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Show flpSS '"fST''' V7 Judge Jay A- Hubbell, -chairman of iPL JrL ' J$ the national Republican congressional f I irj'- r committee in the Garfield campaign, ' f tN - when he figured as "2 per cent Hub- fcj? ' bell," five times congressman from yC-f """A Michigan and a resident of Houghton l0T more than forty years, died last laV I"v-S week at the aee of 71. It was lust - J The JLate Jay Hubbell. Judge Jay A. Hubbell, chairman of the national Republican congressional committee in the Garfield campaign, when he figured as "2 per cent Hubbell," Hub-bell," five times congressman from Michigan and a resident of Houghton for more than forty years, died last week at the age of 71. It was just twenty years ago that Mr. Hubbell was the chairman of .the Republican congressional com- F V mittee, member of l-T-ill congress, an able wQSSf lawyer, and well 3?! off in the world's' JsC2$t goods. That was -jT' JnA,. ' the year of the flr campaign in which Y flr$ Garfield was ' I to' j Sudden Change. Marquis Ito has surprised all Christendom Chris-tendom with his suddenly formed opinions opin-ions of China's immense power as a fighting nation. He is now forming a government for th emperor of Japan in lieu of that which was animated by the late Premiei Yamagata. Ito says -D.il nation can conquer China, that the whole world would have to combine against her. He wants all the pow-r pow-r rs to evacuate Pekin and advises the restoration of the status quo ante. & it) tmwA elected president j Hubbell. Hubbell was one of the most active captains in Republican Republic-an politics. It fell to his lot 1p attend at-tend to the campaign assessments. The levy was noised abroad, got into the newspapers and the Michigan congressman, con-gressman, not caring to. involve the committee, assumed all the blame and bowed his head in silence. He was entirely discredited at home and elsewhere, else-where, and vainly tried to regain his seat in congress. Mr. Hubbell was a native of Avon, Mich. He was graduated from the University of Michigan in 1853 and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He was district attorney of the upper peninsula from 1857 to 1859, and in 1860 he removed to Houghton. He served five successive terms in congress con-gress until 1880, and on his rnturn to Hougljton from Boston he was elected a member of the state senate. sen-ate. While in that body he secured an appropriation for the Michigan College of Mines, and he donated a site. This school is now one of the best in America. Ten years ago he was elected judge of the thirty-first district and was re-elected. His term expired in January of the present year. on, L. F. i jaej-son was reelected." '. j terming reading . for. 1 MARQUIS ITO. This advice is regarded as no less than amazing coming from a statesman who, a few years ago, routed the Chinese Chi-nese with great facility and punished them until they begged for mercy. Japan itself was able at that time to : .conquer China, and Ito knew it well. Wh has come abricks Lorenzo Ha change his views is; iling many peopii mi ' . of ?m , js been suma bedside at Kronberg. 1 will be 60 years old on 1 lion recalls the old proverb abotrt Japanese craft a characteristic in -which the islanders are excelled only y their cousins on the big mainland. A Wee Editress. It has fallen to the lot of little Lady Marjorie Gordon, the second child and only daughter of Lord and Lady Alver- deen, to be the youngest editress in the world. When quite a little girl she was given charge of the children's chil-dren's page in Onward On-ward and Upward, a magazine entirely entire-ly edited and managed man-aged by her moth- it nK9 Jim Ml 7r Lady Marjorie. er: Proved an I excellent training tor the future editress of Wee Willie Winkie. She took charge of all the .competitions, judged with the most conscientious care the work and solutions solu-tions which were sent in, and gradually gradu-ally found herself in personal correspondence corre-spondence with many of her mother's younger readers; thus was formed the nucleus of the Wee Willie Winkle, which owed its curious name to the quaint verses written by William Miller, Mil-ler, a Scotch poet, who was described by Mr. Robert Buchanan as the laureate laure-ate of the nursery. Will Command the Holland. Admiral Dewey has a vacancy on his personal staff caused by the assignment assign-ment of Lieutenant Caldwell to com- EMPRESS FREDERICK. Is the eldest child of Queen Victoria, and was the Princess Royal of England. Eng-land. She was married to the lite Frederick III., emperor of Germany, on Jan. 25, 1858, to whom she bore seven children, the eldest being the present Emperor William. To Try for the Tole. Evelyn B. Baldwin, who will undertake under-take a journey of discovery to the north pole in the summer of 1901, at the head of an expedition to be equipped equip-ped by William Ziegler, a wealthy citizen of Brooklyn, is an experienced arctic explorer, well informed in the topography of the frozen north. He is a rugged, hardy and courageous traveler, inured to the privations and alive to the dangers dan-gers which attend all attempts at reaching the pole. Mr. Baldwin accompanied ac-companied Lieut. Peary in his ef- forts to gain the a fi BaldwllL pole in 1893 and in 1894. and was a conspicuous member mem-ber of the expedition which was commanded com-manded by Wellman two years ago. The new aspirant for arctic honors is a native of Illinois, and is an expert meteorologist. LIEUT. CALDWELL, maud the submarine boat Holland. Thus far the admiral has not indicated Ms desire to have an appointment made to the vacancy, and it will depend de-pend upon his wishes wheth? the vacancy va-cancy shall be filled. |