St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1899-03-22
NEWS SUMMARY.
NEW ENGLAND.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH Is.

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The New Hampshire branch OF the
American Anti-Saloon league was or
ganized at Manchester under the d.
rection of Howard Russell Of Ohio.
The Hotel Benedict, opened by the
Salvation Army as home for working
girls, was dedicated at Boston. Col
onels Cozens and Holz conducted the
services.
The New Hampshire board of trade
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent. M. j. Pratt Of Concord; vice pres
idents. C. B. Childs of Henniker, T. II.
Dearborn of Dover, W. II. Anderson OF
Exeter III. II. Barber of Milford F. c.
Churchill of Lebanon and w. G.
Africa of Concord; auditor, A. l.. Clough
of Manchester; secretary and treasurer,
B. C. Ryder of Manchester.
Herbert C. Collar, '99, Of Boston, has
been elected to the captaincy of the
Dartmouth athletic team left vacant by
the resignation of T. w. Chase, SO.
THURSDAY, MARCH Ii.
The president of the Harvard Univer-
sity Republican club has received a tel
egram from General Nelson A. Miles,
stating that he will be able to give an
address at Cambridge on March %.
The decision OF Department Com
mander Harris to hold the next state en-
campment of the Vermont G. A. r. in
Montreal will make an epoch in the dis
tory of the order as this encampment
will be the first held by state command
outside of the prescribed limits of the
Union.
Professor Blackburn Of the depart
ment of sociology in the Yale divinity
school is planning for the annual tour
Of the theological students, both gradu-
ate and the present senior class, to the
slums of New York. The leading ele-
emosynary and public institutions Of
aid and correction, hospitals, jails and
public buildings will be visited, as well
as the tenement house districts.
FRIDAY, MARCH II.
Attorney General Phelps of Connecti-
cut has decided to ask the superior court
to appoint a receiver for the Connecti-
cut Life Insurance company of Water
bury. This is the outcome of the inves-
tigation held by Insurance Commissioner
Belts.
Eugene A. Arnold, well-known young
business man of FoXcroft, Me-, COM
mitted suicide by drinking carbolic acid.
1t Is not known what led to the suicide.
The Hodgson and Holt Manufacturing
company, Laconia, N. H., makers of
hosiery and knitting machinery. have
assigned. The liabilities of the COM
pany are about $5O,0OO
Grin Douglass, merchant, trading as
o. Douglass & Co., Boston, has filed a
petition in bankruptcy. The total LA
bilities are $1OO72S.61, and assets are
claimed nominally at s915S.
SATURDAY, MARCH IS.
Frank Hill of Boston has been en-
gagged to coach the Newell Boat club OF
Harvard university.
The editorial board of the Williams
college weekly elected the following new
members: T. Broadhurst, 1901, Spring
field; Earl F. Drake, 1901, Chicago; Rel.
land Haynes, 1902, Worcester.
Amos w. Stetson of Braintree, Mass.
has presented tn, trustees of ThayeI
public library with $4,000, to be known as
the "Caleb Stetson fund" in memory o.
his father.
The celebrated Haven case is finally
settled by the New Hampshire supreme
court constituting the will so that Smith
college will get $4,000.
Joseph Weaver, 65 years of age, while
assisting in moving a building a
Damariscotta Mills, Me-, was caught anC
instantly killed
Rev. A. H. Heath, d. D., pastor of tn
North Congregational church, st. Johns
bury, VT, died after one week illness o
intestinal trouble. DR.. Heath was borl
in Salem, Me-, July 10, 1SiO
SUNDAY. MARCH 10.
Lieutenant Little of Salem, Mass
quartermaster of the Second corps O
cadets has rendered his resignation an
received his discharge. He was ap
pointed quartermaster March 16, 1898.
Persons claiming to be relatives of tn
late Father L. F. Bethezor of San Jost
Cal, have been located in Worcester an
Southbridge, Mass; Woodstock, Conn
and Providence. The estate is valued a
100000.
Notice was posted by the Ponema
Mills company, Taftville, Conn.,, that be
ginning April the wages of the en-
ployes will be increased on a scale of frol
to 10 percent. The company employ
I, o,11 foa 1.
goods.
MONDAY, MARCH 20.
Theodore Hobigand, for many veal
professor of languages at Brown un
versity, died at Scituate, Mass, aged
years. He was a native of France.
The Bean Memorial town hall of We,
Fairlee, VT, was destroyed by fire. Jacl
son lodge of Masons had hall in II
building. They lose all their furnitur
records and papers.
H. L. Hamlin of Ellsworth state sen,
tor from Hancock county, has announce
his candidacy for the presidency of Il
Maine senate two years hence.
Thomas A. FitzGibbon, SO, a memb
of the Hampden county bar, died
Springfield, Mass. He was an arde
Democrat.
The annual YaleHarvard debate W
take place in Cambridge on May u.
Andrew Dillon, a blacksmith, W
found dead in a shop at Stamford, Con
He was aSphyXiated.
The body of Alex. Buteau of Will
mantle, Conn, who disappeared Jan.
was found last night in the Shetuck
river just above the dam at Baltic.
TUESDAY, MARCH 81.
The graduate advisory committee
$ the Yale university Y. M. c. A. re-elect
{ Henry B. Wright, son Of Dean Wrie
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