People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1896 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

; The Cunard Line steamship Cephalonia has been floated by means of pontoons and tugboats. The Cephalonia, which sailed from Boston Dec. 21, struck a rock at South* Stack, near Holyhead, early on New Year’s Day. The Des Moines Register calls upoa the legislature to provide the death penalty for grave desecration, and the editor announces that he will personally join with other citizens in tearing down brick by brick any medical college which persists in receiving stolen bodies. William McKinley closed his second term as Governor of Ohio Monday, and General Asa S. Bushnell of Springfield was inducted into the office of chief executive. A remarkable revival meeting is hi progress at Kingsbury, Ind., where, it is said, as a result of the work of evangelists, all but two persons ih the village of 300 inhabitants have professed religion. The prohibitionists are making arrangements to hold a large number of mass meetings in different parts of Indiana from Jan. 20 to 25. Ex-Governor St. John of Kansas and others will address the meetings. The object is to create interest in the principles of the party preparatory to the state convention, which will be held at Indianapolis in February. • M. Kostieky, the Russian minister to the United States, arrived in New York on the La Champagne and left for Washington. Dick Moore of Minneapolis and Paddy Purtell fought to a finish in a barn in Kansas City. Moore was knocked out in the fourth round. George Shockley, a United States prisoner, sent from Louisville to serve in the Jeffersonville, Ind., prison tor passing counterfeit money, died suddenly in his cell. Ohio’s state university has received the telescope donated by Emerson McMillin, of New York. It has a 12-ineh lens, 16-foot barrel, transit, and spectroscope on the Lick observatory model, though on reduced lines. The Dubuque, lowa, Ladies’ Literary Association held its twentieth anniversary celebration. The guests of boner were Mrs. Anna B. Howe, of Marshalltown, president of the lowa Federation of Women’s Clubs. The democratic joint legislative caucus at Frankfort, Ky., nominated Senator J. S. C. Blackburn as the candidate of that party to succeed himself in the United States senate. Considerable excitement has been caused at Gravelly Run, three miles south of Crawfordsville, Ind., by the discovery of an unusually rich deposit of gold. Nuggets of pure gold have been found.