Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1902 — THIS WICKED WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THIS WICKED WORLD.

Important Happenings From all Parts of Our Great States. Crimes, Accidents,Murders nnd Other Important News as Gathered For Our Readers. Read What You Like and Then Quit. Bring on the geese. A Columbia City man advertises that gooseberries are ready for canning. There is a man in Albion so confounded contrary that he will not agree with the daily weather reports. It is said he has nothing else to do. Dan Smithers, the crack horseman, of Speedville, drove bis bore© bo fast on the track, Wednesday, that the rubber tires on the sulky melted off. Fred Barber, of Anderson, knocked his kneecap out of place while trying to get up from a dinner table in an Anderson hotel. He is now hobbling about on crutches. Charlie Huncilman, of Anderson, has a four-legged live chicken on exhibition in his saloon window. He doesn’t state whether or not it is to take the place of snakes. Police of South Bend corked up the “ten-cent smiles” that were being dispensed at certain soda fountains. Hifalntin names were given the drink. The leading ingredients were from Kentucky.

Mrs. E. A. Hughston, Rochester, didn’t know she had locked a dog in her milinery store till the next morning. Then she found hats and trimmings all over the floor and a show case broken. Martinsville city council has batted the “banan” man clean over the fence. The daily license has been increased from $2 to 110 a day. Some of the Martinsvilleites who are partial to bananas now threaten to move out of town. Miss Mary Munson, of Evansville, lost her voice several years ago, while trying to break the local vocal record. While at an altitude of 14,899 feet in Colorado, the other day, she recovered her voice and will hold on to it this time. A German at Walkerton gave the Independent this recipe for mince pie: “Get one piece of robber and cut de under crust, scallop the edges mit de shears; buy four pounds of cow’s neck; chop up von peck of apples, basket and all; add von yard of red flannel and a peck of sawdnst; give it two coats of varnish; cook von hour.” Franklin reported that a horse there committed suicide by drowning. Now ' Goshen is to the front with a chicken suicide. J. P. Hawks took a brood of chickens from one hen and gave them to another. The next time Mr. Hawks went to his poultry yard he fonnd the hen that had been robbed of her babies hanging dead between two fence slats. The coroner was not called.

The little baby deserted by Edward Gray and wife, of Wells county, is now in the orphans’ home. It is the smallest child in the county, weighing but six pounds and seven ounces. Its body is fifteen inches long, and its head will go into a quart cup. The child’s arms are no larger around than a man’s thumbs. It is healthy, and the present indications are that it will grow to be a medium sized woman. Ebby Hultz called at Dr. Cyrus Pingree’s office, Monday morning, and had five punctures in his right hand repaired, but he wouldn’t tell how it. happened. Ebby has been courting Miss Priscilla Quigley for about six months, and it is known that she wore five pins in the back of her dress collar, Sunday night. He is getting along nicely and the doctor says there is no danger of blood poisoning.—Bean Hill Beaoon.

In a trial at Terre Haute Mrs. Jacob Hess conducted her own cross-ex-amination.* A neighborhood quarrel started the trouble, and Miss Ida McCulloch filed an affidavit against the woman, charging assault and battery. The trial was fttnny. Mrs. Hess and Miss Ida McCulloch “fired” a tin can at her while she was beating a retreat. The judge fined Mrs. Hess fl and costs and said he would put her in the lockup the next time she started trouble.

From present indications the proposed electrio line from Goshen to Ft. Wayne will not be built this year and possibly the project may be abandoned entirely. The subsidy of |30,000 voted at Goshen in its interests will be forfeited unless the road is completed to the Wabash railroad by the first day of July and this is now Impossible.