Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1903 — IN A NUT SHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUT SHELL

Sallna barbers are said to be preparing to test the constitutionality of the Kansas baiber license lew passed by the last Legislature. The Kansas Wesleyan University of Salina has received another gift of $25,000, this time from Mrs. Mary Johnson of Barton County, Kan. - William Smith, the millionaire nurseryman and Spiritualist, who was preparing to build a college for women in Geneva, N, Y., has countermanded the building contract, by order of the spirits, as be says.

About 400 meßsengcr boys employed by the Illinois District Telegraph Company stopped work in Chicago as a protest against the employment of colored messenger boys. Because of the trouble near Bluefields, Nicaragua, involving the interests of an American steamship company, the gunboat Nashville has been ordered there from Pensacola. Fla. Oberlin M. Carter, ex-captain of engineers, will be released from the United gee tee penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth Nov. 28, when be will have completed s sentence of Ave ream.