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...emergency Democratic State Convention sat at Cheyenne, Wyo., to nominate a successor to the late Governor William B. Ross (TIME, Oct. 13, MILESTONES). Two speeches were made, the roll-call by counties was begun. Then the Convention nominated by acclamation the second feminine gubernatorial nominee in U. S. history-Mrs. William B. Ross, widow of the late Governor. Antiquaries recalled that, in 1869, Wyoming (then a territory) enfranchised women before any other state or territory had done...
Discharge. J. Ross Campbell, American-born, was acting editor and upon a fine August morning he appeared at the Bow Street Police Court to answer to the charge of inciting His Majesty's forces to mutiny. The Public Prosecutor, acting upon instructions from Attorney-General Sir Patrick, sent his representative to say that the article was after all only a criticism of a State for using armed force to quell industrial disputes. The Magistrate declared that there was no evidence to hold Campbell and accordingly discharged...
Critics. It had not been expected that the Labor Ministry would fall on the legal issues arising from the suspended prosecution of James Ross Campbell. Political observers felt that their fate was to be sealed at the conclusion of the debate on the Anglo-Russian Treaty, scheduled for November. After the vote, they swore by all their gods that the Government had virtually fallen on the Russian issue and what the trivial issue of the dropped edition charge had been seized upon because it was favorable to Liberal and Conservative election interests...
...contributors to the paper. It was awarded to Walter Edmonds Jr. '26 for his story "St. Bon and the Organist of Midnight Mass" which appeared in the Christmas number. The judges last year were Dean I. B. R. Briggs '75, Judge Robert Grant '73, and Mr. Thervaid Ross...
Died. William B. Ross, SO, Governor of Wyoming; at Cheyenne, following an operation for appendicitis. He was a Democrat. His death makes necessary the election of Governor at the general election next month. During the intervening period, the Secretary of State will act as Governor...