New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-26
STICIDES COME IN BUACHES
WHAT THE RECORDS OF THE LAST ZEN
YEARS IN OMAHA PROVE

From The Omaha World Herald.
There is an Of ola all Offices effect
thai an suicides In trlpiets IL IT'LL -
nrdsr a. once begins 10 look for another and
stl another. until the three nave anI ~ the
Sometimes he has TO walt long lne; anu ~ '
fhird tails him entirely lac is deeply disgus,ed' ont
To see how nearly the thing would De poihc NJ pu'
oy % reporter ov@rhaued the records OF the Omaha
Board OF Health. with the following iu urn IN
no. MOI. rsnorts TO the Board are not always accurate
Some do not turn them In AZ al @AS -, fuo in
s sn %. need be noted the records show thu,
married man. day 'aborer coninil'od '''''
" S the Year M. ten years ago there were eight
suicides The Ars, one o9c ,hd fb t August -
octobcr ia christ oleson killed nimscf. tIur Ger
Iote- Charles Ciradup sucided; NovemDef - " Get
man student shot himself ana lour u% Sann r" In
Kuhn took his own life In the sam IN "ingcther
In TWO INSTANCES only TWO were close toBe'he'' anu
the eighth was month away con s,lcidos Feb
ruaTy Way September November and pe ,,rnn ,p
each had one two occurred IN Jnn ns: anu "'''' "
The i've in l distributed among ;sso m@ ens
months %G& , Asr"- wS sna ? seSyem aseF "
The Year iSe was entirely free from any reS Wav
FIora Aubrey Killed herse win pistol r isYT
DAYS later John Johnson OF lt ~; on Charies
PHdefson, Webs,er-st uphostere1. Gro%ngd nm
SELF and May % John huTms , 1 nnHse commttei
suicide AT her home in Deeatur-st '''o'e' nav
one case . 49, ,,,oodv davs nj the
close Of The YEAR and the third Of this tripiet added
his name to the list January y is'5: ruo n,
The i nci,Trd5S n Apr about week apart
Tbrce occurred July H. a. and Angus, 10. ,,-,,
hore came on June r. 2 and august T. ,,.o1 o.,
In 1885 the number o. weary moriais ureo @,
tbc record opens with Two on the same GAY
Fnhr,,ory p Three people took their lives on
April ., ! and May had 0ny on 1s;n our "na the
cd wi
other on the 24th. The doubles W ms yJAs "a '"'
JuIy and 10 and again on August u nna ~ T.,
The wear Of 1896 was stil worse than l@? ana ~
-ornrd Is blotioa by nineteen suicides. The hrst
OF these was January H. the second January , f
and the third February 8. with two more on tne
m" and i7th Of the latter month The Anr SUI,
ciSos we're on the 9th 18th and 18th MAY .had
two on the i,h. and ono each on me ",h en- en- am
Decemher's record was one on 'he -''"' -''' '''"
az" So I far this year OF 1897 has had eight sueides
two In ME- ffof tbe ss, 1r and 2sa
Fbs T@rord o. ten years shows that as general
thing suicides do run In eunfhes aHhousA the
A comparison OF the months EivCs queer SNOW
ing According TO the record. feptIniS nT NJ, a.
D,;.b those who wanted to die Each o. thee
months has record OF ten suicides March Is
the most healthy only one person IN ten years
having chosen II in which 10 MAKE MS voluntary
entrance into the spirit world. Next TO March
cnn,rs Tovemhe- with n record % three. then
0c,ober with seven and June with nine. From this
II will be seen that spring ana summer arc NOR :
dosnnndeut periods than fall and winter June. the
month OF marriages, Is almost az BAD III the WY
revolvcr. fourteen went by the easy road o. NOR
mime and ten hanged themselves. one took CHOIR
G Sorm o one t geS Smso under moVinz Train
John Lawson crt his throat. and J T. Dubois 4
spaniard from Council Bluffs killed himself with "