Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — IN A NUT SHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUT SHELL

The railroads of the Southwest have made a rate of one cent a,mile for men going to the harvest fields of Kansas. Manuel Quintana has been elected president of the Argentine republic and Figueroa Alcorta has been choseh vice president. \ Cardinal Satoli wae welcomed to America by more than 700 Catholic clergymen and laymen at the residence of Archbishop Farley. King Edward has conferred on Mme. Melba tho decoration for science, art and music. She is the first woman off whom It has been bestowed. Charles Gennott of Forest City, Mo., a harnessmaker, was drowned while attempting to swim across the Tarkio. Ha tied a gig to his body and It caught on to soma driftwood. The union stone masons of Buffalo, N. Y., have declared their strike off, after six weeks’ idleness, and have returned to work at the old ecale of wages. An unknown man was killed by the west-bound Missouri Pacific train at Winton, near Higginsrille, Mo. Tha body bore no marks of identification when removed from the track, F. M. Baker, a prominent grain dealer, member of tha Hail-Baker Grain Company, of Kansas City, and of tha Baker-Orowell Grain Company of Atchison, died of Bright’s disease at Ma home In Atchison, Kan.