Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

EASTERN.

Miners and operators have reached an nadmtaJiding and there will be no strike tat the anthracite field. - *•- Richard Strauss has decided to visit Now York next winter, and hit wifa will make her debut as a singer there. > Richard Carvel, a walking delegate of the Derrickmen’s Union, has been arrested in New York on a bribery charge. John M. Ross, past grand master of the Delaware Odd Fellows, committed suicide by shooting at Wyoming, Del. An immense police guard surrouuded President Roosevelt when he visited Bab tintore to attend the northeastern saengerfest. The great pacer Anaconda (2:01%) was sold by J. U. Bronson of New Haven to C. E. lvnox of Johnstown, N. Y., for SIO,OOO. Alvord Wsrriner Cooley of Westchester, X. Y., has been appointed civil service commissioner, vice William Dudley Foulke, resigned. . Mayor William B. Hays of Pittsburg has been indicted charged with a misdemeanor in discharging nn old soldier from the employ of the city. New York craft and passengers extended a. royal welcome to the I.iptoti fleet, which arrived in port after u remarkable voyage without accident. The general synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at Baltimore adopted measures to raise $1,000,000 within the uext five years for general educational work.

The work of moving tlie Pittabdrg Grand Opera House to permit of the widening of Diamond alley is of gigantic proportions. The cost will amount to $250,000.

Thirty-four horses that bad been used for two months working the coach Pioneer between New York and Ardeley were ■old at auction for 124.000, the highest price for one pair being $4,750. Edward Mclntyre, tlio Minooka, Pa., hotelkeeper, who ended a forty days’ fatt recently, is dead. He began the fast in the hope that it would prove beneficial in a severe attack of paralysis. A. J. Cassatt and other officials and directors of the North Jersey Street Railway Company will be tried at Newark for manslaughter ns the result of an accident that killed several children. At the.commencement banquet of the Emma Willard School at Troy, N. Y., Mrs. Russell Sage warned the girls against el«nde.-<tiue or hasty marriages and advised them to be commonplace. Two men are known to be dead, one is roiasing. and several injured as the result of an explosion of a large quantity of powder on the drying home of the Weldy Powder Company, near Montxeri, Pa. The cause of the explosion is not known. Charles F. Macfarland of the AntiPoliey Society was shot and killed on the General Sessions floor of the Criminal Court building in New York by William Spencer, a negro, who was to have been placed on trial on the charge of violating the anti-policy law. Ninety per cent of all the building work that has been going on in New York City since the building material yards were opened on Wednesday has been shut down again. This action was taken by the governing board of the building trades employers.

Mrs. Anne L. Yrooman of Baltimore was granted an absolute divorce and the restoration of her maiden name, Annie. Grattlin. before Judge Stepp. Walter Yrooman, the husband, socialist and visionary, was not present nor even represented at thu trial and no defense was made.

The I'nited States Circuit Court of Appeals handed down an opinion in New York reversing the finding of the United States District Court which declared forfeited the $15,000 pearl necklace imported by M rs«. L. H arrive,n Dulles of Philadelphia. The eourt orders the ease retried. Director of Public Health Martin of Philadelphia has issued an order for the purchase of ferrets and the employment of rat catchers. He intends by these means to make vigorous war on rats, with the intention of preventing the spread of a smallpox epidemic which now threatens the city.