Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1903 — Odds and Ends. [ARTICLE]

Odds and Ends.

An epidemic of smallpox at Goodland, Kan., necessitated the closing of schools and prohibition of public meetings. A proposition to vote $66,000 in bonds for water works and severs was defeated at a special election in Holton, Kan. The United States battleship and cruiser squadron of the Asiatic station has been ordered to cruise to Honolulu, a distance of 3,500 miles, in place of the usual winter maneuvers in the waters of the Philippines. An agent of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition has started for Africa to secure representatives of the Pygmies for exhibition. Two persons were killed nnd one seriously Injured by the explosion of nitroglycerin 'at the Keystone nitro-glycerin works near Emporium, Pa. Those killed were John Morse and H. Cruishank. The State court at St. Lonis has dismissed the boodle charge against Councilor Mysenburg. which was remanded by the Supreme Court. The statute of ItmRations ban further indictments against Hm councilors on this charge.