People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1896 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

About ten days ago Father Fitzgerald was cited by Bishop Bonacum to appear before the metropolitan court at Dubuque, where his appeal would be heard touching the old contest between Bonacum and his priests. Fitzgerald wrote to Archbishop Hennessy for corroboration, add has received an answer that the trial would be held at Dubuque July 22. The school controversy was settled by the council at Rockford, 111., Tuesday evening. It declined to make the advances asked. Ex-President and Mrs. Benjamin Harrison left Tuesday for New York on their way to the Adlrondacks to spend the summer. It is learned from Mr. Harrison’s friends that he does not expect to return to Indiana until short-, ly before the election. He does not expect to take any active part in the coming campaign. Mrs. Willie, the wife of a business man, entered the Fourth National Bank at Wichita, Kan., put a revolver to the cashier's head, and demanded her money. The cashier knew she had no money there, but saw at a glance she was insane. He kept counting and recounting her supposed deposit for her, and thus attracted her attention until a messenger had returned with a policeman, who disarmed her. Laura J. Webb has sued Jack Short of Aurora, 111., for $50,000 for breach of promise. Short is a wealthy saloonkeener sort has twn wr^nfl.' , hi!dren Dick Bland voted in congress in 1893 for a ratio of 20 to 1. That settles him as far as the Populists are concerned. The true friends of silver stand for 16 to 1.