Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-06-26
KILLED THEMSELVES.


Suicide.
The Chicago Tribune says: Riddles
suicide is simply e.lastaOf list which
begins with the foundation Of the govern
ment. His is similar, in some respects,
to that Of James Blair, Representative
from South Carolina, in the Twenty first,
Twenty-second and Twenty third Con-
crosses. During the first session Of the
Twenty-third Congress Blair attended the
Washington Theatre one night, and, being
displeased with the actors, fired loaded
pistol at them, for which he was arrested
and fined SIS. Physicians testified that
he was under the influence Of brandy and
opium, taken to alleviate pain from chron-
ic rheumatism Three weeks atterward,
April l, 1884, he blew out his brains with
pistol at his boarding house, on Capitol
Hill.
Similar in many points of the case, was
that of Felix g. Nc Council, Represen-
tative from Alabama, in the Twenty
eighth and Twenty ninth Congresses, who
committed suicide in fit of delirium, in
the st. Charles Hotel, Washington, by
stabbing himself in the abdomen and then
cutting his throat, September 10, 1916.
Elijah Hise, a Representative in the
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses,
committed suicide at Russellv1lle, May
8, 1876. Hise was the Democratic candi-
date for Lieutenant Governor of Ken
lucky in 1886, but was defeated; was
Charge d>AfAsres at Guatemala from
March 81, 1948, to June 80, 1S49; was
Presidential Elector on the Buchanan
and breckenridge ticket in 1856, and
served in Congress from December 3,
1866, to March 8, 1869.
John White is to be added to the list.
He was born IN 1906; received an AGA
demic education; studied law; was ad-
mitted to the bar, and practiced at Rich
mond, Ky; was elected Representative
from Kentucky in the Twenty-fourth
Congress, as Wing, without opposition,
and was successfully reelected to the
Twenty-ffth, Twenty-sixth, Twenty
seventh and. Twenty eighth Congresses
without opposition, serving from Deem
Der 7, 1885, to March 3, 1915; was Speak
er of the House during the Twenty
sevent tn Congress; was Judge of the
Nineteenth judicial Circuit of Kentucky;
committed suicide at Richmond, Ken
lucky, September %, 1916.
james G. Wilson, United States Sena-
tor from New Jersey, from December 4,
1915, to 1891, was severely injured IN
1882, by imagining in fit of delirium
that lis house was on fire and throwing
himself from a second story window.
He had been editor of the True 14,neri-
can; clerk for many years of the State
House of Representatives; was appointed
by President Monroe postmaster at Trcn-
ton, and at the time of his fit of delirium
was member of the State House.
William Ramsey, of Pennsylvania, is
another Congressman who died by his
own hand. Born in 1910 he was attached
to the American Legation at London,
under Minister Stevenson; was elected
a Representative from Pennsylvania in
the Twentysixth Congress as a Van
Buren Democrat, serving from December
g.. 1889, to October II, 1910, and re-
elected to- the Twenty seventh Congress-
A few weeks afterward he committed
shooting himself in the right eye.
John Ewing, of Indiana, was found
| dead in his room at Vincennes, Indiana,
| in December, 1857. He had been Rep
resentative in the Twenty and
Twenty-fifth Congresses, serving until
1889, and had previously served in the
State Senate. On his table was found
the following epitaph, apparently just
written by himself:
Hero lies man who loved his friends,
His God, his country and Vincennes"
A mournful and tragic suicide was that
Of Alfred P. Stone, of Ohio. Stone had
been a member of the Twenty eight Con-
gress and State Treasurer, appointed to
fill a vacancy caused by the removal of
Treasurer Gibson, for fraud. In 1862. he
was appointed, by Secretary Chase, Col
leetor Of internal Revenue for the Column
bus district, was subsequently detected in
cont1aband cotton speculations, was found
to be defaulter, and committed suicide
by taking poison on the grave of his two
children, at Columbus, Ohio, August l,
1866. .~..-.,. .,-.. ...... -,
James Henry Lane, twice United States
Senator from Kansas, serving up to 1866,
committed suicide by shooting himself
near Fort Leavenworth, at the end of his
term Of office. j, '2''1 =
- James S:iJohnson, Representative from
Kentucky in the Thirty first Congress,
committed suicide, while suffering under
mental depression caused by ill-health,
at 0wensboro, KY, Feb. 10, 1873. .;<r ~