The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1882-12-16
WEARY OF LIFE.
And the snort and Easy Way Out OF 1t.

While to the common mind nothing is
80 abhorrent as death, and In its estimation
the whole world is of no value ia comparl.
son with mans life, yet there is vast
host to whom 1t is WEAKNESS and who
are casting II away daily rs a worthless
bauble. 1t would be an easy task to fill a
column every week with chronicles of Sc If
murder-some cases vulgar and common
place others piquant and unique, though
upon the whole we imagine the body OF
our readers would soon tire Of such lugu.
brious literature. Yet to give them an Ink
ling of the wide prevalence of selfmurder'
and the varied and often absurd motives
by which people are driven to 1t and the
curious methods they adopt to accomplish
it, we have run o7er few OF our leading
exchanges and scissored out, and give IN Q
condensed form below, the most striking
cases for single week IN the present
month of December:
"You see, mother, will do 1t this way"
SAID John Powers, of Steubenville, o., at
the end Of a conversation on suicide. AS
he spoke he drew revolver and blew his
brains out.
At Buffalo, N. Y, an employe OF the
Scovile Car Wheel Work committed sui
eide by plunglng his head into a pot ofmol'
ten metal. He stood before the vessel OF
fiery fluid for a few minutes with wild,
insane look in his eyes, rs II fascinated,
and to the horror Of his fellow workmen,
dropped down before 1t and thrust his head
into the seething mass.
Alexander Lipitch, newly arrived en-
igrant, committed suicide at Milwaukee
by shooting himself on the dock and jump.
ing into the river He was formerly a
wealthy merchant al Klagenfurt, Austria,
but failed and came to this country,
where, failing to fad work, he became dis.
ponden, and took passage to the unknown
world.
At Louisville, Ky, Christian Helm, aged
81, native of Bavaria, painter By trade,
unmarried and making good living, hung
himself to a bedpost at midday with a
piece OF common wrapping Irvine. He
seems to have had no other motive for the
act than that he was tired Of lite.
In the same city, Charles Creel com.
United suicide after two attempts-the first
by cutting his throat with razor and then
throwing hlmself INTO the river and drown
inc.
At Cincinnati, August Vorndlecke, in a
ht of insanity, attempted with butcher
knife to Kill his daughter but was prevent
ed by the mother He then attempted to
kill his wife bat she was rescued in time
by policeman, when the man turned and
cut his own throat.
At Cincinnati last week, Gustav Schoen.
thaler, of wealthy family IN Wlrtenberg,
who had come to this country to escape
conscriphon and located in Cincinnati as
a locksmith, committed suicide because a
violent affection he had conceived tor Miss
Emma L9tfler, a member of the Cincin-
natl Ladies' Orchestra was not reciprocal
ted. Indeed the lady snubbed him in ev-
cry way, though he followed her around
like pet dog and spent hours in Meyers
Hall listening to the enchanting melody of
his loves violin.
At Cleveland Mrs. FrederIka Schneider,
90 years of age, wife Of George Schneider,
hanged herself after quarrel with her
husband.
Near Vincennes, Monroe Lane, who had
seduced a cousin of his and was driven to
the woods by her friends, was found dead
with the top of his head blown off appar'
emily by a discharged shot gun In his own
hands
Alice Johnson, a young girl of who had
come 10 st. Louis from Topeka, Kansas, in
search of employment and finding none
committed suicide by injecting large
amount of morphine into one OF her arms
J. n. Milan, Il prominent cltizen of
Fairhurn, Ga, becoming financially EN-
barrassed, killed himself by taking big
dose Of morphine, leaving wife and three
children destitute.
AT Durango, Col, while Dr. II. A. Clay,
a pioneer physician and one of the most
eminent citizens, was sitting in his office,
his partner, f. L. Evetzky, entered and
without warning fred several shots at
Clay. and then blew his own brains out
with the same revolver, dying instantly
Mr.. Clay died next morning. The motive
for the assault by DR.. Evetzky was that he
had been cowhlded by woman for talk.
ing about her and he accused Dr. Clay of
having carried false reports to the lady.
At Kokomo, Ind, Mary Langboy was
married to Horatio rreioil. Ten minutes
after thc ceremony Alcibiades Cadwallader,
a former sultor, reproached her with her
INCONSISTENCY, upon which Trefoll drew
knife to Kill Cadwallader Mary inter
posed to shield her former sutton, and her
self received the fatal blow aimed at him.
Frenzed by his blunder, Trefoil sprane
uDOn hts rival strurk HIM dead M nm