New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-05-31
THE DAYS GOSSIP.

The president OF tho Colorado branch OF tho
Woman's Christian Temperance Union has been ap-
pointed TO arrange for tho headquarters OF the local
and state unions that will assemble In Denver FOR
/ tho Biennial Federation OF Womsn's Clubs. which
| will open June 81 The reception rooms OF Or. Kate
fered FOR use All white ri6boners will md a
welcome from their Colorado comrades
Tn. Executive Committee OF tho women's Ma
| t,onal War Relief Association will meet to-day at
1880 m. IN It's headquarters at tho Windsor Hotel
The regular meetings Of the Womans Auxiliary
Corps 0, the National Guard OF the State OF New
York are held every Tuesday afternoon at o'clock
at the 23d Regiment Armory. in Brooklyn. The
wives ana families OF volunteers who have been
let insuncienty provided for can obtain assistance
by applying at the arnory at that hour
A meeting Of tho Metcatf- Bliss Cot Equipment Red
Cross Auxiliary will be held this afternoon at the
home Of Mrs. Chester Grswold. No o West Forty
| eighth-st.
At the homo Of Mra Charles Carroll. Richmond
Terrace New-Brghton. Staten Island. a meeting
will be held this morning TO organize Richmond
Borough Branch OF the Womans Patriotic Keller
Association.
Tho graduating exercises OF the Horace Mann
School Mornngside Park and One-hundred-
twentieth-st Will take place this morning at 1870
viii be held at o'clock in tho evening
President Turner OF Lincoln University. the Rev.
J W. Van Cleve. OF East st. Louis. and the Rev
J A Lord. OF Cincinnati. will speak at n mass
meeting tonight and John G. Woolley tomorrow
night al Peoria Ill All temperance friends will
nrd a welcome at tn. State Prohibition Convention.
which opens at Peoria to-m morrow The railroads
have granted halr-fares
Mrs |. NJ y Stevens acting president Of the Ma
,ional womans Christian Temperance Union. has
been elected OF tho Independents OF the Amer
team Peace Society TO I'LL the vacancy mace by tho
death OF Mas Willard
Considerable excitement caused among the
employees OF the Norfolk and Western Railroad by
the action OF the superintendent In having posted
along the road the following notice:
All employees using any kind OF Intoxicating
liquors az IL beverage shall be discharged immedi-
atey. and none shall be employed hereafter VINO
the same.
The body OF Francis Scott Key. author OF Tho
Star Spangled Banner" and that OF his wife have
been removed from Mount Oiivet Cemetery. in Fred
erIck Md. and placed I'm crypt In the foundation
OF the monument being erected to the poets
memory This monument will be unveiled August 3.
The money TO pay for 1t was raised BY popular SUD-
acription
Six hundred celluoid American flags have been
sold by Miss Grace Darling teacher in the South
Chicago High School to raise funds toward the
carving on OF free summer school Five cents
WAS asked for each flag
party OF tourists will travel through Europe this
summer under the direction OF Miss Johnson. one
Of tho best known women biologists In this coun-
fry Miss johnson has been several times In Russia;
last August she was delegate to the seventh IN
teinaional Geological Congress held In 81 PETERS
burg
The Suffolk County woman's Christian Temper
encc Union holds its semi-annual convention to-day
at Smithtown Branch The programme is repete with
timely subjects College drinking and the use OF a.
coholics I'm cookery will be discussed Miss Helen q.
Rice National secretary Loyal Temperance Le
gon will address the legion There Will be two pa
ncrs one on The Importance Of the School Sut-
froxe to Women" by Mrs Anna r Brush the
other Non alcoholics I'm Cookery" by Mrs. j. a.
stevens Tomorrow "Unfermcnted Wines will
largely occupy the session.
dispatch received by the State Department In
Washington confirms the report that the Rev. and
Mrs McCirew the American missionaries In Sierra
Leone had been massacred at Tama on May The
NcC;rews had been reported some days ago as hay
ing escaped the massacre. but Ambassador Hay at
London has now wired the State Department OF tho
report OF the Governor OF Sierra Leone and Assist
ant Secretary Adee promptly telegraphe the fact
To relatives Of the Mctirews at Dayton. OHIO. This
makes nine ten American missionaries and
been slain. Miss Hatfield one OF the victims. was
n native OF Georgetown Ohio: Miss Schenk went
10 Africa from Van Writ, Ohio and tho Rev. J. n.
Cain was born In Iowa.