The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-09-13

Kansas to live and they had only re-
turned to this county a few weeks ago.
Last Tuesday night the young wife OF
the suicide became a mother.-LouisVille
Times New Albany item.
Tuesday was a golden day in more
senses than one to the venerable Ben
jamin +. Long and his good wife, for
not only did the September sun gid
every hill and hollow i'm the Dark
Corner but the gold of happiness was
in their hearts and loving friends brought
more and more Of il as the day grew.
Beside all this, it was the golden mile
stone Of their lives, their fiftieth ami
versary and right happily was it cele-
brated. Fifty years ago Miss AIcCor-
mick and Benjamin +. Long. after a
happy courtship, were married at the old
Mccormick homestead. in sight of the
present home by the Rev. Recon
Hammond of the methodist epis-
copal church of Charlestown, in
the presence of thier families
and friends. OF that joyous event but
few witnesses remain, Mrs. Duffy and
Mrs. Patterson and Messrs. Eli and
Joshua Mccormick, sisters and brothers
of the bride, alone being present at the
fiftieth anniversary of the wedding,
which they witnessed long ago. Twelve
children were born to them: Mary A.
Long, Mrs. Belle Graves, Theodore L.,
Charles w. Mrs. Madeline Wallace, Mrs.
Jennie MdUDlAs MIS-. Aillilt EEdns Viii,
Edgar, Samuel T., and Miss Bertha
Long, all living in this county, some at
home, and Mrs. L. NJ. Foster Of Coles
county Illinois. One child died in in
fancy. Twelve children and twenty-four
grandchildren and Grandpa Long IS
only seventy-four while Grandma Long
is only sixty-five years old-Jefferson-
vile News.
Quite a romantic story comes from
Beaver township. or at least that has
been the home Of one of the principal
actors in this drama of real life A
week ago last Sunday Mrs. Martha
Losh, daughter of Henry White and
wife of Beaver and widow of George
Losh, was married to a man named
Miller swh) lives near Rensselaer,, and
the couple at once went to his home.
Two days later, one Tuesday, one Cock
ell of MonOn appeared at the Miller
home, where he found an old lady keep
ing Mrs. Miller company, her husband
being away thrashing. AS the story
goes he terrorized the women with
threats, and compelled Mrs. Miller to
pack her trunk and go with him. He
drove with her to Rensselaer, and there
they took the train for Lafayette, Cock
Ell going with her but, it seems. checking
her trunk only to Monon. He stopped
at Lafayette, but sent the woman on TO
Louisville, Ky, while he returned to
Monon that night or Wednesday morn
ing. On Wednesday Mrs. White, moth
er of the Miller woman, was in Monon
and saw the trunk and recognized it.
She at once connected Cockel with the
presence of the trunk, and imagined
among other things that her daughter
had been killed by Cockel and that the
trunk contained the body. She impor-
tuned Cockel until, under a pledge or
secrecy, he told her that her daughter
was alive and well and that he had sim
ply sent her to her brothers in Mcnroe
county, Ind. A little later the absent
woman's husband at Rensselaer, re-
ceived a dispatch from her, sent from
Monroe county, and on Friday he went
there and brought her home. She says
CocIel forced her TO take the entire
trip, but that he gave her no money
and on her arrival at Louisville she had
only funds enough to get her lack as
far as Monroe county, where she tele-
graphed home. Cockel was an old suit
or of the wOman's. It is alleged toy her
friends that she prepared three Tines
to marry him, but e1e1 time he caused
ii to be put of. Then she decided to
have nothing more TO do with him, and
il is charged that he then said II she
married any one else she would have
trouble over IL. COcl<el runs the rail-
road pumps at Monon, and is said to
be well fixed financially and TO stand
high in the community. We are told
that he is under arrest for abduction,
and that the case will be tried IN the
Rensselaer, court.-Pulasld County
Democrat.