Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Vermont abandon? prohibition, special election resulting in adoption of local option law by a majority of about 1,000. John St. Clair, alias Sinclair, a negro, who murdered his sweetheart eight months ago, was hanged at Washington. Baron von Sternberg, special envoy of Germany, has reached ’ New York and declares the Kaiser is a friend of America. After lying idle for ten years, the tunnel under the East river between Fortysecond street, Manhattan, and Long Island City will probably soon be rushed to completion. Five thousand Brooklyn horses are being fed on molasses because it is cheaper than oats; it is declared nutritious for draft animals, which do not get time to digest grain. Undetected,i seven New Y’ork detectives entered fifty-kix houses in the wealthy residence district of the city in a single hour to prove that receift robberies are due to laxity of servants. The measure prohibiting the practice of Christian Science, mind and laitii cure in healing was defeated overwhelmingly in tlie New Hampshire House of Representatives, the vote being 70 to 194. Yale seniors under five feet five inches tall have formed the Pewee. Club and will delve into history and science to secure evidence that'little men are more useful to society than their larger brothers. In Syracuse, N. Y., the Hotel Mowry was discovered to be on fire shortly before 1 o'clock n. in. Eighty guests were obliged to make a hasty escape through the smoke-filled halls. All got out in safety. Lawrence Sluter Benssn, author of ‘‘Benson’s Geometry” and well known as a philosopher and math?nmticiiui, is dead at the City hospital in Newark, N. J., penniless. Death was caused by paralysis. Walter Ramsey of Harrison, N. J., was shot and killed in the apartments of Mrs. George McDowell in Harrison by Mrs. McDowell's husband. NleDowell left the house after the shooting and eluded the police. John T. McDonough of Albany, N. Y„ announced that he would accept the appoititmeqt as .justice of the< Sujii’enpCourt of the Philippine Islands which was tendered him several days ago by President Roosevelt. William Polk, a negro recently from Chicago, was fatally shot at Laurel, Del,, in a desperate fight in which he fatally cut a deputy sheriff and slightly injured Sheriff Steele. An attempt to arrest Polk caused the encounter. C. B. Allison, ir well-known electrical contractor, was called to the door of his home in Sheraden, a Pittsburg suburb, and shot down by a mysterious assailant, who has not yet been identified. Allison is seriously wounded. Herman Helsicher, a young cigarmaker who on Dec. 19 attempted to kill Voltairine De Cleyre, a noted anarchist, was convicted at Philadelplua of aggravated assault and battery with intent to kill and was sentenced to six years and nine months' imprisonment. Robert Edgar Vance, an actor, .”>2 years of age, died at Baltimore. Five weeks ago Mr. Nance’s nose began to bleed and he was removed to the hospital. Every known remedy was tried by the physicians and surgeons to relieve the sufferer without avail. ■ Orders have been received at the United States armory at Springfield, Mass., to rush the shipment of IOO.tMM) Kr.ig rifles to arsenals over the country. The original cause of the order was the passage of the militia bill, but the rush feature apparently has a special, cause. R. D. Coulter, an attorney of Pittsburg, is one of the incorporators in the largest capitalized corporation in the world, not even excepting the United States Steel Corporation. The concern is the International Construction and Development Company. Its capital is $lO,000,000,000. That John D. Rockefeller has a grandson has been made public through the attempted robbery of the home of his daughter, Mrs. E. Parmalee Prentice, in New York. This new heir to the Rockefeller millions was born a few days before Christmas, but the fact was kept from the public. While four newsboys were sleeping in a warm spot in the areaway of the Second National Bank building in Pittsburg some one dashed two bucketfuls of scalding water over the quartet. Two of the boys, Harry Hess, aged 12, and Fred Reck, aged 11 years, were scalded so that they will die. Over 5,000 men were thrown out of work when the Havemeyer sugar refinery in Williamsburg, N. Y’., the largest of the sugar trust plants, closed its doors. The pay roll has averaged $40.000 a week. There was no explanation, no warning, scarcely a rumor of the impending distress.