Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — IN A NUTSHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUTSHELL

Finley Nelson, IG, Dyersville, Ohio, starbbed to death Jesse Hudnall, 15, while at a church festival. The Supreme Court of the State of Washington upholds the constitutionality of the law making gambling a felony. George Creighton, New York, is charged with embezzling $12,000 from TownWandell, lawyers, for wfabm he The tftmie Riverside Coal Company of Leavenworth, Kan., has filed a petition in bankruptcy. It is capitalised for f 1,000,000. Harry Simpson, Ashland, Ohio, is under arrest, charged with poisoning his former sweetheart. She’s in a critical condition. It is said that grasshoppers are driving cattlemen from the ranges of Eastern Montana. The rural letter carriers of Kansas will meet in Emporia Sept 9 to form an organization. ~ " Postmaster Ennis, at Reams Sbatiom Vs., shot and killed a negro who was trying to rob the office. Miss Katie Augusta Carl, an American artist, of Paris, France, la to paint a portrait of the Empress of China. Andrew Carnegie hat offered the city of Dublin the son of $140,000 towards xshe erection of a free public library.