People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1897 — MISCELLANEOUS. [ARTICLE]

MISCELLANEOUS.

Wayne MacVeagh, formerly United States minister to Italy, returned to America Sunday on board the American line steamship New York, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Two thousand and eighty immigrants arrived at Ellis Island Sunday! From the best sources obtainable at the stockgrowers’ meeting of Wyoming and South Dakota and the principal shipping points it is safe to say that th«> range cattle losses of the states mentioned will not exceed 15 per cent. Colonel John Hay, United States ambassador to the court of St. James, sailed for England Wednesday on the American line steamship St. Paul. He was accompanied by his wife and eldest daughter. The revenue cutter Rush will be sent in search of the missing ship Samaria. The Samaria left Seattle for San Francisco twenty-five days ago and haa not since been heard from. John Donallen & Son, one of the largest firms of morocco manufacturers of Lynn, Mass., assigned to S. J. Hollis of this city and George E. Smith of Boston. The liabilities of the firm are said to be $150,000. The report that the Cumberland Coal Company of Nashville, Tenn., has assigned to Clarence Wilson is declared to be erroneous, and that the company is still operating its mines. The Long Mead Iron Company and the Conshohocken Tube Company of Conshocken, Pa., have gone into the hands of receivers. The failure is the largest that has ever occurred in the country. The liabilities will amount to about $300,000, while the asssets will not be over $150,000. John Osborn has made a discovery near Walker, lowa, that promises to be a most valuable one, having found a deposit of marble which is known to cover at least five acres. The depth of the quarry has not yet been ascertained. United States Minister McKenzie and Consul Jastremski have left Lima, Peru, for the United States, going by way of PananiaU Minister McKenzie was recently so sick that death was expected. He has recovered sufficiently to be able to travel.

The Peruvian government has appointed Alberto Falcon to represent Peru at the forthcoming postal congress at Washington. The South Dakota Supreme Court has dismissed the appeal and affirmed the decision of Judge Gassy in the case of the Chicago National Bank vs. the City of Huron. The amount involved is the validity of $60,000 in bonds issued by the city in 1890. John Snyder, aged 20, and Otto Snyder, aged 21, brothers, were drowned in lowa river near Eldora, lowa. The body of John was recovered. Otto has not been found. Governor Bloxliam of Florida has issued a call for a national fisheries congress to assemble at Tampa, Fla., on the 19th day of January, 1898. The national fishery commission of the United States will take a prominent part in the proceedings. A young man rowing with a party of four at Ottumwa, lowa, lost control of the boat and it was carried over the dam. Lizzie Ford, aged 19, was drowned. The others were picked up. W. L. Sandiers. operating general stores at Frankfort, Kan., and Falls City, Neb., has failed. Assets and liabilities are not given, but are believed to be large. At Muncie, Ind., Georgie Thorpe, a messenger boy on a bicycle, stopped a runaway horse at the peri', of his life. He is 15 years old. Three years ago he ran away to Chicago, and was found by his mother selling popcorn. The ministers of Mexico, Mo., have called a public meeting to enlist national assistance for the sufferers in famine stricken India. A car load of Audrain county corn will likely be, sent. Tho St. Louis, Mo., Dairy Company has been found guilty in the United States District court of importing contract labor and will have to pay SI,OOO. They contracted with Edward T. Nulls of Worcester, Eng., to come to St. Louis and sent SIOO to enable him to pay for his passage.