St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-09-04
+. NEWS OF THE WEEK.
SANKEY'S Lecture Tour.

MAJOR roma, Henry M. StanieyS
agent, has received over 500 applica-
tons for dates for his lectures. He
has contracted with Stanley for SO
nights, and may be able to make a
contract for another so. The first
lecturein New York has been sold for
$4,000. The lecture will be given in the
Metropolitan Opera house and as
the object is for fashionable charity,
tickets are to be 10 and Is dollars.
On ordinary occasions they will be
four and five dollars. This also will
be the price in Boston. Mr. Stanley
will not accept any invitations or
allow himself to be lionized until the
end of his lecture engagements, and
then expects to give reception him
self Mr.. and Mrs. Stanley will
travel in a Pullman car, the "Stan-
ley, which has been fitted up especi-
ally for them, and they will live in
this in many places instead of going
to hotels.
The wheat crop of Minnesota and
the Dakotas is estimated at 93,O00,-
600 bushels.
The cholera is reported as spread
ing in Japan The condition of the
people is such as to favor its still
greater extent.
Fred Whitrock, one of the gang
who stole 100000 from the Mis-
souri, Pacific express, is dying in the
Missouri states prison.
Mr. Andrew Carnegie's free library
in Edinburgh has been open two
months, and 81 900 readers tickets
have already been issued.
Topeka, Kan, with her 81 900
population, has not an occupant in
her city prison. This is what it
means to have no saloons
The Upper Coos railroad has petit
toned the railroad commissioners for
the privilege to cross the Grand
Trunk at North Stratford
The Grand Trunk railway tunnel
under the st. Claire river was COM
pleted on Monday. 1t connects Can
ada and the United States.
DR.. Oliver Wendell Holmes recently
celebrated his S1st birthday He is
the most youthful poet in his feelings
who ever reached that age.
Henry M Stanley, Mrs. Stanley
and her mother, Mrs. Tenant, will
sail for New York by the Teutonic,
White Star boat, on Oct. %.
The Senate has confirmed the NOM
ination of Col Jedediah H. Baxteras
surgeon-general of the army, with
the rank of brigadier-general.
tbs estima ted that the Presidents
action in signing the original pack
age bill has closed more than 10000
saloons in Iowa within the last week
George w. Peck, who was nomi-
mated for mayor of Milwaukee last
spring for fun" and elected in
earnest is the democratic candidate
for governor.
The Russian government is build
ing a railroad in almost a straight
line from Moscow to Behring sea,
which is expected will be completed
within five years.
Salvador, the king of running hor-
ses, ran mile at Monmouth Park
recently in the phenomenal time of
1852 and thus puts the record
where it will not soon be beaten
An oil well has been opened at
Findlav, O., which flowed over 1000
barrels the first hour, and in Z hours
filled 634O barrels This breaks the
record of oil wells in Ohio, if not in
the world.
A telephone wire at Saratoga, N.
Y, broke recently. One end fell
across an electric light wire and lay
in the street, when team passing
stepped upon it and both horses
were killed
Edward Chiclkley a student of the
Long Island Medical college, rode
from New York to Chicago in Il
days, 6 hours and 25 minutes, or II
hours and five minutes better than
the bicycle record.
Mary ]. Carroll, a servant, was
fatally burned at Laconia, N. H.,
Aug. 27, while attempting to extin-
guish blazing oil stove. The fire
was caused by her trying to refill the
stove while it was lighted.
The tonnage passing through the
Detroit river during seven months of
navigation in 1889 was 32,2O3,6O6
tons, or 100000 tons more than
the entire and clearances of all the
seaports of the United States
The gold watch, chain, and badge
offered by the Boston Traveller to
the most popular member of the
Woman's Relief Corps was awarded
to Mrs. Harry A. McGlennen of Bos-
ton. She received 6337 votes.
Count Won Moltke enters his Goth
year Oct. &c, and the occasion will
be celebrated throughout Germany
by a series of popular fetes. The
Kaiser also intends to confer on the
distinguished soldier an especial
mark of the imperial favor
Ewald Weiss, young German mu-
sician, started last week Sunday
from the summit of Mt Washington
to walk to the summit of Mt. Adams
and nothing has since been seen of
him. Searching parties have labored
tor several days, but to no purpose.
1t is thought that he lost his way
and persisted from exposure.