Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 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 fathered For Our Readers. Read What You Like and Then Oult. The Indiana Knights of Pythias stand third in the country in point of membership. Fred Happner and George Grissamer, of Syracuse, are indulging in the luxury of a S3O lawsuit over the possession of a $5 rowboat. In Germany they are now making sugar from beets and gasoline from potatoes. They have not at yet been able, however, to get blood from a turnip. \ Logansport has placed the circus license at $3,000 in order to protect the Elks, who are arranging to give a carnival there. Wallace’s circus was headed that way, but the Elk’s promp action has forestalled them. Howard Wilson, near Kendallville, may lose his eye as a result of his efforts tb punish a colt. He struck at the colt with a halter strap, but the strap wound about the animal’s neck, the end striking Wilson in the eye. Wm. McDowell of Elkhart, sued by bis wife for divorce, has been ordered to pay into court $lO per week for his wife’s support and $250 attorney fees. McDowell is eighty years old and wealthy. His wite is seventy-two. Fred Kollman, a moulder, employed in the Flint & Walling factory, at Kendallville, stumbled while helping to carry a large ladle filled with molten iron. He was frightfully burned about the head and arms, but will recover. Carl Ruh, a Lima, 0., saloonkeeper, was picked up in Huntington county Wednesday in a demented condition. Ruh had left Lima with a horse and buggy Sunday afternoon, and could not explain how he came to be in Indiana. Tramps murdered and robbed John Smith, age 40 years, in a B. & O. Dox car near Deshler, 0., last week, and threw the body out of the car. When found, the body was horribly mangled. Another man, A. Emerich, was found in a dying condition in the same car. He had also been robbed. John Stark, of Noble county, has been taken to the Logansport asylum suffering from melancholy insanity. The wife of the unfortunate man died a few days ago, and while she was lying a corpse he took to the woods, where he kept himself concealed for three days and did not attend the funeral. Will Forney, recently released from jail at North Manchester, was wanted on another charge, and Marshal Lautzenheiser indulged in an eightmile foot race before Forney dropped from exhaustion and the marshal nabbed him. Then the officer hired a wagon to haul them to town. John Fitch, residing near the north line of Allen county, took his little six-year-old daughter to the field where he was plowing. The child played for a time in a bed of wild flowers at the edge of the field, and when her father returned from plowing a furrow across the field he found the child in the embrace of a huge black snake, two coils being wrapped about one of the child’s legs and its head raised to the level with her face. The terrified father screamed loudly and the snake crawled away, leaving the child unharmed.