Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1908 — ANOTHER McCOY BANK DIVIDEND [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER McCOY BANK DIVIDEND

Creditors Receive Notice that One Will Be Declared on Feb. 25th, Probably 5 Per Cent. Notices have been sent out by Refqree in Bankruptcy John O. Bowers, to creditors of A. McCoy & Co., stating that another dividend will be declared on the 25th of February. It is understood that the dividend will be about 5 cents on the dollar, which will make a total of 43 cents, and this will be about the last that will be paid. Was the Shot Also the Shooter. Word reached here Friday that a man had been shot through the face, up In the neighborhoood of Fair Oaks, early, in the week, and that the greatest mystery surrounded the shooting. The Republican asked a friend who was in Fair Oaks Friday to investigate the report, and we are indebted to him for the following version of the affair. A young man named LaCoss, living with his parents, 4 miles west and a quarter mile south of Fair Oaks, and in Newton county, was standing near the mail box near the farm residence, reading a paper, when a stranger riding a roan pony, rode up on a gallop and called out, “Now I’ve got you,” and at the same time fired a revolver right against the face of young LaCoss. His face was considerably powder burned, but was not struck with a bullet, which lead /to the general belief that a blank cartridge had been used. Some people, it is also said, were Inclined to the belief that Young LaCrosse had invented the story and had Inflicted the powder bum himself to add color to the story.