St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-10-02

| is declared, there can never again be an
occasion for disturbing the resting place,
which is inside an iron cage imbedded in
a huge block of cement. The casket was
opened for the purpose of final identified
ton. 1t was found that the remains
were in a good state of preservation and
were easily recognized. The casket was
opened in spite of the strenuous oppo-
sltion of the presidents son, Robert Lin
| coin.
TtIe graph to the KIOndike Completed.
The Office Of the u S. signal corps Of
the army received Information Thursday
of the completion of the last link in the
telegraph line betw, en- the United States
and the KIondike regions. The link just
finished is between Quesnelle and Atlin,
in Canada. The signal corps had con-
structed line from Fort Egbert, in the
Yukon region, southwark, and was
waiting for the Canadian authorities to
finish the line between Quesnelle and
Atlin, the completion of which opens
communication there from the United
States to Fort Egbert, at the head OF
the Yukon.
A Brave Old Horse.
HI. Sunderland, of Highgate, has a
Morgan horse that is now 81 years old
and that was driven from Highgate to
st. Adams, last week, a distance OF
fraction over eight miles, in ore hour and
ten minutes. Mr. Sunderland raised this
horse from a colt. The old horse is still
spry and at times Goldfish" Its teeth
are good and its condition gives not the
slightest indication of the end that must
be near.
Rear Admiral Sampson has requested
to be relieved from duty as commandant
of the Charlestown Navy Yard on Octo-
Der, owing to ill health. His request
has been granted.
The movement for the erection ola mon
ument to Pres. Mckinley in Atlanta
seems TO be assured OF success. 1t is con-
iidently expected that 500 900 will be
contributed to the monument fund in At
lanta and other parts of Georgia and sur
rounding states. Generals J.. B. Gordan,
Fitzhugh Lee and Joseph Wheeler have
accepted checks to Controller-General
Wright, Confederate veteran, who is
treasurer of the fund. Subscriptions are
! III lIOu aus anu OkhNA
Southerners by almost every mail.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Colonel James M. Bell, 9Th Cavalry, and
president OF the military board ofrevew,
to be brigader. general, -Brigadler
General Ludlow, deceased. General Bell
will resign about October /, thus leaving
vacancy for another appointment.
For the third time in the country's his
tory and for the first time in 70 years, a
graduate of Harvard College is President
of the United States. John Adams was
| graduated at Harvard in ITS, John
Quincy Adams in 1887, Theodore Roose-
welt in in 1880. General Hayes attended
lectures in the Harvard Law School, but
he was Keny on College man.
Over rs men are at work on the $751;
900 coach barn now in process of con-
| sttuction at Sheburne farms, owned by
f DR.. w. S. Webb. The building will proba-
bly, not be completed before January l,
1902, as laborers are scarce.
r The Brandon Fair Association stock
5 holders each received a dividend OF IA cents
recently, by the selling ofthe grand stand
=. The grand stand cost $500, and was
] sold for $50 1t contained about Is, 900
feet of lumber. The debts of the asso,
e citation, amounting to about So, were
, paid out of the proceeds and the remain
: ing $50 distributed to the stockholders
), Elias Howe, jr., the inventor of the
j sewing machine, was born in Spencer
d Mass, and the Spencer folk have painted
a statement of that fact on a board Sgr
eighteen feet square, so the passers by il
+ the trains of the Boston and ALBANY
:. Railroad may see it. The sign reads
e Down in the valley below Elias Howe
Il ir., inventor of the sewing machine ant
g an illustrious son of Spencer, was born il
e 1919 After the words Down in th
O the valley below" is huge hand with
r finger pointing in the direction OF tn
r birthplace of the inventor.
n The will of the late Charles H. Hayden
d of Boston, leaves 100000 for free be-
l. in the Massachusetts General Hospita
lie the same amount for a collection of pit
1t lures for the Boston Museum of Art, an
g $50, 900 to the Boston Children's Hos
o pital and the Massachusetts Eye and Ea
lie In6rmary.
er The Cunard Line steamer Lucanis
" which sailed from New York Cit
III on Sept. 81 for Liverpool, an
IS arrived at Queenstown Friday, r.
t. ports having had communication &c
ne two hours with the steamer Campania
midocean by means of the wireless tel
graph. The shortest distance in whiC
n communication was effected was thirt,
ST three miles and the longest sixty-6v
tn miles. Many messages were exchanged.
m The Brazilian government has declare
,r. the city OF Rio Janeiro infected with II
ST. bubonic plague. The port of the city
under suspicion.
y. Charles E. Tilton, one of the promnel
ut and wealthy men of northern New Ham
" shire, died at his home in Tilton Satr
IT, day, aged "a years. Mr.. Tilton W
ne born at Sanbornton, N. H., and was
he son of jeremiah Tilton, tor whom t
an place was subsequently named. When
hd young man he went to Colorado and
ed several years he was in the banking bu
eo ness in Denver, where he laid the founC
lite ton of fortune, now estimated
De several million dollars. He owned mu
ng real estate, nearly every business bic
zen in Tilton having been built by him.
dly The body of Leon l. Newton of Som
Lh e vile, Mass, a Harvard student, "
lug lug found floating in the Charles river, mt
o 30 Harvard bridge, Wednesday. 1t is +
, .oS known how the young man met
ga. .os death, but his relatives believe that
'p' was reading a book on the river W