Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1907 — Indiana State News [ARTICLE]

Indiana State News

SWINDLED BY CLAIRVOYANT. *6OO Charm to Get Rid of Wife Fall* * Unhappy Firmer. r In trying to get rid of his wife, James D. Loop, a prosperous farmer near Marion, lost S6OO to a clairvoyant and still has his better half. “Professor” J. Victor Kenwood, the clairvoyant, is supposed to fie in Chicago. Loop and his wife had had "difficulties. Loop decided It would be a good plan to have her declared insane, and w«nt to Kenwood for advice. Kenwood said if he had S6OO he could work the charm Loop gave him (hat amount, and Kenwood said he would nave to wear the money in his vest pocket” and go out of town to make the-charm work. Loop went to his faTrn and Kenwood left Marion. Then Loop began to grow suspicious. He Visited the prosecutor and an affidavit was filed. The police now want Kenwood on a charge of grand larceny. EXCITEMENT IN MARION. - Babies Swallow Odd Objects; Barents Have Spasms; Doctor Winks. One physician, a padlock, a whistle, a coin and; three children, not to mention six parents, had an interesting time' in Marion for three hours the other afterfioop —First the 2-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Murray Wetzel of Gas City, swallowed a. padlock. Then the daughter of Fred Glass swallowed a 5-cent piece, and, for a third circumstance, the 5-year-old son of Charles Larin swallowed a tin whistle. The six parents covering from their fright, the children will recover, and the physician’s froyvns are giving way to a pleasant expression at the humor of it all and the probable •feeß.- - • - ----- - ——- FELL, DEAI) IN HOG LOT. \ Body Badly Mutilated Before Discovered by Family. Christian Gottier, 76 years old, was found dead in a hog lot five miles south of Francesville.- During the absence of the family the aged man is supposed to have attempted to feed the hogs, and while stooping over the fence he was seized by apoplexy or paralysis, and fell into the lot. When the family returned and discovered his body, it had been badly mutilated by the hogs.

KISSES GOST PASTOR HIS PItACE. Rev. Joliu Royer la Found Guilty by Ministerial Committee. liev. John Royer of Switzerland county was tried by a committee of nineteen Methodist ministers on charges of kissing a member of his congregation against her will and was suspended from the ministry for one year. The charges were preferred by the presiding elder of the circuit and were prosecuted by members of the defendant’s church. Graceful Act of Fellow Workers. Although past 80 years of age, Mrs. Alena Dunfee supports herself unaided, and the other day finished a week's work at the Wabash canning factory. She worked as fast as many many years younger, and as a mark of their esteem all the women employed with her donated one day’s pay to enable her to take a prolonged vacation.

Catholic* Launch Church. Six thousand visiting Catholics witnessed the laying of the corner stone of St. Patrick’s church in Kokomo Sunday. Bishop Allerding of Fort Wayne presided over the ceremonies. The day marked the thirty-fifth anniversary of the pastorate of the Rev. Father Francis Lordman. The new edifice will cost $100,060. _ Bank* Double Interest Rate. Wabash, banks have joined others in northern Indiana and advanced the interest on time dei>osits from 2 to 4 per cent. , Fort Wayne pays 4 per cent and Huntington, Marion, Peru, Logansport and others 3 per cent. Woman Attacked by Cow. Mrs. J. W. King of Starke county was probably fatally injured by a cow. The animal attacked and trampled her. She is injured internally. Brief State Happenings. Frank Cone fell into St. Mary’s river near Fort Wayne and was drowned. Mrs. John Routh of Kokomo, 40, deaf mute, was burned to death when she tried to start a fire with kerosene. «■ Rev. diaries Carter, a Baptist minister, has suddenly and mysteriously disappeared from South Bend, and the police have been asked to find him. The Boonville City Council ordered the Cumberland Telephone and Telegraph Company to remove its poles from the city limits within thirty days. The company has no franchise, and the action is the result of several mouths’ wrangling on account of rates. A municipal company is being formed. Charles Graves attempted to cross a Wabash river trestle works south of Logansport and was caught by an east-bound train. His head was cut off. Ilis father was attracted to the scene by the crowd, but did not recognize the head ns that of his sou. lie went home and told his wife what had hupi>ened, and was startled by screams from her, saying tqat she knew the body was that of their sou, as his death had come to her by a premonition while spending a wakeful night awaiting the return of her son from the country. William Graberg, n farmer living near Evansville, committed suicide by taking carbolic acid. lie was despondent over financial reverses. Michael Roberts, 50 years old, while walking on the HT? Four railroad at Amo. was run down by a passenger train and instantly killed. He was deaf. Mrs. E. T. Baker, whose mind i* thought to he unbalanced, walked from her home in Marion to Elwood in'a drenching rain. She was found at tin' home of her father. Thomas Mundell, and made no objections to being returned to ber husband and baby.