Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1903 — News of Minor Note. [ARTICLE]

News of Minor Note.

The visit to London of President Lonbet of France has been set for July. According to Madrid advices from Mellila it is the intention of the Moroccan rebels to attack Fez. Fire In the business portion of Benson, N. C., destroyed the larger part of It, fifteen stores being entirely consumed. Loss, from $50,000 to $75,000, with small insurance. Germany’s pig iron production for March waa 843,224 tons, an increase over February of 108,875 tons and over March, 1902, of 161,875 tons. Trial of the suit of Miss Marie Bentz for $25,000 against Harold Hartshorn, 12 years old, son of James M. Hartshorn, s New York banker, has been opened in the Supreme Court Miss Bents says the boy jumped on her back, kicked her and msltreSted her so that she ■offers partial paralysla. When she com-, plained to His boy’s mother she was told other governesses had not objected to the treatment