Items Of General Interest

Capt. Couch, the "Oklahoma boomer," has gone to Washington to be present when the Oklahoma bill comes up next week.
Charles W. DePauw, the young millionaire manufacturer of New Albany, Ind., will be married to Mrs. Lulie V. Vreedensburg in New York next Thursday, Feb. 23.
A Paris paper has discovered that the people of "St. Louis, Dakota," are dying of a disease called "the blizzards."
The Mississippi has concurred in the house bill giving pensions to Confederate soldiers.
The anti-saloon Republican national committee has issued a call for a national conference in New York city April 18 and 19.
Gen. Tuttle, commander of the Iowa department, Grand Army of the Republic, has fixed upon April 11 and 12 for the next annaul meeting in Cedar Rapids.
Governor Oglesby issued a proclamation against cattle being brought to Illinois from Indian territory, certain counties in Texas, and many of the southern states, on account of Texas fever.
Josie Holmes, of the Fidelity bank, Cincinnati, notoriety, was released by the court Tuesday. The prosecutions are now all ended in this case, the indictments against all except Harper and Hopkins having been nulled.
George H. Corliss, the mechanical engineer and manufacturer who built and designed the engine used at the Centennial exposition, died at Providence, R. I., Tuesday.
Enos G. Heen, of Iowa, has been nominated by the president as agent for the Sac and Fox Indians in Iowa. Commander-in-Chief Rea, of the G. A. R., goes to Kansas this week and will spend a month among the posts of the west.
The workmen at the Bellaire (Ohio) Blast furnace were given a voluntary advance of 10 per cent. by the management Monday.