The Adair County News, Columbia KY 05-Jan-1898

Submitted By: George Cassady,
   http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00001.html#0000046
Date Submitted: 17-Mar-2006

News From Around The United States:
John W.H. DAVIS, a private at the United States Army post at Ft. Yellowstone,
was frozen to death while carrying the mail. James GRINER, a former member of
the Pennsylvania Legislature, killed his step-daughter as the result of a
quarrel over money matters. Charles ZANOLI, tried in New York for defrauding
an insurance comapany, admitted that since 1883 he had collected insurance on
four wives, a mother-in-law, a daughter, and an employee. Edward J.EPSTEIN
committed suicide in New York. His letter to the police was a sad story of
the difficulties of an educated man trying to find employment in the big
metropolis. The will of the late Charles FLEISCHMAN of Cincinnati, after
several charitable bequests, directs that his estate which is valued at
$2,000,000 be divided equally among his wife and four children. Mrs. D.C.
HUFFMAN, wife of a Big Four Railroad emplyee at Brightwood IN, attempted to
commit suicide by swallowing carbolic acid. A few weeks ago her daughter Etta
HUFFMAN succeeded in killing herself by the use of the same acid. The
daughter's lover, a young man named PHILLIPS, had shot himself to death, and
this was assigned as the reason for the girl's act. It is supposed that grief
over the tragic death of the daughter caused Mrs. HUFFMAN to take her own
life. A terrible tragedy occurred at Fiddletown TX. Fred BARTH Sr., a
prosperous German farmer, without warning took his shotgun and placing it at
the back of his wife fired a full load of shot into her. Then he attempted to
cut his daughter's throat with a razor. When help arrived they found that the
old man had cut the throat of his wife and had also cut both of his arms at
the wrist. He was bleeding to death when neighbors arrived. BARTH was
arrested. He is apparently insane, but will assign no cause for the deed. An
old Indian mound has been opened on the farm of Harrison ROBINSON four miles
East of Jackson OH, and two skeletons of extrodinary size and a great quantity
of trinkets have been removed. Some years ago a party of relic hunters,
supposed to have been sent out in the interest of the Archeological Society,
visited the ROBINSON farm and after a few days search removed a great
collection of stone hatchets, beads and bracelets, which were packed and
shipped to an Eastern Institute, and until this recent accidental discovery
it was supposed that everything had been removed by the relic hunters. It is
thought by many that more relics are to be found and preparations are being
made for a through investigation.

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