St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-08-01
NEWS IN GENERAL.

on the Kansas wheat
The latest is brick trust" with
a capital of SIS, 100000.
The 5Oth anniversary of Mr. Glad
stones marriage occurred July 26.
London consumes 10000 tons of
ice daily during it's brief hot season.
A salt combination with a capital
of 81, 100000 has been formed
with offices in New York Much of
the stock will be taken by English
capitalists.
A Chinese syndicate has bought a
large tract of land in Lower Califor-
MIA and will invest 81 100000 in de-
veloping valuable ore deposits, and
shell and pearl fisheries.
Guthrie, Oklahoma, is a lusty in
FAINT. With its suburbs it now has
ZOO inhabitants, six banks, eight
newspapers, thirty-seven lumber
wards and hundreds of stores
An amusement temple" is to be
erected in New York at cost of 81, =
100000 on the site of the present
Madison Square Garden 1t will
have seating capacity for 10000.
The four new states will be admit
ted to the Union upon the date of the
Presidents proclamation recognizing
them as states. The proclamation
can be issued Immediately after the
returns have been counted.
tits not generally known that they
are building a ship canal to make
Manchester, England, accessible to
the largest ships. The canal will be
completed in 1892. 1t will be little
over thirty miles in length.
1t is expected that the bridge over
the Thames river at New London
the largest draw bridge, it is said, in
the world, will be completed this
month. The superstructure is of
steel, and is 1 ,422 feet long.
The price of $4,000 which was
paid for 1.-The Angelus" was the larg-
est ever given for a picture sold at
auction, with the exception of the
sum paid for Murillo's conception"
now in the Louvre, which the French
government bought at the sale of
Marshal Soult for $117,5O
J. H. Putnam, of Tioga, Pa, has
been at work ever since the flood in
drying out about 1 200 legal papers.
He hung them up to dry on a line
just as washerwoman would. The
writing is as good as ever on most
of them; and in some very old and
almost faded manuscripts the ink
has been brought out again by the
water.
The steamer Belgic arrived in San
Francisco from Hong Kong and Yo-
kohoma July % and reports that a
recent fire at Lu Chow burned %
hours, destroying $1,000 dwellings,,
and that over 1900 persons persisted
in the flames while 400 others were
killed Nearly 10000 people were
obliged to camp out without shelter
and were dying at the rate of 100 a
day from want and exposure.
Russell Harrison appears to be
having a fine time in London. He is
treated as a kind of American heir
apparent. He has dined at Windsor,
was at the Duke of Devonshire' ball,
was presented on Thursday last by
Mr.. Lincoln to the Prince and Prin-
cess at Marlborough House, and at
tended Madame Waddington's must
cal party at the French embassy.
The "model town" of Pullman, ILL.,,
may have a rival in the ''model vii
lage" of Wagner. 1t is stated that
an option has been secured by the
interest in the Wagner
car company on $40 acres ofland ly-
ing east of Morgan Park, between
the Rock Island and Pan Handle
tracks, a few miles northwest of
Chicago, with a view to establishing
a model village there, with the Wag-
ner company's shops as a nucleus.
Thelosses of the life insurance COM
panies and the assessment associa-
to over $3.50, 900, and $175,-
900 has already been paid to the
benefciaries. In some cases, where
whole families were swept away, it
is very difficult to ascertain to whom
the money should be paid. In some
cases, the impossibility of finding
out whether the husband or wife died
first, causes great perpleXlty in de-
Gliding whether the money should be
paid to the heirs of the husband or
the wife
The Forthcoming Congregational
st year book shows a gain of 165
1904 members and 2S,-
3S1 Sunday school members The
benevolent contributions of the Sun
lay schools amounted to $135, 294;
Of the churches $2,2O5, 563; gain,
SHOOTS; proportion for foreign
missions, $34O,426; for education,
$40, 533; for church building, $113,-
)72; for home missions, $446, 975;
or the American missionary associa-
ion, $157, 666; charitable legacies
paid, 1851 80; home expenditures,
81, 97S, $50; decrease in home ex-
oenditures, $1OO,O91.