Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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The Hartlan Paper Company’s plan at Middleport, N. Y., tvaa destroyed by Are. The loss is estimated at $50,000. Gov. Odell of New York has signed a bril which makes it unlawful for labor unions to discriminate against the State militia. The bill granting women the right to vote in Connecticut was rejected in the House of Representatives by a vote of 105 to 00. Mary Baker G. Eddy has given SIOO,000 and laud valued at $20,000 for the erection of a Christian Scientist church at Concord, N. 11. The body of Charles G. Dennison, of Chicago, who disappeared from Buffalo March 18, has been found in Niagara River near the falls. * All cities and many towns in New Hampshire voted ih favor of liquor license, taking advantage of the recent repeal of, the prohibition law. What is intended to he one of the largest hotels in the world will he the Sulus Court, which will be erected ut a cost of $3,000,000 at Saratoga. N. Y. Walter Wellman finds a general belief among financiers of New York that prosperity will continue for years, as predicted recently by .1. P. Morgan. Police Inspector Gross of New York was dismissed from the force by Commissioner Greene. Gross was tried recently on charges of neglect of duty. # The Pennsylvania diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church placed itself on record by an overwhelming vote as opposed to a change in the name of the church. Charles VV. Rlierrerd, of Scranton, Pa., member of the senior class of Rensselaer Institute, Troy. N. Y’., was drowned by the upsetting of a boat in the Hudson River. Major John Mills of the corps of engineers has been designated to build the road authorized by the last session of Congress into .Mount ltanier National Park, Washington. Three deaths and live serious cares of cerebro-spina! meningitis are reported on naval receiving ships Minneapolis and Puritan, .at Philadelphia; 1,200 recruits have been exposed. The convention of the American McCall Association ut Hartford, Conn., elected Mrs. Charles 11. Park hurst of New Y’ork as president and .1. V. Farwell of Chicago as vice-president. George 11. Rigby of Philadelphia paid $2,100 for the original manuscript of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “The Bells.” It is the most important Poe manuscript in existence, there being none of "The Raven.” Charles 11. Smith, Springfield (Mass.) hostler who claimed to have inherited $2,000,000, is missing after ordering on credit a S6OO piano for Mrs. Timothy Dooley, his betrothed, and bargaining for SIO,OOO farm. While walking with Mrs. Margaret Kountz John Walsh, a wealthy Pittsburg contractor, was shot dead by the woman’s husband, Walter P. Kountz. Mrs. Kountz was also seriously wounded. She may recover.