Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — IN A NUT SHELL [ARTICLE]

IN A NUT SHELL

Dawson advices tell of a great stampede that is going on to Mayo creek, in the Stewart river district. The jury in the trial of Claude Moore for the murder of C. L. Wiltberger, at Winfield, Kan., found him guilty of murder in the second degree. The Holland government has refused the request of Socialist members to take any action in regard to the Boer concentration camps in South Africa. The immigration restriction bill, which excludes from Australia all persons who cannot speak a European language, has passed the commonwealth senate. The committee on press and publicity of the World's Fair says that more than 100 national conventions have been secured for St. Louis, to be held during the summer of 1903. The Supreme Court of the Philippines has decided that Patterson, the English secretary of Sixto Lopes, may be deported. He will be sent from Manila on account of his connection with the insurgents. Enlisted men in the regular army are not barred from membership in the A. O. U. W. order, according to a ruling just made by Senator George H. Lamb, grand master workman of the Kansas A. O. U. W. A switch engine, sent out 'from Wagoner, I. T., to help a crippled engine, jumped the track a few miles from that town and killed Engineer J. L. Hutchinson and Brakeman Johnson. In the trial of Tom Powers-and Bert Casey, charged with the murder of William Choate, near Paul's Valley, I. T., the jury disagreed and has been discharged. The trial consumed a week. The Kansas State Board of Charities rejected all bids for supplying flour to the State institutions for the coming six months on account of the big advance in price over ths bids of six months ago.