Just a few--
Lafayette Weekly Courier
April 9, 1878
MURDERED
Last fall a party left Lafayette going down the river in a
falt-boat. HENRY HECKER, a well-known Lafayette boy, was one of the party.
His sister corresponded with him regularly, and a couple of weeks ago wrote
to him, addressed, Natchez, Mississippi. She put her address on the
envelope, and day before yesterday it was returned with a line written by
the postmaster at that place, that HENRY was dead. His friends immediately
telegraphed for particulars, and learned that on last Tuesday he had been
shot and killed by a noted desperado. One ball passed through his arm and
one through his body. No other particulars have been learned.
RESIDENCE BURNED
Tuesday night last at 10 o'clock the fine residence of JOHN ACHESON
of Battle Ground was totally destroyed by fire. The family had retired and
narrowly escaped with their lives, bing awakened by smoke just I time to
save themselves. MR. ACHESON's book case and private papers were the only
articles of value saved from the flames. The fire is supposed t be the work
of an incendiary. We understand there was an insurance of $1,800 in Phoenix
of Hartford, Conn., on the property.
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Lafayette Weekly Courier
Tues May 28, 1878
EVENTS AT BATTLE GROUND
~~The Commencement exercises of the BG Collegiate Institute take place
Thursday, May 30. Miss Mote, of Battle Ground; D.A. Fisher, of Pittsburg;
Chas. W. Rice of BG; M.E. Nethercut of BG, and J.L. Johnson, of Burlington,
will deliver carefully prepared orations. Dr. Godfrey will confer the
diplomas.
~~On Wednesday the 29th, the Antheneum Literary Society will give its tenth
annual exhibition. C.R. Rice will the deliver the salutatory subject,
"Thought." The other subjects are as follows:
"Influence of Character," Miss Stair
"Woman's Moral Work," Miss Gwin.
"Never a Lock but a Golden Key Will Open," Miss Bailey.
"Duties of an American Citizen," H.H. Harter.
Miss Lovinger will read the Society paper.
Miss Mote will recite selections from the Widow Bedott's poetry.
Miss Campbell's valedictory will be entitled, "Beware of Desperate Steps."
There will be a debate, in which C.W. Rice and M.E. Nethercut take part.
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Lafayette Weekly Courier
June 11, 1878
Suicide of Amazia Clark
Monday, June 3, AMAZIA CLARK, a young man living near Culver Station,
was found hanging by a rope to a tree-dead. A jury was impaneled and
returned the following verdict:
We, the undersigned find that Amazia Clark, who was found on the 3rd day
of June, 1878, hanging dead, suspended by a rope from elm tree on the farm
of M.C. Culver, in Sheffield Township, in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, came
to his death by his own hands. G.W. Kirkpatrick, W.J. DeHart, J.M. Grime,
J.N. Ray, George Ilgenfritz, J.P. Ash. E.M. Weaver, Justice of the Peace,
Acting Coroner.
Mr. Clark is spoken of as an exemplary young man, loved by all who knew
him. He was the only support of a widowed mother. He had been sick for
some time, and was unable to work. He feared a total failure of his crops,
and it is thought that is so preyed upon his mind that he became insane.
An Old Settler
Fifty years ago last Saturday, at 11 o'clock a.m., JESSE ANDREW landed
in Lafayette. He came down the river in a dug-out. He had to inquire for
the town to find it.