People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1895 — MISCELLANEOVS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOVS.

Report! to the Martoe Hospital Service show mueft. yeitowftvw Havqtyu. From October M to 24 there were I$G eases and forty-three deathA Ida M. and KRa R. Netaonef Chicago, who aye tramping their way to Jacksonville, Fla., on a wager, spent Sunday in. Lexington, Ky. , At Montgomery, Ala., the Montgomery, Tuscaloosa and St Louis railway is given thirty days in which to pay to the Metropolitan Trust company ot New York SIBI,OOO defaulted interest. If not paid the road will be sold; At Fort Payne, Ala., the steel mill built by the Coal and Iron company and purchased by the Dekalb company Is to be operated in thirty days. It has a capacity of 100 tons a day. Dun’s review of trade reports business in a rather unsatisfactory condition. It is a period of waiting, and the* stagnation may continue some weeks. The will of John R. Porter was filed! for probate at Rockford, HL He leaves, an estate of $75,000, all of which, goes to his widow without restriction. The monthly coinage statement* shows the coinage executed at the: United States mints during the month, of October to have been as follows:. Gold, $7,215,700; silver, $820,000; one cent pieces, $23,500; total coinage, SB,059,200. The Illinois state board'of health during the past week issued certificates entitling to practice medicine and surgery in Illinois to Edith Sturges, K. E. Keith,. R. E. McDonaldi and S. Severson, of' Chicago; C. H. Smith, Tonica, and H. L.. Kutchen, of Columbus, Ohio. Buffalo Bill has decided to close his: Wild West show at Atlanta. The weather has been inclement At Marshalltown, la., the delegates to the convention of the lowa Epworth league visited the Soldiers’ Home. At Erie, Pa., Armour & Co. and Swift & Co., of Chicago, were each fined SIOO for violation of the oleomargarine law. The Pennsylvania societies of the Lutheran church have formed at Philadelphia the Lutheran League of America, with E. F. Eilert, of New York, president At Washington the contract for putting in place the steel and ironwork above the attic floor of the Milwaukee postofflce building was awarded to J. G. Wagner, of Milwaukee, at $34,000. At Ann Arbor, Mich., over 500 women students of the university attended a reception given by the sophomore girls. All male students were carefully excluded, and the men in the orchestra, were hidden by a screen. Gov. Altgeld denies the report that he has commissioned Col. R. M. Smitlt of the Fourth Regiment to raise a new regiment of 1,200 men. Judge Buck Kilgore of the Federal Bench in the Indian Territory has written to Attorney-General Harmon defending himself against charges filed by attorneys. The most serious charge ia that “he doesn’t know much law and tyrannical.” At Duluth, Minn., the Masonic Temple Association assigned to George N. Lavaque for the benefit of its creditors. The liabilities are about $135,000. The assets are the Temple Building and insurance on the opera house destroyed a few weeks ago. The ram Katahdin, the latest addition to the new navy, was given an official trial. The result of the trial is not announced, but it is said the required seventeen knots were more than maintained under favorable conditions. At Washington, Ind., 400 miners empolyed by Cabel & Co. struck on account of the screens used. Others may follow. Mrs. Agnes Spzcholskl, of Chicago, has secured a verdict against the Hammond, Whiting and East Chicago Electric Railroad for $3,000 for injuries sustained in a wreck. She sued for $50,000. Hal ft & Newbourer Brothers, wholesale dry goods and cotton buyers, filed a deed of trust and a chattel mortgage at Houston, Texas, with C. S. Rechman as trustee, covering a stock of cotton and real estate in several counties. The total liabilities are $225,000, of which $181,258 is preferred. The assets are estimated at $210,000.