Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — EASTERN. [ARTICLE]

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Ths Junger Maennerchor of Philadelphia won the Kaiser prize in'nbe saengvrfest at Baltimore. Will Van Benthuyaen, managing editor •f the New York World, ia dead. He waa well known in .Chicago, where he was connected with the Tribune. The Lowell (Mass.) textile workers’ strike has been declared off and 17,000 operative# will resume work ut former pay. About $1,300,000 were lost in wages. Patrick H. Flynn, nrgnnizpr of the Interurban system at New York, admitted on the witness stand that he paid $150,000 blackmail and said it was often done in large enterprises. Standing in the river with water up to their shoulders, firemen at Rochester, N. Y„ fought a fire in the wholesale liquor house of Fee Brothers that caused a loss of $ 175,000. Bishop ,7. C. Hartzell of the Methodist Episcopal Church sailed from New York on the Germanic on his seventh four of Inspection of the African mission field. The tour will cover 30,000 miles. By a headon collision of a light engine and a freight train on the Delaware and Hudson Railroad, near Whitehall, N. Y’., a brakemun named Fred Ryan and Fred Bellegarde. a fireman, were killed.

The Power Imliding at Buffalo, adjoining the I«yceiun Theater, was destroyed by fire. The loss is $150,000. Smoke in the theater made it necessary to bring the play to un abrupt end. Otto Tbomert, an electrical expert from Germany, was instantly killed by touching a live wire while inspecting a new switchboard for the Germantown Electric Light Company, at Philadelphia. Major James Burton Pond, famous as a manager of lecturers and singers, died at his home in Jersey City as the result of an operation, in which his right leg was amputated. He had been ill for a month. In less than a month there have been at least four deaths, of men from glanders in Massachusetts. The board of health, fearing an epidemic, is making every effort to prevent the spread of the disease. The schooner Martha T. Thomas was rammed and nearly sunk iu Massachusetts Bay by the battleship Massachusetts on a clear night. The cargo of pine prevented its sinking. An investigation is likely. Three men who pleaded guilty when arraigned in a Jersey City court for harboring slot machines used for gambling purposes in their places of business have been fined $2,000, $1,150 and SSOO respectively. Gov. Bates of Massachusetts vetoed the eight-hour day hill on the ground that it meant an added burden of expense to the taxpayers. The hill reduced the hours of labor on all public works from nine to eight a day. A section of the tunnel near the foot of State street,-Boston, weakened by the action of the compressed air used in connection with the excavating work, caved in and a Polish laborer was killed and another injured. The attempted lynching of George White, the negro alleged to have murdered Helen Bishop near Wilmington, Del., was prevented by the workhouse prison warden. The girl’s family advised againnt violence. Attorney Robert A. Atnmon, who defended “Syndicate” ‘Miller of New York, one of the first “get-rich-quick” promoters, lias been found guilty of knowingly receiving stolen money and must serve a term in prison. Andrew D. White, in address at semicentennial of his cluss at Yale, railed upon wealthy Americans to give $14,000.OUO to endow professorships and fellowship* in American universities to fit youth for office holding. Jennie 15. Stover, n bright, pretty girl who attended the Meriden, Conn., high school, is dead from peritonitis caused by overexertiou at basketball. She wus a member of the champion girls’ team, though only 15 years old. An order handed down by the Superior Court at New Haven, Conn., lias made it possible for t lie - linal link to lie completed in a chain connecting trolley lines between New York City and Boston, a half mile at Westport, Conn., alone excepted.