Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1902 — THIS WICKED WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THIS WICKED WORLD.

Important Happenings From all Parts of Our Great States. Crimes, Accidents. Murders andcother Important Nows as Gathered For Our Readers. Read What You Like and Then Quit. Warsaw fisherman were fined $25 last week for fishing through the ice. Local sports should be care fill. The Muncieite who drank kerosene and applied a match fizzled in his attempt at self-destruction. Perhaps he would be successfiil if he drank a quart of nitroglycerine and Jumped off the court house tower. A Ft. Wayne woman wants to know how to make hair grow. Take a few hairs from a horse’s caudal appendage, place in a bottle of warm water, set it on the shelf behind the stove or some other warm place and watch the result. It is claimed that there are 600 socialists in Anderson and that they will nominate a full city ticket. A committee is now soliciting ftmds which will be used to purchase a printing outfit. It is the Intention to establish a weekly newspaper. Wm. Austin, of Auburn, sent fl to a Chicago firm that advertised “an invention that will preserve your teeth.” He carefully carried the “curative” home from the postoffioe to find that it was a minature nursing bottle and nipple, worth about ten cents. There is now only one murderer in the “death row” in Michigan City prison. He is “Buck” Wheeler, the Boonville criminal. His execution is set for next month, but as his case is in the supreme court pending a decision, the execution may be delayed. It is asserted that a yellow ghost has been discovered in the vicinity of the Lutheran church, Olcero. A young lady was passing the place of worship, the other night, when a yellow dog ran by her and howled. She fainted and a doctor had to be called to revive her. People of Jamestown have been getting a free supply of perfume, but are willing to let Crawfordsville or Ladoga have it on the same terms. Skunks are said to roam the streets there every night. They became too “loud” for the nightwatchman and he was compelled to run home to keep from suffocating. A Kokomo 4- year old tot was much impressed with the story told her at Sunday School to the effect that at all times Jesus was watching her to save her from harm. She had this assurance verified by her mother. Next day, while waking along an icy sidewalk, the little miss slipped and fell. Her mother was much shocked at the evidence of skepticism when the child said, “Well, Jesus wasn’t lookin’ then, all right.” Buried in the ground in old tin cans $34,000 in gold has been found on the farm of Mrs. Rozella Wright, who died Jan. 4, near Jeffersonville. How long this money has lain in the ground no one knows, and its location was known only by one person, Miss Sadie Williams, a woman Mrs. Wright reared from childhood, who divulged the secret of the hidden treasure. The money was all in S2O gold pieces. Mrs. Wright was 84 years old at the time of her death.