People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1896 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

An ordinance has been passed at Greenwood, Ind., forbidding the sale or use of cigarettes. ' t The New England Methodist conference, by a large majority, favored the admission of women to the general conference. Judge Cole Issued an order at Washington requiring Secretary Carlisle to appear Saturday, April 25, and show cause why the mandamus asked by William Graves of New York should not be issued. Graves complains ne

was not fairly treated in tne recent bond issue. The president has sent to the senate the nomination of Fitzhugh Lee of Virginia to be consul-general of the United States at Havana, Cuba, vice Ramon O. Williams, resigned. Charles -Haber and 142 other cattlemen in Lyon, Chase, and other Kansas counties, won their case in the Kansas supreme court against the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad company, which they charged with shipping Texas cattle into the grazing country and spreading disease among the stock. W. B. Wheeler & Co., dealers on the New York stock exchange, have suspended. The Tiffin and Fostoria electric railway was sold by the sheriff at Tiffin, 0., to Samuel B. Sneaffx for SB,OOO. Executions aggregating $51,000 have been issued agaihst E. M. McGillen & Co., dry goods and notions dealers at Pittsburg, Pa. Joe Nichols, a farmer, near Arthur, 111., has become insane over his unprofitable farming last year. The Amherst astronomical expedition, fitted out to take observations in Japan of a total eclipse of the sun in August next, arrived in Seattle, Wash., overland from New York. Robert G. Ingersoll preached from a pulpit and to a church audience at Chicago Sunday. He came in response to an invitation from Dr. John Rusk’s Militant church.