The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-01-14
SOME QUEER SUICIDES.

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the window OF city hospital in Vicks-
burg and vas killed.
Harvey Smith well known ph7si-
ician OF Manchester, cut his thtoat
while suffering from brain fever.
1 am weary and want to die, "
said Mrs. Bella Gray, OF Hamilton,
Ont. Then saeahot herself IN the
breast.
AtG.and Fork, D T., William
Ford, having lest al his m3ney at
gambling, swallowed morphine in
the presence of his vile.
W. II. Jones. harness maker OF
State Center. Iowa. fearing an sttSck
OF deiirium tremeps. sTal owed y faisl
dose o: morphine.
During the Excitement OF relig-
ious revival, Robert Berkshire, a
farmer. OF Port Washington, Ohio,
banged himselfin his stable,
HIS draft on friend for $50 being
1isncaored. Gurus o. Wallace, OF St
Louis, sent to his room and cut his
throst from ear to ear,
Il. A. Cr;st, of Das Moiues, Iowa, a
horse thief swearing that no vigilant
committee should ever have the
pleasure OF hanging him. banged
himself.
George Barnell, OF jackson town.
ship, Indiana, a well-todo farmer,
was not satisfied; 80 he began to spec
ulate, became insane, and cut his
throat.
Because a neighbor refused ner Of
fer to purchase his lands, Mrs. Ne
Lacham. the wife of farmer, near
Ottawa, took a fatal dose of Paris
green.
In consequence OF some idle gossip,
Eva Stone, 16 years of age, OF Gid
den, lowe. took her fathers revolver
and shot herself in the presence Of
her mother.
Bridget Scanlon, a mere child, of
Lawrence, Mass, drowned herself in
a millpond because she feared a
whipping for tbs accidental bresking
OF pitcher.
"My wife is too old AID uuinierest.
ing for me, and l cannot stand it
longer" wrote Fred 6track, a young
saloon keeper of Cleveland. Then he
killed himself.
Frank McCarg, a musician of
Corning, committed suicide by Jump
Ing from the Knoxville bridge be-
cause he had been forbidden to play
in The orchestra, owing to his
drunkenness.
Caleb hobbs, of Lincoln on, N. O.,
found his favorite mule dead in
field. After a good crying spell he
wrote note saying be could not live
without the mule, and then commit
ted suicide.
Hiram Tucker, disappointed in
ventor. of Boston, so years of age, at
tached rubber hose to the gas Jet,
turned On the gas, and put the other
end of the hose in his mouth, suffo-
Gated himself.
Failing to effect reconciliation with
his wife, Homer w. Barnes, OF
Breckville, O., went to the barn,
loaded gun with heavy sbuckshot,
and placing the muzzle against his
heart, pulled the trigger with his toe.
Claud Lester, an Englishman 80
years of age, declared he could not
live without the society of the young
son OF former employer, and going
10 the Logs home near Niagara Falls,
murdered him and then shot him
self.
David Lawton. OF 5West Winfield,
N. Y, would not work and bis
brother refused to harbor him any
longer. He burned his brothers.
barn containing his crops and COWS.
and then went into the woods and
hanged himself.
Mary Rooney, a domestic in the
employ of the Rev. Mr.. Dodson, OF
San antonio. Tex first took laud.
anum, then threw herself into deep
ditch, and finally cut her throat, but
is yet alive. She says the only trouble
is, she ia tired of:life.
UnfouDded fear of poverty caused
Killian Don, a wealthy resident OF
EIkhorn, Wis, to commit suicide.
He quilted the house at 2 O'Clock at
night, walked through snow to the
woods half ia milo away, and hanged
himself.
Wslliam F. Ransom, a Railroad
station agent at Barnet's Mills, near
Jefferson City, Mo-, after being ar
rested for embezlement, stepped
from a Car at 5mithton as the train
began to move, put his neck scross a
rail, and was beheaded by the train.
In consequence of lack OF health
Mrs. Ohas. seeley OF Rochester threw
her four. months-old child Oh the bed,
and then, crawling under the bed,
committed suicide by putting rope
about her neck, one end of which
she had tied to the springs OF the
bed.
Che excitement consequent upon
the frat vieit to the city caused Dan
lei E. Edison, of EIIenville, N. Y, to
attempt suicide. There was 80 much
to see that was new to him, and sc
many strange people, that, as his
neighbors say, it completely broke
hiEa up and he went eff the handle. u
In the centre of the room in which
John Stang shot himself in C;noin.
natl was table on which be bad
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