People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

At Akron, 0., Alice R. 81ms, proprietor of the Pendleton House, has assigned. Assets, $18,000; liabilities, SIO,OOO. At Indianapolis, Ind., Arthur C. Arnsthal, proprietor of the Hub clothing store, has made an assignment. Assets are said to equal $7,500. At Indianapolis, Ind., the receiver of the Indianapolis National Bank was ordered to compromise the claim, against Sutherland C. Stephens, amounting to $18,246.25, for $5,500. At St. Louis, Mo., a perfunctory election of directors of the St Louis and. San Francisco railroad to serve the coming year or until the road shall have been sold by the court took place at the general office of the road. At Joliet, 111., the public schools have been closed on account of diphtheria and an effort is making to shut up the public library. At Muncie, Ind., the city of Anderson filed a petition to prevent the defilement of its water supply by the Consumers’ Paper company. The Western Building and Loan Association, at St. Louis, made an assignment of all its holdings to the St. Louis Trust Company as trustee for creditors. The assets were estimated at SIOO,OOO. Charles H. Sawyer, president of the C. H. Sawyer Manufacturing Company, whose suit caused the assignment, alleges improper transactions. Reports on the progress of the rebellion records show the completion of the first volumes of the series covering the final campaign of the war in Virginia and the Carolinas and in the trans-Mississippi region. Volume 1 of series 2, relating to prisoners of war, isready for printing. The First National Bank of La Grange, Texas, closed its doors. Liabilities, $66,855, with assets of $121,807. The steamer Commodore and cargo, seized some days ago at Wilmington with arms aboard, alleged to be for use of Cuban insurgents, has been released by order of Judge Seymour. The board of health at San Francisco has rescinded its previous action declaring Honolulu an infected port. At Indianapolis, Ind., twenty-nine policemen have been discharged by the new board of safety. Comptroller of the Treasury Bowler decided that congressmen-eiect are not entitled to government stationery until they have taken the oath of office. Tne detail of officers for the cruiser Boston has been completed and she will be put in commission at the Mare Island California navy yard, on the 18th prox.. Captain Frank Wildes will have command of the cruiser. Dr. and Mrs. Lyman Abbott weregiven a reception at Ward’s seminary, Nashville, Tenn., Monday night. Senator Blackburn spoke at Versailles,, Ky., Monday, and was accorded an enthusiastic reception. The registration in Cincinnati this, fall is the largest ever known in that city. It is 69,215, a gain of 6,644 over last year. At Cleveland, 0., at a meeting of Chinamen representing Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota and Missouri, a branch of the Lun Wo Tong Chinese secret society was formed. At Louisville, Ky., the fourteen councils of the Order of Chosen Friends have been sued and a receiver ordered. The organization is alleged in the bill to be $50,000 behind in its death claims. At Detroit Mayor Pingree in an interview advocated the abolition of the present state prison system and the adoption of stockades, where prisonerscould be made to earn their living out of the soil. At Dallas, Tex., It is said that all members cf the Dallas artillery company are to be dismissed from service in disgrace for refusing to turn out as. escort to Gov. Culberson at the State Fair. The trouble is the sequel toGov. Culberson’s course in preventing the Corbett-Fitzsimmons fight taking place in Dallas. The treasury Monday showed an. available cash balance of $182,386,271, and a gold reserve of $93,227,586. Secretary Carlisle may have lost hie right to register in Kentucky, the lawrequiring sixty days’ residence in theward.