People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Yale defeated Harvard in the annual boat race by ten lengths. The Harvard crew was outclassed and Yale won as it pleased. Dun’s Review of Trade gives the business of the country as in a fairly prosperous condition, but says the uncertainty regarding the crops is a drawback. A Civic Federation has been organized in Kansas City. The condition of Representative Hitt is reported to be encouraging,. Prof. Hussey of the Stanford University may succeed Prof. Barnard at Lick Observatory. W. B. Chamberlain of Chicago was elected president of the National Association of Elocutionists at the convention In Boston. The syllabus in the decision of the Ohio Supreme Court declaring the inheritance tax unconstitutional says the law was not uniform In its application. The Northern Trust Company of Chicago has increased Its deposit of securities with the Auditor of Public Accounts at Springfield, 111., from $200,000 to $500,000. The Vicksburg and Delta Transfer property was turned over to the Mississippi Railroad Transfer Company Monday at Vicksburg, Miss. Price, $150,000. The fourth annua) convention of the Christian Endeavor society of the Methodist Episcopal church began at Pittsburg, Pa. Senators Voorhees and Turple and John 8. Williams have prepared papers to file in court to test the last Indiana Legislative apportionment on the ground that it was not made immediately subsequent to an enumeration. Ex-Representative Axllne, Colonel’ Wilson, W. W. Davis, and David 8. Roberts, visited Columbus, 0., to consult with H. D. Turner and the officers of the Ohio Western company with a view to the opening of mining work in the Shawnee valley. They say no work has been done there since last September and the miners are In a starving condition. ' ’ The Baptist Young People’s Union wil hold a convention In Baltimore, beginning July 18. The Big Four railway company took , advantage of Sunday to lay tracks on disputed ground in Louisville, Ky. Maj. William H. Hastings is flooding Philadelphia with copies of a letter viciously attacking Gov. Hastings of Pennsylvania, his brother. The supreme lodge of Good Templars, in session at Boston, elected Dr. D. H. , Mann of New -York right worthy grand I templar and selected Zurick, SwitzerI land, as the place for the next meeting. I The Northwestern Masonic Aid As ' soclatlon and the Bankers* Life Association of Des Mofnes have b?en bayred from Kansas. . i The story sent out from Beattie, Wash., describing the departure q| an expedltioii to attempt the overthrow of i the Hawaiian government is declared to be a fabrication. I Cardinal Gibbons has, departed from ■ Rome. Deacon H. D. Ewan, aiderman of the : Seventh ward, in Lincoln, Neb., will *be 1 asked to resign. He explains It by saying he was showing his friend the town. | For the better suppression of iawless- ( ness in Indian Territory thirty-three additional Deputy Marshals have been . appointed. Under this arrangement the machinery of the courts will be kept In motion.