Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1902 — THIS WICKEK WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THIS WICKEK WORLD.

Important Happenings From all Parts of Our Great States. Crimes, Accidents,Marders and Other Important Nows as Oathered For Our Readers. Road What You Like and Thon Quit. John Fielding, at Knightstown, has a boil as big as a quart oup. Ebenezer Schenck, of Reelesville, attempted to rob a beehive, and now he looks as if he weighed 600 pounds. Just when the upper-ten women of Lafayette began riding horseback seven new physicians located in that city. John Reynolds, of Lebanon, has gone into the pole-cat business. He starts with a mother skunk and seven youngsters. A woman in Knightstown sent out a notice that she and her family are about to starve. The Journal, Knightstown’s spicy daily, has asked for assistance for the woman. At Scottsburg a young married woman is in trouble because someone heard her say to a young man: “You must come to see me.” The husband thinks she should have said: “Come and see us.”

Terry Trimble, of Henpeck, has rheumatism so bad that his swollen feet burst his shoes to pieces. He is in very poor circumstances and doesn’t know how he can get two more cowhides. Charles Vetters, of Brandywine township, Hancock county, killed an eagle on his farm, a fine specimen, weighing more than 25 pounds. From tip to tip of wings it measured seven feet and four inches. The log cabin in which the first election held in Fairfield township, DeKalb county, was held is still standing. The election was held in 1844, when there were but nine voters in the township. Rev. A. J. Frank, of Lebanon, “pump-handled” so many brethren during his attendance at the Indiana ministerial meeting in Terre Haute that a boil has appeared on his hand. He thinks it was caused by excessive hand-shaking. A construction gang on the 0. R. & M. railroad has found a bottomless hole on the Smith farm, in Porter township, Porter county. Hundreds of loads of dirt and trash have been dumped into the hole, only to sink out of sight. Maybe this is the underground passage to China. A man of Crawford county who lost ten acres of corn last year on account of the dry weather will lose no more corn, he says, from this cause. The first dry spell he will place his unique irrigation scheme into effect. He has planted five acres of watermelons for this purpose. The melons will be hauled to the top of the hill, cut open and the water from them will flow down the hill into the corn field.