LITTON--Last Wednesday morning Schuyler was all excitement over a bit of sensational news that proved to be all too true. The Quill furnishes this account of the matter:

Mr. Wilson Litton had been away, near Duncan, breaking prairie. He expected to be home on Thursday, but returned on Tuesday night about 10 o'clock. He put up his horses and went to the back window of the house to waken his wife. He heard voices and at once suspicioned something wrong. He then went to the rear door, rapped loudly, then hurried to the front door, broke it open and there discovered U.P. Degman with his clothes on his arm, just ready to go out. He stopped him and had him dress and permitted him to go. In the meantime his wife had gone out the back door to the barn. Mr. Litton called his neighbor, A.P. Hughes, and when Mr. Hughes came out, the wife called him and said there were burglars in the house and she had run out there to escape. She said she thought it was Jake Thomas. However, the situation occurred to her and she determined to kill herself. She was prevented at first, but later succeeded in taking some Paris green. It was too much of a dose and she vomited most of it up. Dr. Schafer was called and now she is getting along quite well. It is rather a sad case. They have three small children. Mr. Litton will commence legal proceedings against Mr. Degman.

Later.--Mrs. Litton died at 12:30 on Wednesday night.