St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-07-19

AT a meeting OF the executive commit
tee Of the Massachusetts Anti-Double
Taxation league William B. Durant, who
has been president Of the league for the
past three years, offered his resignation,
and Charles S. Hamlin was elected presi-
dent.
The will Of Ellen Cheney Johnson, late
superintendent of the reformatory prison
for women at Sherborn, Mass, who died
suddenly of apoplexy in London, be-
queaths $500 to the city Of Boston for
the erection of a drinking fountain for
man and beast.
Captain Dickens will be acting chief
OF the bureau of navigation during the
coming trip to Europe of Admiral
Crowninshield. chief of the bureau, who
goes to look into the European method
OF housing men in naval barracks in
stead of training ships.
1t is understood that the United States
minister to Austria-Hungary, Addison
c. Harris, and others connected with the
American legation, as well as most of the
United States consuls in Austria-Hun-
gary, are going to Trieste to greet Adj
miral Dewey upon his arrival there.
The navy department has dispatched
to Admiral Dewey the medal awarded to
MIN by act of congress to commemorate
the battle of Manila bay. The admiral's
medal is identical with those sent to each
man in the fleet, with the exception that
his own name is engraved upon the edge.
A hearing was held before Judge Peas
lee at Manchester, N. H, for the appoint
ment of an assignee to wind up the af-
fairs of the Bank of New England, which
was first closed in 1893 and permanently
closed in March, 1898. The court granted
the petition and an assignee will soon be
appointed.
George Ferguson of Washington is
In Chicago with a plan to raise $3.50, 900
for the erection of the Illinois college of
languages, of the American university
of Washington. The scope of the Amer
lean university is the broadest possible
and contemplates post graduate and
original work only.
Marshall N. Benson, 10 years of age,
who has been out of the Massachusetts
~reformatory only about a month. was
again arrested at BuZZard's Bay. Mass,
for alleged connection or completely In
some of the numerous breaks which have
occurred in that neighborhood with con
siderable frequency OF late.
First Assistant Postmaster General
Heath has sustained the previous action
in the case OF Superintendent Lusk of the
New York city postofiiee. whose reduc-
ton to an ordinary sepaYator's place at
$1,000 was made a civil service issue by
the Civil Service Reform league. The
decision has an important general bear
ing.
Justice Andrew J. Bartholomew died
at Southbridge. Mass. from Bright's
disease. He was born in Hardwick and
received his education at Leicester
academy and Yale university. Judge
Bartholomew vas a candidate fer the
position of judge OF probate when Judge
Adm Thayer died a few years ago, but
was defeated by Judge Forbes of West
boro.
The navy department has ordered An
appraisal of the captured Spanish cruiser
Maria Teresa and OF all the war material
recovered from the other ships engaged
in the battle of Santiago bay. This step
is due to a question raised as to the right
of prize money growing out Of the zap
ture of this ship. The board which APP
praised the Spanish ship Reiua Mercedes
has reported her value at $4,000.