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Judge J. Randolph Bryan of the Roanoke, Va., Police Court died at Northampton, Mass., Aug. 1. He was formerly mayor of Roanoke. Judge David Boone Blalock, County Judge of Caldwell county, Ky., died at Princeton, Ky., July 19. He was elected judge in 1905. County Judge David D. Sousley of Fleming county, Kentucky, died suddenly at Flemingsburg, Aug. 6. Judge Sousley was the Demo cratic nominee for re-election, and popular with all parties. Judge R. S. Turner, the senior and leading member of the Ashland City, Tenn., bar, died Aug. 6, in his sixty-third year. He was one of the progressive and influential men of Cheatham county, Tenn., and had been suc cessful at the bar. . Judge Henry Ross of Esmeralda county Nev., died suddenly Aug. 1 at the age of fifty-five. He was born in Allentown, Pa., and went to Colorado as a young man, where he built up a large law practice. He was at one time urged to become candidate for Governor of Colorado, but declined. He afterward removed to Rawhide, Nev., becom ing judge of the county courts. Judge Daniel B. Lucas of the Supreme Court of West Virginia, formerly United States Senator, and a soldier and poet, died at Baltimore in July. A dramatic incident of his early career was his daring in "running the blockade" to Canada to defend Capt. John Yates Bell, his college friend, who was tried as a spy at Governor s Island, N. Y., and was condemned and executed in February, 1865. Judge S. W. Lamoreux of Beaver Dam, Wis., where he was president of the German National Bank, and an extensive iron manu facturer, died Aug. 5. A veteran of the Civil War, he was a member of the Wisconsin Legislature in 1872 and was elected Judge of Dodge county in 1877, which office he held until his appointment to the office of United States land commissioner during Grover Cleve land's second administration. Judge William I. Clopton, an active member of the Virginia State Bar Association, died July 25 at Crockett Springs, Va. He was elected City Attorney of Manchester in 1866, and held the office constantly until 1874. In 1871 he was elected a member of the lower house of the state legislature, and in 1873 Judge of Chesterfield county and Judge of the Corporation Court of the city of Man chester. He held this office at the time of his death, at the age of seventy. Judge Edward W. Pratt of the town court of East Hartford, Conn., twice elected to the Connecticut legislature, died July 25 in con sequence of an accident. He was formerly a dentist in Glastonbury, Conn., but soon became keenly interested in Republican poli

tics and was sent to the legislature. After he had become a prominent citizen of East Hartford, he was made judge of the town court, and had been commended by the State's Attorney for the complete record which he had ready on cases which went up to the Superior Court on appeal. He was forty-seven years of age. Judge Joshua Hilary Hudson, a prominent South Carolinian lawyer, whose home was at Bennettsville, S. C., died July 22 at Green ville, S. C., at the age of seventy-seven. He was a veteran of the Confederate army, and had also been a teacher, state legislator, and leader of the bar. The legal profession of South Carolina mourns his death as that of one of the state's most distinguished citizens. He had been at one time president of the State Bar Association. In 1878 he was elected Judge of the fourth judicial circuit of his state, holding the office for sixteen years. Solomon Hicks Bethea, United States judge for the northern district of Illinois, died at Sterling, Ill., Aug. 3, in his fifty-sixth year. He was United States District Attorney in Chicago during the investigation of the alleged beef trust. Born in Lee County, Ill., he re ceived his education in Dixon Seminary, Dixon, Ill., and at the University of Michigan, from which he was graduated in 1872. He practised in Dixon from 1877 until 1898. He was mayor of Dixon for two terms and was a member of the Illinois Legislature in 1882-83. President McKinley made him District Attor ney, and he was appointed to the United States District Court by President Roosevelt in 1905. Necrology— The Bar John R. Olmsted of Leroy, N. Y., probably the oldest practising lawyer in Genesee county, N. Y., died at Buffalo, July 30, aged ninety. D. P. Rose, one of the most prominent and oldest attorneys of Camdem county, Ga., died July 7. He was judge of the city court. Jonas Hartzell McGowan of Washington, D.C., died July 5. From 1868 to 1872 he served as prosecuting attorney for Branch county, Michigan. Harry Wilbur Cragin, one of the best known of the elder guild of attorneys in Washington, D. C., died suddenly at his home in the Blue Ridge Mountains, July 19. Rush Fullerton, an attorney of Kittaning, Pa., died there suddenly at the age of fortysix years. He had been District Attorney for Armstrong county since 1899. Thomas W. Bakevvell, of Plainfield, N. J., a widely known patent attorney with offices in Pittsburgh and New York, died suddenly in Pittsburgh on July 7 at the age of fifty-five.