Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1906 — IN A NUT SHELL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IN A NUT SHELL

George Edwards of london lias completed arrangements to take the entire Gaiety company to America, opening in New York Sept. 1. Dr. Simeon S. French of Battle Creek Mich- chums to be the oldest Odd Fel low in the State. He was one of th< founders of the Republican party. Mrs. Frank W. Shattuck, wife of the pastor of the Advent Christian church of Whitman, Mass., was burned to death in the parsonage by the overturning of a lamp. A consignment: of American school readers printed in Japanese, believed to be a violation of the copyright laws, art held by the customs collector in San Francisco, Cal. The House committee on. public land, has decided to make a favorable report on the Burnett bill setting aside 90.TKW acres of mineral land in Alabama foi school purposes. The trustees of school ol technology in PittsbW??. Pn., have received a thanking them /or nanflng the woman’s department after his mother. Mme. Sarah Bernhardt was given* a gold medal by thj, Circle Francais of Harvard university in recognition of her services to French drama. She is the first woman to tie so honored. In the case of Mayor McCarthy of Richmond. Va., for calling a News-Treader reporter a. liar in the police court and placing himself in contempt be was fined S2O by the justice, lit took an appeal.