St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-04-30
GENERAL NEWS.
COnsressmen TO study Negroes.

including Mr.. Crumpacker, on a week.
visit to his plantation home in Macon
county, Ala, leaving Washington May
20. They will be shown the Southern
negro in his highest type, represented by
the students of Booker T. Washington's
school, and also in his lowest type, as
represented in the cotton field hands.
Senator Frye and Representative Little
field of Maine, and Representative Rob-
erts and Gilett of Massachusetts, are
included in the party. Speaker Hender-
son will go if he can leaye congress.
He Inspired Carnegie to Give Libraries.
Andrew Carnegie will commemorate
the memory of the man who inspired him
to donate money to libraries with mon
ument in front of the Allegheny City Lib
rary, the first be has ever built. Col.
James Anderson, Allegheny's first iron
/ master, in 1852 built a mansion in Allie
gheny and equipped his library with 400
books, large number in those days.
Every second Saturday he permitted
working boys to come to his library and
he loaned them each q book for two
weeks. Andrew Carnegie and Henry {.
Phipps were among the boys. The steel
king at the dedication OF the Carnegie
(Pa.) Library last week said:
at was then | resolved that if should
ever have surplus wealth l would use it
in the distribution of books. Nothing
seemed more unlikely at that time, for
my revenue was but $1.20 per week as a
bobbin boy in a cotton mill. NeVerthe.
less had my dreams"
A New BOer Republic.
Gen, Pearson, Boer agent at New Or
leans, has received letter from Lieut..
Haberer, assistant secretary to President
Kruger, announcing the establishment
OF new Boer republic In the Langen-
| burg country, composed of Transvaal
Beers, who, during the present war,
have trekked across Bechuanaland and
British South Africa, crossing the Kala-
ban, and have wedged themselves in be
tween German Southwest Africa and
Portuguese West Africa. Some Beers
went there as earlyas 1885. Their mum
Der has been greatly increased since the
| beginning of the war, and it is thought
that the irreConcilables will move there
in the event OF peace. 1t is the fifth trek
taken by the Beers to escape British do.
minion.
The citizens of Southbridge, Mass,
have voted to reject an offer OF $4,000
from Andrew Carnegie to erect public
library, because Jacob Edwards, of BoS.
ton, native and former resident of the
town, has offered to give a library build
ing and site upon which to erect the
same, at a cost OF $50,000.
Glens Falls, N. Y, had a $500, 900 fire
on Sunday, and 1000 persons were
thrown out of work
Large numbers of Filipino insurgents
are surrendering.
Andrew Carnegie has greater gift in
store for Pittsburg than he has yet
announced publicly. Mr.. Carnegie will
have the Western University OF Penn
| sylvania removed from the top OF the
hills back of Allegheny City and placed
on a plot adjoining the new Carnegie
Polytechnic Institute, and will make it
| greater institution than the Chicago
| University or the Leland Stanford. He
will make the group of buildings the
greatest learning centre in the United
! States, if not in the world.
Cruel and inhuman treatment will be
the plea of Thomas Foley of English,
| Indiana, for divorce. His wife admits
that she tied his hands and feet while he
was drunk and applied salt to his hands,
face and clothing, that the cattle in the
field where he lay hel pless might lick
him to death as revenge for a beating
| she received during drunken orgie.
| FOley's skin was raw in many places and
| his clothing was torn to shreds.
At the confederate reunion at Dallas,
Friday, it was decided to change memo,
rial day from June 80 to the birthday of
Jefferson Davis, June 8. The proposition
was adopted after spirited opposition
and after being amended so as to permit
any state desiring so to do to observe
any other date as the states memorial
| dav.
The Earl of Dundonald, who is coming
to Canada, in command of the dominion
troops, has had distinguished military
career in the British army. He is not
only tirst-rate soldier, but his inven-
tions for military equipments, notably
the Dundonald gun carriage, have been
valuable
Andrew Carnegie will in all probability
never be called upon for the $150,000
which he promised to the city OF Mon
treal for free library building. The
Catholic clergy have declared themselves
unalterably opposed to the establish
ment, as city institution, OF any library
where all classes Of books may be freely
circulated.
At the meeting of the Confederate Vet
Grams in Dallas, Texas, last week, Gen.
| John B. Gordon was re elected COM
mander in chief. Gen. c. l. Walker sue
ceeds the late Gen. Wade Hampton as
commander of the Army of Northern Vir-
giuia; Gen. Stephen D. Lee was elected
Army OF Tennessee Department, and Gen.
w. L. cold Tge') CabeIl, commander
of the Army of the Trans-Mississippi De-
partment.
Through the generosity OF Zenas Crane
of Dalton, Pittshed, Mass, is to be pro-
vided with Museum of Natural History
and Art at the expense of $4,000. The
structure will be one of the handsomest
public buildings in the state.
SELLS ON ITS MERITS.
That Accounts for Increase of the h los