The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-06-23
General News Notes.

ILL,-Miss Sarah Allen is candidate for
superintendent of schools in Jefferson coun-
ty.
KETTUcKY.-The Legislature has passed a
bill permitting widows with children of
school age to vote for school directors. The
same privilege is extended to aliens with
children.
RHODE IsIAND.-Brown University will
begin next fall to admit girls.-The Woman
Suffrage Constitutional Amendment passed
the Rhode Island House of Representatives
for third time, at the short session in New
port, on Thursday, May 81, by the decisive
vote of 4S TO 8. Its consideration was post
pOned in the Senate to the January session,
by vote of % to IL.
NEW YoRK.-EeW York suffragists are al
ready organizing to secure the defeat at the
next election OF such men as voted against
their measure at the last. They are active
and earnest and politicians may as we'll
make note Of the facJ.-At the last meet
ing of the Brooklyn Woman Suffrage Asso-
citation, Mrs. K. Putnam Heaton presented
statistics showing that in a majority of the
States and Territories of the Union, women
are now eligible to serve on school boards.
Women serve upon school committees
throughout Massachusetts,, and women are
school trustees IN some towns in New York.
The Florence Night Mission, of New York,
recently held its third annual session. Dur
ing She past year 333 women have been ad
mitted to its Home, of whom los have pro
fessed conversion. Last year s., 900 were
spent in the work of saving the unfortunate
women.
IowA.-Governor Larrabee has appointed
Mrs. S. X. Woods, prominent w. @. T. U.
woman, OF Iowa, one of the visiting commit
tee for the Hospital for the InsSne.-The
Davenport Academy of Science has large
membership of ladies one in four Of the
total membership of 206, and has always
given them a full and generous recognition
in its roster of officials 1t has had a lady
for president, the only instance on record,
and from year to year ladies are on its
Board OF Trustees, and serve as secretary and
librarian. The chairman of one of the most
important committees, that of publication,
has for years been lady.
PERsoNAL-Miss Susan B. Anthony has
gone West to be the guest of her brother,
| Colonel Anthony, at LeavenwOrth, Kan.-
| Miss Kate Field will open her Western
lecture tour in Detroit about the middle of
| July, going thence westward to Alaska
Miss Cynthia Cleveland, of Dakota, who
| canvassed for the Democratic party in the
last Presidential campaign has been pro-
NOTED from a thousand to a twelve hundred
dollar clerkship in the Sixth Auditors
| office.-Professor Rena A. Michaels, dean of
| the Woman's College, and professor of the
French Language and literature in the North
western University, has been elected a
member of the Modern Language Associa-
| of America, of which President Carter of
Williams College is president, and Professor
| Elliot of Johns Hopkins University, secre-
tary.-Six OF Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's
children and grandchildren, now residing in
France and England, sailed for the United
| States on the 26th, from Liverpool, in the
| steamer America. There will be a grand
family reunion in Tenahy, N. j., about this
| time, when the English, French, and Amer
| lean flags will wave from the house-top.
ART.-Miss Addie J. Albright, of Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, Young lady possessed Of rare
talents and laudable ambition as an artist,
after tn9 years residence abroad has u9R