Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1884 — A Suburban Tragedy. [ARTICLE]

A Suburban Tragedy.

He had for a long time promised to have a telephone wire run between the house and his office, so that his wife could call him up and talk to him during the day-time, but many delays occurred. When he went home one day she met him at the door. “I’ve solved the difficulty,” she said. “We need not be separated any longer.” “What do you mean?” “Why, they have been so long putting a telephone in that I became discouraged and purchased a megaphone.” “And what’s a megaphone?” he gasped. “A nice instrument that will enable me not only to talk to you, but to hear what you are doing all day, and ” She did not finish. A form flew out of the door. A pistol-shot rang out upon the air. He had died game.