Middletown transcript., 1897-04-24
CURRENT EVENTS.

Cornelius VanCott was this week ap-
pointed by President Mckinley to be Post
Master of New York City.
President Faure, of France, is busy learn
ing Russian, in anticipation of his. ap-
proaching visit to the Gar.
Bishop Bowman (Methodist), now eighty
years old, has bought home in Evanston,
Ill. in which he will spend the remainder
of his days.
Women may now practice law in the
Canadian courts, but they must do so bare
headed and wearing "a black gown over q
black dress, with white collars and cuffs.
Among the candidates for the postofice
at Media, PENN, is Miss Hattie Gault, who
was teacher of Mrs Mckinley when the
latter was student at Brooke Hall Semi
nary, in Media; more than thirty years
ago.
Senator Mason, of Illinois, says that it
cost him half of his salary last month to
write letters to Office seekers. And even
then he has to spend some hours every day
in seeing personally ofhce-seekers who call
on him.
Some of the English journals report that
the Queen has again offered peerage to
Mr. Gladstone, which he has again refused
but it is added that the honor may possibly
be conferred upon his grandson, who is the
heir ofhis Hawarden estates.
James B. Gentry who was under sentence
of death for the murder of Madge York,
has had his sentence commuted to impris-
onment fo- life. But he was convicted OF
deliberately shooting and killing his sweet
heart, being prompted by jealousy.
At big athletic meet, to be held in Chic
ago on June 26, only railway cripples will
be allowed to complete. The National As
sociation or Railway Cripples now has a
membership of 500, and many of them,
with the aid Of artificial legs and arms,
have become noteworthy athletes.
The Rev. Samuel May, of Worcester.
Mass, the wen-known abolitionist, was
81 years old last week. He was graduated
from Harvard in 1929, and in his class were
Oliver Wendell Holmes, William Henry
Charming, the Rev. s. f. Smith and many
others who afterward attained distinction
in various walks of life. He was the friend
and associate of all the great abolition
leaders.
The legislators Of the Argentine Repub-
lie have introduced law which says that
after the FIRST day Of January, 1897, every
male from the age of twenty to eighty shall
pay monthly tax till he marries. Cell
bates of either sex who without legitimate
motive reject the addresses of him or her
who may aspire to her or his hand must
pay the sum of 500 piasters for the benefit
of the person refused.
Mr.. Wanamaker declines to be a candi-
date for State Treasurer for Pennsylvania.
He says that he prefers to assist the move
ment for better government by marching
in the ranks rather than as standard.
bearer, but he calls the attention of the
League to the election this year of Cover
nor and other State officers, and the cleo
ton by the Legislature chosen next year oi
q United States Senator, urging that every
effort be used to the end "that govern.
ment Of the people may supplant the pre-
sent government of the bosses"
A stock company is proposed. with q
large capital, to exploit the Kneipp cure,
and, as the outlay involved in wadine
barefoot in wet grass is slight the dividend
ought to bear satisfactory proportion to
the investment. That is about all that the
cure amounts TO, and anyone who desires
can practice it in private, with no regard
10 the effort of monopolists to make cor.
ner in the exercise. Meantime Father
Kneipp, the founder of the remedial school
bearing his name, is dying at his home in
Germany, not having been able to find re
lief in his own primitive and simple cura
tive methods.