Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 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 Gathered For Our Readers. Read What You Like and Then Quit. Butler will have a new bank building to cost $15,000. It will be three story and an ornament to that city. A Brown county man carried a rattlesnake to Bloomington that had 14 rattlers and a button. It was embalmed. The Ringling circus will not likely visit Bedford again, as the receipts were less than $3,000, not enough for the daily expenses. At the next annual meeting of the Dunkards they will decide whether or not it is the duty of brethren and sisters to give the negro members the “holy kiss.” As it is now they must not kiss unless the whites make the first offer. Other questions to be decided will be divorce laws, fire insur ance and’ dress. Some of the older members object to fire insurance. Seven hundred pounds of turtles were snipped from Franklin Tuesday, to Richmond. They were caught along Hurricane creek by Cassel and Hubbard, of Germantown, professional turtle trappers. The shipment brought them $38.50. Richmondites prefer turtle to beef. A strange case is that of Mrs. Mary Elvira Gillespie, who at the age of 84 has just been admitted to a hospital in Denver. She is the mother of thirty-seven children, including 15 set of twins, but all drifted away from her and she knows not the address of one of them. It is reported that there is a movement on foot to organize a troop of cavalry in Northern Indiana as a part of the national guard of the state. South Bend, Mishawaha And Elkhart will have squads. A Daleville lad hurriedly picked up a hot potato and thrust it in his mouth before he knew he was up against a warm / proposition. No one had to tell him to spit it out. His mouth is severely burned. The police of Indiana cities and towns have been asked to look for Fred Warner, an umbrella peddler whose home is in Elkhart. Warner’s friends are seeking him in an effort to put him in possession of a fortune estimated at $75,000 which has been left him by relatives at Greenville, Mich. For years he has been a habitue of police courts and jails- He married the daughter of a wealthy farmer several years ago. All couples wishing to be married in Kankakee, 111., will have to pay $5 in the future if the minister officiates at the ceremony. What practically is a trust has been formed by the clergymen there as a result of low fees offered by bridegrooms in the past. One minister, who was paid $2 for marrying a couple, paid $2.50 for a ilg to the farmhouse where the marriage took place and also had to buy his dinner. Another pastor received 50 cents as his fee for an early morning wedding, was compelled to invite the couple to breakfast, and then the groom borrowed back the 50 cents to buy dinner for himself and bride Asa result of such accidents the ministers have signed an agreement on the $5 fee.