Obits Jan 14 & Jan 17 1897

Published in the Anderson Morning Herald

January 1897

Published January 14, 1897

CHILDREN DROWNED

The Ice Broke and Six Went Into the Water --Two Rescued

ST. LOUIS, Jan 13, -- Four children were drowned in the northern part of the city Tuesday afternoon.  they were Fable Mathews, aged 14, and her brother George, age 10, who lived at 4015 North Grand avenue;  Amanda Arnold, aged 16, and her brother Arthur, aged 15, who lived at 4314 Farli avenue. A party of 25 girls and boys returning from school gathered at a deep quarry pond at Scanlan place and Kossath avenue at 4:30 p.m. and began skating on the thin ice, that way only one day old.  While the fun was at its height the ice in the center of the pond gave way and six skaters went down.  Two were rescued by their companions, but the others were beyond reach and sank at once.  A thousand people gathered about the pond and sought to find the bodies.  The fire department was called and before 6 o'clock all the bodies had been recovered.

The Following Published January 17, 1897

A Chicago Traveling Man Expires Suddenly.

D.D. Thompson, a Chicago traveling man, who stayed in Anderson Thursday night, dropped dead at the Union station in Indianapolis yesterday morning.  Mr. Thompson left here on the 8:30 train yesterday morning for Indianapolis.  He carried two grips, appeared in the best of health, and on the train laughed and joked with those about him.  Arriving at Indianapolis Mr. Thompson passed outside of the depot and was on the pavement on the north side, when suddenly he was seen to reel on the sidewalk then fall.  The man gasped a few times and was dead.

The usual wrangle between police and undertakers occurred and as a result the body was allowed to lay on the wet pavement for nearly an hour before it was removed.  Mr. Thompson was a large man and apoplexy is supposed to have been the cause of death.

Wife Murder and Suicide

RUGBY, Tenn. Jan 16, --Ben L. Davies, the former assistant manager of the Gibson house, Cincinnati, murdered his wife and then suicided at the Tabard Inn.  He cut his wife's throat, almost severing her head from her body.  The double tragedy occurred at the famous inn at 6 o'clock in the morning.  Davies was in a terrible rage just previous to the horror, and it is presumed that he became crazed through drink.

Prominent Chattanoogan Dead.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Jan 16--A. J. Wisdom, one of Chattanooga's first citizens in residence and importance, died Friday at the age of 70 from kidney disease.  The deceased was one of this city's largest property holders, his holdings embracing several of its largest business blocks.

The Ax-User Caught.

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn, Jan 16--William Sergeant, of Christian county, Kentucky, who, a couple of days ago split his wife's head open with an ax and cut one of her ears off, had been located at Peacher Mills, this county, and officers will arrest him and take him back to Kentucky.  Sergeant is with relatives.  A reward was offered for his capture.

Tilllman Abandons the Contest.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Jan 16,--Hon G. N. Tillman, the late republican candidate for governor, has abandoned his contest for Taylor's election.  He published a card Saturday in which he states that his course was necessitated by the act of the legislature requiring him to give bond for $25,00, before proceeding with the contest.

Historian Headley Dead.

NEWBURGH, N.Y., Jan. 16, --Hon Joel T Headley, the historian and ex-secretary of state of New York, died here Saturday morning.

Put Four Bullets In His Body.

Greenburg, Ind. Jan, 16--Frank Gray, a farmer of Versailles, suicided on account of domestic troubles.  he recently separated from his wife.  he sought a haymow as a place for putting four bullets into his body.