Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1897-07-03
FROM THE EAST END
TWO UNSUCCESSFUL
ATTEMPTS AT SELF
DESTRUCTION.
White Man BroOding Over
Trouble Resorts To A
Revolver.
A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
4 COIOred Man FOTSaken BY
HIS Sweetheart Takes
Laudanum.
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First Annual Outing Of the I. s O.-Per
sonals, General and Local News.

comes TO Ln6m. Nl6Wou from u EdbtOu
Il standpoint, this careless disregard |
Of ones life, is one of the most coward |
y acts of which a man or woman can
be guilty.
We will admit, however, that there
might be loads Of trouble weighing up
on many a human heart, we will fur
Their admit that every man and wo-
man is not of the same temperament,
and that when disgrace and trouble
comes, oft times:.becomes dispondent:
but there is nothing as We can see that
will justify any one to take his or her
life. Who had more trouble than
Christ when He came into the world,
to bear the sorrows and griefs of the
universe? Did He shrink and tell His
Father, that the cross was too hard to
bear, and commit suicide No, but
the man who betrayed Him into the
hands Of His enemies committed sui
eide.
FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF JUDAS.
The thought naturally occurs to us
that all who seek such q dispisable
mode OF getting out of the world are
following the example set by traitor.
1t is because there is war between an
individual and his God that makes him
take his life They do it, because they
have none OF the Divine grace and
love of the Superior BEING, to support
and sustain them in the hours of their
Affections and troubles, no anchor. no
hope, and no refuge in which to abide.
Consequently they seek rest in death
from their troubles but whether they
| find it in the other world is q question
we are unable to answer.
Another thing that induces these un-
fortunate mortsls and that is, the I'M
due newspaper publicity, that is given
their exit from this sphere, as is evil
dent by the many long letters they
leave behind which they desire to be
copied in the newspapers We can
but notice the vanity and self conceit
that exists in q human being
TWO ATTEMPTS.
OF course the colored people have
not as yet reached the exalted height
of suicIdom, where they leave long
testimonials to be inserted in the news
paper, but IL such condition of affairs
exist much longer, they not only will
take it up, but will try to override the
thing.
We had two cases of attempts { self
destruction this week. One was
young white man named o. S. Madi
son who became Respondent over ths
failure to get work, and sought to pu
an end to his existence by q revolver
bullet. He was arrested before b,
could accomplish his cowardly inten
ton He lives at 823 N. 9th st. H,
was fined $40 for carrying concealed
weapons and 81 so for being drunk, il
default of this he was given thirty day
in jail.
THE coLoRRD MANS ATTEMPT.
We give the following account a
published in the Leader" of Tuesday
June 18th,
Edward Baily is a colored black
smith who lives at No. $40 north ISt
: street. For some time he has bee
figuring as the unsuccessful hero of
: love affair, and on Sunday evening h
: decided TO reach the end of his trouble
by morphine. He took lsudanum
allopathic doses, but his intention
were discovered and the ambulanc,
with Surgeons Nuckols and Hord, wa
called in. Stomach pumps were pU
in use and Edward will now wearil
take up the battle of life again.
CUTTING scRAPR.
There was lively cutting scrap
last Monday on Eighte enth street
: front of McDonald's stsbles, betwee
: John Halliburton and John Jaapt
y Sweeny over an alleged insult offere
D to Sarah Lewis BIZ her paramour. Tt
q woman ran to John Jasper Sweeny (,
protection, and in less then ten mil
utee both Johns were hard ut it-oI
with q razor, the other with 9 curl
comb used in the stables. Both me
were arrested and locked up.
al DRarRucTTvR FIRE
p Shortly after ten O'Clock last Tue
10 day night fire was discovered in Il
one store brick building in which W
junk shop carried on by Mr.. Rowlal
80 Hill, number lie north 18th stree
An alarm was Immediately turned
from box Is, but when fire engir
st number arrived on the scene, &
in fire had gained such considerat
headway that other engines were il
ID mediatoly called for. The junk sto
is situated just back of Hook a
a Ladder Truck, Number 2, and many
ne the fremen leaped over the fence q
tackled the fire from the rear. I
At situation at one time looked We
no grave and the fire threatened not OIL
IT. 20 eat up the building and it's conten
but threatened every other house
at the immediate vicinity. The 1
on joining building was occupied
or Messrs. Smith Brothers and Kline
I'M which were several horses and mu
y that were to be sold Wednesday mol
'er ing, and when the heat from the bu
We ing building reached them. it was VI
"a pathetic to hear their cries. IT.
were finally rescued by q fireman.
p THE oRIaIEArIoN.
to Meanwhile several engines, tru
re- ETC., responded to the second ala
an and set determined to work to sUbS
D p the fire, which was q hard one.
on fire is supposed to have origina
Ill. from spontaneous combustion, as tn
were hugh piles of old clothes
5et other combustible material seattle
q about, therefore, its progress was v
swift and the broad glare that ligh
ad- I'M the scene could be seen for sc
to distance around. BY dint of d
work the fire was gotten under con
IN hut it was near midnight before
nj CINE, number l ceased throwing W.
&c on the smouldering ruins. Wht
err fireman started to ring the bell at
her engine house on 25th street the
der rope snapped in two and was rende
ms useless.
list, Mr.. Hill, who lives on 18th str
EN-. estimates the loss of his stock Il
about 500 and the house was DANA
az, to the extent of about $500 or $500
Id lars. The stock was not insured.
n.
PERSONALS AND GENERAL NEWS.
There seems to be prosperity in
various business institutions con
lub by our colored citizens in this sect
md. The Peoples Relief Association
,es' taken on another agent in the persC
9Q7 Mr.. w. T. Anthony. In converse
-.oS | nth General Mana0er 6 A ClaV