Daily globe., 1879-06-22

Blessed are ye!
Leisure Hour
KILLED THEMSELVES.
American congressman Who Have Committed
Suicide.
The Chicago 1ai1une says: Riddles
suicide is simply the last of a list which
begins with the foundation Of the govern
| ment. His is similar, in some respects,
to that of James Blair, a Representative
from South Carolina, in the Twenty first,
Twenty ty-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 S.. Physicians testified that
| he was under the influence of brandy and
opium, taken to alleviate pain from chron-
April 1, 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 e. Nc Connell, a 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 Russellvllle, May
s, 1876. Hise was the Democratic candi-
date for Lieutenant-G Governor of Ken
lucky in 1886, but was defeated; was
Charge d'AGAsres at Guatemala from
March 81, 184S, to June 80, 1S49; was
Presidential Elector on the Buchanan
and Breckenridge ticket in 1856, and
served in Congress from December 8,
1866, to March 3, 1869.
John White is to be added to the list
He was born in 1905; received an aca-
demic education; studied law; was adj
mittcd to the bar, and practiced at Rich
mond, KY; was elected a Representative
from Kentucky in the Twenty fourth
Congress, as Whig, witoout opposition,
and was successfully reelected to the
Twenty fifth Twenty sixth, Twenty
seventh and Twenty Congresses
without opposition, serving from Decem-
Der 7, 1886, to March 8, 1915; was Speak
er Of the House during the Twenty
seventh Congress; was Judge of the
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Kentucky
committed suicide at Richmond, Ken
lucky, September %, 1915.
| James G.. Wilson, United States Sena
tor from New Jersey, from December 4
1915, to 1921, was severely injured IL
1882, by imagining in a tit of delirium
that his house was on fire and throwing
himself from second-story window
He had been editor of the True 14maeri
en-; clerk for many years of the State
House of Representatives; was appointed
by President Monroe postmaster at Tren
ton, and at the time Of his fit Of deliriun
was member Of the State House.
William Ramsey, of Pennsylvania, il
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
Representative from Pennsylvania il
the Twenty-sixth Congress as a Var
Buren Democrat, serving from Decembe!
2, 1889, to October II, 1910, and re
elected to the Twenty y-seventh Congress
A few weeks afterward he committed
suicide at Barnum's Hotel, Baltimore, b,
shooting himself in the right eye.
John Ewing, of Indiana, was foun6
dead in his room at Vincennes, Indiana
in December, 1857. He had been a Rep
: resentative in the Twenty third ant
Twenty-fifth Congresses, serving unit
1889, and had previously served in tn
State Senate. On his table was foune
, the following epitaph, apparently jus
written by himself:
"Herc lies man who loved his friends,
, His God, his country and Vincennes."
A mournful and tragic suicide was tina
{ of Alfred P. Stone, Of Ohio. Stone hac
{ been member of the Twenty-eight Con
, gress, and State Treasurer, appointed t.
fill vacancy caused by the removal o
| Treasurer Gibson, for fraud. In 1862 h
was appointed, by Secretary Chase, Col
, leetor of Internal Revenue for the Colum
, bus district, was subsequently detected il
. cont1aband cotton speculations, was foune
to be a defaulter, and committed sucid,
by taking poison on the grave of his tw'
, children, at Columbus, Ohio, August
1865.
James Henry Lane, twice United State
Senator from Kansas, serving up to 1856
, committed suicide by shooting himsel
i near Fort Leavenworth, at the end of hi
, term of Office.
!, James s. johnson, Representative from
Kentucky in the Thirty-frst Congress
! committed suicide, while suffering unde
mental depression caused by ill-health
, at Owensboro, Ky, Feb. IL, 1873.