Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1908 — FALL WAS HIS DEATH [ARTICLE]

FALL WAS HIS DEATH

Captain Marks, Prominent Citizen of Lafayette, Makes a Fatal Slip. HAD A HOVEL WAR EXPERIENCE Lett for Dead on the Field—Recovers, but Is Blind, Deaf and Dumb for a Year. Lafayette, Ind., Feb. 6. Cnptair F. Marks, one of Lafayette’s leading citizens, fell at Fourth and Main streets, and died five minutes later of concussion of the brain. He was hurrying to catch a train to go to Ind ! - anapolls ou business. He bad a jgachel in one band. As he was crossing the street from the Lafayette Loan and Tiust building to the artesian well, his foot struck the street car track and he slipped and fell, his head striking the rail. Four men carried film into an adjoining shoe store, where his death followed. Prominent in All Matters. ne had been subject to 'attacks of heart trouble, but the doctor said it was the blow on the head that caused his death. Captain Marks was seventy years old. He had a remarkable war record, and he was prominent In politics and finance and in lodge and church affairs. He was born in this county. He attended DePauw unlver slty before the civil war. Incident of a Battle. One of the Important incidents of his life occurred at 1 the battle of Missionary Ridge, in 1863, where he was in command of a company of the Fortieth Indiana infantry, and was the leader of a charge. Afterward lie was picked up for dead and carried into the 3 woods. Later signs of life were noticed, and he was taken to the hospital at Chattanooga. For a year he was blind, deaf and dumb, but he gradually recovered all his senses. Always a Republican. He returned to Lafayette and was elected county treasurer. He was always a stanch Republican, and a leader in local politics. He owned extensive farm Interests, was a member of the G; A. R. and the LOyal Legion, - and belonged to the Knight Templars and Odd Fellows. He was a trustee of St. Paul’s church, a director of the American National bank, and he was Interested in other enterprises. Son in the Spanish War. A son. Captain Thomas Marks, a leading attorney of Kansas City, was in command of company C, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana infantry, in the Spanish-American war. Besides th's son and a widow, Captain Marks leaves the following children: C. K. Marks, Muskogee, Okla.: Miss Lydia C. Marks, teacher, Lafayette high school; Schuyler C. Marks, an insurance agent of this city, and Mrs. Alice Dolman, also of this city. TURNS OVER A NEW LEAF Proposes to Write Thereon the Record of a Square Man and Good Citizen. Bedford, Ind., Feb. 6. James McDonald. paroled from the Indiana reformatory, has returned to his home In this city. McDonald, not yet thirtyfive years old, first came into notoriety when he was arrested, tried and acquitted of the murder of Miss Sarnli C. Schafer, the Latin teacher, whose dead body was found in a cab shed in an alley on the morning of Jan. 21, 1004. Shortly after his acquittal of this charge he was arrested on complaint of his wife, accused of burning the home which sheltered herself and son. McDonald entered a plea of guilty, although he denied that he had in reality set fire to the home, and he was sentenced to the Indiana reformatory from two to fourteen years. His wife, previously to his sentence, obtained a divorce. He was a model prisoner and got his parole In three years. Ills first act on returning here was to hunt up his divorced wife, and they were re-marrled and are again living together. He has secured steady employment, and he says that from now on his life will be devoted to the happiness of himself and fasjily. Drove Over the Thugs. Peru, Ind., Feb. o.—Four highwaymen failed in an effort to rob Thomas Carvey, cattle buyer, west ofthisdty. while he was driving home from Pern, where be got SSOO with which to paj for stock. Two “holdup men” are supposed to be seriously Injured. They grabbed the reins of hts horses when Carvey struck the team with a whip. The robbers were knocked down, trampled upon and run ovei. He Had a Cold Walk. Owensvllle, Ind., Feb. 6. While the mercury was hovering around zero, Joe Meers, living near Jimtown, Wabash township, made a wager with a friend that be could walk barefooted to the home of a neighbor a quarter of a mile away. The feat was accomplished without difficulty. Wants 95,000 Damages. Wabash, Ind., Feb. 6. Because bis horse became frightened at an excavation on which 'lt Is alleged there were no warning lights, and ran away, dragging him and permanently Injuring him, David Free!, of Huntington, wants $5,000 damages from Hipskltt# k Sons, local contractors.