KY-FOOTSTEPS-D Digest 10 June 2000 Volume 00 : Issue 209 ______________________________X-Message: #1 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 15:50:16 -0700 From: Larry&Laura wright Subject: DEATH: Albert Schilling, Adair Co Taken from THE ADAIR COUNTY NEWS COLUMBIA, KENTUCKY DECEMBER 22, 1897 Typed as published and submitted By Laura frost Wright TOOK HIS LIFE ALBERT SCHILLING, a well known Richmond grocer Commits suicide Brooding over an imaginary misfortune, the only known cause. ALBERT SCHILLING, one of the best known business men in Richmond, took his life last tuesday morning. The news of the man"s rash act startled the people, as it was not known that there could be any reason for SCHILLING ending his life. He had always seemed healthy, properous and happy. SCHILLING went home on the morning of the suicide, after midnight, laid his money and keys on the table in the family room, disrobed, and without revealing his intention to his wife, took from the mantle a two-ounce bottle of carbolic acid. Going to the kitchen, he poured an ounce and a half of the poisen into a tin cup and swallowed the deadly draught. Without saying a word to Mrs. SCHILLING , he returned to his room and lay down for the night. A few minutes later his wife heard SCHLLING groaning in agony, and becoming frightened over his terrible sufferings and her inability to get an answer to her questions, she summoned the family physician. But before the doctor arrived, SCHILLING died in the most horrible manner, the paroxysms racking his body and his face being contorted in a dreadful way in death. His friends have been unable to conjecture why the properous confectioner should have committed suicide, but it is advanced by some that he had become worked over the loss of the FRANK FEHR beer agency, which he had for some months held, but recently lost, and had brooded over the magnified misfortune till he was driven to the desparate deed he committed. The dead man had been conducting a grocery and confectionary and had a satisfactory business. he came here from Cincinnati about ten years ago and was generally respected by all who knew him. He was a brother-in-law of Policeman EVERETT BERRY, of this place, and was a member of one of the county's wealthiest and most esteemed famalies. He held a $2,000 life insurance policy in the A.O.U.W. was twenty-eight years of age, and leaves a wife and two children. The funeral occurred from the residence last wednesday. Mr. SCHILLING was well known by a number of Adair county people. ______________________________X-Message: #2 Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 10:53:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Jan Gillespie Subject: NEWS:The Maysville Bulletin,January 26,1893 - Aberdeen Marriages to stop, Mason Co The Legislature of Ohio to Put a Stop to "Aberdeen Marriages." A Bill Pending That Will Forever End the Illegal Business if Passed. The Columbus, Ohio correspondent of the Enquirer say: "Aberdeen, the famous Gretna Green in Brown County, is to lose all its charms for runaway lovers if a bill introduced in the Senate become a law. Senator Phillips, of Adams, is the author of the measure, which is designed to do away with that extreme informality in matrimonial matters for which Aberdeen is chiefly noted. "After the death last year of "Squire Massie Beasley, who had married so many hundred of eloping couples at Aberdeen, John P. Purdum became the Justice of the Peace and wholesale dispenser of matrimony, and the reputation of Aberdeen has not waned. Indeed, it is said that "Squire Purdum bids fair, if not interfered with, to eclipse the record of his celebrated predecessor, so numerous are the "nuptial knots he ties. The indications are, however, that "Squire Purdum's business is to be greatly curtailed. "The bill introduce by Senator Phillips is the result of a movement that has been inaugurated among the citizens of Brown County to do away with the marriage business at Aberdeen. It is proposed to put a stop to it completely, and Senator Phillips will be co-operated with by the Representative from Brown. The bill provides that if any Justice, minister or Mayor authorized to join persons in marriage shall solemnize the same without bans having been published or a license obtained, as required by Section 6,389 of the revised Statutes, he shall pay a fine of not exceeding $1000. and be imprisoned not more that six months, or both. A penalty of $500. fine is prescribed for even attempting to illegally perform a marriage ceremony. "There always has been a penalty for marrying couples as did "Squire Beasley, but that dignitary was never prosecuted. He was quite a power in the politics of his community and managed to frustrate all efforts to indict him. Senator Phillips bill not only increase the fine, but provides the additional penalty of jail imprisonment. As the office of "Squire of Aberdeen is worth about $5000. a year under the present order of things, it is not improbable that the bill will receive considerable opposition." -------------------- The Enquirer correspondent does "Squire Purdon an injustice in the above. Mr. Purdon announced when a candidate that if elected to succeed "Squire Beasely, he would not marry any couple unless they had complied with the law; and so far as the Bulletin is informed he has kept his work. The business has been practicably broken up by the firm stand the press has taken in the matter since the death of "Squire Beasley, but the bill mentioned above will end it forever. It should be passed. 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