People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1896 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Superintendent of Insurance Durfee has granted a license to the Life Insurance Clearing company of St. Paul, with a paid-up capital of SIOO,OOO, to transact business in Illinois. The Ohio brigade. Knights of Pythias, will hold its annual meeting in Cleveland Aug. 24 to 31. Mrs. Minnie F. Payne, of Fort Scott, Kan., has brought suit for divorce against Albert Bigelow Payne, an author and poet. John Maguire, of Butte, Mont., has discovered records that lead him to believe that the Chinese knew how to use cathode rays centuries ago. The Union Car works, to be operated on the co-operative plan, will put up buildings at North St. Louis at once. The capital is $50,000, and the president is H. W. Rocklage. Twin sisters and twin brothers were married at Burbank, O. Rev. Nathaniel Lewis performed the -ceremony that made Irena V. Repp wife of Vernon R. Stair, and Idena V. Repp wife of Vertal R. Stair. E. Wilding and J. F. Gilmore, representing a London syndicate, are negotiating for the purchase of the Chino ranch in southern California. The ranch consists of 40,000 acres, and the price offered is said to be $2,000,000. C. A. Seaton, boots and shoes, Canton, 111., failed. At Menominee, Mich., Childs & Sawyer and Baum & Besnah have failed. No statements are given. L. J. Lachman & Co., wholesale liquors, at Butte, Mont., have been closed by creditors. Assets are said to cover liabilities. The citizens of Urbana, 111., held a mass meeting Monday night and passed resolutions expressive of their feelings on the recent Indictment of Gov. Altgeld and the members of the board of trustees of the University of Illinois for alleged non-compliance with the flag law. The resolutions were to the effect that the people of Urbana have a warm interest in the university and full confidence in its management and its patriotism. The flag law was denounced as being “useless and expensive.” Gen. Harrison left for New York Tuesday afternoon. His marriage to Mrs. Dimmick will take place next Monday afternoon. Besides the general’s two children, Mrs. McKee and Russell B. Harrison, Daniel M. Ransdell and his private secretary, E. F. Tibbott, will accompany him. The Harrison homestead has been put in order for the new mistress. Five hundred New York lithographers who struck seven weeks ago will return to work sending the decision of the committee on arbitration. It is said little or no concessions have been gained by the strikers. The president on Monday sent to the senate the nomination ot Benjamin J. Franklin of Arizona, to be governor of that state.