Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1898 — IN A NUTSHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUTSHELL

Over 1,000,000 acres of land are de--voted to the cultivation of tobacco in theworld. William Badenhop, a farmer at Nicholson, Ohio, drank a glass of carbolic acid, for whisky and died. Gustav B.vrno, a farmer near Owensboro, Ky., stuck a splinter in his foot and; died of blood poisoning. Joe Goddard mid big Rob Armstrongdid not put up a bout equal to expectations at the Arena in Philadelphia; At Buffalo, N. Y., John Currigan wasmurdcrcd while asleep in bod at his homeby his son, Frank, who nearly severed his head with an ux. The Czar’s call for n conference of the powers to discuss general disarmament has caused a profound sensation in aU European capitals. James Cox, a farmer near Middiesborough, Ky., was shot and killed by his son. Perry, during a quarrel. They had been, enemies for years. s California hns 60,000 acres devoted to the raising of prunes. The investment ia. lands, trees, irrigation, etc., is estimated, at $25,000,000, and 48.000 tons is the yearly crop. Of this year’s yield about one-fifth will be shipped East as green, fruit.