St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1901-02-27

nesday, Miss Sarah Brayton, sister OF I
S Brayton OF that city. pre- scented tn,
trustees with lot ofland at the corner
OF Bank and Derby streets, valued al
$4,000. for site OF the proposed tex
tile school, on the condition that ths
school be called the Bradford Durfee Tex
tile School oil Fall River.
Shortly after the offer was made by
Miss Brayton. the trustees accepted the
gift on the conditions named by her.
Bradford Durfee, after whom the school
will be named, was the founder OF the
textile indus ry of Fall River and one oil
the pioneers in the country. He was the
father of B. Nj c. Durfee, in whose men,
DRY the Durlee high school was presented
to Fall River.
Vanderbilt Lee ures at Yale.
Cornelius Vanderbilt addressed a big
company of students, professors and
graduates of Yale Wednesday evening on
the Development OF the Locomotive
Boiler" illustrating his address with
stereopticon slides. After tracing the
history of the locomotive the lecturer
took up the subject OF the fire box, which
he invented, and descr bed it infinitely,
sho wing it in views. In conclusion Mr..
Vanderbilt stated that he has placed five
OF his boilers on the Union Pacific and
the B. & 0. roads.
Mrs. Vim. Thaw, of Pittsburg, Pa,
| has transferred outright to the Omaha
Presbyterian theological seminary her
| half interest in the property of the insti-
tuition, the value of which is $50 900.
This seminary is under the control OF the
Presbyterian general assembly, and an
appeal has been made for 100000 to
endow it.
The Turkish minister at Madrid, Izzet
Pacha. has again rendered his resigna-
ton to the Porte owing to men, payment
OF his salary.
Rev. Nathan Hart WhitteIsey of New
Haven, Conn, secretary of the Congre-
gational ministerial relieffuud, died We'd
nesday afternoon in Washington, D. c.,
from nervous prostration. He was re-
turning from trip south for his health.
He was graduate of Yale in the class of
II. He leaves widow and two child
rem.
Fire in the Boston Dry Goods Store at
Somersworth Thursday morning caused
loss estimated at more than $4,000
Nearly the entire stock of the Boston
store was destroyed. The building was
damaged to the extent of 81 900, and
several nearby buildings and their occu-
pants suffered iaom the fire. The Ere is
supposed to have been caused by the
celluoid goods in the Boston Dry Goods
Store becoming ignited by heat from a
steam pipe near which they were stored.
Captain Nehemiah Mayo DYER, who
commanded the cruiser Baltimore during
the battle of Manila Bay. on May 1.
1898, has been placed on the retired list
by reason of the age limit.
T. F. Wood, second vlce-president and
treasurer of the United States Express
Company, died Wednesday at the Hotel
Majestic, New York city, of pneumonia.
He was i'll 10 days.
M. Paul Armand S,lvestre, the French |
poet and critic is dead. He was born
April Is, 1887.
Andrew Carnegie has presented the
city OF Mt. Vernon, N. Y, $35, 900 for a
public library.
President c. E. Perkins, Chicago, Burl-
ington and Quincy railroad, resigned at |
duectors' meeting at Boston last week. |
Vice-Presidept George B. Harris was ell. |
ected.
There are eight cases of contest seized. |
ult tor the Fifty seventh House of Rep |
resentatlves, OF which FIVE are in South. |
EN- constituencies-two in Virginia, one |
in Kentucky, one in Alabama and one in |
Missouri. There is contest in the Thir. |
ty second district of New York, which in |
cIudes some of the wards of Buffalo: an. |
other in the capital, or Columbus, dis. |
trict OF Ohio, and third in one OF the |
western districts of Pennsylvania in
which the successful Democratic candi.
date had 600 plurality.
The president has nominated G. D.
Gear OF Hawaii to be second Judge of the
first circait OF Hawaii Gear is the man
who preferred charges in the house
against Delegate Wilcox Of that territory.
He has been res ident OF Hawaii for the
past four or FIVE years, and is a practc-
ing attorney in that territory.
Mrs Frank Thorpe, a widow, at Nor.
witch, Conn, was told that Union Pacific
WYNN ShN lOuhb III al Olu IuHk Vi 1eT
husbands was worth $5OO,OOO and
dropped dead from excitement. 1t was
learned that the securities
were worthless.
Andrew Carnegil has offered to give
$25, 900, to Cumberland, Md, Tor a Ii.
nary, providing the city furnish site
and contribute at least $25OO year to
its support. The prop. siuon has been
referred to the board OF trade, the MAYOR
and city council and the county commits,
sioners.
TIE special committee at Salem, Ore.
by the legislature to examine
the books OF the state land office report
that defalcation OF $50 900 had been
discovered in that department, the short.
age having occurred in 1891, when G.
W. Davis handled the school funds.
Harold c. Bradley, a graduate from
the University of California and resi-.
lent OF Berkeley, has been appointed to
A fellowship in Yale for the college wear
81 1902 by the Executive Committee of
he California Yale Alumni Association
de is at present assistant in chemistry in
he college laboratory at Berkeley, and
will study for a doctorate in the same
inc at Yale,