Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1904 — MAN EATS RAW OATS. [ARTICLE]

MAN EATS RAW OATS.

FOND DU LAC JEWELER GROWS TO LIKE STRANGE DIET. Stomach Disorder Impels Him to Tukin£ Course of Food Which Finally Benefits Him-Kobs Telephone Booth for Fuads to Bury Child. '•I could easily subsist on $2 n month." was the statement made by Henry Lobb, the North Fond du Lac (Wis.) jeweler who has been experimenting in dieting for several months. At the present time lie consumes, as a daily ration, one gallon of milk, raw oats such as are fid to horses and corn. In order to aid digestion he puts Ids victuals through a coffee grinder and sometimes soaks them in water. He drinks all the water he cares for. In the summer time he egts fruit ami takes salt, but no pepper J.nd n.> sugar. He eats but two meals a day. It was for the benefit of his health that Mr, Lobb began his strange diet, and lie lias become fond of it. To aid him in his purpose his wife has taken, in a large measure, to her husband's bill of fare, on which she is improving in health. |r. Lobb has gained in weight to the extent of over thirty-five pounds in a few months, and states that the stomach trouble with which he used to.be 'afflicted has left him entirely. HOBS TO BURY HIS CHILD. Sinn Arrested at Kansas City Given Liberty by Soft-Hearted Police. Charles Gartman was arrested in Kansas City in the net of robbing a public telephone box of SB. “What are you crying about, you big baby?’’ asked a policeman when he saw tears gather in the eyes of the prisoner as he was being searched at the station. “There is a dead baby at my house,” the man answered in a voice broken by sobs, “and my wife is sick. I did not have a cent to bury the child.” Investigation proved Gartman's story true, whereupon the - captain released him and told him to go home. OHIO ELECTRIC lines merge. Combination to Be Effected with Capitalization of $5,000,003. Arrangements have been practically completed for the consolidation under the name of the Ohio Union Traction Company of the following electric roads: Central Market Street Railway of Columbus; Columbus, London and Springfield Railway; Springfield and Urbana Railway; Urbana, Bellefontaine and Northern Railway. The four companies (operate about 200 miles of track and have a total capitalization of $5,000,000.

American Army the Finest. Lord Wolseley, writing concerning the falling off of recruits for the British army, says: “The American army is the only one I know of which, like our own, is obtained upon a system of voluntary enlistment. But the American government, wiser than our own, pays their ' men well, and the result is that the American army, as far as it goes in numbers, is, I believe, the finest army in the world.’’ Ships Crash in Clear Day. In brighe weather the Wilson line steamship Colorado, Captain Cox, from Hull, while proceeding up the lower bay at New York, collided with the outwardbound Bristol City line steamer Boston City. The Colorado tore a large hole in the port side of tlie Boston City. The Boston City began to fill rapidly and was inn into shallow water to prevent its sinking. Thirty Perish on the Desert. Thirty bodies of men who perished in the Nevada desert from thirst and hunger have been found by a body of surveyors who are an advance party of the new San Pedro. Los Angeles and Salt Lake Hailroad. They died while attempting the waste area that stretches i a distance of eighty miles from Las Vegas to the California line. Mrs. Maybrick Is Released. Mrs. Florence E. May brick has been released from prison by order of King Edward, after having served fourteen and a half years of a life sentence for the alleged poisoning of her husband. Plana White Negro Race. Dr. J. W. Hill, a physician of South Bend, Ind.,, believes he can change the skin of the negro and produce n white race and a test is to be made of his theory.

Condition of Chicano Trade. Dun's review of the condition of Chicago’s trade shows the situation to be satisfactory and the prospects for the future to be unusually bright. It. & <>. Kugincer Killed. In a collision’ between n Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern passenger train and a freight train near Cullom's Station, Ohio, Engineer George M miser was killed. Tilbury Found Not Guilty. A jury in Judge Dunne's court in Chicago found James (J. Tilbury not guilty of charges of extortion and blackmail made by Mrs. Hollis M. Thurston. Operation Upon W. C. Whitney. William c. Whitney underwent an operation for appendicitis nt New York and is rei>ortcd to be recovering satisfactorily from the shock. Manila Short of Fuel. The prohibition of coal exports by the Japanese government threatens to create a fuel famine in Manila. ■ 1 v ■ Persian Premier Called Back. Ex-Premier Ali Asghnr Khan Atnberk Asa tn, who is reiiorted to have fled from Persia upon losing office, has been called back from America by the Shah to resume the reins of power. Omaha Rd I tor la Married. Miss Katie Katz, daughter of Mr. nnd Mrs. Kaufman Kats, nnd Victor Rosewater wege married at noon nt the home of the bride’s parents in Baltimore, Md. The groom is editor of the Omaha Bee. of which hie father, Edward Rosewaterproprietor. i