People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1895 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Robert Lindsay, ex-secretary of the National League of Republican clubs, has received a letter from General James S. Clarkson instructing him to engage a number of rooms at leading Pittsburg hotels for the national convention week. The letter positively engages the rooms. The executive committee of the Benevolent Order of Elks has selected Cincinnati as the place for holding the next national convention of the order, beginning on the second Tuesday in July, 1896. Minneapolis, Omaha, Niagara Falls and Indianapolis contested with Cincinnati. The centennial of the beginning of Presbyterianism in Washington was commemorated at the First Presbyterian church, the discourses being delivered by the Rev. Byron Sunderland, who has been pastor of the church for the past forty-three years. Dr. James R. Black, aged 69, died at Newark, 0., from the effects of a cerebral hemorrhage. The doctor was known to the medical profession throughout the country as a brilliant medical writer. Gen. Thomas Jordan, the ex-confed-erate, who is lying at the point of death at his home in New York, is sinking fast and it is not expected he will live many hours longer. Gov. Matthews, of Indiana, buried his only son, who died at the Atlanta exposition, nean the old homestead at Clinton, Ind. Special trains brought many friends from Indianapolis. On the way home from Atlanta, Mrs. Hastings was presented by the party that accompanied her husband, the governor of Pennsylvania, to the exposition, with a diamond pendant. Cecil Kidwell, an engineer, and Washington Price were instantly killed and six others badly injured by a boiler explosion at Grassey. Ky. Eben Ireland,'the 15-year-old son of Charles Ireland, a lumber dealer of Benton Harbor, Mich., while hunting, was accidentally shot and killed by a boy friend. Mrs. William Barrett, wife of the

notorious ourgiar serving a lite sentence in the Massachusetts state’s prison and who disappeared last Monday after the arrest of James Chaffy in Boston, has been located in Jersey City. A monster temperance meeting was held at Heron, Ind., by the Good Citizens’ league. S. C. Nicholson, author of the temperance )aw, spoke. It is asserted that the administration is contemplating another issue of bonds to the amount of $25;000,000. John R. Tanner has resigned the chairmanship of the Illinois state republican committee and announced his candidacy for the gubernatorial nomination. Dun & Co.s’ review of trade says the exports of the country are too light to be satisfactory. Application was made at Sioux City, lowa, by the holders of $125,000 of preferred stock in the United Bank Building company for the appointment of a receiver and possession of its property. W. A. Cernahan, of Eau Claire, Wis., has commenced action upon the county board, which refuses to recognize him as a member. Dr. A. P. Willits, of Keithsburg, 111., has been annotated on the board of pension examiners of his district to succeed the late Dr. Marshall. W. J. Foster, a traveling salesman, for Woodbridge & Co., dress trimmings, of New York, was found dead in bed at the Gault house at Louisville, Ky. Heart disease caused his death. Assistant Secretary Fleming, of the state board of agriculture, will represent Ohio at the meeting Tuesday of representatives of all the western and northern state fairs to prepare a schedule so as to avoid conflicts and accommodate exhibitors. Dr. Jacob Mendel, a prominent German physician of Milwaukee, Wis., is dead at the age of 50 years. Harrison Luddington, a son of the late Gov. Ludington of Wisconsin, died at his home in Milwaukee, Wis., aged 46 years. James Chesley, a pioneer merchant of Waupaca, Wis., dropped dead.