Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-06-17
The Radical Nominees.

huCnerIO10 d. hayes was Ubiu III De'a"oI'1
Ohio, October a. 1922; graduated at Kenyon
College. Ohio, and at the Law school OF Cam
bridge adopted the profession oflaV. He was
city solicitor OF Cincinoati from 1858 20 1861,
major and Lieutenant Colonel Of the 23d Ohio
volunteers 10 1861 Colonel of the same from
1862 to 1864, when he Was appoint Brigadlerr
General aud during the same year was elected
Representative from Ohio to the Thirty ninth
Congress, serving on the Committee on Private
Laud Claims and as chairman of the Commit
tee on the Library. he was reelected TO the
For,ielh Congress, resigned in the summer OF
1867, and was soon afterwards elected Governor
oil Ohio. 10 1853 the degree Of LID. was
conferred upon him by Gambrier College. lo
1875, after severe contest, be was again cleo
led Governor of Ohio the opposing candidate
having been William Allen, who as Governor
bad recently appointed him commissioner to
the Centennial.
William A. Wheeler was born 10 Malone,
Franklin couoty, New York, in 1920. He was
| a member of the class of 1912 ofthe University
| of Vermont, but did not graduate; adopted the
profession of law; in 1850 and 1851 be was
elected to the State Legislature; in 1857
and 1858 to the State Senate, ADD 10 1860 was
elected representative from New York TO the
Thirty. venth Congress- He Was for macy
years engaged in the BANKING business, and was
| President Of the OxdeDsburg and Rcuses Rail
road Company. He was also delegate to the
State Constitutional Convention Of 1867, and
vas elected its President. he Was elected to
the Forty FIRST and the three subsequent Con-
crosses, serving as chairman of the Committees
on Commerce and Pacific Railroads.
EXTRAORDINARY SUIclDE-The Chicago
Tribune has a special from Lafayette, lud.,
describing as follows grotesque and shocking
case vf selfmurder:
James A. Moore. aged about IS, living on a
farm near the Farmers Institute, about fifteen
miles south of this city, committed suicide st
the Lahr House, in this city, last night DE
leaves . wife and three children. No cause is
known for the deed. The manner in which il
was accomplished is perhaps unparalleled IN
horrid ingenuity. He came t. the Lahr House
and would probably stay q week, but would
visit his home Monday, and prepaid his bill till
that time He called at the machine shop OF
Harding & Sors, had larre new broad az and
two bars of 3inch wide by l.nch thick iron, l6
inches long, which he had rivetted TO the head
Of the Ak On either side. fastened to these bars
in the shape of handle to an az, he had sy5-
tenn of wooden bars 8 leeL long, the extreme end
of which was fastened to q cross piece, secured
to the & Jor BY hinges The az was raised and
held to it nearly perpendicular position by a
double cord, fastened to the wall. BetveeL the
cords stool candle arranged so that wnen the
candle burned down to the cords it would burn
them off, and the 81 fall. Where the az would
strike he placed small box, open on one side, in
which. when found, was his head with some cot
ton, which had been choroformed. His chin
was held up from his mock by stick run across
the box, through holes on either side, holding
his head firmly in position. He was strapped
tightly to the floor with two straps, one around
his legs, another about his arms and breast
| 7 he straps were both screwed to the Dor, reE-
derng it impossible to move 1t is supposed
that be set his axe, lit the candle, and strapped
himself to the floor, put his head in the box with
the chloroformed cotton, and WAS probably In
sensible when the axe fell The AZ and hxlngs
would weigh about 81 pounds, and would fall q
distance OF from III to Is feet His head WAS
completely severed from The body, and the az
buried in the boards beneath. The evidence at
the coronsrs il guest showed him to have sort
of mania for inventions, patent nights, etc., more
particular y IN the line of apparatus for COM
hitting suicide He had attempted TO suicide
three times before. The verdict OF the coroner
jury was that he died by his own hand. while
laboring under temporary alteration OF mind
He said to his brother IN law not long -ince thai
he could invent machine for suicides thai
would take the head clear OF much better thar
any ever used, and that he was going TO d.
something that would make him notorious Or
the SIDES of the decApit.tor he had written II
pencil, "For sale Or 'ent. Hsri kari Psten'
applied for"