Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 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 Our Readers. Read What You Like and . Then Quit. Rossville school board has enacted a rule holding parents responsible for damages done by children to school property. Windows have been smashed by the dozen. Chas Fuson, of Evanston, dreamed that he was a fireman on a locomotive. He got up and punched all the mico out of a S6O baseburner. The repairs cost him $4.75. Frank Conrad is postmaster, merchant and barber at Garfield. It is said he has patented an elixir that will make hair grow on any old pate. He spilled a little of it on a stone, a week ago. Now it is said the stone is ready for a haircut. Frank Vicory was taken from Elkhart to the penitentiary. He was in love with Mrs. White and when her husband objected to his attentions to the woman Vicory beat him unmercifully and threatened to kill him. When her “loved one” was sentenced Mrs. White swallowed poison but the doctors pumped her back to health. She says she will try it again and has decided life is not worth living without Frank Vicory. The meanest men live in Noble county. There are two of them. A spiritualistic medium had been holding seances down there. There was deep interest and hundreds attended, The spirit walked nightly. Many were converted. Two bad men attended. They scattered tacks along the tracks where the ghost walked. When the spirit of the departed struck the tacks there was a howl and more cuss works were said in a minute than a cowboy could forget ,in a year. If any country in the state can produce more unique names for hamlets than Washington county it will please hold up its hand. The Salem Democrat says the.county has a Lickskillet Pulltight, Hell’s Half-Acre, Gooseport Brimstone Corner, Stinky Flats and Easy Street. Miss Alice Montrose, of Evansville,, while running from a mouse that was in the parlor fell and smashed a $l5O oil painting, ripped a fine silk dress from top to bottom and broke a finger. At last report the mouse was still alive and doing well. A Rushville girl read that a Wisconsin girl had sued a prominent man for $15,000, alleging that he had kissed her three times. “Why,” said Miss Rushville, “he can kiss me 15,000 times for that amount.” Waterloo has a man who hasn’t paid a cent of taxes since 1896 and he is s dd to be one of the worst “knockers” in the community. “The lake” region of Morgan county is said to be so rich that, if a bald-headed man will spend a summer season there it will restore his hair the same as in youth. A man from Eminence is authority for the statement that their isn’t a bald-head in all that region. It may be well to state for the benefit of auburn-haired persons that only black hair grows there. Men of the M. E. church, Rockville, gave a supper, one night last week. Not a ’woman was allowed in the kitchen. Waiters took oath that they would not spill coffee on female patrons nor sample cakes without hairpins. When the drayman is through hauling away broken dishes the-men will figure up to see if they cleared anything.