People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Bell telephone patent has been declared valid. The Evangelical Synod of Southern Illinois, in session at Mascoutah, has closed its convention. The Detroit garden plan is working successfully in Omaha, Neb., and there are 500 plats in cultivation. A Civic Federation fashioned after that in Chicago has been formed in Galena, 111. David Shehan is president. Commissioner Lockhart at Pierre, S. D., has about decided to drop the 1 ankton land cases, fearing costly litigation. Thirty cases and three deaths from diphtheria at Akron, 0.. have been traced to a dog which had symptoms similar to those of human beings. The scalp and skull of a woman, many pieces of flesh, and body of a small child were found on the beach of Lake Michigan, near Valparaiso, Ind. The price of corn jumped 5 cents in five minutes on the Chicago board of trade Saturday. "Gall Hamilton” is dying at Washington at the home of Mrs. James G. Blaine. Secretary Carlisle has started on his southern trip. A call has been issued for a meeting at Des Moines Thursday of all the coal operators in lowa to effect an organisation, and, if possible, place business on a better basis for all concerned. The rise in the price of crackers Is credited by the trust officers at St. Louis as in sympathy with the rise in flour. The story that Minister Thurston favors the restoration of the Hawaiian monarchy is ridiculed at Washington. I*'ive miles of nets, said to belong to E. R. Edson of Cleveland, were seized by the Canadian government cruiser near Rondeau, Ont. Prof. Dyche of the Kansas State university has sailed in the fishing schooner Golden Hope for Greenland for specimens of mammalia and birds. Henry R. Thurber, President Cleveland's private secretary; will occupy the new Waters’ cottage at Silver Shell Beach, near Marion, Mass., with his family this summer.' * Business men in Chicago report a gratifying increase in trade. Wheat closed at 70% cents on the Chicago board of trade Friday. Presbyterian seminaries are reported in a sound condition. Dun s Review of Trade says the cold weather over the country retards business. The city of Chicago has a deficit of nearly $7,000,000. It is rumored that a decision adverse to the income tax has been prepared by the supreme court. The conference of the German Methodist ministers of Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, which has been in session at Bay City, Mich., has adjourned to meet next year in Delhi, Mich. The window glass manufacturers have decided not to form a trust. The San Francisco police are said to have fouhd several new witnesses who will testify against Durrant at his murder trial in the superior court. Prof. Edw’ard Lee Greene, professor of botany at the University of California, has resigned to take a similar position in the Catholic university, at Washington, D. C. Great damage is said to have-been done to Illinois and Indiana wheat fields by the Hessian fly. Ex-Postmaster General Wanamaker proposes to establish a hotel in Philadelphia at which any deserving person may be housed and fed free of cost. Wages are being advanced all over the country. The business situation Is improving daily. Dr. Robert Russell Booth was chosen moderator by the Presbyterian general ; assembly. He is an anti-Briggs man. Ex-President Harrison was presented with a gold medal by the New Jersey i Historical society. I The report of the Canadian superintendent of immigration shows the total immigration for 1894 to have been 27,911, I against 63,447 in 1893. Of these 850 were from the United States.