Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1898 — IN A NUT SHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUT SHELL

The army of occupation at Porto Rice is expected to be reduced to 5,000 men. The whole number of American troops to be sent to Cuba will not exceed 25,000 men. Colored Editor Manley, who was compelled to leave Wilmington, N. C-, will publish his paper in New York. Mr* Sampson, wife of the admiral, is to be presented with an elegant loving cop by the officers who served under her husband. The stockmen of Colorado and adjoining States have figured out that the wolves eat SIOO worth of their property apiece each year. John Grady, an employe of the Baldwin Hotel at San Francisco, died from heart fallnre, the result of fright during the recent fire. Mrs. Jacob McCellocher died at he* home iu Golden City, Mo., from the effects of barns. Her night clothes caught fire at a stove while she was caring for a sick baby. Near Haywood, Ark„ Lillie Johnson, a negress, killed her husband with a shovel, crushing his skull. She hid the remains, which were discovered. Her arrest followed. At Clarksville, Tenn., the decision wn for the defendants in the $25,000 damage suit of R. W. Moss of Martin, Team, against Kendrick ft Runyon, tobacco warehousemen.