Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1899 — IN A NUTSHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUTSHELL

Parrots recently from South America are said to have introduced typhoid fever among visitors to a bird show in Berlin. The revenue cutter McCulloch, which sailed from Manila recently, will make a tour of the world before coming home. Smith Edwards, aged 70 years, who for several years bad lived a hermit’s life at Smithton, Mo., was found dead in bed. A report that a plan is being formulated to control the tobacco leaf industry at Havana is not credited in. New York. It is said that army circles in Washington will be a long time recovering from the shock of Gen. Eagan’s criticisms of Gen. Miles. It is officially stated in Washington that no railroad company has been given permission to run through the Chickamauga National Park. The Filipino representative at Berlin declares that the natives could hold out In a guerrilla war against the United States for several years. The utilisation of grain elevator waste for sheep and cattle food has given rise to a new industry in the Northwest. The waste sells for $7 a ton. Pennsylvania Commandery, Military Qrder of Foreign Wars, unanimously voted to present Admiral Dewey with the gold insignia of the order. The Alaskan Commercial Company of San Francisco has presented to the University of California its fine collection of mounted fossils and ethnological specimens. \ A New York woman caused the arrest of her husband in Baltimore for desertion, and in justification he pleaded that she offered to sell him to a widow for $l5O. • Several of the smaller army posts in the West will probably be abandoned after the withdrawal of their garrisons for service in Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philip.jdum.