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 The Legal World West Virginia. — The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the West Virginia State Bar Association was held at Grafton, W. Va., July 24-26. The annual address of the president, Federal Judge B. F. Keller, dealt with "The Juris diction of the Federal Equity Courts as Affected by State Statutes." A manifesto unqualifiedly adverse to the recall of judges was adopted. The annual address was delivered by Prof. John Wurtz, of Yale Law School, on "The Jury System Under Changing Social Conditions." The election of officers resulted: president, William G. Matthews, Charleston; vice-presidents, S. D. Bruce Hall, Hugh Warder, E. G. Nuckolls, Reese Blizzard, George S. Wallace, and Benjamin Daily; secretary, Charles McCamic, Wheeling; treasurer, C. A. Kreps, Parkersburg; executive council, Henry M. Russell, Wells G. Koontz, W. W. Brannon, B. M. Ambler, and W. P. Willey. Wisconsin. — A resolution approving the American Bar Association report denouncing the recall of judges by popular vote, was unanimously adopted by the Wisconsin State Bar Association at a meeting held in Milwaukee Aug. 28. The officers were re-elected, as as follows: president, John M. Olin of Madison; vice-presidents, Thomas M. Kearney, Racine; John F. Harper, Mil waukee; Fred Beglinger, Oshkosh; E. G. Nash, Manitowoc; J. W. Murphy, Platteville: J. E. McConnell, La Crosse; B. B. Park, Stevens Point; Spencer Haven, Hudson; J. W. Claney, Stoughton; O. E. Clark, Appleton; George B. Hudnall, Superior; A. E. Matheson, Janesville; Judge Martin L. Lueck, Juneau; S. H. Cody, Green Bay; M. Barry, Phillips; G. D. Jones, Wausau; S. N. Marsh, Nielsville; Daniel H. Grady, Portage; Judge James Wick-

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ham, Chippewa Falls, and J. B. Fairchild, Marinette; secretary, Adolph A. Kanneberg, Milwaukee; treasurer, John B. Sanborn, Madison. There was no special business before the association, it being dispensed with in order not to interfere with the convention of the American Bar Association. Obituary

Beckwith, Judge James R., prominent in New Orleans, died Aug. 8, in that city, aged 79. He was a native of Philadelphia. He was United States Attorney under Grant's administration, being peremptorily removed from office by Grant just as he was about to put one Casey, Collector of the Port of New Orleans and closely related to Grant by marriage, on trial in the "whiskey ring" cases. Blair, Associate Justice Charles A., of the Michigan Supreme Court, who died in Lansing, Mich., Aug. 30, was ap pointed to the Supreme Court in 1904 to fill a vacancy. Before that he was Attorney-General of Michigan. Frazee, Judge W. D., United States Attorney for the northern district of Mississippi, died at Okolona, Miss., Aug. 16. French, William B., who died in Boston Sept. 8, was a charter member of the Boston Bar Association. For a number of years he was a lecturer on insolvency law at the Boston University Law School. Hartwell, Alfred Stedman, former Chief Justice of Hawaii Supreme Court, died at Honolulu, Aug. 30. He was a grad uate of Harvard Law School, class of 1858, and practically all his professional life was spent in Hawaii. Heath, Herbert M., who died in Augusta, Aug. 18, was the acknowledged leader of the Maine bar. He had an