Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1896 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

Nine Russian warships are now at Nagasaki, awaiting the arrival of six others. Paderewski, the pianist, hns placed In the hands of William Mason, of New York, and Col. H. L. Higginson, of Boston, as trustees, SIO,OOO for the purpose of establishing triennial prizes for composers ft American birth. Perry S. Heath, who for over two years has been president and general manager of the Commercial Gazette at Cincinnati, has sold his interests in that company, and has resigned and retired from the directory and management. A settlement with the creditors of P. H. Kelly, Of the Kelly Mercantile Company in St. Paul, has been made, and the assignees left for Chicago and the East to meet the creditors elsewhere. The creditors in that city agree to a 60 per cent settlement. The abolishment of the Mexican custom houses in the interior of the country, to take effect July 1 next, the beginning of the new fiscal year, is announced ln t Communication to jibe Postoffice Department here from tne Director General •/ Poets of Mexico.