Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1902 — THIS WICKED WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THIS WICKED WORLD.

Important Happenings From sll Parts of Our Great States. Crimes. Acpldents,Murders and Other Important News as Oathered For Our Readers. Dead What You Like and Then Quit. It is said that Columbia City girls l chew a ton of gum every week in the year. The rag carpi# season is at hand. This is why some people are short onclothes. Now would be a splendid time for the liars to organize, says a Fort Wayne assessor. U. L. Weeks, of Auburn, slaughtered a S'eer last week that weighed 3,030 pounds. It was four years old. F. E. Smith, of Westville, has just sold 2,500 bushels of apples that hehas had iu storage all winter. He has one of t|j|p best orchards in Northern Indiana.* A Rushville hardware man is advertising “Jiard bargains” for a week in his goods, while an ice cream man across the street says his stock is melting fast. The Hoosier who was laid up all winter with “don’t cares” is now sunning his hide in front of the country store and telling farmers how to plant their crops. North Manchester men are spending their money voting for the “prettiest you.ig lady” in town. The contest is conducted by a medicine show, which is fattening its coffers. A little boy at Syracuse who has b?en earning $1.35 a day selling angle worms, wants his father to buy an acre of ground so that he may establish an an angle worm farm. In Howard county a woman who has been married less than a year is asking ior a divorce and in her complaint charges her husband with having committed assault and battery upon her 208 times by choking, horsewhipping and spanking her bare feet with a board. One would think that in the 208 times the woman would have become “bomb proof” and not mind being knocked down occasionally. W e have no sympathy for people who cannot be schooled. Ed Hall, with a band of thirty or forty gypsies, lias been camped near Columbus for some days past. With Hall was a woman whom he claimed was his wife. Another gypsy woman arrived and claimed to be Hall’s wife, and exhibited a marriage certificate to prove it. The woman Hall was passing as his wife was named Wilson and was a sister of his true wife. When the two women met a lively hair pulling followed. Hall had deserted hie wile at Rochester five weeks ago* taking the sister with him Ada Buzzard attempted to take the life of her fickle lover, Charles Godfroy, while he was being married to another at Denver, this state. While the ceremony was in progress Miss Buzzard armed herself with a shotgun and, repairing to the scene of the festivities, concealed herself behind a tree and was awaiting an opportunity for a shot when she was discovered and placed under arrest. Some time ago she had Godfroy arrested on a charge of betrayal and the case was compromised by him for S3OO.