People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

A bill for an accounting by the officers of the Third National bank of Detroit was filed in the Federal court. Dr. Cyrus Teed, the Koreshan prophet of Chicago, has organized a society in Pittsburg and is organizing another in Beaver Falls. Theodore Roosevelt, civil service commissioner, would neither deny nor affirm the report that he had been offered a position as police commissioner of New’ York. Southern and western rolling mill men, representing 87 per cent of the total output, met at Chattanooga, Tenn., and decided to steadily advhnce prices. Citizens of St. James, Mo., have presented sixty acres of land and a largo building to the Woman’s Relief Corps of the Soldiers’ home. This means that the corps will have charge of the home. Navigation is open at Montreal. Sealing men prophesy that the catch will be very light this year, the prediction being based upon the bad luck of schooners so far. Miss Trudle Barnes of Wheeling. W. Va., has brought suit for *20.000 for breach of promise against J. C. McGregor, one of the best known business men in the state. At a meeting of the directors of tho Calumet and Hecla Mining company in Boston it was decided to declare a dividend of $5 a share, payable May It to Stockholders of record April 23. John Ford, a Roman Catholic undertaker of Bridgeport, Conn., has brought suit for SIO,OOO damuges against Rev. D. J. Cremin, alleging that he influenced his parlshoners to deal with an opposition firm. There Is grave danger of an outbreak among the Indians on the Yhnnebago agency In Nebraska. C. P. Huntington, the San Francisco millionaire, has been arrested charged with violation of the interstate commerce law. A convict in a Massachusetts prison has fallen heir to a fortune of *16,000,000, left him by a relative in Nevada. The supreme court has as yet rendered no decision on the rehearing In the income tax case. The marriage of Miss Lelter of Washington and the Hon. George Nathaniel Curzon of England was solemnized at Washington before a very swell crowd. Mrs. Cleveland and about all the notables of the capital were present. Major General McCook has been placed on the retired list on account of his age. It Is rumored that at least three new dally papers will be started in Chicago very soon. A new case of smallpox has appeared at Spring Valley, Itl., and seventy houses have been quarantined. .Clarence Sampson was appointed receiver for the dry goods house of Schmeelea & Fitzpatrick at St. Joseph, Mo. The Indebtedness is *30,000. A summer conference will be held at lowa college, Grinnell, June 26 to July 3, to consider the question “Can We Have a Political Revival of Christianity?" Snow fell all day Sunday In Colorado. The Tacoma sealing schooner Bering Sea, reported lost with all on board, is safe. Delegates to the Young Women’s Christian association meeting at Pittsburg, Pa., held prayer meetings and spoke from several points. Four troops of the First Cavalry, with Col. Arnold and MaJ. Vie.c, now at Fort Grant, Ore., have been nrdered to exchange places with four troops of the Seventh Cavalry, Col. Sumner and MaJ, Baldwin, now at Fort Riley, Kas. All through and local par sen trains of the M., K. & T. Ry. system now arrive and depart from the Union Station at St. Louis. Mo. 1