People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1896 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

A mass meeting was held In Aurora, 111., to secure aid for the afflicted Armenians. Resolutions were adopted calling on the United States government to combine with other powers and stop the outrages. The National Association of Embalmsrs has been formed at Pittsburg, Pa. One of the principal objects is to force undertakers to raise prices for practical men and to keep these prices uniform all over the country. The lowa Masonic grand lodge will meet at Boone, lowa, May 29 and continue in session until June 5.—A school of instruction will be held the first three days. The Pacific Mail Steamship Company’s big liner, the City of Rio de Janeiro, which left San Francisco for the Orient heavily laden on Feb. 6 last, should have arrived at Yokohama on Feb. 23, yet not a word has been heard of her. At least the agents of the company declare they have received information of no sort regarding the steamer’s welfare or whereabouts since she glided out of the bay on the afternoon of Feb. 6. Rear Admiral Henry Walke died at his home in Brooklyn Sunday afternoon. > Charles B. McMichael, appointed to succeed Judge Henry Reed, of the common pleas court of Philadelphia, is the youngest son of a former mayor of Philadelphia. Three inches of snow around Haywood, Wis., has stopped the breaking up of lumber camps in that region. The entire capital stock of the Singapore mining property on Bald Mountain, South Dakota, was purchased by Robert Mackay, of Montreal, Canada. J. C. Dunham, of Paxton, 111., is suing Edwin Bear, of Watseka, for alleged libel, claiming he was called a blackmailer through the columns of Bear’s paper. Health Officer Routh’s ultimatum to the ice companies at Duluth, Minn., has had the desired effect. All of the companies have gone out over a mile from the shore to secure ice. Supreme Chancellor Richie of the Knights of Pythlac has issued a proclamation that the supreme lodge will meet in Cleveland Aui;. 25, and saying that if satisfactory arrangements can be made locally and with the railroads the encampment of the military branch of the order may be held there. Gen. Harrison has returned to Indianapolis from New York. He confirms the announcement that his marriage to Mrs. Dinvmick wil take place April 6. Gus Richter, of Lougpoint, Livingston county, 111., was declared insane by a jury and taken to the hospital at Kankakee. ITis older brother a year ago horribly mutilated his aged mother and then hanged himself in jail. Genuine hard coal in paying quantities has been discovered near Greensburg, Ind. The coal was struck at a depth of about seventy feet and the vein is about twenty feet deep. A jury at Galesburg, 111,, awarded Mrs. Moses Libey $3,000 for the death of her husband, a brakeman, who wat killed on the Burlington railroad.