The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-04-01
Notes of Tomen's work.


DR.. Leila 6. BedelI,of Chicago, has practice
that brings her 81, 900 year.
Mrs. Gertrude Garrison was one of thasaneslS-
ers at the recent annual dinner Of she New York
Soross.
MRS CS'i1a ". Wallace, a wealthy and philan-
thropic woman in Chicago, is planning an iu-
dustrial school for boys in that city.
At the thirty sixth annual commencement of
the Womeus Medical College of Pennsylvania,
medical degrees were conferred on twenty-seven
graduates
The W. c. T. U. petition to the United States
Senate. asking for better protection for woman
hood and girlhood contained nearly fifteen
thousand names.
Mrs Gertis de Force Cuff. according to the
Stockton (Cal Independent. has been one of
the most active promoters of an electric motor
railroad between Stockton and Lodi
The ''Woman's Protective Agency" of Chica-
go, is doing good work in securing young girls
from employment offices, whose managers DELHI
erately made trade of them for immoral pur-
poses.
Mrs. Jane Bancroft, late dean of the Woman's
PURSUING higher historical studies at the Uni
versity of Paris, the first and only woman yet
admitted to such privileges.
stock company composed entirely of
Cal, for the growth and cultivation of trees
shrubs. flowers. plants and seeds The capital
stock is $50, 600. aud Mrs. Jessie Benton Free
mont is one of the directors.
Mrs. Hannah D. Knott is president of the
town council of Syracuse, Kan. She is also
member of the committee on sidewalks and
crossings and of the committee finance. In
addition to these public duties, she owns ana
manages large millinery establishment. and is
equally at home in selecting spring bonnets and
inspecting street improvements.
Rev. Phoebe A Hanaford has been pastor of the
First Universalist Church ia New Haven, Conn,
since 1870. For over twenty years she has sus-
tanned the Office of pastor, and except at one
time she has never been prevented by illness
from filling her appointments. She is now fifty
eight years old and is a woman of many gifts
being successful as a lecturer and writer She
is the first woman to be chaplain of any legisla-
tive body.
During OF the sessions of the Information
al Council for Women, Susan B. Anthony gave
the reason for her spnsterhood. She did not 60
to the first woman's rights conventions, but she
read the New YORK Tribune and was converted
by the reports of those meetings Among the
speeches reported was one by Lucy Stone, in
which she said that all that was left of the
married woman to be marked on her grave
stone was that she WAS the ''rect" of somebody
mind, said Miss Anthony, ''that no one should
N AXE relict' of me-"
About one-half of the new lands in northwest
ern Colorado are entered by women. Many of
these women are public school teachers others
are the mothers, widows and orphan daughters
of soldiers who have taken homesteads. and all
exceptionally intelligent. capable business
women The principal political issue in that
region at present liz between the settlers on
side and the cattle kings and boys the
other. Owing to the absense of fencing mater
ial the claims cannot At present be inclosed, and
the settlers want a law requiring the cattle to
be nerded and kept off from their farms To
this the cattla-kings object. The question must
be settled by votes and the herd law could be
carried if all the land owners could vote. But
the women are disfranchiSed and the COWBOYS
are not Consequently the the women land
owners have become strong woman suffragists.
They want the ballot for 'home protection"