Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1899-01-14
ALL AROUND THE WORLD.
THUR SDAY. IAN. 5.

President Harper of the Chicago uni
versity. announced at the 9th convo-
cation of the university that gifts ag
gregating $402, 900 had been made to the
institution.
Roland Reed, the actor, was fined at
W;.kesbarre, Pa, for committing an as
saElt on Roger Howell, the property man
at local thecter.
The gurboat Castine, which sailed yes
tcrday FROM Havana for Porto Rico>and
thence for Manila. via Suez, will have
rev commander as soon as she reaches
Gibraltar. Commander S. NJ. Very, late
in command of the collier Cassius, has
been ordered to take a steamer and inter
cept the Castine at Gibraltar, there to
relieve her commander.
FRIDAY, JAN. 6.
At a meeting of the New York chamber
of commerce the committee in charge OF
the memorial to the late Colonel Warins
reported that the fund of $500, 900 has
been secured.
The Henry M. Ashby bivouac of the
Confederate veterans at Middleboro
Ky, adopted strong resolutions in praise
of President McKinley's Atlanta speech
and expressive of its approval through
out the country.
By the will of the late Mrs. Caroline l..
Macy of New York the New York Teach
ers college is bequeathed 5000, 900, and
$4,000 is bequeathed to the Presbyterian
hospital. The estate is valued at up
wards of $500, 600. The bulk of the es-
tate was left to the children.
The New York chamber of commerce
adopted resolutions urging consular re-
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ton of the United States in protesting
against the effort of France to extend
it's territorial jurisdiction in the port of
Shanghai.
SATURDAY, JAN. z.
Father O'Connel, supposed to be the
Oldest priest in America, died at Mon
treal, aged SO years. He had been q
priest for ga years. OF late he had
been taken care of by the Grey nuns.
Lionel e. q. Garden has been gazetted
British consul general Tor the island of
Cuba.
Rev. Lucien Lee Kinsolving was conse-
Grated at New York as the first bishop of
the Protestant Episcopal church in
Brazil The conservation took place in
ST. Bartholomew church.
w. f. Ely of Conneaut, o., has signed
with the Pittsburgs as captain of the
team.
George Dambmann, an American, who
is prominent in Franco-American bust
ness circles, has been decorated by the
French minister OF foreign affairs with
the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
The advisory committee of Plymouth
church. Brooklyn, after hearing the re-
port of the subcommittee chosen to
select a pastor to succeed DR.. Lyman w.
Abbott, unanimously recommended that
the Rev Newell Dwight Hills, d. D., of
Chicago, be called to the pastorate.
SUNDAY, JAN. 8.
Quesnay de Beaurepaire, president of
a section of the court of cessation. has
resigned his position in consequence of
a disagreement regarding the Dreyfus
inquiry.
Swift & Co. of Chicago have filed with
the secretary of state of Illinois GER
tificate of increase of capital stock from
SIS 600. 600 to S42. 600 900.
The directors of the Philadelphia Ex-
position association have elected p. A.
B. Widener president. and chosen DR.. w.
P. Wilson to be director general of the
exposition, which, it was decided, Should
be opened about Sept Is next and close
about Nov. 10.