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Isaac R. Hitt, Illinois state agent before the Court of Claims, died at Washington, D. C., June 13. He was eighty-one years old, and was one of the ablest as well as oldest attorneys practising in Washington. Charles A. White, a member of the law firm of White Brothers and one of the oldest prac tising lawyers in New Haven, Conn., died at his home m that city June 17, aged seventysix. He was graduated from Yale in 1854. He was a grandson of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Frank M. Estes, attorney-at-law, former J udge, and a leader in politics, died at his h ome in St. Louis, Mo., June 19, at the age of fifty-four. He served several terms as chair man of the Democratic City Committee and was appointed a special Judge of the Circuit Court. He always took an interest in the Missouri State Bar Association and served several terms as its secretary. Frank L. Hungerford, one of the leading members of the Hartford, Conn., bar, and corporation counsel for the city of New Britain, died there suddenly June 22. He was graduated from Harvard Law School with Tionors, and soon built up a consider able law practice. Of late years his private practice had become lucrative and his abil ities were widely recognized. Judge John H. Stotsenburg, a leading mem ber of the bar of Floyd County, Indiana, died June 7 at New Albany, Ind. He was a grad uate of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn. Judge Stotsenburg served three terms as city attorney of New Albany. He had also been a member of the Indiana House of Represen tatives during the Civil War, and was a mem ber of the commission appointed to revise the statutes of Indiana about twenty-five years ago. A session of the Supreme Court in memory of the late Colonel Albert W. Bradbury of Portland, Me., was held June 21 at Portland. Justice Bird of the Supreme Court presided and there was a large attendance of members of the bar. There were eulogies by Judge J. W. Symonds, Gen. Charles P. Mattocks and Judge Bird, and resolutions on the death of Col. Bradbury were placed on record by the Court. Aaron B. Gardenier, one of the most prom inent lawyers of northern New York, died suddenly June 22, at Chatham. He was three times elected district attorney of Co lumbia county and conducted many famous trials as public prosecutor. As Member of Assembly from Columbia he at once attained prominence, was chairman of the judiciary committee and was frequently mentioned for the office as Speaker. Edwin B. Franks of Trinidad, Colo., who at one time was a member of the territorial

legislature of New Mexico, died June 8 after a long illness. He was fifty-two years old, and was known as the leading criminal lawyer of the Southwest for a number of years. He had also gained considerable distinction as a writer of short stories. J. Dickinson Sergeant died at Abington, Pa., June 10 at the age of eighty-seven. He was with one exception the oldest member of the legal profession in the country. Mr. Sergeant was associated with many large business interests, such as the development of railroads and mining investments in Vir ginia. He became expert in outdoor pho tography at the time when the processes were much more complicated than at present. Joseph Nimmo, Jr., LL.D., one of the oldest residents of the District of Columbia, died June 15. He was seventy-nine years old. A native of New York, and educated there, he was a civil engineer and followed that pro fession for thirteen years, until he studied law and made a specialty of political economy and constitutional law. For years he was connected with the government as a statis tician and economic specialist. He was a writer of ability, and as a statistician and economist was an accepted authority. Miscellaneous A class of sixty received diplomas from the Detroit College of Law at the exercises held June 18. Gov. Hadley of Missouri signed a bill June 16 providing an additional circuit judge for St. Louis county. Sixty-two young men and one woman re ceived their diplomas from the Chicago- Kent College of Law at Chicago June 10. James G. Jenkins, former Chief Justice of the United States Circuit Court of Appeals, delivered the Commencement address. A ball game between the "Decedents" and "Alibis" was a feature of the outing of the Allegheny County Bar Association on the Monongahela River June 19. The rival Pitts burgh teams did their best to show that "Alibis" were not there and the "Decedents" were dead on the field. The annual Commencement exercises of the Valparaiso University law department took place June 10 at Valparaiso, Ind. The ad dress was made by James E. Russell, dean of the Teachers' College of Columbia Univer sity. Forty-seven graduates received their degrees. The New York Law School conferred the degree of Bachelor of Laws on about one hun dred and fifty students, and gave sixteen others the degree of Master of Laws, at the graduation exercises held June 17. Justice John Proctor Clarke of the Appellate Division