Newspaper Clipping Misc Articles - The Purcell Register Submitted by: Karen Mazzol rmazzol1@san.rr.com http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/law/newspapers/miscart.txt ================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. =================================================================== The Purcell Register Saturday, January 7, 1888 A DELIBERATE SUICIDE J. M. MASSEY of Denison, Texas, takes a dose of Morphine because he was a discarded suitor. Tuesday morning at the Lindsay House, in Gainesville, Texas a young man, named J. M. MASSEY, committed suicide by taking morphine. The rash act was caused, it is said by a young lady, named MISS JESSIE MANNING, of Ardmore, I.T., refusing to keep company any longer with him. He was a highly connected young man whose family live at Preston Bend, Grayson County, Texas. Saturday, January 7, 1888 Article describing a gun fight where two men are killed. They were: JOHN CULP, Deputy Sherriff, about 26 yeas old, single, interred at Marysville, Jan. 6, 1888 with Masonic Honors & WOFFORD, about 35 years old leaving a wife and four children. Saturday, January 14, 1888 Denison, Tex., Jan. 10. MRS. LOUIS DEVAULT, of Carpenters' Bluff, three miles north of Denison on Red River, threw her seven months old child into a well last night and killed it. Saturday, January 14, 1888 CHAS. C. CLARK, who was shot by W.E. TREADWELL at Anthony, Kas., on Jan. 7th, died of his wounds two days later. TREADWELL is reported to be insane since the shooting.