People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Governor Upham, of Wisconsin, appointed Col. Warham Parks, of Oconomowoc circuit judge of the Thirteenth district. Florin Patrick died at Marshall, 111., last night. He was driven insane by seeing one of his workmen killed in his sawmill. The cornerstone of the new Methodist church at Galesburg, 111., was laid with formal exercises. Gen. Harrison Allen, who lives at Fargo, N. D., has sued his wife at St. Paul, Minnn., for divorce. He says she deserted him in 1888. She is now living in Warren, Pa. Allen lives in Washington, D., C., in the winter. The cornerstone of the new St. James’ Lutheran church was laid with formal exercises at Yandalia, 111. Attorney-General Moloney of Illinois has decided a tax assessor can not delegate his duties of assessing to a deputy. A movement is on foot for the United States to establish coaling stations in the gulf of Mexico. Indians in Dakota and the Canadian Northwest are said to have gone on the war path. Troops have been dispatched to the scene. Celebrations honor of the memory of Gen. Grant were held throughout the country Saturday, the anniversary of his birth. Reading - ~ ' •’ ny there is a war in coal rat . ...juig, The cone .ion of Representative Hitt of Illinois -smains unchanged. Gold h < been discovered near Raleigh, a sr' urb of Memphis, Tenn. It is plentifully mixed with platinum. John Rigoulot has started to walk from San Francisco to New Orleans, his home. The Midwinter Fair broke him. Indian Commissioner Browning Is en route to Chicago to open bids for supplies for the Indian agencies for the coming fiscal year. Gov. Altgeld has appointed C. H. Sutton of Rock Falls, 111., fish warden for Whiteside county. Memorial day was fittingly observed at Mobile by Alabama state troops and confederate veterans, Judge Goff, of Columbia, S. C., and the state authorities are likely to lock horns over the seizure of liquor brought into the state in violation of the dispensary law. At Anderson, Ind., William Decker has shot the first oil well in the history of the county. The well is running fifty barrels a day and increasing rapidly. The members of the interstate commerce commission have reached Kearney, Neb., and are listening to complanits that the roads are discriminating against Kearney. Reports at Washington show that during the last ten months the number of Italian immigrants arriving in the country was 10,825 less than during the same period last year. Reports indicate a widespread disposition on the farmers to move to the south. Sailors from the cruiser Olympia who are ashore at San Diego, Cal., report that over sixty men have desertd from the cruiser on this trip. Houston, Tex., negroes have taken up the cause of their race who have been deceived into going into Mexico, where they are treated like Siberian exiles. Gov. Brown of Kentucky has pardoned ex-Mayor J. H. Davidson of Lexington, who was sentenced to ten days in jail for carrying concealed weapons. The Illinois drainage dispute has been amicably arranged, and the pending bill before the senate will be amended and passed. The controller of the currency has authorized the First National Bank of Vandalia, 111., to begin business with a capital of $50,000.