Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — IN GENERAL. [ARTICLE]

IN GENERAL.

Dr. Daniel C. Gilman, for many year* president of Johns Hopkins University, hos been elected president of the American Bible Society. Five persons perished in the burning of the Aurora Hoad House, fifty-five miles below Hunker Creek, Alaska. Ibe dead are Charles Burnie, liis wife end three children. Ths special Senate session of the Fif-ty-eighth Congress met nt noon Thursday. Thirty Senators were sworn in for six-year terms, including seventeen who were re-elected. William It. Merriam, who has resigned, will leave the census office May 15. His successor as director will probably be cXj-Congressman David 11. Mercer, of Nebrhska. Mr. Merriam will eutsi commercial lifo in New York City. The Richelieu nnd Ontario Navigation Company's magnificent steamer Montreal, in course of construction, was burned to the water's edge nt Montreal. Hundreds of persons watched the fire from tlis roof of an Allan Line shed, which collapsed, nnd two persons were killed and seventy-five injured, some fatally. While the Alaska law probably was satiated in the hanging of Homer Bird nt Sitka, his devoted wife and little daughter, Bernio, nnd three other children snt in their cottage in New, Orleans praying that some unforeseen power might save the man’s life. Mrs. Bird, who has traveled the continent over nnd worked and prayed for five long years that her husband might be spared, Is prostrated with grief.