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Died. Elijah Watt Sells, 66, famed public accountant, senior partner of the firm of Haskins & Sells, with branches in London, Paris, Havana, Shanghai. He served twice as President of the American Institute of Public Accountants, affected (in 1893) a revision of the accounting system of the U. S. Government. He was a member of the Union League Club, the Sons of the American Revolution, etc. His father, Elijah Sells, was auditor of the Treasury under President Lincoln...
...President Eliot said in Sanders Theatre, 'have your eye on the main thing in life.' Disregard the incidentals--sacrifice is a little thing when compared to the great purpose behind life. Also, do not let your theological beliefs hold you back from entering the ministry. It is my firm conviction that most ministers get into trouble, not so much on account of their views but because of the way they express them...
...Even in the face of a serious division of opinion in his own church, he lost neither his courage nor his confidence in the truth of his convictions; and although hailed by his adversaries as almost everything from a stubborn reactionary to a revolutionary sensation monger, he has remained firm in his opposition to the idea of evolution in religion. Dr. Grant believes that religion, like the majority of other things, is subject to change with the passage of time; it will be interesting to see how Dr. Straton meets this theory with his own belief in the infallibility...
After two years of "the law's delay," sentence was last week pronounced. Burrill Ruskay, head of the firm, was found guilty of trading against the account of a customer. He must undergo a prison sentence of from three months to three years. Ruskay has appealed the case, however, so that even this slight punishment has a very theoretical aspect. In spite of the ex-bucketshop keeper's plea that he was penniless, he presented what has been termed a "brisk apearance" in court and seemed to be able to command the services of expensive legal counsel...
...lasted from 3 in the afternoon to 12:30 at night, stockholders of Wilson & Co., famed packers, refused to adopt a plan of financing which called for the issuance of 250,000 shares of prior preference stock. Opposition to the plan was headed by the New York Stock Exchange firm of Tucker, Bartholomew & Co. which represented existing preferred stockholders, among who are included a few members of the Swift family, also famed packers...