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Oberlin College, a Congregational co-educational institution in Oberlin, Ohio, last week invited a stranger to come within its gates. Incognito, he inspected the campus with Mrs. Katherine Wright Haskell,* one of Oberlin's trustees. Next day, having returned to Chicago and consulted his wife, he telegraphed his acceptance...
Wilkins Safe
The despatch was from Capt. George Hubert Wilkins, black-bearded Australian soldier of fortune, and his sky pilot, Carl Ben Eielson, saying they had crawled safely off the Polar Sea after 17 days and nights of discomfort.
Since these were by way of being "routine assassinations," and since so many other U. S. citizens slain in Mexico are unavenged, it was especially notable that the police of Guadalajara, Jalisco, seized seven Indians last week and executed them as the slayers of Edgar Wilkins.
The police called attention to the fact that Mr. Wilkins had been killed by seven knife wounds, each of which has now been avenged by the execution of a Mexican Indian. Further, the police explained that when a gang of Indians sets out to commit murder each must strike a...