Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1885 — Casting Out Devils. [ARTICLE]

Casting Out Devils.

[Wabash telegram.] It has just been discovered that Mrs. „ Ohm, a widow living in the vicinity of Laketon, this county, professes to enjoy the power of divination, and has been regularly engaged in the business of “casting out devils” for some months past. She is said to have done a lucrative business, her patrons taking good care to maintain the strictest silence respecting, their relations wi h the lady. It is now learned that a man named Clinker.acting upon her advice, has sought to compel a rnan named Click, on whose farm he held a mortgage, to leave the country. Mrs. Ohm, upon consultation, having made the discovery that' a child of Clinker, who was veiy fil, was bewitched, and that the spe I. was due to the malign presence of Click, she said that Click must be gotten, away at all hazards, otherwise the child would die, and Mr. Ciinker has since been assiduous in his endeavors to secure his removal, going so far as to begin foreclosure proceedings on the mortgage. ■ This resulted in the expose of the whole superstitions - affair, and created a sensation of no small the vicinity of Laketon. —Elmer Swaisgood, aged 20, living with his parents on a farm near Plymouth, was instantly killed by a stroke of lightning. He was sitt ; ng in a chair in front of the house at the time. Other inmates of the bouse were badly stunned. —The residence of T. A. Biddle, of Terre Haute, the former residence-of- Geh. Jig.; ; Chas. Cruft and an old landmark, has been partially destroyed by fire. i ;—• • , Kokomo Lus a bicycle’ club of twenty members. . , J