Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1901 — IN A NUTSHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUTSHELL

■ The St. Lonis world's fair may have no midway. Concessions may be scattered instead of being massed in one strc“t. An elevator was destroyed by fire nt Salina, Kan., together with 14,000 bushels of wheat. Loss $10,500, insurant o $9,000. Chicago Board of Trade finds “Corn King” Phillips not guilty of the charge that he “fleeced'’ some of his customers in his big Muy corn deal. Marion Lehr, aged 9 years, n son of C. F. Lehr, an Ice dealer, was drowned in the Missouri river at St. Joseph, Mo., while playing on the river bank. Over half a million dollars has been sluiced at winter dumps, near Nome, Alaska. Near Bristol, Texas, a farmer named Matt Andrews was fatally stabbed by Mnck Earls in a fight. Said that 3,000 threshers have secretly joined a trust in Chicago. It will be extended to other States. Gen. Goines says the Cuban patriots who are talking the loudest arc the ones who never smelled powder. One result of the drought in England is the Duke of Manchester's declaration that he will sow no more oats.