Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1903 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

The strike at Snowshoe, Pa., in the soft coal district, has been settled. President Cotton of Paducah, Ky., shot Charles Bowden iu a quarrel over a girl. A resolution favoring woman suffrage was adopted by the National Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, in session at Rochester, N. Y. Col. Robert M. Bands f one of the most prominent surviving officers of tlie confederacy, died after two weeks’ illness, aged 78, at Mobile, Ala. The decision of ex-Crown Princess Louise of Saxony to reside at Ventuor, England, indicates a partial reconciliation with the Crown Frince. Ernest Gregg, 19 years old, of Circleville, Ohio, who claims he was “shanghaied” at San Francisco three years ago, has returned to his home. The stoneware manufacturers east of the Mississippi river, meeting at Zanesville, Ohio, have formed a combination with a capitalization of $1,000,000. It is reported at Rome that Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) is working on three new books. One of these is entitled “How an American Discovered Italy.” “A corps of 400 able, trained workers and a fund of $1,000,000 a year is the goal toward which the Anti-Saloon League of this country is working,” sjrid State Superintendent P. A. Baker of the Ohio League. R. E. McCandlcss and George E. Price fought a duel at Edmonton, Ky., both using pistols at close range. Price died instantly and McCandless was mortally wounded. The cause of the tragedy is not known. New York is to be the home of the most costly clubhouse for workingmen in the United States. The clubhouse is to be five stories high, 100x102 feet iu area and is to cost $200,000. Facilities for mental and physical culture are to be the best obtainable. The bottom of a vat in the soap factory of Joseph Stern & Sons, in New York, was blown out by the steam pressure and five men were scalded by boiling fat John S. Pineover, who jumped from the Brooklyn bridge in December, 1901, has been pronounced Insane at Middletown, N. Y., and will be sent to the hospital. The Rev. David R. Huber, pastor of Trialty Lutheran Church at Findlay, 0., has resigned because members of his congregation criticised him foe spending several days banting quail.