Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-28
PARRICIDE AND SUICIDE.

From the correspondence ofthe Mil
waukee Sentinel, and our Grant coun-
ty exchanges, we compile the following
particulars in relation to the most hor-
rible and melancholy tregedy which il
has ever been our province to record
the murder Of Hon. Milas K. Young.
of Grant county, by his son Albert, on
the 14th inst:
On the map of Wisconsin, 40 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 lealing down from
Blake's Prairie--as beautiful and good a
farming district as there is in the State.
In the edge of the prairie, two miles west
of
THE GLEN HAVEN VILLAGE,
was the scene of this double tragedy. The
farm is paraIle!ogram, three-fourths of a
mile long, east and west, and half mile
wide Near its center is the residence, 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 Hayen passes along the
south side of the farm. The northwest
FORTY acres are wooded, the remaining 200
are under the plow. It's surface is near
" level, but it has geological peculiar!ties
which attracted The attention of Wiscon-
sins lamented geologist and poet, and de-
tanned him a week. Nearly thirty years
ago,
M. X. YOUNG CAME FROM INDIANA,
and settled upon this farm. IL had pre-
viously been entered by Josiah f. Perrin,
of Indiana. Young's wife and Perrin s
wife v ere sisters. This title of the prop
erty was left to Perrin, because Mr. Young
was involved by security debts in Indiana.
The trouble may be said to have begun
with this irregularty. Mr.. Young work
ed very hard and improved the place as
if unfettered. Albert was his Oldest child.
A daughter, the wife of Charles d. Shrader,
of Lancaster, and
THREE SONS ARE LIVING.
Albert was about so years old. Mr.. Young
always felt deep interest in the education
of his children. The education Of all peo-
pie was matter always near his heart.
Through his instrum entality, one of the
first school houses on "the prairie was
built, and called "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. Alberts education was better
than that of the others. When through
with school he selected the newspaper
profession. Preparatory to this he spent
two years among the types in the Lancas,
ter 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 be-
fore that, says there was never more
peaceful house hold. 1t has developed ,
however, that for many years there was
want of harmony in the secret lives of the
father and mother of the family. 1t grew
out of her nattention to the duties of her
share in the matrimonial partnership She
was not helpmeet-w rather an ad1i-
tonal load to the pilgrim From early
morning he has toiled until bedtime, and,
coming home, would find himself com
PEELED 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 murtnuring that the
children never discovered that there was
a wrong in it, Though Mr.. Young toile
in this way, he was the most prominent
character of population of $4,000, embra
cling the western half of Grant County
Some fifteen or twenty years ago he was a
member of the Legislature. In 1852, SO
'64, '65, he was in the State Senate. Your
files of 1864, in your Madison correspond
ence will show him to have been the lead
ing worker in the Senate in the Fox
and Wisconsin mprovement matter, and
ALL AGRICULTURAL INTEREST.
The Senate management of the large Gov
eminent grant for the endowment OF ar
agricultural college was left mainly to him
In the estimation of acquaintances every
where, man Of greater integrity then he
did not live. His ability was such also
that he was sometimes spoken of for Con
gress. Doubtless that and higher posi-
tons would have beenreached if his shout
ders had not been borne down by the bur
den of his home life.
The beginning of the difficulties above
alluded to arose out of attempted interior
ence, by the now very wise son, with i'm
provements the house was undergoing
1t is understood that the son was sen
away by the father, but
WAS NOT SENT EMPTY.
The son stood high in the estimation o
acouaintances He went down and spen
some time with relatives IN Washington
County, Ind, and was liked there Mex
he was over in louisville, became an Edi
tor, and was highly spoken of there
There he also became connected with a
real-estate agency. lived high, and it il
supposed complications of some sort sent
him away. lie retreated to the paterna
| mansion. Soon after this there was a
correspondence by "the boys" and mothe
with Perrin, of Indiana, as to settling it'll
to the property IN them.
LIFE WAS ADVANCING
and Perrin wanted the settlement. Young.
Indiana security debts were kept alive
Perrin "quit-claimed'' to Mrs. Young. Al
bert now regarded himself as mastersof tn
situation. There was a concerted attemp
so it is sald--to drive the old man away
Five weeks ago the father undertook t
put stop to their acts OF usurpation. Ht
took an ak from Albert and another of tn
boys, but in the struggle was thrown an'
severely cut on the back and
BRUISED ON THE BACK OF TIE HEAD.
The matter nearly got into the courts then
but the tender-h hearted man relented.
Albert Young and younger brother
| went into business last fall in the village
of Glen Haven, in the sale of merchant dis
| and machinery. Their father endorsed