The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1870-02-03
HORRIBLE ITEMS,
Attempted Suicide

Attempted Suicide
Saturday forenoon young man
named Victor Horony, we'll known
in this city, and for some months past
employed at J. H. Farrand's Hat h
Cap establishment, as foreman in the
glove and cap manufacturing depart
ment, attempted TO "shufle off this
mortal coil" by taking morphine
Horoney came to work Saturday
morning as usual. About ten o'cl'k
young woman employed in the
sewing room saw him take powder
but thought nothing Of it, until
short time after she noticed him ly-
ing down on lounge. looking stupi-
fed and unnatural, and breathing
heavily. She at once hurried down
and notified Mr.. Frank Farrand, who
went up and tried to arouse the
young man. Ordinary means fail
ing, Drs. Baker and French were
called and fortunately for the young
man, were soon in attendance, and
prescribed such active Il" r"atment in
the way of emetics and antidotes
that fatal results from tho morphine
were averted. The physicians had
considerable difficulty in making
Horoney take anything to relieve
him. He expressed wish to die:
" do not wish to live," said he, "and
if you stop me now, l will do it when
[ get a chance" Had the would.be
suicidal attempt not been discovered,
thirty minutes moro and Victor
Horony would have been corpse
At o'clock, when we saw him, he
was very weak, and had to be kept
awake by attendants walking him
about the room. DR.. French, who
was in attendance, said that in
Horony's weak state it would be
dangerous to let him go to sleep un-
til the effects of morphine had entire
ly left him.
1t appears that Horony purchased
ten grains of morphine Friday eve.,
at Ballord's drug store. The clerk, o
young German, recognized him as q
street acquaintance, and suspected
nothing. The unhappy young man,
who thus proposed to tako leave Of
the world and his troubles at the
same time, is about % years Of age,
of slight frame, rather good looking.
His father, DIR. Horony, died IN this
city some four years ago. We shord
mention that the son, whose attempt
at suicide affords this item, was
thrown from horse some months
ago and very badly hurt, his skull
being fractured. His friends think
that his reason was thus affected,
and the attempt at suicide the result
of it.-Darenport Gazette.
A MOTHER AND Two CHILDREN
FROZEN. = The Sioux City Daily
Times gives q narrowing account of
suffering during the snow storm OF
last week.
A man named Dowd, with his wife
and family lately took homestead
on the Vermillion river, about four
miles north of Vermillion City, D. T.
On last Sunday, while the snow storm
was at it's hight, the shanty in which
the settler and his family lived, was
so open as to expose it's occupants to
the fury of the storm. There being
no signs of an abatement fthe storm
Mr.. Dowd, accompanied by his wife
and three children, the latter agod
respectively, IA, 3 and 6 years, star
ted tor a neighbors house about forty
rods distant. Mr.. Dowd, with the
six year old child in his arms, started
in advance, his wife and the two
other children following. On the
way, the father with one of the chill
dren in his arms, got separated from
his wife and the other two children.
After Mr. Dowd reached the house
of his neighbor, he looked around
and not seeing his wife and children,
Immediately gave the alarm. The
occupants ofthe house started out in
search of the missing members
Every effort was used TO discover
the whereabouts Of the lost ones,
but proved unavailing. Tho next
{ Monday morning the frozen bodies
of the mother and two children were
found about Is rods from the house.
They had lost their way, and the
density of the flying snow had kept
the unfortunate mother and children
from being able to find the house.
Bulletin.
DISTRESSING AccIDENT.-Last Sun
day evening a distressing accident oc-
cured at tho residence of Mr.. Wash.
Gully in this city, resulting in the
death cf ELMER ELLSWORTH CULLY,a
little son of Mr.. Cully's, aged about
two years and half. Two of Mr..
CulIy's sisters-in-law wore at his
house, and he and one of them had
gone to Church, while the other re-
mained at home with the children
After they had been gone some time,
she went into another room for few
moments, leaving the two children
alone. When she started back to the
room she met the little boy with his
clothes all on fire, the flames COM
pletely enveloping the upper part of
his body. She Immediately wrap
ped him in an overcoat, and smoth-
cred the fire. DR.. Wilkin was called,
but the child had inhaled the fire and
was so badly burned externally that
it died during the night. 1t is not
known exactly how it caught fire,
but it is supposed that it was stirring
the fire with the poker, and the
blaze communicated with its clothing
in that manner.-Pslld Blade.