The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1907-06-19
shot himself and death quickly fol.
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tendency in the market. fired bull
let through his brain.
Reese Craigman cut his throat
while intoxicated. He lived a few
hours only.
Fred Shannon, youth of nine
teen, was another victim Of carbohc
acid.
Frank Sullivan, ffty-two supposed
" because Of failing health, drank a
poisonous drug and died.
Howard Shober was another who
ended his life without any apparent
reason. He drank poison.
John Galleher leaped from the
wharf boat into the Ohio River and
ended his life.
Harry A. Gibson ended his exis-
tence by firing bullet through his
heart.
C.R. Barnett, worried over illness,
drank carbolic acid and IN an hour
was dead.
William Simms, brooding over
financial trouble, sent bullet
through his brain.
Jenk Barrett, disappointed in love,
ended his life with a pistol.
William White, failing in health,
ended mis- life. He used carbolic
acid.
Edward C. Christian, forty, veal.
thy, apparently happy, ended his Life
with carbolic acid.
Sanford Ferguson, twenty-eight:
ouarrelled with his sweetheart and
then leaped down Alright Of stairs
He broke his neck.
French Barton shot himself dead.
Samuel Pinson, an aged man, liv:
ing at LIE Sage, a suburb, was found
early one morning hanging to an ap.
pie tree in his yard; his life was ex,
tinct. He had been weak, mentally,
for some time. and during the night
had evaded the guard and self-de-
struction followed.
! Others in this city who have end
ed their lives in the past few months
| by drinking poison, are Milly Trent,
! Harry Schenk, Isabel Helton, Claud.
i ius Bronson, Mabel Stiles, Kyle Bios.
ser and Henry Workman.
i Out of this list Of suicides, there
was but one colored person. The
craze Of self-destruction continues
and Huntington is known as the sui.
eide city throughout the State.
An even more tragic outbread Of
the suicide epidemic occurren at De:
Moines, a., because there the vic.
tins were all girls in fortunate cir
cumstances, surrounded by loving
families and having apparently every
thing to live for.
; A great series Of tragedies revealed
the existence of a suicide club amons
the most highly educated and social
; ly prominent girls of Des Moines
Ia., and the vicinity.
Eight Of them committed suicide
in various places at 8so'clock in tht
: morning precisely, evidently pre-
, arranged hour, and many made de
termined attempts at self destruc
ton which through some acciden
were unsuccessful.
Miss Phoebe Broell, aged twenty
two, was found dead in her room b.
, her father. Miss Kate Farrell, aget
twenty, who had been at home i'll
died in the same way. The poisol
| had been sent to her by anothe
5 girl.
: Mrs. Lily Milburn, aged eighteen
took poison because it is said he
7 parents had coerced her into marry
5 ling. Miss Elizabeth Fletcher, ais
: aged eighteen, swallowed carboli
: acid, but was revived before tn
| poison could kill. She expressed
: bitter regret at the rescue.
Miss Ida Golden took carboll'
acid and died Immediately. At tn
4, same hour Miss Kate Kessler killet
herself with the same poison. An
$ noyance over a lawsuit in which sh
was charged by relatives with exer
, cising undue influence over an uncle
} was mentioned as a reason for he
: act, but it was ridiculously made
: quate.
5 Miss Belle Wilson rose from tn
) family breakfast table with the re
. mark that she could never lead
good enough life, went to her room
, and killed herself with the dreadful
5 acid. Miss Hannah Tomlinson. hav
ing remarked that life was a hideou
failure, killed herself with the SAM
fluid.
: Proof that these tragedies were
the result Of a compact was fount
in the following letter, written b.
Miss Kate Farrell:
"To Dear One---I am dying. / be
long to a club. Miss ---- is presi
!, dent. We all Of US take poison to
gether. Good-by. "KATE FARRELL
The name of the president hat
been written and then scratched ou
so thoroughly that no clue to thu
woman's identity can be obtained.
It has been found extremely diff
cult to obtain any details concerning
the organization which resulted il
these tragedies. Many members o.
it are now dead, those who failed tx
carry out their suicidal attempts
are unwilling to reveal anything anc
those who may now be bound by
oath to kill themselves are silent.
!. Nearly all of the dead girls were
graduates Of the State Normal Schoo
or of the Iowa State University. From
an admission Of Mrs. Lily Milburn
it appears that the suicide club wa:
formed at the last Summer session
of the State Normal School. It was
composed of unhappy and discon'
tented girls who had some cause o1
dissatisfaction with life which, how.
ever, would appear utterly ridicu.