Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 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. There 1b something radically wrong in the little town of CampDellsburg. Within a week three married couples have separated. Dr. Prank Kindig, of Chicago, and Miss Minnie Tyre, of Lebanon, are to be united in marriage. He, perhaps “kin dig” better with a helper. It is said that Frank Touhey, an aeronaut, went to a height of 8,000 febt in his baloon at Bluffton. He was nearly frozen to death when he came down.

Now comes the Kendallville Sun and says a Churubusco old maid has quit wearing stays because she wants to be hugged by something else than a whalebone.

The time is near when the boy with wet hair and sand in his shoes will violate a Sunday-school obligation in earnest and eloquent endeavor to persuade mamma that he hasn’t been near the creek.—Greenfield Globe.

Plymouth, a town of 850 people in Hancock county, has 66 widows, and the number is liable to be still further increased. Most of them are of the sod variety, but there are a few whose husbands enjoy life better away from their presence.

An “oily duck” has been working in Hancock and other counties. His scheme is to represent that he is preparing biographies for a county history. Then he asks his victim to sign his name to the supposed sketch. This turns up to be an order for sls for an old history.

During the fire at Chesterton an excited citizen picked up a bucket that had the bottom knocked out, ran to a pump and was nearly jerking the handle off when a demure little woman called his attention to the bottomless bucket. Then he ran into a burning building and pulled out a barrel of spoiled kraut,

The Logansport Journal alleges that when the Democratic primaries were being held, precinct committee men instructed persons who might be called out for short speeches to urge upon the party following that “two hundred jobs” are the issue. A Hendricks county druggist who sells liquor is talking of putting down a well in his wareroom, where the booze is “dished up.” A cheaper way would be to run the water from the roof direct to the barrels. Then, rainwater is nearer the color of the stuff that starts more trouble than anything else.

A man representing himself as blind went to all the business houses of Sullivan and was given considerable money. Then he went to a restaurant and ordered a fat meal, and read a newspaper while the hasher

was stacking up the viands before him. He got out of town in a hurry when he learned that there was talk of a public whipping. A fellow in Vanderburg county is developing a murderous instinct along unusual lines. He makes a specialty of poisoning valuable dogs, and the more noble the species the more liable to fall a victim to his deadly biscuit. Many handsome St. B< rnards have perished, and at last accounts the fiend had transferred his operations to Newburg, and was continuing to select only highly prized animals for his malicious work.

A LaGrange dispatch of April 30th says: Mrs. Mary Hall is dead after fasting for fifty days on account of advice given her by a doctor more than twenty five years ago. At that time she was told that at some future date she would be afflicted with a cancer on her nose which would cause her death. Since then she has been acting in accordance with that opinion and fifty days ago she ceased eating, Saying that thus the cancer would be driven away. Physicians could not change her mind. A post mortem examination revealed the fact that her organs were in a perfect condition.