Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

BOTH SHALL MEN. The Bluffton Banner says: “The smallest man in Indiana lives at Hoagland, a little village near Decatur. His name is Otto Evans, and his weight is only fifty pounds. Evans is twenty years of age and measures just forty inches in height. His twin sister is also very small.” You are entitled to another guess, neighbor. Knox has your Hoagland little man faded to a frazzle. Che Mah, the Chinese dwarf, who for years has traveled with Buffalo Bill and other shows, is a resident of this city and has been for a number of years. He is 57 years old and measures only twenty-eight inches in height. He wears a full beard, speaks English fluently and is as sharp, shrewd a business man as any six-footer. He is about town much of the time when the weather is fair, looking after his property, of which he has considerable. Without question Knox is entitled to the belt for the smallest man.— Starke County Democrat. SUICIDE AT FOWLER. Mrs. Lee Dinwiddie, aged 45, wife of Lee Dinwiddie, president of the Bank of Benton county, committed suicide last Saturday by cutting her throat and severing an artery of the wrist. Continued ill health is supposed to have been the cause for her rash act.