St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-04-17
GENERAL NEWS.
InHonor of aien. Logan.

| John A. Logan in Iowa circle, Washing
ton, was unveiled on Tuesday OF last
week in the presence of the president and
his cabinet and large company of dis
tinguished personages. In the company
was Mrs. John A. Logan, and many re-
representatives. of Gen. Logan's old COM
rades. Addresses were delivered by
President Mckinley and Chauncey A.
| Depew.
The statue of Gen. Logan is of bronze
and is 141a feet high, the figure being
| twice life SIZE. The general is represent.
ed riding along line of battle with
sword in hand and his horse at a trot.
On its west face is group representing
Gen. Logan in consult ltion with the
principal officers of the army of the Ten
nessee. In the group are included Gems.
Dodge Hazen, Slocum, Leggett, Mower,
Blair and Capt. Strong. On the east
face is group representing Gen. Logan
in the act of taking the oath of office as
a United States esnator. The oath is
being administered by Vice-President
Arthur. The other figures represent
Senators Ctllom, Evarts. Conkling,
Morton, Miller, VOORHEES, and Thurman.
Gen Grenville M. Dodge, who presided
| at the dedicatory exercises, is the only
| living general represented in the military
group. The statue represents seven
years of labor by Franklin Simmons, the
sculptor, and marks department sculp-
ture in Washington in that it rests on a
pedestal of bronze. Congress appro-
priated $50 900 for the s. atue, and $751;
900 was contributed by the Grand Army
of the Republic.
Since the statue was unveiled it has
been discovered that the scene represent
ed by the civil group is not historically
accurate. 1t is said that several of the
| leading men represented were in no way
connected with the actual occurance.
Mrs. Logan has replied to this by stating
that there was no attempt at historical
accuracy in choosing the stat esmen to be
represented in the group, but that they
were selected as representatives of the
time Gen. Logan served in the senate.
Gift for Phillips Academy.
The alumni of Phillips Academy, An
dover, Mass, held their annual meeting
and dinner at the University Club last
week Tuesday night. DIR. Bancroft said
in his address that he had four new
| W ICpOlL dDOuL luS dAduCHNs
They were that thegymnasium long con-
templated will be built this summer;
Brothers Field, a new dormitory named
Bancroft Hall, and gilt, the amount Of
which and the name of the giver are TO
be kept secret for the present. DR.. Ban.
croft said this much about the gitt:-
st is the largest which the academy has
ever received. While less than $3.50, 900,
it is large enough to establish a depart
ment OF archaeology, provide it with
| specimens valued at between $4,000
and $4,000 to erect a building, and to
provide for some original investiga-
ton.
Iudia's Decreasing Population.
The depopuation Of India through
famine and cholera is assuming alarm,
ing proportions. The latest advices
from Simla say the census returns of the
central provinces show a decrease of
over a million since 1891, when an in
crease of one and one.half millions might
have been expected. 1t is estimated that
five millions have died in India since
1896 from causes directly due to the
famine. In Western India things are
even worse. The Oodeypoor state re-
| turns show a decrease Of $40, 900. or As
per cent, OF the population; the state
of Bhopaul shows decrease OF sos, 900;
the District of Banda shows decrease
of $4,000, and in Bombay City the
population has diminished by $4,000.
Five Thousand Arabian Killed.
The little skirmishes in South Africa
and the Philippines which have been so
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canoe beside the battle which was report
ed in Bombay dispatch of Friday
which says the Sheik Mabaroukh of
Kowyet, Arabia, has been defeated by
Ibn Respid, the self-styled King of Ara.
bia." Five thousand men were killed.
lbn Respid has recovered his kingdom.
Another account says Sheik Mabaroukh's
army, while short OF ammunition, was
lured into narrow gorge in the Nejd
district. and the men OF lbn Respid came
down from the mountains and over
whelmed them.
Girl Saves Thirteen Lives.
During the spring floods of the White
river in Nebraska last week Lizzie Colt
man, school teacher of Harrison, saved
the lives of her IS pupils in a novel way.
|
schoolhouse was surrounded by water
which rose steadily until the building
was lifted from its toundation. Then she
rushed into the flood and at the peril
of her life succeeded in reaching land.
Then taking horse which one of the
children had ridden to school. she re
crossed the torrent, and with the aid OF
rope around the horses neck and
fastened to the schoolhouse door, she
succeeded in making the animal tow the
building to the shore where it was tied
to tree and the children sent home.
Thus not only the scholars but the
sch0olhouse was saved. The county
commissioners have been asked to reward
the heroic g,r with the value of the build
ing she saved
! Ocean Message Heard From.
Miss Ada l. Grifiths OF Newark, when
crossing the ocean in September, nine
years ago, threw overboarda bottle con.
tanning a message to the late W. w.
Byington, a lawyer in Newark. On the
back OF the message she wrote that So
reward would be paid to the finder, if the
message was sent to its destination. The
bottle was thrown overboardi in the mid
die OF the ocean. Miss Grifiths had for.
gotten the incident when, on the 4th,
she received letter with foreign post.
mark. 1t was from Ada E. Boo tker OF Kris
t'ansund, North Norway, and was dated
March %. The writer said the bottle
had been picked up by a poor Norwegian