Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Mayor Low of New York has stopped |he preaching., of. Marmonlsm in the ■toreets. ’■/ . ... , The grand jury has been ordered to investigate alleged frauds In the recent ,municipal election at Baltimore. The Oakland Beach Hotel and tWo adjoining buildings were burned at Oakland Bench, it. \y The loss is $82,000. Dr. Joseph Feisler of Chicogo was elected president of the Dermatological Association In convention at Washington. Property vslned at SOO,OOO was destroyed, one life was lost and many firemen sustained injuries in u tire at Leominster, Mass., . - r »-- A gas explosion destroyed' h sWepfag car at the station in New HnveJvU’ouu. The occupant* lost all iheir effects and escaped only in their night clottung. i ‘ The r ferry boat ’’Columbia, plying between Washington' and Alexandria, W*., was damaged hjrMre to the extent of. $45,000. The bout was valued,,at $75,000. ,»■ ,/, - * *’4 ■;

Fire almost consume,l tl|*» large, plant of the Atlas Glass and Metal Company •t Washington, Pa„ cntaTTuig a loss of $125,000. The iusurauce Is about $65,000. The American Medico-Psychological Association before adjourning ut Washington selected Dr. Edwards of Michigan as delegate to the British association. Major John Mflls of the corps of engineers has been designated to build the road authorized by the last session of’ Congress into Mount Hauler National Park, Washington. Thirty-two persons were Injured at Bridgeport, Colin., in n riot incident to tlie street car strike. The sheriff blames Mayo. Mulviliill for bis open sympathy with tlie strikers. At the session of the General Missionary Society of the United Presbyterian Church at Pittsburg the treasurer's report showed receipts of $93,617 and disbursements of $107,250. The Consolidated Gems Gold Mining Company, capital $7,500,000, Ims been incorporated at Trenton, N. ,1. jeets of the company are to mine and prepare for market minerals of all Linds. George K. Bent and 1-1. 11. Story of Chicago were elected respectively first vice-president and secretary of the Piano Manufacturers' Association- at Buffalo. Next year the association will meet at Atlantic City. Henry C. fivcrdcll, representing the reorganization committee, bought the entire assets of the Asphalt Company of-Amer-ica and the National Asphalt Company,, paying therefor $(i,00(5,000. The sale took place in Jersey City. James P. Tittemore, the village blacksmith of Galway, N. Y„ kissed Miss Frances Pettit 1,236 times in fourteen years and then refused to marry her, for which tlie court gave the woman judgment for $5,000 damages. A gigantic gas anil oil combination, to include sixteen Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania concerns and capitalized at $(?,- 000,000, will be incorporated in Pennsylvania at once. It will lie known as the Pittsburg Gas and Oil Company. A committee report fully exouefating those whose integrity had been questioned in connection with the financial affairs of the order was adopted by the convention of tlie B'rith Abraham at Boston. Baltimore will he convention city next year.