Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in Distant and Nearly Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. A Lifetime at Quincy—Horrors! Quincy, Mass., May 30.—Miss Julia Underwood, who claims to hold the country’s teaching record, has resigned after completing 56 years of service in the local public schools. Miss Underwood taught in one school 54 years, the same school in which slje herself received her early education. She was born and always lived in Quincy. Easy Pickin’ in the Street. Indianapolis, Ind., May 31. While asleep on the lawn around the Monument at an early hour this morning, Harry E. Arrick was robbed of a gold watch and chain valued at SSO, and Charles Hendrickson, of Monticello, his friend, wasrobbed of $5. Both young men had spent yesterday at the speedway, and while awaiting the hour for their train to leave for Monticello, they went to sleep.

Too Many Women—Chloroform. Talladega, Ala., May 30. Four women, from as many states, claim Charles Burtpn, who committed suicide here today, as their husband. He was in jail on the charge of bigamy. Burton made two attempts to end his life since Sunday. His first effort, with morphine, was frustrated by physicians. Today another dose of the poison, 50 grains, caused death. In a note found in his cell he says women were the bane of his life. -Vo Wedding Bells for Her. New York, May 30.—Rather than wed a man whom she did not love, eighteen-year-old Rebecca Boltman hurled herself from a third-floor window of her home shortly before midnight and sustained injuries from which she will probably die. The young man had followed her from Hungary, she told the police, and had enlisted her parents’ aid in his persistent wooing. For three years she had withstood their urging, and at last, when he continued insistent, decided to end her life. Walloped With Rolling Pin. Pittsburg, May 31.—An ailment, the result of being hit over the head with a rolling pin wielded by an irate wife, is the affliction of a foreigner who is know at the McKeesport Hospital in a serious condition. The medicos have diagnosed his case as “concussion of the vocal cords,” and the patient is speechless. The unfortunate lives in the coal mining region of Jacobs Creek, in the Youghiogheny valley. There was a family quarrel and the man was vanquished by his better half and her trusty weapon.

Bridal Couple Fear Ghosts? Nix. Chippewa Falls, Wis., May 31. —On a high bluff overlooking the Chippewa river is a big residence that in the nine years it Las been Macant has been given a wide berth by superstitious tramps.. The “haunted house” is to be occupied when renovated by A. E. Walruth of this city, a wealthy land man and bachelor, who at the age of fifty-seven has become a benedict. His bride was formerly Miss Alice Wilson of Menomonie, and Mr. Walruth declares she fully shares his belief that there is no foundation for the ghost stories.