St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-27
GENERAL NEWS.
Great Di.a. ter at lhe Golden Gate.

Great DisR. ter at she Golden Gate.
While bringing the Pacific Mail Steam
er City OF Rio Janeiro into the port c
San Francisco last Friday morning
Pilot Joi don run the ship upon For
Point ledge just outside the Golden Gate
and 1913 out OF the POS persons on boar,
persisted. In fifteen minutes after tn
crash came the vessel sank carrying witt
her most of the small boats which hunj
on the davits. 1t was about 80 o'clocl
ard most OF the passengers and crew
were asleep when the vessel struck
There was a thick tog at the time 4
few boats were lowered and launched
but the rapidity with which the ship fill
ed and sank prevented the rescue of thu
remainder OF those on board. The shiE
carried about 200 sacks of mail.
The steamer City of Rio de Janeiro' sail
ed from HongKong on January % fo1
San Francisco by way OF Yokohama, in
command of Captain William Ward
She was an iron vessel, built at Chester
Penn. in 1878, by Roach & Son. She
was 344 feet long, 3S ieet beam and % 9
ieet deep, and registered 3,548 tons gross
and 2,275 tons net. Captain Ward who
went down with his ship had been in the
employ of the Pacific Mail Steamship
Company n many years. He first en-
tered the service as cadet on the steam
ship Toxic, and in 1888 was assigned to
the command of the City of Rio de Ian.
eiro. Later he was transferred to the
Peru, then to the China, then to the CITY
OF Picking. He was then placed in charge
OF the City OF Rio de Janeiro again, and
had been three wears and a half on the
ship. Captain Ward was thirty.fv We
years old. and native OF North Carroll
ma. A sister and two brothers are resi-
dents OF Raleigh.
Among those who persisted were
Housewife Wildman U S. Consul General
at Hong Kong, and his wife and two
children. Consul General Wildman was
well known member Of the foreign ser.
vice. He was born in Batavia, N Y, in
1864. From college he went to Boise
City, Idaho, and became editor OF the
Idaho Statesman. Later on as a dele
gate to congress he had much to do with
having the territory made state. He
was sent to Singapore as United States
Consul in 1889 and after that to Bor.
men, Germany, in the same capacity. In
1893 he was the representative of the
Straits Settlements aud Borneo at the
Worlds Fair in Chicago, and for the
next three years served as United States
Consul to H ing Kong. He was pro-
mottd to be Consul General in 1898. He
married a niece of Senator Stewart of
Nevada.
Congressman BOutelIe's Su ccessOR.
The special election OF representative
in congress for the IVth Maine District,
to succeed Charles A. Boutee, resigned,
will be held on April s, the nominating
convention being fixed for February %,
in Bangor. From the time when it be-
came known that Mr.. Boutele would be
unable to continue as the representative
OF the district, candidates have been
looming up all around, although none
OF hem made formal announcement of
their candidacy until alter the publica-
tion OF Mr. Boutelle's letter OF resigna-
ton. When this letter was printed in
the papers, the various candidates lost
no time in coming forward. First came
ex Gov Llewellyn Powers. of Houton;
then Flavius 0 Beal, of Bangor; next
Professor Allen E Rogers. OF the Univer-
sity OF Maine and lastly, Joseph E Hall.
who was private secretary OF Congress
man Boutele. o. these tour, only two
are considered to have fighting chance
Powers and Bea--although 1t is admit
ted by politicians that i'll case of close
contest between these two a trade
might be made whereby the nomination
would be thrown to one oil the lesser can.
didatts. Eek Gov. Powers has been in
congress before, and he has held numer-
GUS state Offices. Mr.. Beal has served
six terms as Mayor Of Bangor and two
terms as member of the Maine House OF
Representatives. He is shrewd and &C.
tive politician, and although the odds
seem to be against him in his fight it is
believed that he will give Powers hard
contest.
Rare Book Found.
A very valuable book was accidentally
found i'll an out-of-the. way corner OF the
Columbia University Library, New York,
recently by member of the library staff
1t is called the Rights of Women and
Children" and was printed in 1853 TOR
Constable Anne, the first Duke OF Mont
morency, who died in war in 1864 An
sold in Paris for 900 francs in 1879.
while another dlapidated copy brought
$4,000 francs IN 1856. The present vol
ume is bound in brown morocco and is
covered viii delicattly executed interlac-
'ngs, which are supported by mosaic
treatment in seven colors. The back |
cover bears the Mont morency monogram
stamped in e Id, and The edges are gaut-
tered and held by silver clasps. No one
seems to know how the book was lost |
in The libr airy for all these years.
Gift for Brown.
contribution OF $250,0OO by I. D. |
Rookie eller to Brown Univ, was announc. |
ed last week at the annual dinner OF the
Brown Univ. Alumni Society OF New
York, held at the University Club.
Pres. Faunce OF the university, in max
ing the announcement said -
Il have tonight the pleasure of an
nouncing that Mr.. ]. D. Rockefeller, who
gave $250,000 last year to Brown
Univ, has now off red to increase that
amount TO 100000 if we will go on to
increase the new endowment from ST..
900 900 to 100000. His second
offer makes his total subscription con-
tingent or otherwise, to the endowment
und OF Brown, larger than his gifts to
any other American university with the
exception OF the one founded by himself
in Chicago
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