" he writes
..tssstthat if the most eminent American
31I1anSof affairs, John Pierpont Nor
could be prevailed upon to lead
amdiSmodern children Of Israel out Of
n Wilderness m politics, he would
~ hailed BY the majority OF us as .
dsscond Moses,
HUG Probably most people think that
Tras.nothtng doing Is slang fresh from
The mint, but they are In error, July
S|st79, 1856. ME-. Hunter of Virginia was
Undressing the Senate. There is no
these rivers he
L raid. There has been an a%ppropria-
5 Hon for the snrvey Of the rivers, but
Inukhere is nothing doing by the general
rl13IsOoavernment to them"
4 1.-The big flag, said to be the largest
y the world, which is stretched be-
v tween the Frick building and the
arttourt house at Pittsburg, played the
onin,icchief with the court house roof the
bther#day. II caught in a lightning
pulled the rod and a cap
8iStone loose and sent thousands of
pounds of tile roofing to the street,
ifighteeD stories below.
\. /. b. Hill, after living for eleven
eMhn13ears In Alabama under an assumed
iieNdjjEalme. has been taken to Elberton. Pa.
G..slndslodgedain Jail, charged with COM
tslicity Ii . murder committed many
oulears ago. II is alleged that he and
vnfis son-in-law, Samuel Brock, killed
ososaieee Crook, 9 planter. Brock escaped
III ~ has never been heard from. Hill
dfa1assarrested, but escaped before trial.
yllnce going TO Alabama he has &C.
sTFsaIj111imulated much property. He says
i Z ne can prove his innocence.
tsNhen Anna Barnard died In Paris
E M alsl eSt viii containing this provi-
Es;sa3l MI ::s:sthuould my life become 30 In
srsable that 4 be obliged to commit
|ssSI |lge1ssde..and IN VI ich case 1 shall not
|Sslt6SSSSEfth right to q religious service