Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1903 — Notes of Current Events. [ARTICLE]

Notes of Current Events.

Simon Wilson, a colored hostler, died in Newark, N. J., of glanders, which he contracted from a diseased animal. A Yale degree was granted to Thomas H. Cnrran of New Haven on his death bed because he wished to die a graduate of Yale. Prompt and heroic work by two policemen'saved the lives of sever?! women and children, who bad been caught in a burning building in Fulton street, Brooklyn. Policeman W. H. McAaley was so badly burned that he was erased and had to be placed In a strait Jacket. ■ -*s ■ * •