The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-12-30

friends who were as unhappy us he had
been to do MS he had done.
In 1880 Paul Hines committed suicide
in Lake Michigan in novel way, which
sho we'd that he was a determined fcl-
low. In order TO guard against rescue
he tied lifo preserver to his feet so
that he would be sure to float head
downward, and thus drown before as
sistance could reach him. llo sue
ceedcd.
Only n week or so ago Bridgcman
Boukor, an employe OF the jersey City
Ferry company, tied IN eighty pound
weight to tho upper part OF his body,
and then, In plain sight Of those on
board nm incoming ferryboat, jumped
into tho river.
None tho less remarkable was tho SUI
icide OF G. +. Hcinrchs, tho facts OF
which were reported in tho Herald OF
October ID. Heinrichs was an invent
or, and took his own life in n State
street hotel in this city. Whom found
he was dead in his room. lie had di.
vested dimself Of his coat and vest, TAX
en- off his shoes and stretched himself
on the floor beside the bed. Under his
head he had placed folded comforter
and two pillows. Over the dead mans
face was a paper box about eight inches
square and six inches deep. 1t was
half filled with cotton batting and was
held in place by n string which passed
around the box and was tied in knot
at the back OF his head. Beside tho
body was pint bottle OF chloroform
about hall full, showing that the sui
eide had saturated the cotton with the
drug, tied the box across his mouth and
nostrils and had passed into the un-
known.
DIED LIKE a GENTLEMAN.
In the summer OF 1880 Samuel A.
Rogers, OF Philadelphia" registered at
the Belmont Hotel, on Fulton street, in
this city. lie ordered bottle OF wine
sent to his room, paid for it, and blew
out his brains. He had determined to
Idle like gentleman"
In the summer OF 1851 William Lupcr,
OF Bradford, Pa, and q boardcr in
Green's Hotel in that place, had an cx-
pcrienco that he never forgot. When
Luper retired he found stranger in
his bed, but, imagining that the hotel
was overcrowded, he said nothing about
the intrusion, but undrcssed and went
to bed. In tho morning, when Luper
tried to awaken the strange room mate,
tho man didn't move. He was dead. A
laudanum bottle by his side told the
tale. He was Oliver J. Jcssup, OF Dun
dee, OF Yates county, this state. In a
letter he gave as n reason for termina-
ting his existence that "hc was dried
up old bachelor" and that there was "a
great deal OF crookedncss about our
lives
+. Among the other queer causes for sui.
eide was that OF the once well-known
DR.. McCrecry, OF Louisville, Ky. The
doctor killed himself because CHS ap-
petite for liquor was incurable." He
thought it was easier to take poison
than 10 stop drinking. The Rev. Jacob
milford, OF Greenville, n. j., took his
own life for the same reason.
Just after President Garfield was as
sassinatcd Prof. Louis Walter, OF St.
Louis, committed suicide in novel
why. He blew himself to pieces with
nitro glycerine cartridge. He left rs a
reason the statement that the assassin
alton OF President Garfield would hurt
his Fourth OF July business. Walter
was manufacturer OF fircworl;sand had
q large stock on hand. DR.. Barnum at
about the same time committed suicide
in Schoolcrait, S. G. He worried over
the anticipated result OF troublesome
disease, laid himself on his dissecting
table and shot himself in the left breast.
Colonel Chapman, OF San Saba, Tex,
killed himself because he was afraid he
was going to have tho mumps; and
Captain Bennett, OF Denton, Ala, did
likewise because his relatives objected
to his marrying servant girl. John
jennings or "McJcnnings," as he was
generally known, Of Indian Creek, Va,
pushed his head against a busy circular
saw until it was cut in two, and John
Brandt, OF Cohoes, filled his pockets
with lead and bricks, tied a boulder to
his head and lay down, drowning him
self IN three feet OF water.
MANY QUEER DEVICES.
Another queer case was that OF man
named,AIims, who was a prisonerin tho
Greenville IS. C.) Jail. Minis showed
his old felt hat down his throat and
thus chokcd himself to death. Josie
Langelet died "like lady" She rcsid-
ed in st. Louis, and before shutting OF
the coil she fixed up her cell, becoming
ly and nicely, dressed herself in her
Sunday best, arranged the room furHi-'
ture effectively, and then. seating her.
self upon lounge, pulled'the trigger OF
her little revolver, and-wcll, that was
the last OF her. George Virgins, Of
Port Washington, L. l., took particular
pains to successfully carry out his in
tentions. lie tied a loaded double-bar-
relied gun to n fence, attached strings to
tho triggers, walked away lew feet,
faced the gun, pulled the strings and
blew himself into eternity.
In the winter OF 1851, Charles Jcssup
walked into Boston barber shop, took
q bottle OF poison from 4 shelf, remark
cd that he was tired OF life and drank
the contents OF the bottle. On several
previous occasions he had seen the bot
tic and knew what it contained.
At No. 1SG Forsyth street, in this city,
in May, 1882, Inventor w. G. Kruger
blow his brains out because he hadn't
money enough to complete the inven-
ton OF a flying machine. Before retir-
ing lie had said that S20,00Owould make
him happy, and that without it he
didn't care to live. Money difficulties
were also the cause OF the self-destruc-
ton OF Juan Martinez He hanged him
self. from q nail in his room at Fourth
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