Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1898 — IN A NUTSHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUTSHELL

The American adviser to the King of Corea has been dismissed. Marqons in Jamaica are seizing valuable property owned by Et<glishuicu. There is an agitation in Japan iu favor of the State purchase and operation of all railroads in that country. Special Treasury Agent Murry, in charge of the seal islands, reports a general decrease of the sea! herd. It has cost Spain nearly $400,000,000 to get whipped by Uncle Sam. This does not include the loss of her fleets and her colonies. The trial of Lucchini, the Italian anarchist who assassinated the Empress of Austria, will liegin at Geneva. Switzerland, Nov. 3. At Cincinnati. Edward Kritzinger waa arrested for trying to sell at the stock yards Kentucky <*attle afflicted with the black tongue. Ministers at Pittsburg, Pa., hare entered n protest against the layihg of corner stones of new public school buildings by the Masonic fraternity. According to the statement of Commander Sebill of the United States gunboat Wheeling, there is no danger of starvation iU Alaska this winter. Owing to ruinous competition with Southern cotton mills. New England manufacturers contemplate substituting machinery for the production of silk fabrics exclusively. Stir Herbert Kitchener does not seem to believe that Friday is an unlucky day. for twice in the last six months he has upon that day attacked and defeated the dervishes in the Soudan. Owing to a more fraternal feeling, engendered by the late war, the Forty-first Ohio volunteers will re tern a Confederate flag to the Thirtieth Louisiana Confederate regiment survivors.