The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Domestic.

The total registration of voters in Chi
cago is about $4,000.
The registration in the city of New York
is 931, 1870, while last year it was 28i ,O07.
A MONUMENT has just been erected in Ar.
| lington Cemetery to the Second Connecti
cut regiment.
THE region adjacent to Hot Springs, Ark,
is iull OF gold-mining hunters. Rich finds
are reported near there and the mining fe-
yer Is intense.
TIRED Of waiting for the Boston and
Maine railroad to extend the Pemigewasset
Valley branch line into the heart of Fran
coma Notch, N. H., the lumbermen have
joined hands in the cons ruction of private
road.
Mrs. HARRIET BLA1NE) BEALE, daughter
OF James g. Blaine, has just secured di-
vorce from her husband, Truxton Beae
because OF his neglect and cruelty. She has
the custody of their only child, aged six
months
The Pennsylvania railroad shops at AL
toona, the largest plant of the kind in the
country, are closed down as d result of the
depression in business. Seven thousand
men as consequence are thrown into idle
ness, and every branch of business in the
city Is affected.
The law recently passed by the Florida
legislature prohibiting the co-education of
whites and blacks has been pronounced
unconstitutional by the United States dis
trict court, but the constitutionalty of the
law will be passed upon by the United
States supreme court.
IT has just been discovered that two of
the largest charitable institutions in New
| York City-the Juvenile ASYLUM and the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum-have been re-
ceiving their supplies Of milk from herds
that were suffering from tube rculosis
| These institutions care for more than 1000.
inmates in ayear
THE Salvation Army is having difficulty
| in landing their Armenian proteges in
America, the inhabitants of Ramsey, N. j.,
where the Army propose to colonize them,
Directing because of the paupersm which
prevails among the immigrants. In almost
every case the board of examination found
each immigrant had only about So.
JUDGE W. j. GAyNoR of New York, who
was the first to take steps for the prosecu-
ton of the infamous John Y. McKane, now
in Sing Sing for conniving at election frauds,
has written letter to the governor asking
for his release. He thinks the end of jus.
tice has been attained and that it would be
an act of mercy to McKane's family to have
him released, as he is now in broken health
THE horse John r. Gentry" seems I'M
able to retain the record he has made of
being the fastest trotter in the United
States. At Terre Haute, Ind, lately.
great crowd was disappointed by his per-
Torrance. He went away well and made
1:OO1 and the three quarters in 1:303 But
the horse weakened on the turn into the
stretch and came under the wire very tired
in 2:041.
The preliminary steps are being taken
for the construction of a tunnel under East
! River, New York. The project contem-
plates two tracks in two tunnel tubes
These will be $500 feet long, and the di-
mansions Of the two tunnels together will ,
width, be forty five feet The height ali
the way through will be twenty-eight feet,
| and the grade at either en- will not be more
than four per cent. The engineers say that
the tunnel on the plan outlined can be con-
structed within comparatively short time.
A IRRITABLE panic ensued in Chicago
last week Thursday in the wheat market.
Millions of bushels were poured on the
market, prices cutting no figure in the mat
ter. Tight money was the cry. The cash
wheat situation became the all-mportant
factor. Money rates were higher and no one
wished to undertake the responsibility of
carrying wheat under those conditions.
| The early market was weak, cables coming
/ lower and foreigners selling. Corn, in sym
pathy, declined, and, although there is a
| legitimate rise in value of these ce reals, the
present prices are largely the result Of wild
cat speculation.
The tiftieth anniversary Of the American
Missionary Association was begun in Bos-
ton on Tuesday, Oct 20. The exercises be-
gan with the wel-att -nded meeting at Ire
mont Temple Governor Wolcott delivered
the address of welcome, in behalf of the
commonwealth, and Mayor Quincy in be-
half of the city of Boston. Tie welcome of
| the churches OF Boston was uttered by Rev &.
Samuel Herrick, d D., pastor of Mount
Vernon church. He was followed by Rev
Merrill Il. Gates, who gave an interesting
sketch of the formation, history and work
of the association, which is chiefly devoted
to the education and uplifting of the humble
of Gods plil1rap-tla Nauro tho
Indian, the Chinaman, and even the
Mountain Whites " of the Southern
States. Among the educational institu-
tions which 1t supports, or under its patron
age, are Fisk University Nashville, Tenn. ;
Atlanta University, in Georgia.; Straight
University, in Alabama; Talladega College,
in Alabama; Tougaloo University in Missis-
sippi; Hampton Institute, in Virginia; Til
lotson College, Texas. Wednesday opened
with reports of various committees and
brief talks of the work prosecuted among
the Indians and Chinese. The addresses
were exceedingly interesting, and were by
Rev. j. n. Twitchell of Hartford, Conn,
on the California Chinese Mission; by Rev
| A. l.. Riggs, d D., of the Santee Agency, on
the work i'll that Indian field; by Arthur
Tebbetts of the Cannon Ball Mission, North
Dakota by Rev. Henry Hopkins, ID, of
Kansas City, on the Indian question; by
Rev. James Brown Of Admission, Ala, a
representative OF the colored race; by Rev
j. r. Savage on 1.-THE Negro Problem;
by Rev. NJ E. Strictly, D. D., the senior sec.
rotary, historical address; and others
These speakers have been in the vanguard
of the humanitarian endeavor, and the talks
they gave were based on personal expe-
| rience. This Association numbers over DO
600, representing the entire constituency of
the Congregational Ichurches of the United
States. Immense crowds have attended all
the sessions, sister societies have sent greet.
ings, and this association closes its record
nf ffu If int rrnI al