Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1902 — THIS WICKED WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THIS WICKED WORLD.

Important Happenings From all Parts of Our Great States. Crimes, Accidents,Murders and other Important News as Gathered For Journal Readers. Read What You Like and Then Quit. Columbia City hasn’t had a death for 17 days. Doctors are very blue. Two devil-possessed persons shot two holes in the Baptist church at Mentone. They’ll not get to heaven unless they mend their ways. A wild man is in the woods near St. Joseph. It is said he escaped from the Kankakee insane asylum. Children and some grown boobies are staying in at nights. An Albion man, who was educated for the bar, has just graduated, but not with honors. He was seeing snakes, green toads, pink calves, and his mother-in-law when he passed over. A Fulton county politician paid sl2 for 1,000 cigars that he will give to voters. Druggists have ordered an extra stock of drawing plasters that can be used to advantage in getting the smoke through the candidate’s stogies. Jno. F. Rhea, a farmer living near Richmond, is entitled to the subside belt. He cut a hole in the ice and thrust his head into the water. He left a note telling his wife where to find his body. An Indianapolis policeman recently visited his old home in Mooresville. He reported that some of the denizens, excited at his appearance, locked their doors and peeped from behind blinds as he walked down the street. Mooresville denies the charge and says the next time the officer comes to town he will be entertained with stuffed clubs. James Bell was sent to jail ninety days for whipping his wife at their home in itfontpelier. Soon after being placed, in .’,- ceU be suffered a stroke of paralysis and Jimmy says his infliction is a punishment sent from God. If it is, God could be pretty busy in this line and it would be a good thing if he made a practice of disabling such scoundrels. A country maiden went into a Lafayette department store and asked for a pair of hose. A bashful young man was in charge of the hosiery and he displayed the finest pair in the stock. She wanted to know the price and asked, “How far up do they come?” The clerk blushed, looked toward the ceiling and finally made a bee-line for the rear of the store and told a saleslady to wait on the customer. Mrs. Jennie Miller, of Muncie, certainly has for divorce. She says her husband spends his time and money taking other women out riding in livery rigs and “acts just like the boys.” She claims that he corresponds regularly with a wellknown young woman residing at Dunkirk and that he turns a deaf ear to her entreaties to stop. She states that with all his attention and money spent upon other women he fails to provide for her. Jennie is, entitled to a separation and her busband ought to ride out of town on a rail. Elmer Frazie, a farmer near Butler, says he is the unluckiest mortal in christendom. While enroute for his home, the other day, a wheel came off his buggy and his leg was mashed. His horse then stepped |through a hole in a bridge and was severely injured. Arriving home he found that a cow had choked to death on a pota-

to, a hog rolled down a hill and broke its neck, and his boy fell in a creek and was pulled out by his comrades. His wife is sick and the baby has the whooping cough. Since then his chickens have been dying with cholera. Frazie is about ready to sell his farm and move to another clime.