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Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Domestic.

Nineteen insurance companies have
withdrawn from Texas as a result of
the going into effect of the Robertson
insurance law.
The American clearing house, which
for eight months has been trying to
perfect a pool of all freight cars in
the country, is said to be in process
of disintegration in Chicago.
The form of organization and stat
utes for the SisterhOod of Negroes
and Indians, organized by Miss Cath
crime Drexel of Philadelphia, have
been approved by the pope.
Because ten children have been
born to four mothers in Town Creek,
Ala, within a month, the postal Off
Gals will be asked to change the
name of the town to 'Teddytown."
At a luncheon rendered him by Des
Moines business men, President VIM
chell of the Rock Island railroad said
that the Rock Island is out of politics
and will do away with its Hobbies and
lobbyists, both in the state legislature
and the national congress.
The American Shipbuilding com
pany recently completed al Lorain,
Ohio, the largest dry dock on the
Great Lakes. The Lorain dry dock is
$50 feet long and 125 feet wide. 1t
will accommodate two boats at Cnce,
and with few exceptions could dock
the largest ocean vessels. The sec
ond largest dock on the lakes is at
Superior, owned by the same company
Washed up by the breakers on
Rockaway Beach at New York was a
ten-foot shark, wearing a barrel hoop
as a necklace. The shark had been
choked to death, another victim OF
the eternal craze for adornment.
A searching investigation IF all the
penal institutions of the State of New
York is TO be made by Gov. Hughes
Startling revelations are predicted
which show a need of immediate re-
form. Convicts, it is stated, have
made many charges, and these are
said to be responsible for the gov
ernor's contemplated action.
The law passed by the Alabama leg
islature by which the removal of suit
from the state to the federal court re
vokes the license of any railroad cor
poration has been declared invalid anG
in violation of the constitution of the
state and nation.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Washington.

An order of the interstate commerce
commission promulgated on June 1 in
the matter of posting tariffs has been
suspended by the commission pending
a hearing of the whole question on
Oct. IL.
When asked if there was any truth
in the report that Mr.. Hitchcock was
going to give up the post of first as
sistant postmaster general, Mr.. Meyer
stated that there was no accuracy in
the report.
Secretary Taft has finally arranged
to make a political speech at Oklaho-
ma City Aug. "a, three weeks before
the election for the adoption of the
new constitution. He will stop there
en- route from the East to the Pacific
coast, whence he sails from Seattle
Sept 10, for the Philippines.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25


Frank Stivers, a stranger, was IA
tally injured by a passenger train. He
died after being taken to Wall Lake,
Iowa.
The town of Hartland, in the north
ern part of New Brunswick, was prac-
tically destroyed by fire. The losss is
placed at $250,000.
BY the collapse of a section of seats
at the Auditorium at Evansville, Ind,
eight persons were seriously hurt and
forty to fifty others slightly injured.
While swimming with a party of
boys in Tamarack dam at Calumet,
Mich, Walter Teddy, an eleven-year-
old boy, was taken with cramps and
drowned
A Chicago Great Western passenger
train ran into and damaged the rear
train at Kansas City. One passenger
train at Kansas City. One passeger
was killed and two slightly injured.
While standing in the church talk
ing with the minister, Mrs. Harry
Miller of Bucyrus was struck dead by
lightning. The bolt hit the steeple OF
the church and ran down the chande-
Iier.
The 1ifeless form of her baby daugh-
ter floating about in the water tank
greeted Mrs. Ross Hargreaves, wife
of farmer living near Oskaloosa.
Iowa, on her return home from
short visit to a neighbor.
A Third avenue elevated train
crashed into the rear of train stand
ing at the platform of the One Hun
dred and Fourth street station in New
York. and fourteen persons were in
jured, two of whom may die.
Heavy rains of the past three days
have swollen streams in Southeastern
Nebraska to high flood marks, carried
out bridges, drowned cattle and mum
dated fields where grain had been har-
vested but stood in the shock. One
estimate places the damage at $780,
600.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Foreign.

A dispatch from Odessa says that
seven persons were killed and many
injured by an explosion in secret
bomb factory in that place.
A young merchant has been arrested
at Constantinople in connection with
the bomb explosion Sunday night in
front of the summer quarters of the
America embassy at Therapia.
The court at Paris has ordered that
Leon Maille, the naval reservist who
on Sunday, July IA, fired two shots
at President Fallieres on the streets
of Paris, be examined as to his sanity.
The Milan correspondent of the
London Tribune says that Miss Louise
de la Rance (Ouida), who has fallen
into poverty, is dying at Massarosa.
Shee needs medical care, but refuses
it or any comfort. She will not see
visitors.
Crystal hall, a three-stOry brick
building on Dundas street, London,
Ont. and one of the landmarks of the
city, collapsed, and a score of persons
were buried under the avalanche OF
bricks, mortar and timbers. Nine per-
sons are known to have been killeG,
two are missing and four are seriously
injured.
The appeal of Count Boni de Castel-
lane from the decision of the court Of
Nov. IA last, granting divorce to the
Countess Boni de Castellane, former
ly Miss Anna Gould of New York,
was dismissed, and final decree of
divorce duly entered. Nine. Gould is
to settle the cases of the creditors
both against herself and the count
out of court.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Casualty.

A fast passenger train cOllided head
on with an accommodation near the
junction in Cincinnati. and five people
were injured.
Four persons were fatally and a
number of other passengers badly in
iured when a passenger train Jumped
the track near Foraker, Ohio, the en-
tire train turning over in the ditch.
The club house and part of the grand
stand at the American league baseball
park was destroyed by fire, and a num-
Der of small buildings in the vicinity
we're also damaged. The loss is about
$4,000 damage.
The infant son of Herman Hamann
of Ida Grove, Iowa, got hold of fly pol
son. extracted tne cork and proceeded
to suck the sweet liquid. 1t requireS
the utmost exertions of physician to
save the child's life.
A section of seats gave way at a
show in the circus grounds at Cleve-
land. precipitating 100 people to the
ground. No one was killed, but fif-
teen to twenty persons sustained in
iuries of a more or less serious ma
ture.
Frank Section, a young freighter,
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed near Ross Fork, Mont, while
driving a four-horse team attached to
a wagon loaded with fence wire. The
wire is supposed to have attracted the
electricity, and the bolt not only killed
Section, but all of the horses.
Mrs. John Deevers, aged seventy
five years, living near Medora, Ill.
used some lard while cooking potatoes
The fat had become infected with rat
poison, and Mrs. Deever, her husband
and their son, were taken sick. Mrs
Deevers died. The others will re
cover.
Leaning over the edge of big farm
watering tank, watching his reflection
on the surface of the water, the two
year-old son of Nibs Cox, living near
Waterlo, Iowa, lost his balance, anG
before he could be brought out of the
water was dead.
Grasping the handle of the coffee
not at the breakfast table while the
mothers back was turned for mo
ment. the eleven-month-old child o.
Mrs. John Anderson of Fort Dodge
Iowa, upset the scalding fluid over it,
body. 1t was so terribly burned tina
it survived only for few hours.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
TWO MEET HORRIBLE DEATH
ENGINEER AND FIREMAN BURN
ED TO DEATH IN WRECK IN
MINNEAPOLIS.

Minneapolis, July "a. - Trapped in
their burning locomotive cab, S. L.
Searfoss and Alfred H. Parker, engi
neer and greman of a Belt Line en-
CINE, were killed in collision at $50
a. M yesterday at the east end of the
Belt Line bridge. A carload of oil fed
the flames.
The accident resulted from COLI
sion with six freight cars, which had
run away and stopped at the end OF
the bridge.
Wreckers did not release the bodies
of the men until nearly noon. The
bridge was partly wrecked.
Trainmen could do nothing to res
cue the engine crew and they burned
to death in the oil-fed blaze from the
wreckage.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
ST. PAUL MAN KILLED BY CARS
Charles Mckissick Meets With Acct
dent at Fraxee.

ST. Paul, July 21.-Charles Mckis-
sick of the live stock firm of McKis-
sick Bros, South ST. Paul. was in
stantly killed by train at Frazee at
o'clock yesterday morning. From
information received at South st. Paul
he was on the way to catch a local
train for Detroit and was struck by
the flyer, coming in an opposite direc-
ton. Death was instantaneous.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
State Rests Its Case.

Boise, Idaho, July 19.-The State of
Idaho rests, content with the evidence
it has introduced to prove that Will
liam D. Haywood, the secretary-treas-
urer of the Western Federation of
Miners, conspired to kill and therefore
mer governor of the state. William
D. Haywood, through his counsel, will
rest his case with the jury, SO far as
evidence is concerned. Possibly some
witnesses will be called in surrebuttal,
but Haywood's counsel announced that
the case may close without further
evidence.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Life Is Passed in Boise Court.

Boise, Idaho, July %. = Jones H.
Hawley, leading counsel for the State
of Idaho, presenting the first of the ar
guments to the jury in the case
against William D. Haywood, closed
Saturday after speaking for nearly
eight hours, distributed over three
sessions of court
From time to time Haywood took
copious notes in small book and fire.
quently made suggestions to one or
other of his counsel, seven of whom
were in court.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
GOES MAD; FIGHTS POSSE.
Farm Hand, Made Insane by Heat, Re
Lie Burcuarc

Farm Hand, Made Insane by Heat, Re-
sists His Pursuers.
Bedford, Iowa, July 24.-Made mad
by the heat, Matthew Riner, who had
been working for a farmer near here,
crawled through a window last night
and without a stitch of clothing ran
bowling down the road. The sheriff
was notified, and gathering a posse
started in pursuit of the mailman.
They overlook him while he was sit
ting in a pool of muddy water, and a
terrific fight ensued before he could
be overpowered. When the sheriff at
tempted to seize him, Riner, it is al
legged, picked up board and struck
the officer over the head, inflicting a
bad wound
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Ore Train Goes THROUGH BRIDGE.

Marquette, Mich, July PA costly
wreck is reported on the Menominee
range division of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad. A train load
ed with ore fro4n Iron Mountain mines
and bound for the shipping docks at
Escanaba went through the Sturgeon
river bridge near Loretto, only the en-
CINE remaining on the rails. Thirty
were badly damaged. The trainmen
escaped by jumping.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Arrested for Threatening.

Grand Forks, n. D., Jluy 24.-Oscar
Anderson, a buyer of old scrap iron,
was arrested at Mekinock and brought
to Grand Forks to answer to a charge
of threatening the lives of residents
Besides threatening murder, Anderson
is alleged to have promised to burn up
houses.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Set of Tools in His Leg.

Deadwood, S. D., July 21.-Henry
Anderson has for many months beer
troubled with his leg. Finally he be
came unable to walk and consulted
doctors, who decided to perform al
operation. The leg was cut open anC
the doctors took out chisel, a couple
of nails, a screwdriver, some chunk:
of wood and piece of tin. Anderson
recalled that several years ago he was
the victim of a premature explosion
while digging ditch, but he was igno
rant of what his leg was carrying.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
MAD DOG AT RUsHFORD.

After Biting Several other CANNES th'
R1bid Brute Takes to the Woods.
Rushford, Mimi, July PA valua
BILE bird dog has gone mad and is caus
ing a great deal of excitement. 1t ha:
bitten several dogs and owners of the
same have killed their dogs. The
board of health warned owners O
dogs to have them muzzled at once
This is the second dog scare in the
last year. At the latest reports thu
dog is running loose west of the city
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25

Columbia, S. c., July PA passen-
ger train was derailed near Waterloo
Yesterday. Conductor Stewart and a
number of passengers We're more or
less seriously injured. Mrs. Sarah j.
Griffin sustained internal injuries that
may prove fatal.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Row Over Drinks Fatal.

Marshalltown, Iowa, July 24.-John
Lepley is dead here as the result of
an assault alleged to have been COM
mitted by Bert Pell. Pell is now held
on a charge of murder. The trouble
is said to have been caused by dis
pute over who should pay for drinks.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
GIRL SHOOTS HERSELF.

Shotgun Is Used to End Grief Cupid
Causes.
Extra, Iowa, July a. - Placing a
shotgun against her side and pulling
the trigger, Annie Nepper committed
suicide last night. The motive for the
suicide is not certain, but it is be-
lieved to have been caused by an I'M
happy love affair.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
TWO Fishermen Lost in Storm.

Vancouver, B. c., July 20. - Two
fishermen lost their lives Monday
morning in what is regarded by steam
ship men as the worst storm they ever
have seen in the northern end of the
Gulf of Georgia.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Grand Forks store RuroIarized

Grand Forks, N. d., July 24-The
store of Mrs. A. T. Stinson, dry goods
and notions, was burglarized some
time Sunday night, About $500 worth
of silks, jewelry and other goods was
taken
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
FAMILY JAR STOPS WORK.
Worstcd Foreman Quits and Men Re
fuse to Work Under Another.

Worstcd Foreman QUITS and Men Re
fuse to Work Under Another.
Appleton, Wis, July PA family
quarrel has stopped work on the
Green Bay & Mississippi Canal COM
panys improvements at Kaukauna.
One of the foremen, Ed Walsh, was
thrown out of his house Monday night
by his wife and two sons. He was SO
badly battered up that he refused to
show up yesterday and says he will
not work there any longer. The men
under him refuse to work under any
other foreman and work at present is
at a standstill on the gigantic powe:
houses
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Find Body in Lake.

Fergus Falls, Mimi, July 24.-Coro.
ner Haugen was called to the vicinity
of Dalton to Investigate the death of
Mrs. Erick Nelson, whose body had
beeen found in small lake there 1t
is supposed she committed suicide
while mentally deranged.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Bow Is Drowned.

Sheboygan, Wis, July Fl. = Leslie
Gerald, nine years old, was drowned
while swimming in the Sheboygan
river. He was seized with cramps
and his companions were unable to
rescue him.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Saves Two From Drowning,

Morristown, N. j., July 24.-Hudson
Maxim, the inientor, of Brooklyn
plunged into Lake Hopatilong last
night and brought two drowning
young women ashore.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Aorse,s Kick Causes Death.

Tracy. Mimi, July 21.-A. r. Tracy,
a Young farmer, while in town on
Tuesday, was kicked in the head by
his horse and was instantly partially
paralyzed. He fingered until yester-
dav when he died.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Kaiser Wilhelm II. Saved.

Bremerhaven, July 24-The water
has been entirely pumped out of the
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm H., that list
ed Saturday. The steamer sustained
no injuries and will be ready for serv-
ice in five days.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
River Steamer Sinks

st. Louis, July FL = A heavy wind
preceding a thunder storm here, blew
the steamboat Tennessee, valued al
$4,000, against an abutment of the
Eads bridge, ripping open the boats
side and sinking it.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Died in a Raue,

Devils Lake, N. D., July "a. - Rage
over the fact that his neighbors were
busily engaged in grading a road or
the boundary of his farm, of which he
had disapproved, caused the death OF
Louis Bergman, aged sixty-fve, as he
watched them.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Brakeman's Fatal Misstep,

Annandale, Mimi, July "a. = Ace
Sturdvant, a brakeman on the west
bound freight, was instantly killed
while stepping from one car to an
other His right arm was cut off, back
broken and body bruised.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
ATHLETE KILLED BY CAR.
"Tue" Wilson, Famous Quarterback

Tug" wilson, Famous Quarterback,
Crushed to Death by Trolley.
Oberlin, Ohio, July 24.-Allen Will
son, twenty-five years of age, widely
known as Tug" Wilson in football
circles, was crushed to death under an
electric car here yesterday He was
famous as a quarterback. Wilson
played for two years on the Oberlin
college team. He had been a student
at Williams college for a year and
would have been eligible to the team
this fall.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Twenty Workmen Buried.

New York, July PA brick build
ing, one of row of six-story struc-
lures that are being torn down. col
lapsed yesterday, burying twenty
workmen. Two men were seriously
injured
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Suicide Eats Matches,

Maitowoc, Wis, July 24.-Mrs. Car
oline Singleman, aged fifty-seven
years, died last night in horrible ago
ny as the result of having swallowed
the heads from a box of matches.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Rahu CarrianAs Burn.

Minneapolis, July 81. - Fire DAM
aged the plant of the American Baby
Carriage Manufacturing company and
surrounding property yesterday noon
to tie amount of $4,000.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Band eader Drowned.

Atlantic City, N J., July 21.-Capt
August Azzali, leader of the Mexican
band, which accompanied the Ell Paso
(Tex.) lodge of Elks to Philadelphia
was drowned last evening while bath
ing,
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Limits Field for Argument.

Boise, Idaho, July 21.-The field for
argument, both for the prosecution
and defense of William D. Haywood,
has been limited by Judge Wood, who
in a decision handed down yesterday
removed from the consideration of the
jury all evidence bearing on the al
legged conspiracy by mine owners and
others against the Western Federation
of Miners.
Immediately after the announce
ment of this decision argument com
menced.
HawIey Addresses the Jury.
Judge Hawley, leading counsel for
the state, spoke for two hours and nj
teen minutes at the afternoon session.
Mr.. Hawley's address was at times Ell
oquently impassioned, but yet a plain
ANALYSIS of the case. He character
lied the case as the most important
ever given to jury in the United
States" He denounced the defendant
and his alleged demonstrators as the
worst band of criminals that ever in
tested any section of this country.
Calls Orchards Story True.
Mr.. Hawley described Orchards
story as truthful, not only because OF
the manner in which it was told, but
because it had been corroborated IN
every important detail Mr. HaWley
concluded with the statement that al
ready he had shown enough to con-
yict. and that any juryman not willing
to convict on the evidence connecting
the conspirators with the blowing up
Of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan con-
centrator in 1899 and the explosion at
the indicator mine in 1903 alone
sought only to rid himself OF an I'M
pleasant duty to his state ="
Mr.. Hawley will continue his argu-
ment to-day.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Elevator Is Scorched.

Lake Crystal Mimi, July 24.-Fire
broke out in the Marston & Larson
elevator here, and but for the immedi-
ate discovery of the blaze the build
ing would have been consumed.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
nrowned While Swimming.

Sioux Falls, S. D., July 24.-While in
swimming with a number of othel
boys in what is known as Pickere.
pond Sever Berdehl, aged sixteen, was
drowned.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
Drowned in Mill Pond.

Frederic, Wis, July 24.-Louis Mel
son, son of Lars Nelson, treasurer of
the town of Clam Falls, Polk county,
Wisconsin, was drowned while swim
ming in the mill pond at that place.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
TWO Men Hurt in Mine,

Sparta, Mimi, July 20. - Two men
were injured in the Gilbert mine here
and one died in the ambulance on the
way to the hospital. The Genoa
mines here are closed down on ac-
count of the strike at Two Harbors.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
PASSING "QUEER" IN SPAIN.
Man With $4,000 Bad American Mon
ey Is Arrested

Balbao, Spain, July 24.-An Ameri-
can giving the name of Duryea was
arrested here yesterday while trying
to get change for a counterfeit $500
American bank note. When exam
ined counterfeit bills to the face value
of $4,000 were found in his posses
sion.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
CORNER BLUEGRASS SEED.
Kentucky Syndicate Closes Big Deal
for Vast QUANTITY.

NehtUCky oyhUICats CToses Big Deal
for Vast Quantity.
Paris, KY, July "a - A syndicate
composed of ]. S. Wilson, E. F. Spears
& Sons Of this city, 'and d. S. Gay of
Winchester, KY, yesterday closed a
deal whereby they become the pos
SCISSORS of about 100000 bushels of
Kentucky bluegrass seed, practically
all there is in the country with the
exception of about 10000 bushels 1t
is estimated it will take 100000 to
finance the deal.
Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1907-07-25
HANGS SIX AND HERSELF.

Woman Becomes Gref-stricken at
Loss of Position in Family.
Copenhagen, July "a. - Grief
stricken by the receipt of a notifica-
ton that her services would not be
required after the end of this month,
Mrs. Nielsen, a housekeeper for a land
owner named Ulljaer of Jutland, yes
terday hanged three of her employers
children as we'll as three of her own
and killed herself by hanging.