People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

The census of the city of Buffalo, taken May 1, showed the population to be 335,709. Leads Kingman, late City Engineer of Topeka, Kas., has been appointed Chief Engineer of the Mexican Central railroad. In the Duestrow insanity case at Union (Mo.) the State opened its onslaught on the expert testimony given last week to prove the millionaire murderer insane. A stock company to give theatrical performances has been organized at Forty Mile, on the Yukon River in Alaska, the northernmost settlement on the continent. The Governor of Georgiy has been asked to call out the militia to be at Andersonville, Sumter County, Decoration Day, to preserve order. In times past they have utterly disregarded the laws of the State and openly defied its officers. Mrs. Jane L. Stanford has filed in the United States Circuit Court at San Francisco a demurrer to the suit brought by the government against the Stanford estate to recover $15,000,000 advanced by the United Staes for the construction of the Central Pacific railroad. The demurrer sets forth that the only relief open to the government is the confiscation of the corporation. Seth Low, president of Columbia college, has mgi'e a gift of $1,000,000 to that institute j. President Cleveland sent a check for SSOO to the father of triplets who had named them Frances, Ruth and Esther. E. G. Stevens was appointed receiver of the Stevens Electric company of Birmingham, Ala.

The year’s drought in Texas has been broken and crops are now said to be ih excellent condition. The price of sugar has been advanced % cent a pound by retail and wholesale dealers at Halifax owing to the rise in duties by the dominion government. Ensign M. Allison, who was so badly injured on the cruiser Olympia by having his right leg torn off by the anchor chain which had become unshackled in running out, is slowly improving at the Naval hospital at Mare Island. Frank Johnson, brother of Gunner Johnson, who was killed on board of the cruiser Olympia while engaged in target practice off Coronado Beach, states that he is prepared to prove that the death of his brother was the result of gross carelessness on the part of the attaches of the Ordnance department at Mare Island. He will present the data in his possession to the secretary of the navy and demand investigation into the death of his brother. A vein of coal has been struck on the farm of J. T. Browning near Moline, 111. Mining operations will be started at once. The Indian uprising in the Northwest has been squelched. The half breeds surrendered to a sheriff and his posse. Income tax arguments were begun at Washington Monday. The first state convention of the Christian Endeavor societies of the Christian churches of Missouri, and the first in the history of the Christian church, is in session in Sedalta, Mo. The new electric road being built from Chicago to Elmhurst will be extended to Elgin, 111., probably. In the Payne-Geiger breach of promise case at Mount Ayr, la., the plaintiff was awarded $16,000 damages. The water works plant at Portage City, Wis., was placed in the hands of a receiver, W. G. Morly, on application of the Farmers’ Loan and Trust company of New York. A St. Johns (N. F.) paper announces the United States Atlantic squadron, under the command of Admiral Meade, will visit Newfoundland waters this summer, where it is likely it will meet the British fleet under Admiral Erslcihe.