People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1896 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Two Philadelphia sailing vessels, the barks Havana and Robert S. Patter- * * son, have been given up for lost, with their crews, numbering thirty persons. ;« J. A. Robertson, of Monterey, has been granted a concession to build waterworks and sewers, for the city. The contract involves an expenditure of 11,500,000. Chicago capitalists are interested. Officers of the Cumberland County, Illinois, Veteran association, have decided to hold the seventh annual reunion at Greenup, July 2, 3 and 4. A number of regimental reunions will be held at the same time and place. At the First Baptist Church at Terre Haute, Ind., Sunday night Eugene Debs spoke from the pulpit on what the church should do for the labor cause. Bills are pending in both houses of v congress authorizing the government to grant to Nebraska about 12,000,000 acres of land. Protests against the bill have been signed by land owners representing Hooker, McPherson, Grant, Thomas and a part of Cherry county, and these protests have been forwarded to Washington. J. W. Lintz & Co., grocers of Canton, 111., have been closed on Judgment notes held by Peoria and Canton wholesalers. Gen. Neal Dow celebrated the 92d anniversary of his birth at Portland, Me., Friday. There was no formal observance of the event. Congratulatory telev grams came from all parts of the country; also cablegrams from England. Gen. Dow still retains perfectly his wonderful vigor and is in complete possession of all his faculties. A. K. Ward, the $300,000 swindler, who has been held in the Shelby eounty Jail awaiting trial under sixty indictments, is at the point of death at Memphis, Tenn., and, on recommendation of physicians, he was removed to a hospital. He will be guarded night d day by deputy marshals. The house of representatives, after three days of debate, adopted a resolution censuring Thomas F. Bayard, exsecretary of state and now ambassador to the court of St. James, for utterances delivered in an address to the * Boston (England) grammar school and in., w. address before the Edinburgh (Scotland) Philosophical institution last fall. The vote stood 180 to 71 In favor of the first resolution and 191 to 59 in favor of the second. The government engineers In charge of the construction of the Hennepin canal announce that work will be suspended this spring owing to the fact that the appropriation has been nearly . exhausted. The Senate Committee on Territories has agreed to report favorably the bill for the admission of Arizona as a State of the Union. , R. G. Dun & Co.’s review of trade says: "A movement toward better things is still the exception. There is , better business in shoes, and small Industries, and there has been a squeezing of short sellers in cotton, but the general tendency of industries and prices is not encouraging, and those who were most hopeful a month ago are still waiting, not so hopefully, for the expected recovery.” The Central Pennsylvania Methodist Episcopal conference voted to admit women r lay delegates to the general conference by 152 to 52. The proposition to reduce the representation to the general conference passed by a vote of 216 to 25.