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N#. 20.IN THE SOUTHEAST.What the People are Doing in Other Counties that are Near.Charleston Enterprise.—James A. N'olin, 64 years old.shot hi* wife to death with a shot gun and then turned the gun and blew his own life out, at their home, one mile south of Crosno in this county. It is said that Mrs Nolan was OS years of age. A divorce suit brought by Mrs. Nolln is in the courts at this time which we are told recites as a cause, that he was extremely cruel to her and of very bad temperament. She has been living with her son-in-law for some time and on Wednesday in company with two neignbor women she went over to the Nulin home to attend to some small matters. On arriving they were met by Mr. Nolin who was in his night clothes and who in the presence of the witnesses told his wife he was very sick and w anted to talk to her privately and she passed into the room. He then told the ladies who accompanied her to part as Mrs. Nolin was his wife and he proposed to talk to her. These women immediately hurried away but before they got out of hearing distance the heard Mrs. Nolin begging for her life, then a gunshot and soon another gunshot, after which all was quiet.Although they abolished the saloon in Mississippi county many years ago. it does not appear that they have solved the liquor problem. The Charleston Enterprise says : “Citizens of MissiBsip-County who live north of our city in Texas Bend are being imposed upon; Charleston people and the entire county are suffering disgrace; all because of the infamous liquor traffic that is being carried on at what is know n ;is the “whiskey boat,' ’which is anchored on the Illinois side of the Mississippi River across from Bryant's Igi riding, about seven miles north of Charleston. A prominent farmer who lives on the main road to that point was hoard to say recently that conditions are fast becoming intolerable, made so by the coarse, loud and obscene language of drunken occupants of automobiles that ply between a good many points in Scott and Mississippi counties* He is authority for the statement that this thing is going on at all hours of the night and on some occasions the guffaws of female voices arc heard in passing motor ears late at night.*' Take the profit out of the liquo/ traffic and that “whiskey boat* will disappear.
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Benton Scott County kicker
Benton, Missouri, US
Sat, Jun 12, 1915
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