People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Officials of eastern lines have apparently given up all attempt to stem the freight rate demoralization. Whipple Post, G. A. R., will put an American flag on every school house in Kankakee county. Illinois, on Memorial day. Anna Gould was married to Count Boniface de C&stellane in New York, less than 100 intimate friends being present. Roth civil and religious ceremonies were performed. Bernhard Meuser. a business man of Beardstown, 111., disappeared Feb. 27, and it is feared he has met with foul play. Editor Weamer of Bristol, Ind., has brought suit for damages against three wealthy residents, alleging libel and slander. Five thousand people fought for an opportunity to witness the ceremonies attending the burial of a murdered Chinaman at Los Angeles. Mrs. Alfred H. Hines rushed into the pulpit of a Rochester church and said she had been commanded in a vision to preach. Animated by Lawrence Gronlund’s preaching, Californians have formed an organization similar to the famous Fabian society of London. River and railroad miners of’ the Pittsburg district decided to refuse to-w-orb for less than 69 cents a ton. Detroit's nexv health board secured possession of the .department quarters by strategy and forcibly removed Commissioner McLeod. Creditors and officers of the Ballou. I Banking company of Sioux City, lowa, j have agreed on a receivership to wind, j up its affairs. | Michigan homeopathists will fight | the plan to amalgamate the departments of medicine at the university. ice gorged in the Susquehanna at Port Deposit and the residents were forced to flee to the hills. Hugh T. Galen, a millionaire mine owner and politician of Helena, Mont., was secretly married to a Seattle school teacher.

A. M. Jelleff, a business man of Franklin, Ind., turned on the gas in a theater box and lay down to die. Engagement is announced of Mary Lei ter, daughter of the Chicago miiiionair, to O. Curzon, M. P., son of Lord Scarsdale. It has practically been decided to hold an international mining exposition in Denver in 1X96. Extra guards have been placed about the glass works at Martin’s Ferry. Ohio, to guard against a possible attack by union men. The steamship Aurania reached New York from Liverpool with a million and three quarters in gold on board. Telegraph operators of New York have formed a union which is intended to be national in its scope. Lulu Harrington, a belle of Lincoln, Neb., ha-s brought suit for breach of promise against Philip Manger of Boonville, Mo. Gen. John A. McClernand is rapidly growing weaker and the aged warrior lias given up hope of recovery. The store of the Northwestern Chandelier company at Toledo, Ohio, was entered by a miscreant, who destroyed everything of a fragile nature. Reckless squandering of agricultural college funds has been discovered by the legislature of Oklahoma. Relatives of Grace Vaughn, the actiess, who sought to obtain her release from an Ohio insane asylum, found she has escaped. Dun's trade review states that there is very little activity- to be discovered in. fitly line of business. David B. James, a pioneer merchant of San Francisco, is endeavoring to incite the western states to secede from the union. Matthew Roland of Mont Clair, N. J., has fallen heir to an estate left in Australia by an uncle, valued at $3,000,000. Bank clearings of the principal cities in the United States show a total decrease for the week of 7.3 per cent. Missionaries on the coast of Labrador state that there is great suffering and starvation among the Nascapee Indians. . Eastern passenger officials failed to induce western agents to alter their plan for handling immigrant business. Stock company has been formed to build an electric freight line connecting Valparaiso, Ind., with Chicago. Railroad officials, who met at Omaha to agree upon coal rates in Kansas, adjourned abruptly without a settlement. Officers were elected and prizes distributed by the National Butter and Cheese Men’s association at Rockford, 111-. Thursday. J. Hamburger & Co. of New York, importers of leaf tobacco, have made an assignment. Liabilities are nearly $300,000. Cattle shipments from Texas will show a heavy falling off this year, but will be continuous instead of bunched within a few- months. Refreshing sleep has come to David Jones of El wood, Ind., after 152 days i an d nights of wakefulness.