The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-07-10

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Cenxress.isa WAs Have
- - Committed suicide.
The Chicago Tribune says: Riddles
suicide is simply the lust of 3 list
which begins with the foundation of
the government. HIS is similar, in
come respects, to that of James Blair,
. Representative from South Carolina.
in the Twenty first, Twenty.sccond
and Twenty.third Congresses. Dur.
ng the first session of the Twenty
third Congress Blair attended the
Washington Theatre one night, and, .,
being displessed with the actors, fred
10 loaded pistol at them, for which he
was arrested and fided S.. Physicians
testified that he was under the infiu.
ence of brandy and opium. taken to
alleviate pain from chronic rheuma-
tism. Three weeks afterward, April
1. 1884, he blew out his brains with q
pistol at his boarding-house, on Capt.
tol Hill. ata7
Similar In many points Of the case,
was that Of Felix q. Mcconnell, a
Representative from Alabama, in the
Twenty eighth and Twenty ninth
Congresses, who committed suicide In
q fit of delirium, in the st. Charles
Hotel, Washington, by stabbing him.
self in the abdomen and then cutting
his throat, Sept. 10, 1916.
Elijah Hise, Representative 10 the
Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses,
committed suicide at Russellville,
May s, 1876. Hise was the Democrat
ic candidate for Lieutenant Governor
of Kentucky in 1886, but was defeat
ed was Charge dAfaires at Gusta
emala from March 81, 1S4S, to June
30, 1S49 was Presidential Elector on
the Buchanan and Breckenridge tick
ct 1856. and served In Congress from
December 3, 1866, to March 3, 1869.
John White is to be added to the
list. He was born in 1905; received
academic education; studied law /;
was admitted to the bar, aud practic-
ed at Richmond, KY; was elected q
Representative from Kentucky in the
Twenty-fourth Congress, as . Whig,
without opposition, and was success
fully reelected to the Twenty. fifth,
Twenty sixth, Twenty seventh and
Twenty eighth Congresses without
opposition, serving from December Z,
1885, to March 3, l845; was Speaker
Of the House during the Twenty.sev-
enth Congress: was Judge of the
Nineteenth Judicial Circuit of Ken.
tucky; committed suicide at Rich.
mond, Kentucky, Sept %. 1S45.
James g. Wilson, United States Sem
ator from New Jersey, from Decem.
Der 5, 1915, to-l82l, was' severely ln-
jnrsd In 1882, by imagining In a fit OF
delirium that his house was on fire
and throwing himself from q second
tory window. He had been editor OF
the True American clerk for many
years of the State House of Represen-
tatives; was appointed by President
Monroe postmaster at Trenton, and
at the time Of his fit of delirium was a
member of the State House.
William Ramsey, Pennsylvania, is
another Congressman who died by
bis own hand. Born in 1910 he was
attached to tho American Legation at
London, under Minister Stevenson
elected Representative from Penn.
sylvania in the Twenty sixth Congress
as . Van Buren, Democrat, serving
from December 9, 1889, to October II,
1S4O, and reelected 10 the Twenty
seventh Congress- A few weeks AZ
terward he committed suicide at Bar
NUNS Hotel, Baltimore, by shooting
himself In tho right eye. fss
l. John Ewing, Of Indiana, was found
dead In his room at Vincennes, Ind,
in December, 1857. He had been a
Representative in the Twenty third
and Twenty-fifth Congresses, serving
until 1888, and had previously served
in the State Senate. On his table was
found the following epitaph, .appar-
emily just penned by himself:
Here 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 q member of the
Twenty-eighth Congress. and State
Treasurer. appointed to fill vacancy
caused by the removal OF Treasurer
Gibson, for fraud. In 1862 he was ap-
pointed, by Secretary Chase, Collector
Of Internal Revenue for the Columbus
district, was subsequently detected in
contraband cotton speculations, was
found to be q defaulter. and commit.
ted suicide by taking poison on the
grave Of his two children, at Colum
bus, Ohio. August 1, 1865.
james Henry Lane, twice United
States Senator from Kansas, serving
up to 1866. committed suicide by
shooting himself near Fort Leven.
worth, at the end of his term of office.
James s. johnson, Representative
from Kentucky In the Thirty-first
Congress, committed suicide, while
suffering under mental depression
caused by ill-health, at Owensboro,
KY, Feb. II, 1873.
They were in q railroad car, jour.
neying to Chicago. On the opposite
seat was q man Of commanding figure,