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NEWS ITEMS

The International Congress of Historical Studies is to be held this year at London, April 3-9. The last meeting of the Congress was at Berlin in 1908.

A Confederate monument was unveiled at Beaumont on November 27, 1912. A full account of the dedicatory ceremonies and a picture of the monument are contained in the Beaumont Enterprise of November 27.

A Confederate monument, erected under the auspices of the local chapter, U. D. C., was unveiled at Matagorda, January 17, 1913. The Galveston News of January 18 contains an account of the ceremonies, a list of the twenty soldiers lost in the shipwreck on Matagorda Bay on December 31, 1863, portraits of Captain E. S. Rugeley and Judge A. C. Burkhart, two of the rescued, and a picture of the monument.

A combined monument to Thomas Jefferson and memorial of the purchase of Louisiana Territory will be dedicated in St. Louis some time this spring, probably in April. It is in the form of a large building of concrete, stone, and marble, costing about $450,000. A heroic statue of Jefferson occupies the center of the rotunda. The architect is George F. Kessler, and the sculptor is Karl T. F. Bitter. The cost of the building is defrayed from the residue fund of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904. In the building will be housed the archeological collections and the archives of the Missouri Historical Society, which contain much valuable material on the history of the Mississippi Valley.

The Illinois Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy has established a prize of $100 to be awarded annually by the History Department of the University of Chicago to the author of the best study in Southern History. Competitors for this prize must be graduates of some Southern College or university and candidates for a higher degree at the University of Chicago, and

they shall, on recommendation of the History faculty, receive annual scholarships free of other conditions. It is understood that the prize money shall be used to pay the expense of publishing the successful essay or thesis, and further that in the event that no Southern student enters the competition for one year the Department of History may award the said prize to the author of a suitable study in the field of Southern History without regard to place of residence.

Judge Edwin LeRoy Antony, of Cameron, member of Congress, 1892-1893, died in Dallas on January 16, 1913. A sketch of his life appeared in the Dallas News of the 17th.

George C. Pendleton, Lieutenant Governor under Governor Hogg, and formerly Congressman from the old Ninth District, died at his home in Temple, January 18. He was sixty-eight years old.

Thomas Volney Munson, an international authority on viticulture and author of Foundations of American Grape Culture (1909), died at Denison, Texas, on January 21, 1913. A sketch of his life appeared in the Dallas News of January 23, and in Who's Who in America, 1912-1913.

On January 25 J. W. Curd died at El Paso. He was one of the ablest teachers of history to be found in the public schools of Texas. For several years he had been employing all of his spare time on a study of the early history of El Paso, and it is to be hoped that his work had progressed sufficiently to be useful.

Col. T. B. Wheeler, of Aransas Pass, former Lieutenant Governor, and mayor of Austin in the early 70's, died at San Antonio on February 2, 1913. A sketch of his life is printed in the San Antonio Express of the same date. He contributed to THE QUARTERLY (XI, 56-65) his "Reminiscences of Reconstruction in Texas."

On February 3, 1913, Mrs. Jeanette Ennis Belo, widow of the late Col. A. H. Belo and head of the Galveston-Dallas News Corporation, died at Cambridge, Massachusetts.

On Monday, February 10, 1913, Mr. W. W. Mills died at his home in Austin. He was born in Indiana in 1836, came to Texas in 1857 with his brother, now Brigadier-General Anson Mills of the United States Army, and settled at El Paso, then a small village. He served in the United States Army in New Mexico during the Civil War. In 1868-'69 he was a member of the Texas Reconstruction Convention. Most of his later life was spent in the Federal service as customs collector at El Paso and as consul in Chihuahua. Brief biographical sketches may be found in the El Paso Herald of February 11 and 17, and the Austin Tribune of February 24, 1913.

The transfer of the remains of Joanna Troutman, the Georgia girl who presented Ward's battalion with a lone star flag, from her native State to the State Cemetery at Austin is chronicled in a proclamation issued by the Governor, January 21, and in a message to the Legislature, February 25, 1913.

Dr. W. L. Bringhurst, Superintendent of the Orphans' Home, died at Corsicana on February 18, 1913. His widow is a daughter of General Sam Houston. A sketch of his life appeared in the Dallas News of February 19.

Judge Marcellus E. Kleberg, son of Robert Justus Kleberg, a San Jacinto veteran, died at Galveston on March 1, 1913. He represented De Witt county in the Thirteenth Legislature, and was city attorney of Galveston from 1904 until 1911.

AFFAIRS OF THE ASSOCIATION

THE ANNUAL MEETING

The annual meeting of the Association was held at the University of Texas on March 3. The Treasurer read the report, which appears below. Thirteen life members and forty-seven members were elected to the Association. The following officers were chosen for the ensuing year: Judge Z. T. Fulmore, President; Miss Katie Daffan, Mrs. A. B. Looscan, Mr. Beauregard Bryan, and Mr. Edward W. Heusinger, Vice-Presidents; Professor Charles W. Ramsdell, Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer, and Dr. W. F. McCaleb, Miss Lilia M. Casis, and Dr. W. J. Battle, Members of the Executive Council. At a meeting of the Fellows, Mr. Charles W. Hackett was elected a Fellow, and Professor Herbert E. Bolton was added to the Publication Committee. Other members of the Publication Committee were re-elected.

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*It should be noted that when this report was made bills had not been rendered for printing the October and January numbers of THE QUARTERLY.

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