New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-30
HEATS HARVEST OF SUICIDES.
THREE DAYS OF OPPRESSIVE WEATHER
ATTENDED BY MANY SELF-CAUSED
DEATHS

The third day of oppressive heat came yesterday
strainng the of the sick and the unhappy
to their utmost tension, and was productive OF
many suicides
Mrs Sarah Shrek Of No. Il NIangin-st.. took
arsenic in the morning and died later at Bellevue.
She twenty-seven years old. Her married HE
unhappy. neighbors said, having to support SIX
children and endure the cruel treatment of her
husband. Shrecks brother denied the alegeo cruei
treatment his part.
George J. Meyerhoffer, carpenter. siXty-nine
years old hanged himself to a transom at his home
in Second-st., between Avenues and b, Unloh-
port His cut the body down The man had
been suffering from rheumatism.
Mrs Antoinette Harvey widow, forty -fve years
old. found dead in the morning at r. F.
Mler's boarding house, at No. 81 East Twenty
hfth-st. She came from Poughkeepsie on TUESDAY
saying that she wished to Go some shopping A
handkerchief smelling Of chloroform covered her
face Judge Leonard. of No. 24S Broadway, is Mrs.
Haneys counsel He said she had lived in this
city for years. but on account Of failing health
went to Poughkcepse. She did not expect to live
long and had left written instructions for her
funeral.
Lillian Corsoz, TWENTY-FIVE years old, drank car
bolic acid early Yesterday in THE Moorish Par
lors," at No 81 West Twenty-eighth-st. quarrel
with her lover, waiter in the Cairo Cafe, 1t is
said. led to the act. stomach pump was used
with good effect, and she was taken a prisoner to
the West Thirtieth-st police station. She told
Magistrate Deuel. IN the jefferson Market Court.
that she subject epieptic fits and did not
know she had taken poison. Her companion, John
E. Lydston, corroborated her, and she dis
charged.
Ruby Oliver, twenty-three years old, of No. 274
West Twenty-fourth- st, a neighbor of the Corsoz
woman. found unconscious on the stoop at
overdose of morphine She taken to Bellevue.
DR.. Nesbitt said she would probably die.
Mrs Bella Morris, forty-two years old, of No. 34S
East Fifty seventhst., yesterday taken to the
Flower Hospital, suffering from gas asphyXaton.
Charles H. Webb, a patrOman of the East Fifty
frSt-st. station, says he found her in her room on
the third floor with one end of gas tube in her
mouth.
ceding. The i'll effects it made came from the
cumulative force Of three days of great warmth.
1t was o'clock in the evening before the Their
mometer began to lower the mercury At that hour
and it had been there since o'clock. The humid
ity at a. m 10 per cent and at p. m. % per
cent.
The local Weather Bureau forecasts: Showers
Saturday, followed by fair and cooler; brisk west
to northwest winds sunday, fair
Following are the days prostratiOns from heat:
POLLOCK Abraham twenty-nine years old OF Marchin-
ave. and High Bridge overcome at Washington
Bridge. and removed Fordham Hospital.
SELLER, Nicholas, hfty-three old Of No. 9 Rv
Fffh-st. and taken Bellevue Hospital He
died at that institution few hours later. -
STEINBERG, Rose twenty-one years old. Of No 11e
yesterday morning No 231 Pearl-st. She
taken 70 the Hudson Street Hospital.
WESSON. Herbert twenty-six years old, Of No. 128
Nobe-st.. Brooklyn. No. 496 Second
removed TO Bellevue Hospital.
NAGI-E Max, twenty-six years old. Of No los East
and second-aye.; last evening, and was taken to
Bellevue Hospital