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Port Huron Daily Times
Wednesday, 23 December 1908

         Musekgon, Mich., Dec. 23 - Determined to end all
       plans of scheming women and injure the ones who had
       spoiled his mind against the woman he intended to
       marry, 45-year-old DAVID STEVENSON, of Claybanks,
       Oceana county, fired a barn on the farm of William
       Grumm and on Henry Peicheatsen's farm and then threw
       himself into the horse's manger of the latter barn
       to burn to death. His charred bones were found after
       the fire.
         STEVENSON was to have married Ann Schultz, a widow
       and niece of both Grumm and Peicheatsen, last Satur-
       day, but his friends told him that she only wanted
       his money and that there was no true love wrapped up
       in her marriage to him. He did not show up when the
       ceremony was to have been held and chose the method
       of self-destruction which he carried out.
         All of Muskegon and Oceana county is shocked over
       the sensation and great hordes of visitors visited
       the scene of the fire all day Tuesday.
         Twenty-four head of cattle and 10 horses were de-
       stroyed in the fire and a loss of $15,000 entailed.
       STEVENSON was worth $18,000, and was a well known
       bachelor.
       
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