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Show Vve ' - J 1 v ' - - rJ r amot" Educator, f t ' ' jSU ' ' Dr' EJma,d Ael Birg. who will . ' fr0y 811 ,h J"108 Df. 'har!e- Kendall 1 JL J J " N Adam a president of tie University V -x . of Wisconsin .while : . iVSCX 1r' Adam a I re- '-".v. covering bit health Lt-,,V- alT esS J abroad. ha been I J an honored mem- F smoiu Educator. Dr. Edsard Asahc-l Birg. who will fill the place of Df. Charles Kendall Adams as president of the University or Wisconsin .while Dr. Adam la recovering re-covering bis health abroad, has been an honored member mem-ber of . the' faculty for' '"twenty-firs years. Hs began bis labors In IttTS; as instructor In natural history -cm MarK Gtvain Horn j jam. Mark Twain U home, after bis long stay in London. I Hiring the years be has made his borne abroad b bas been at times reported as slowly starving to death and ct other times as banqueting banquet-ing t umptuousiy with dukes, earls and emperors. In 1S7 and Mr. Clemens Clem-ens w.tj feted In Vienna as no other . . American had been feted. Oa one of thc-e ocraslous be addressed his audience audi-ence in the German language. Ths great humorist is now 5. but bas not and one year later he was made pro- Dr F!r-feasor F!r-feasor of toolcgy. . In H91 hs was elected dean of the cel!ge cf letters and science. Dr. Birge Is not only a scientist of eminent reputation, but Is likewise an authority of international note In bis line. After his graduation In 1873 from Williams College he spent two years In Harvard and re-reived re-reived from that university bis d'gree of doctor of philosophy. Later hs went abroad tor a course la histology st the University of Leipslc. In 1S97 be was made honorary doctor of science by the Western University of Pennsylvania. Pennsyl-vania. He is forty-nine years old. I CerV Sad Dtath. While Invex.g&ting noises la the rear of his residence in Atlanta. Ga.. the other morning. Charles A. Collier, one of ths bent known men la the south, fell down the steps of the back porch. His pistol was discharged, and the bullet entered the left breast near, the heart. The noise of bis fall and the pistol shot aroused bis family. He was found lying at the bottom of the steps in the yard In an unconscious condition. Mr. Collier was beirn In At'anta, fifty-two years ago. He was educated at the university of tleorgia and was admitted to the bar In 1871. Leaving the profession of the law he engaged In banking with great lucres. He was president of the Piedmont exposition SAMUEL L. CLEMENA (Mark Twain.) yet laid aside his pen. H.s recent work shows no signs of decrepitude. 1U financial prospects are good. Che Late John E. Hudson. John K. Hudson of Bewton, the pres-leient pres-leient of the American Bell Telephone company, died suddenly the other morning la the Boston & Maine railway station at Beverley, Mass.. while waiting for his train. For many years Mr. Hudson was a pro-s pro-s feesor of law In the Harvard university law school. He became be-came the general wt- . nil . John E. Hudson. un,d "fu" ertcan Hell Telephone Tele-phone company In 1SS2 and was the legal champion of the company In the days of Its early litigations. In 1SS6 Mr. Hudson became the general manager, man-ager, nnd in 1S!9 he w;is eWted president, presi-dent, which position he held up to the time of his death. A Startling fioOtt. Mis Hallie Ermlnie Hives, cousin to the author of "The Quirk or the Dead," has written a novel that makes the story of the Princess Troubetskoie senun absolutely frosty and colorle-s. "A Furnace of E.irth" is the name of the latest production from the pen of the southern girl who two seasons ago shocked the public by "Smoking Flax." an anil-lynching tale that provoked critlrij-m from the Atlantic to the Pacini-. After Mis Rives read what the papers said concerning "Smuking Flax" she wept herself Into a cond.-tioa cond.-tioa that caused her frlenils to put her Into a sanitarium. Her recovery must have been complete, for "A Furnace of E.irth" surpass. In Intensity and frankness an) thing that has ever been writtca by aa American. It will cause Eola and Oulda to feel eavlous pangs. CHARI.E3 A. COLLIER of 1SS7, alderman In 1S7 and 1SS. and mavor pro tempore of Atlanta In Willis Wi-llis most notable achievement bas been his work In the Piedmont exposition, exposi-tion, which greatly enlrrg.-d the commercial com-mercial prestige of the city. He was president of the Cotton Statu and International In-ternational exposlt-" of president presi-dent and active head of the Capital City Bank, from which position he resigned re-signed only a few mouths ago. and was recently mule chairman of the !oard of county commissioner. He served as one of the twelve commissioners from the United States to the Paris expedition of this year, and was a memWr of the Lafayette Monument association. Etectric-'ty for Johore. . His highness Ibrahim, sultan of Johore. Jo-hore. has entere-1 Into a contract with the Geweral Electric company of Schenectady. N. Y.. to furnLsh him an electric plant costing between $700.0)0 snd Jvio.fOU to transmit power ninety-eight ninety-eight miles from a cataract to the gold mine belonging to the government, and the company la sending nine of Its experts to Johore for the purpose of setting up the plant. They are under un-der contract to remain In the employ of the saltan fur a terra of years until bis own s-ibjectsfcave learned the business busi-ness The agents of Ibrahim are now contracting for the reft of the machinery, machin-ery, which will cost In the neighborhood neighbor-hood of ir.O.OvO Max Echoenfeld. a. former Phlladel-nh'lan. Phlladel-nh'lan. now a resident of Rorschach. Swltierland. .as ! '(,w ,h National Farm S hool of Ix.ylestown P to be used In the purchase of farms, wblih are to be rented to the graduate, of the acbool. thereby giving Them an opportunity of demonstrating demonstrat-ing the alue of the Instruction they h.v. received and the capability of Jewish youth to gain lupport by arl-sUlor. ('.-. - v- - MIS3 HALLIE RIVES. The author, who is about 25 years old. live with her father. Col. Stephen Rive, on i fine old place In Christian County. Kentucky, where he is the borror of all the staid matron o prim young women, for In drees and manner Mis Rive I quite a unoon-Ttctional unoon-Ttctional a In her writing. |