The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1883-01-06

her throat, but Is yet alive. She says the
only trouble is, she is tired Of life.
Unfoundcd fear of poverty caused XII
Ian D,nn, a wealthy resident of Elkhorn,
Wis, 10 commit suicide. He quilted the
house at 2o'clock at night, walked through
the snow to the woods half 4 mile away,
and hanged himself.
William +. Ransom, a railroad station
agent at Barnc,'s Mills, near Jefferson
CITY, No, after being arrested for embez.
element, stepped from car at Smithton as
the train began to move, put his neck
across a rail, and was beheaded by the
train.
In consequence of lack Of health, Mrs
Charles Seeley, of Rochester, threw her
fOurmonths.old child on the bed, and then,
crawling under the bed, committed sui
eide by putting rope about her neck, one
end of which she had tied to the springs OF
the bed.
The excitement consequent upon his first
visit to the city caused Daniel Z. Edison, of
Ellenville, N. Y, to attempt suicide.
There was SO much to see that was new to
him, and so many strange people, that, as
his neighbors say, 1t completely broke
him up and he went off the handle"
In the centre of the room in which John
Stang shot himself IN Cincinnati was a
table on which he had carefully arranged
HIS wife's picture, their marriage certiti-
cate, several letters written by her, and a
piece of the rope with which she hanged
herself Each article was decorated with
Grape, Stang had been in IN insane asy.
lum, but was released, and his wife,
through fear of him, had committed sui.
eide only few days before.
Henry Hellman, of Brooklyn, Iowa, got
out of bed, climbed upon barrel, swung
a rope over rafter, tied it about his neck,
shouted Goodbye" to his wife, and, kick.
ing away the barrel, was soon hanging
dead.
Henry Sauerbrie, Of Chillicothe, shame
fully abused his daughter for marrying a
farm hand, and she took laudanum. As
she was supposed to be dying, her father
went to the side of her bed and blew his
brains out.
Mr.. Collcy, two years ago, was elected
mayor Of Salem, Mass, but few weeks
ago was defeated for re election. On Tues
day, an hour after witnessing the lnaugu.
ration of his successor, he went home and
committed suicide.
Rheumatic pains caused James n. vii.
son, of Dewitt county, H., to commit sui.
eide He fixed a strap to rafter IN his
stable, climbed on the back of horse, put
his neck In the moose, and then drove the
horse from under him.
"A. Cox, a bookkeeper of Buckatunna,
Ala, danced at a party until just midnight.
Then he lett the side of his sweetheart, and
placing a char in the centre Of the room
sat down in sight of all, and putting pis-
toll to his forehead blew his brains out.
George II. Van Dyke, of Auburn, an old
man with wife and grown.up children,
became infatuated with girl named Mel.
lie Lippincott. When he told her his love
she laughed at him, whereupon he drew o
pistol and shot himself through the head
AS Mary Wharton, of Lebanon, O.,
stitched industriously on black velvet
dress, she remarked, This is the last dress
shall ever make, and shall wear it as
shroud" Just as it was finished she died
from the effects of dose of s!rychnlne,
and the dress was used as she had said 1t
would be.
As James Bradley, negro of Pitt coun'
ty, North Carolina, was about to be mar
RED, two other women claimed to be his
wives Bradley Immediately went to a
cotton gin and threw himself into the half.
filled box in which cotton was being
pressed into bales. The bale was opened
at Freenville, and bradley's body WAS
found.