News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1891-06-04
NEWS NOTES.

There is a good deal of complaint
in Brooklyn because the statue Of Mr..
Beecher which is to be placed in front
of city hall is to face towards that
building, instead of in the opposite di-
rectiOn.
The extent of the forest region late
ly burned in Michigan may be appre-
ciated from the fact the fire extends
over five counties, any two of which
include as much territory as thestate
of Rhode Island.
Every striking workman in the
Connellsville coke region of Pennsyl-
yInia known to be a socialist or pro-
minent as an agitatOr is being denied
work by the coke manufacturers, and
every such man now employed is be-
ing discharged. This is bad for the
agitators, but they have only them
selves to blame.
If the report be true, the French
admiral who is patrolling the fishery
waters of New Foundland is an acute
sufferer from an enlarged head.
He maintains the absurd position
that all the contents of st. George
bay belong to France, and in doing
so is causing serious losses to both
New Foundlanders and Americans.
Rev. DR.. Charles A. Briggs, upon
whose alleged heresy the Presby-
terrain General Assembly, now in
session at Detroit, Mich, has at last
pronounced judgment, sailed for
Europe Saturday on the Cunard
steamer Umbria in company with his
daughter Grace. Many friends were
at the pier to wish him bon voyage,
Another example of carelessness
evinced in using the mouth as a gen.
eral repository of trinkets is supplied
by Miss Margaret Bayham of Paw
tucket, R. l., who has lust recovered
from painful surgical operation re
CURED to remove a hairpin she haC
swallowed. She thoughtlessly graspeC
this article between her lips, suddenly
had to cough and in the eXertion the
hairpin flew into one of the nasal
passages, causing great trouble be.
| fore it was extracted.
1t must have been an impressive
spectacle at JohnstOwn, Penn, Sun
day afternoon, when the entire pop
ulation, in observation of the second
anniversary of the great food, gath
cred about the plot containing the
graves of 800 unidentified dead and
offered silent prayers, afterwards
distributing on the tOmbs handsome
floral offerings sent by strangers.
More impressive, though, even than
this appropriate action is the marvel
GUS fact that two years after that
watery baptism Johnstown stands
a larger, better and more attractive
city than before.
The will of Charles Pratt, the
Standard oil magnate and million
aire philanthropist, who died sudden
ly some weeks ago, was filed in Brook
Ign Friday He bequeaths all his
real and personal estate on Clinton
avenue to his wife, with an annuity
of $4,000 as long as she remains
unmarried 100000 is left to the
trustees, the interest of which is to be
expend ed for philanthropic purpOs-
es. The Pratt institute receives the
lots of land and buildings thereon
around the institute, the "Astral y
and Inwood" properties and the
studio building on Vanderbilt aven-
lie. A fund of 100000 given in
life is bequeathed in the will in order
to prevent litigation should the gift
prove illegal. 1t is to remain invest
ed in the firm of Charles Pratt & Co.,
and the profits are to be devoted to
the institute. All the rest of his es-
tate Mr.. Pratt leaves to his execu-
tors, desiring that it be divided into
eight equal shares, the income of
each to be given to each of his
eight children. This trust is to CON
tinue during the lifetime of the eldest
grandchildren. The executors and
the trustees are Mrs. Pratt and her
two sons, Charles and Frederick B.
The value of the estate is $15,OOO,-
900 to $4,000,