Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1902 — IN A HUTSHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A HUTSHELL

During the month of May there were fifty suicides in Chicago,, breaking the record. Emperor William is experimenting with an alcohol motor plow on liis farm At Ivadinen. The Topeka school board has decided that it will uot employ married women as teachers. Townsend Miller, a Montauk half breed living at Jamaieo, L. I.; nn.l who claims to be 104 years old, has just been married the fourth time. lly reason of n strike and a lack of water with which to make lee, the Chicago ice trust has been forced to raise the price of ice to consumers. lemis D'Aiirignac, a brother of Madame Humbert, who Is concerned in the famous Humbcrt-Crnwford Inwsuit, lias been arrested at Tunis. He had been managing the Humbert pr<q>erty near Znghwuu, Tunis. The salaries of the following postmasters In Kansas have been increased SIOO a year: Clifton, Colby, Columbus, Concordiu. Downs, Elliuwood, Ellis, Enterprise, Erie, Frcdonia. The salary of the postmaster nt Florence, Ivan., has been decreased SIOO. In a fight in Leuven worth, Ivan., between Tlieodofi‘‘'**Fields and Cary Nichols, both colored, the latter was fatally wounded. Field wielded a knife with terrible effect, disemboweling Xichola. Nichols was the aggressor and u muck larger man thnu Fields. Fields wss arrested.