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From: "Jim Laird" <>
Subject: [KSJEFFER] EATON,COULTER,
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 19:27:20 -0500


The Kansas New Era
Saturday
May 8, 1875

She Changed Her Mind.
Fannie EATON, of Brownsburg, Ind., was to have been married to a man at her home on Wednesday evening, but that morning another man told her he wanted her and took her and a preacher in his buggy to the county seat and was married, and she returned home in time to receive man No.1 at the hour set. He came with a license--only to find her the wife of another, and was so shocked that he left the country. It was doubtless not the girl that he mourned for, but the $2.50 paid for license.

Suicide.
>From the Leavenworth papers we learn that, on last Monday morning, Mr. James S. COULTER, of that city, was found dead in his bed. The coroner's jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict that deceased came to his death by an overdose of Laudanum administered by his own hand. Deceased was 46 years of age and had been a resident of Leavenworth for fifteen years.
Mr. COULTER was a member of the I.O.O.F. and had held some of the highest positions in the order. He was a printer by trade and had filled some of the most important positions in the Typographical Union. It was our pleasure to make the acquaintance of the deceased about a year since, and having had frequent occasion to call upon him for favors, we are glad to testify that we fond him ever ready to accommodate and were pleased to number him among our most reliable and valued friends. We tender to his grief-stricken family our heart felt sympathy in their bereavement.

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