Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-01-01

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photographer, and Charles w. Werden, an
! engineer, were the months suicides. Seton
| ended his life after failing to kill a young
woman who refused to become his wife.
| Dennis Simms, colored. eighteen months
| old, found a bottle of carbolic acid and
swallowed fatal draught, and Edward
| Shea, car cleaner, was accidentally
] asphyxiated by Illuminating gas at his
| home. 1876 Maryland avenue.
| The month of March brought unseason-
| ably cold weather with accompaniment
| of icy pavements and there was CORE
| spending increase in the number of deaths
| from falls, five such fatalities being
| recorded during the month. A singular
! trio of accidents were those which caused
the deaths of William H. schlorb, David
| Hammond and John MCGEE. Each was
| struck by falling derrick boom. Tyrell
F.! Phillips. colored, working in a sewer
at 7th and B streets southwest when the
| earth caved in and he was fatally injured.
| Edward F. Woodson of Virginia came to
| Washington to be married and blew out
| the gas the night before the ceremony was
| to be performed. Joseph Clinton Webster.
throat: William E. Thomas, actor,
| swallowed carbolic acid: William L. Oliver
| took Rough on Rats and Frederick
Schatz, grocer, ended his life with e.
| bullet.
The first violent death in April was the
suicide of P. H Carr, jr., who shot him
| self In the head at the Commercial Hotel.
John F. Donleady. railroad brakeman.
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| frey received burns which proved fatal. A
dose of strychnine ended the life of Will
| liam P. Lees. Louis Moot, sixty-seven years
| of age, who was addicted to the use of
choral, took overdose of the drug. Henry
c. Clarvoe, nine years of age. fell over
| board while playing at the 18th street
wharf and was drowned. James Dent. a
| colored coachman. shot himself through
the heart at 1875 10Th street. Judson Foust
| inhaled illuminating gas and died. and
Harry Cecil took a dose Of carbolc acid
when life became a burden. ISadore Fields,
| five years old. was burned to death. George
Cohen cut his throat and wrist when he
| reached the conclusion that life was a
failure. Philip B. Turpin, an engineer, was
| freight yard. Miss Elizabeth Wood, twenty
| eight years of age, lost her life in the river
| near Dixie landing. Richard DeSales VIM
satt. an officer in the Marine Corps, COM
mitted suicide by shooting. Antonio Ridolfo,
an Italian, died at the Casualty Hospital
! the 29th of April from a fracture Of the
skull.
Early in the month of May, James H.
| Alvey fell from the new War College
building and received fatal fracture of
the skull. Clarence r. Henderson. two
years of age was knocked down by gro
Gerry wagon and killed. Mrs. Sophia A
Coleman, fifty-seven years of age. the
| first person to commit suicide during the
| month of May; she inhaled gas John W.
| a fall. Alphonso Butler, colored, sixteen
years of age, was run over by his cart
and fatally hurt William Carey, colored,
who was employed as a cook on a boat,
was drowned in Maryland waters, but his
body was brought here and the coroner
issued a death certificate. Albert A. Reese
who was employed as a street car starter
was killed Edward Richardson, forty-five
years of age, was accidentally asphyxiated
and Joseph Anderson, twenty-fiv years of
age. received fatal burns.
The death of Mrs. Katie Boil, fifty-two
years of age. was due to fall from win
dow her home VtncpnZO SDprrpZZo
Italian. received a fatal injury while at
work. Benjamin Johnson. colored, fell from
his own cart and the vehicle passed over
his body. Coroner hewitt gave certificate
of death by suicide from carbolic acid pois-
| oning in the case of John w. Frost, forty
eight years of age. William Hazel. jr.,
| fell while hanging an awning, and frac-
| tured his skull, dying in the Emergency
| Hospital. Benjamin B. Whitney. a plumber,
died from cerebral hemorrhage due to
fall down stairs. William Fantroy, nineteen
years of age was shot and killed by
small boy named Henry Sheer. the shooting
taking place in the store of the boys ia
ther. SIS New Jersey avenue. A dose of
cyanide of potash ended the life of Joseph
Caspar, twentyfour years of age. Failing
from a scaffold. Charles Garner, sixty-one
years Of age. sustained a fracture of the
skull and died in the Georgetown University
Hospital. Herbert Johnson. colored, eight
years of age. was struck by a railroad
train at Terra Gotta and killed Marie
Johnson. colored. received fatal burns. Mrs.
Mary Amelia Dorsey thirty-eight years of
age, was supervising the removal of piano
when the instrument fell and she was kill
ed. Daniel Shannon, a government clerk,
was drowned
Morphine poisoning and asthma caused
the death of John w. Magill. a blacksmith,
the first day of June. John P Duffy, la
borer was struck and knocked down by
colored man named Arthur Montgomery
near the home of the former. 604 X street
southwest. Duffy died and Montgomery
was given a sentence of one year. Rob-
ert Adams. a member of the lower house
Of Congress from PENNSYLVANIA, commit
ted suicide by shooting. The police found
the body of James Bond. colored, in the
James Creek canal. An unidentified white
man was struck by train near Deanwood
and killed. James L. Humphrey fell from
boat into the Eastern branch and was
drowned. Georgeana Coleman. victim of
the morphine habit. took an overdose of the
drug and died John Meehan. an inmate of
st. Elizabeth Hospital for the Insane,
committed suicide by hanging. An uniden-
titled colored man was killed by a Balti-
more and Ohio engine near Trinidad. The
coroner gave certificate of accidental
death in the case of William Poehlman, a
clerk. who fell down stairs in rear of 1886
D street southwest. Don Tindo, an Italian
laborer, was decapitated by railroad train
near Kensington. Nd. William Ashhorn,
Virginia farmer. committed suicide by in
haling Illuminating gas after he had been
in the city one day Dominic Frido, an
italian, died from injuries he received
by being StruCk Dy a train near henSlnS-
ton. Representative Rufus Lester of Georgia
fell from an upper story of the Cairo Hotel
June 10 and died within few hours Isaiah
Blaine. a colored laborer. was crushed by
the falling wall of a church In South
Washington. Workmen were engaged in
construction of big sewer in Howard ave-
nue. Anacostia. when a material bin fell
and Walter H. Proctor and James Jackson
were killed. An unidentified white man
was knocked off the Long bridge by rail-
road train and killed.
Alphonse Pomande. Italian. was struck
by railroad train and his skull fractured
George DePro. an awning maker, accident
ally inhaled Illuminating gas. Clarence NJ
York, who was secretary to a representa-
tive in Congress from New Jersey, jumped
from the window of his apartments and
died at Garfield Hospital. Lydia Becker's
death at the Washington Asylum Hospital
was the result of a dose of opium taken
accidentally Helen Boyle, seventeen
months old, died at the Childrens Hospital
from burns, and Harry Frazier fell over
board at the foot of 18th street and was
drowned. June % Frank Simonsk har-
nessmaker committed suicide by cutting
his throa with razor, and the same day the
body of Isaac Roginski, a painter. was
found in the home of Coroner hewitt, Ro-
ginski had been left in the house to do some
work and he committed suicide by turning
on the gas. Three days later the high water