Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — THIS WICKED WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THIS WICKED WORLD.

Important Happenings From All Parts of Our Great State. Crimes, Accidents. Murders and Other Important News as Gathered for Journal Readers. Monon has made arrangements to celebrate the Fourth. So has Francesville. An infectious disease near Lafayette attacks horses, making them nearly blind. Mrs. Retta Gannort, of Flora, claims to have been cured by faith of a Jong standing trouble caused by a broken bone. Bessie Reason, of Muncie, sues her husband John for divorce because he always objected to her parents visiting them. A Goshen boy died on Tuesday from lockjaw, as the result of having two toes severed two weeks ago while riding on the rear of a bicycle. James Camion, a Kendallville Odd Fellow, has drawn over SI,OOO for sick benefits and now refuses to allow the lodge to declare him off the sick list. The grand lodge will settle the dis pute. Up in Lagrange county Deputy Fish Commissioner Earle had two cases before a.court. In one the violator of the law was sent to jail for 30 days, and the other for having in his possession a spear, plead guilty and was taxed $32.80. Nicholas Hess, of Fort Wayne, aged fifty-two, died under peculiar circumstances last Thursday. A bicycle race meeting was held at the driving park and a young son of Hess was one of the contestants. While watching the race Hess suddenly dropped to the ground and was dead in a few minutes. He is a well known citizen. Township Trustee J. B. Walk, who was at one time mayor of Goshen, was found dead in his office Wednesday afternoon, May 29, the body hanging by the neck from a rope attached to a gas pipe. For more than a year the diseased has been in ill health. Three years ago he failed in the drug business in Goshen, since which time he has been despondent. The body was discovered by a little girl named Laura Long, 15 years old, the latter visiting his office for aid. Mrs. Lyda, whose name is familiar to those who read of the Lyda Cox trial last winter, was suspended from the D. of R. and W. R. O. lodges in Fowler to orders she was a member. She took an appeal to a higher lodge and is now said to have obtained admission to a lodge in Bos well on a transfer card from the Fowler lodge which was signed by the presiding officer and secretary of the latter. The officers disclaim having signed the card and had no knowledge of its existence until the matter was recently called to their attention. Our hunter readers who desire to shoot squirrels had better look up the provisions of the recently enacted game laws before starting out. It requires persons desiring to hunt to first obtain a license from the commissioner of fisheries and game. It shall be the duty of such commissioner to issue such permit free of charge upon application of any reputable person who is a resident of Indiana, or to any person a non-resident who has secured a hunting license, as required in section 13 of this act. Any person securing such permit shall have the same in his possession at any time when he is hunting, ready to exhibit the same to the commissioners of fisheries and game or any of bis deputies. A violation of this section provides a fine of not less than $5 nor more than $25. “A few months ago, food which I ate for breakfast would not remain on my stomach for half an hour. I used one bottle of your Kodol Dyspepsia Cure and can now eat my breakfast and other meals with relish and my ood is thoroughly digested. Nothing equals Kodol Dyspepsia Cure for stomach troubles’, H 8. Pitts, Arlington, Tex. Kodol Dyspepsia Cure digests what you eat. A. F. Long.