Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1896 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Mine. Modjeska is so seriously ill that all her engagements have been canceled. Mica Clara Barton and the staff officers of the Red Cross Society sailed Wednesday from Now York for Constantinople. The wife of Hon. George N. Carzon. who was formerly Miss Mary Letter, of Washington, was delivered of a daughter Monday. . - „ Jennie Goldthwaite, the “Kitty Glover” of the Princess Bonnie Opera Company, is engaged to marry Frank Murphy, the Chicago broker. Eugene A’. Debs says lie is going to retire from the A. U. U. and become a newspaper man, and that he will probably locate in Chicago. The China ships, Clarence S, Bennett, Captain Franck, and AA’illiam H. Connor, Captain Pendleton, crossed the New York bar together AVednesday night outwardbound. The John Currier, Cajitain Lawrence, and the Josephus, Captain Kilkey, left later for the same port—Shanghai. The ship that first reaches her destination wiil win a purse of S4OO, which the captains have made up. The ban placed by the Roman Catholic Church upon the' orders of Knights of Pythias, Sons of Temperance and Odd Fellows is absolute and admits of no further discussion. This is the mandate of the pope, through his official representative, Cardinal Satolli. The three’ orders named have a Roman Catholic member ship iu round numbers of nearly a hundred thousand.- One month ago a number of prominent Catholics connected with the Pythian order organized a committee of appeal in the hope that a proper presentation of the case before the papal delegate would result iu a recall of the interdict. In response to invitations the committee received a 1 thousand letters from prominent' Roman Catholics in all parts of the country heartily indorsing the movement and pledging moral and financial aid.