People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Eastern lines will be forced to adopt measures to give Chicago a fair share of east .bound traffic. Chicago merchants adopted the new rate basis proposed by Commissioner Iglehart and will submit to Illinois roads. Milwaukee Methodist ministers passed resolutions upholding the Oshkosh divines in their war on the charity ball. Temperance workers from many points were present at the funeral of Mrs. Mary T. Lathroy at Jackson, Mich. Floods in the Ohio river and its tributaries have already caused g’reat damage and the loss of one life. John W. Goff took his seat as presiding judge of the court of general sessions of New York. Ralph S. Spriggs, mayor of Chester, 111., who disappeared about a month ago, is in a St. Louis hospital. He had been on a spree. Miners of the Massillon district rescinded their action in rejecting the arbitrator*' award and will resume work.

Appraiser McClure of New York re* ports the value oi the Gould estate for purposes of taxation at $80,934,580.70. The Royal Yacht squadron conceded the point in dispute, thus assuring a race for the America's cup. Judgment for 51,440,190 in favor of the Central Trust company has been entered at Denver against the American and the City Water companies. The Pittsburg Railroad Coal Operators’ association refused to arbitrate the wage question and declared a rate war. Massachusetts’ Supreme court decided the sale of oleomargine colored in imitation of butter to be illegal, even though no attempt were made to hide its character A syndicate composed of New York and Boston men has purchased 800,000 acres of timber lands in Nova Scotia. The Kempster investigating committee of Milwaukee council threatens to punish several newspaper men for contempt. General Master Workman Sovereign of the Knights of Labor declares the statement made by Secretary McBryde of the mine workers to be false in every particular. An investigation of the charges of ill treatment and illegal detention of laborers at Navassa island is being made at Baltimore. Bank clearings of the principal cities show a decrease for the week in comparison with last year of 4.5 per cent, while the total for 1894 is lo per cent < less than in 1893. The Ainerica'i and United States Express companies fought for the business on the Findlay, Fort Wayne & \\ estern and the former was forcibly dispossessed. Owing to the position of the Canadian Pacific and the “Soo,” there is little hope of settling western passenger rate troubles. On the strength of a report on civic boodling in Toronto two ex-aldennan were arrested and many others ar« fugitives. New public library of Galena, 111., was opened with appropriate ceremonies, Rev. Frank (lunsaulus of Chi- f cage, delivering the address. John A. Creighton of Omaha, Neb., has been given the title of count by Pope Leo for aiding the Catholic church. Secretary Meßryde of the United Mine Workers lias issued an address to miners, urging them to shun Sovereign and Hayes. Father Stick, whose denunciation of Protestant organizations brought him into notoriety at Pana, 111., has been assigned to another pastorate. In a speech at a farewell reception in New York John Burns, the English labor leader, said America had a grand future. k Cardinal Gibbons, in a sermon in defense of Christianity, made a distinct reference to Col. Ingersoll, though not by name. Rev. Newell D. Ilillis, D. D., ” preached his inaugural sermon at Central church, Chicago. Lyman J. Cage delivered the introductory address. Christian Scientists from all parts of the country were present at the dedica- , tion of the “mother church” in Boston. \ Ray Randall, 7 years old, of Decatur, 111., and Charles Barnes, aged 8, of La Harpe, 111., died from hydrophobia. Mrs. Clara Pannell of Clinton, lowa, kidnaped when a child by her father, * was reunited to her mother at Rockford, 111. Snow slides blocked traffic on Erie near Lock Haven, Pa. A freight train was submerged and the fast mail had a narrow escape. Two inen were killed and four in’ jured in a collision between Lake Erie freight trains near Norwalk, Ohio. A vicious tiger attacked a horse during an exhibition at Cincinnati and a panic was narrowly averted. W. K. Vanderbilt has been awarded $224,827 damages for the sinking of his yacht by a metropolitan steamship company vessel. Judge Parker of the New York Supreme court decided the new tion did not prohibit state officials I using railroad passes ■ A receiver has been appointed for 1 the Jefferson iron works of Steuben I ville, Ohio. Its indebedness is SIBO,- I 000. I