Shelbina Democrat, Missouri, December 26, 1888

…took the occasion to propose to Miss Langston, who, though fond of Rowe, declined to name a day until Rowe had stopped drinking. Young Rowe, after her qualified refusal, stepped back a few paces and said: “I have taken my last drink.”

The shock and the sight of the young man’s dead body caused Miss Langston to fall in a faint from which she recovered only to become a raving maniac.