The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-07-08
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An Oregon youth, aged 10 wears,
loved his cousin and shot himself
through the heart after inscribing on a
visiting card the words: My Fannie.
no man ever died for you" A small
market gardener in Illinois hung him
self because his corn was rottlng IN the
ground. Another Illinois man shuffied
off this mortal coil because he had lost
his best boy and best COW, and didn't
want to live any longer. A supersti-
tious merchant in New York cut his
throat because a customer sent him
letter asking for the latest quotations
in looking glass An extravagant wife
Of a poor Colorado doctor swallowed
ars enic because her lenient father, who
| had supplied her with money for many
Years, had resolved to draw the string
of his money-bag closer and not send
her any more money, as he was de-
sirous of her becoming more economical
III her ways. A Missouri father was
overcome with shame on learning that
his son had stolen a watch, and ended
his woe by dose of poison.
A New JERSEY inventor devised a
corn-husker which was a failure be-
cause it only worked satisfactorily on
large ears: therefore he shielded. A
San Francisco hunchback left word be-
hind him that blood rushed to his head,
which seemed to be shrinking through
his shoulders, and that his bones were
tangled one with another, rendering
him wild with pain. The force of ex
ample is often remarkable; st. Louis
| shoemaker shot himself because he lived
within a block of shoemaker who sew
| cred his angular vein, and this deed
| proved on his mind. A sailor tied a
| rope about his neck and leaped over
/ hoard; his body was towed into port
| iefore being discovered. A Vermont
! widow hung herself with a skein o.
! warn. A NirQinian made four attempts
| to take his life, and finally committed
! suicide by shooting himself through the
| head with q shotgun. The muzzle Of
the weapon was placed against his right
/ ere, and discharged by a string fastened
( to the trigger and tied around toe Of
/ Che right foot. 4 PENNSYLVANIA wheel
( wright used hatchet, a knife and a
/ rope. With the hatchot he struck him
| self three times on the back of the head,
! with the knife he severed his Windpipe,
| but missed the jugular vein, and with
| tie rope he strangled himself. An Hi
/ noiS mechanic hung himself to "A ladder
/ ii the beethoven of a church. and was
/ discovered by frightened sexton. A
| Californian spread blanket on the
! floor by the side of his bed, tied a small
| rope around his neck so as to draw
! through loop, and tying the other end
! around the top of the bedpost, less
/ than two feet above the floor, had lain
down with his right arm under his
/ head. and strangled to death. An Iowa
| farmer cut his wrists with plane, and
/ afterwards hing himself to a fence five
| feet high The distance was so short
that in order to produce death he was
| obliged to draw his knees up even with
! his eyes, and hold them there with his
| elbows. An old man of so wears. living
| in Western New York, foretold the day
| of his death, and 10 fulfill his predic-
/ ton. cut his throat from ear to ear with
! a razor which he held in one hand, and
/ which he had tied with string so it
/ could not move when doing the deed
\ California powder-maker made his
| aNit with giant-pOwler, and was blown
/ 10 shreds - Insurance CbrOnicIe.