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Personal. William Arnold Shanklin, president of Upper Iowa university of Fayette, la., has been elected president of Wesleyan university, Middletown, Conn. Col. George H. Torney has been ap. pointed surgeon general of the army to succeed R. M. O'Reilly. Judge Jackson L. Smith, for 16 years a member of the Kansas City court of appeals, and a former attorney general of the state, is dead at his home in Kansas City. He was born in Callaway county, Mo., in 1837. L. C. Crittenden, probate judge of Franklin county, Kan.. is dead at his home in Ottawa. He organized the first Masonic lodge along the border at Paola and took part in the border warfare. He was 78 years old. Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Metcalf has tendered his resignation , to the president on account of iii health. Assistant Secretary Newbor: ry will be named to succeed him. Rear Admiral James M. Miller, governor of the United States Naval home at Philadelphia, is dead after a brief illness. He was a native of Liberty, Mo., and was 61 years old. T. B. Gerow, director of the Kansas free employment bureau for the past eight years, is dead at his home in Atchison after an illness of nine weeks. He was born in New York in 1846, and came to Kansas in 1856. In an interview in Boston Secretary Root declared that he was not a candidate for the United States senate. The Daily Nebraskan, the leading publication of the University of Ne. braska, advocates the election of William J. Bryan to the position of chancellor of the university to succeed E. Benjamin Andrews, who recently re' signed. Dr. David D. Thompson, editor of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, published in Chicago, was run down by a motor car in St. Louis and fatal: ly injured. He was a native of Cin) cinnati and was 56 years old. J. F. Morse of Phillipsburg, Kan., has been appointed to settle the af: fairs of the Citizens' and Farmers' bank of Arkansas City, Kan. The engagement of Miss Anna e Hoch, youngest daughter of the gov: ernor of Kansas, to James W. Ried, an attorney of Chanute, Kan., has been announced. Gen. Samuel Chamberlain, a veteran of the Mexican, Indian and Civil wars, is dead at Worcester, Mass. He was 81 years old. Emperor William of Germany has personally decorated Count Zeppelin, the aeronaut with the order of the Black Eagle. Rev. Dr. Alfred H. Harding, for the past 22 years rector of St. Paul's Episcopal church of Washington, has been elected bishop of that diocese. Justice S. S. Calhoun of the supreme court of Mississippi is dead at Jack son. He was born in Brandenburg, Ky., in 1838.
