The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-04-30
Starved Herself TO Death

At Iowa City, Iowa, on Washington's birth
day, February %, Miss Hattie DEUEL. sat down
to the table with her brother in-law, DR.. Alys-
worth and bis family, and partook of very
hearty dinner, which was the last meal she ate.
Despite the remonstrances of her friends and
relatives, she persisted in her fast until April
18th, period of forty-seven days, when death
ensued. During the first week no attention was
paid to her abstinence from food, because on
different occasions she had been known to fast
for several days at time. She called it diet
ing, and said it was necessary for her, because
it was only In that way she could overcome her
biliOusness. In addition to her peculiarities
about her diet, Miss Deuel. has been for the
past five years exceedingly charyof speech, and
during that time has spoken but seldom This
was In part owing to a throat difficulty that
bothered her very much. Again for time she
refused to speak because she claimed that the
tongue was the root of all evil, and she would
avoid SHINING by not using it at all. For about
eighteen months prior to the commencement of
this last fast, Miss Deuel. did not speak at all.
She made known her wishes and desires either
by signs or writing on a slate which she con-
stantly kept near her. Since she commenced
fasting she removed the interdict from her vo-
cal organs, and until she became too weak, fire.
quently engaged III conversation, although she
made no extended efforts in that direction.
4 post-mortem examination held on the body
of Miss Deuel. showed that there was not a
single drop of blood in her body, and that her
stomach was entirely void of substance. The
body weighed forty-tive pounds.
Suicidat.
At CuttingsvilIe, n. H., on the 18th inst,
Mrs. Harriet Thomas suicided because she was
deposed from the school she had taught for 40
consecutive years.
A Chicago commission man named l.. R.
Ramsey, who made unlucky provision specula-
tons, shot himself on the 18th inst.
Mrs. A. G.. Hunter of Newcastle-on. Tyne,
Eng, shot herself fatally at Tucson, A. T., ON
the 18th INST, III despair at the actions of her
husband, who, after dissipating her fortune of
Sf50,000, married a Mexican woman of low
caste.
Michael Henry, cavalry man, shot himself
through the head at Fort Riley.
j. Z. 0. Hunt, clerk of Park county, Ind
suicided while in a state of intoxication on the
18th. He had occupied the position of clerk
for twenty years.
Mrs. Augusta Gedelga. of New York. became
temporarily insane on the 18th inst, because
her children had been exposed to smallpox,
and leaped from tifth-story window. receiving
fatal injuries.
Emile Ludeheimer, travelling salesman, and
president of the Louisiana lodge /. o. 0. B..
No. 107, committed suicide at Baldwin's hotel,
San Francisco, on the 18th inst. by shooting
himself. Cause poverty.
Chas. Maui blew his brains out at st. Louis,
Mo-. on the Sth inst, because his wife, from
whom he was separated was about to procure
a divorce.
Chas Harper. an express messenger. drowned
himself in Detroit rlver the Sth inst. His
body was recovered next day. No cause as
sigucd for the deed.
Robert Sparks. a young man, committed sui
eide at 81. Louis, Mo, on the 4th inst, by
throwing himself under a switch engine. He
was fatally msngled