The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-05-28
AN EXTRAORDINARY TRAGEDY.

The Killing of senator Young, of Grant
County, Wis, by his Son, and Subsequent
Suicide of the Observation-Disclosures of
the Strange and Unnatural Deed.
One of the most shocking and singu-
lar tragedies enacted in the West for
many day was that of the killing of
Hon. Milas X. Young, of Grant county.
Wis, by his son, and the subsequent
suicide of the murderer The following
details of the terrible affair are given by
correspondent of the Chicago Journal,
Your columns have already noted the
most horrible tragedy of the Northwest
the murder of AIilas X. Young by his
son Albert, and the murderer's suicide
/ have just returned from the funeral of
the butchered victim.
On the map of Wisconsin, forty miles
above its south line and on the Mississippi
river, nearly opposite Gutenberg, is
marked the little village of Glen Haven.
1t lies at the mouth of ravine leading
down from Blake's Prairie-as beautiful
and good farming district as there is in
the State. In the edge of this prairie,
two miles east the Glen Haven village,
was the scene of this double tragedy.
The farmi parallelogram, three-fourths
of mile long, east and west, and half
mile wide. Near its center is the resi-
dence, a large square stone building in
an enclosure of half an acre. The
sides of the house face cardinal points
of the compass. The road to Glen
Haven passes along the south side of the
farm. Its northwest forty acres are
wooded, the remaining two hundred are
under the plow. Its surface is nearly
level, but it has geological peculiarities
which attracted the attention of Wis
consin's lamented geologist and poet,
and detained him a week. Nearly thirty
years ago NJ. X. Young came from
Indiana, and settled upon this farm. 1t
had previously been entered by Josiah
T. Perrin, OF Indiana. Young's wife
and Perrin s wife were sisters. The title
to the property was left to Perrin, be-
cause Mr.. Young was involved by secu-
rity debts in Indiana. The trouble may
be said to have begun with this irregu-
larity. Mr.. Young worked very hard,
and improved the place as if unfettered.
ailbert was his Oldest child. A daugh-
ter, the wife of Charles ID. Shader, of
Lancaster, and three sons are living.
Albert was about 30 years old. Mr.
Young always felt deep interest in the
education of his children. The educa-
ton of all people was a matter always
near his heart. Through his instrument
tality one of the first school houses on
"the prairie was built, and called
g Young's School House." His children
received all the schooling they could
there, and all of them were sent away
to higher schools as they grew old
enough. Albert's education was better
than that of the others. When through
with schools he selected the "news-
paper" profession. Preparatory to
this he spent two years among the !
types in the Lancaster Herald office.
Then, about six years ago, he went
home. Up to that time the Young
family is supposed to have been
model one. His daughter, who was
married shortly before that, says
there never was more peaceful house
hold. 1t has developed, however, that
for many years there was want of har-
mony in the secret lives of the father
and mother of the family. 1t grew out
of her inattention to the duties of her
share in the matrimonial partnership. |
She was not help-meet-was rather
an additional load TO the pilgrim.
From early morning he has toiled until
bedtime, and, coming home, would find
himself compelled to make the kitchen
fire and cook his own supper, or go to
bed hungry. This sort of treatment he
bore so patiently and with so little
murmuring that the children never
discovered that there was wrong in
1t. Though Mr.. Young toiled in this
way, he was the most prominent charac-
ter of population of $1,000, embracing
the western half of Grant county. |
Some fifteen or twenty years ago he was |
a member of the Legislature. In 1862, |
63, '64, and 65 he was in the State SEN
ate. Your files of 1864, in your Madi- |