Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — All Around the Globe. [ARTICLE]

All Around the Globe.

President J. A. Beattie of Hiram Col lege presented his resignation to ths board of trustees. James J. Van Alen, who had been reported missing, has arrived at Newport, R. 1., after a trip around the world. Fire started by the explosion of a gas engine on the Enoch Rose farm in Marion township, Ohio, set fire to a well, two oil tanka and an engine house. Lightning shattered the chimney of the district school at Lake Lauderdalt, N. T. The fluid ran through the building, and the teacher and one pupil were seriously hurt. Twenty-five pupils were made unconscious. An examination of the affairs of Porter Brothers, San Jose, Cal., ia reported so satisfactory that the receiver will be withdrawn and business resumed. The grain and seed warehouse of D.-8. Gay of Winchester, Ky., burned, including the largest stock of blue grass seed in the world. Loss over SIOO,OOO, insurance $75,000. In the election of delegatee to t convention to draft a new charter for the consolidated city and county of Denver the entire non-partisan civic ticket was successful by pluralities of from 100 ta 2,500 ever the Republican candidates.