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of any Torrens oﬁice in the country,

Mr. Abel Davis, has announced his resig nation as registrar and acceptance of the presidency of an abstract and title insurance company. In New York, Mr.

Bar Association; acknowledged author ity on mechanics’ liens law. Fenner, Judge Charles E.——At New Orleans, Oct 24, aged 77. Served in

Gilbert Ray Hawes, the promoter of the Torrens Title Insurance Company,

Civil N'ar with gallantry; Associate Justice of Supreme Court of Louisiana,

interested in securing titles to reg

1880-1894; member of the Board of Administrators of Tulane University.

ister, is at loggerheads with a com mittee of the New York Bar Association appointed ‘at .his own suggestion to try to make the New York law workable and practicable. In Minnesota, it is admitted that notwithstanding the op pressive rulings and statutes serured

.Manderson, General Charles. -— On the Cedric, Sept. 28, aged 74.

United States

Senator from Nebraska, 1883-95; for merly general

counsel

of Burlington

lines.

by interested politicians seeking politi 24,.Mather, aged 48. Robert. Had—been At New general York, counsel 00( cal patronage, against private abstracters and in favor of the registry of title oﬁices, it is admitted that the registra

tion of title oﬁices are not paying ex penses, although no detailed or satis

and later president of Chicago, Rock

Island & Paciﬁc Railway, chairman of the board of directors of the Westiﬂg' house Electric and Manufacturing Com‘

factory reports in this respect have ever pany, and general counsel of the Chicag0 been given out. The great impetus which it was thought the McEnery Emergency Act would give to Torrens registrations in California does not seem to have mate rialized and the deed registries and courts in other states seem not‘ to be in the slightest danger of elimination by the

advance of the Torrens registrar.

& Alton. Quarles, Judge Joseph V. — At Mil‘ waukee, Oct. 7, aged 68. District attor ney, lator;mayor later of United Kenosha, States and Senator state 1655' from Wisconsin, 1899—1905; afterward United States Circuit Judge. Sanderson, John F. — At Pittsburgh

Obituary

Oct. 16, aged 58. Adams, Judge George B. —At Lake George, Oct. 19, aged 66. Appointed Judge of United States District Court at New York City in 1901; a leading

authority in admiralty law.

One of the most

prominent lawyers of Pennsylvania and

formerly

deputy

Attorney-General;

author of legal text-books.

Sheldon, Judge Joseph-‘At New Haven, Conn., Oct. 25. Delegate from

Bright, General John M. — At Fayette ville, Tenn., Oct. 2, aged 94. Inspector General of Tennessee during Civil War; Member of Congress from Tennessee,

New vention York at Geneva. in 1894 to Red Cross (7011'

Wright, Justice Maurice L. —- At Chl

1870—.80. ton Springs, N. Y., Oct. 13, aged 66'

For twelve years county judge? Eells, AlexanderG. — At San Francisco,

Oct. 12, aged 49. Chairman of Section on Uniform State Laws of California

for

fourteen years Justice of the Supreme Court of New York, until 1905