The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-21
HEALTH POOR, SHE
COMMITS SUICIDE
rotrs WIFE SENDS PISTOL BALL
CRASHING INTO HER HIGHT
TEMPLE
GIRL KILLS HERSELF
SUFFERING MENTAL TROUBLE SHE
DRINKS CARBuLIC AND DIES
BrroRE FAMILY CAN BE
or AID.
virglnian Burean,

Law Building 'lloitH A""i -
PETE RSISIr RG, VA. Ju!y %e.~-'
IAliian Cuykendall Bishop. wife o.
Thomas bishop, committed suleiue
this morning at . O'Clock nj her res
,dence. 6f4 West Washington street
she stood In front OK locking e'ass'
and shot herself IN tho right tempe
dyinG instantly.
Mrs. bishop was twenty-five years
Of age and was highly esteemed ny
ali eho knew her. Her health AaH
been bad fer a long tfoe and ste "N-
returned from the country wees
ago Dependency over her ceHa3I30n
was the cH4sa 81 her act, She = snf-
xt,.ad b., her husband. two 9rota@rS-
ara two sisters Tire funeral VII De
had Monday afternoon az 14oSA
from the residence.
Miss Fannie Vaughan, daughter o.
Mr.. ana Mrs 4. X Vaughan, eam-
nftted suicide last night st S:@V
o,clecs az her homie in JIeet street
b. drinking earpoiic acid, Her fatIleV
was attending prayer service at +he
Grove Avenue Presbyterian church al
the time. ana was hastily Summoned
but nothing could 6a cone 70 te1l@Ne
the sufferer Mss vaughan "aN
twenty years of age ara bad many
friends She Ia survived by her par
ents. three brothers and three sisters
she tetc ngte which Indicated that
she ~as suffering mentally Inc pod1
win ID. taken 10 ToTds, Va. on the
1880 O'Clock Norfolk and Western
train tomorrow morning and the bur
ial Wit take place there.
Water supply Low.
s-9sy Engineer f5Jidd said to-day he,
thought il would be necessary Within
me next ten days 10 begin the Use
IF river water for drinking purposes
because If the low water a ( present
in the city. reservoirs. The city en-
gfneer also said that the water con-
raittee does not contemplate having
ths water filtered. far the reason that
there Ii no available appropriation
far filtersng it. 1t Ia not known
whether the water committee really
INTENDS to do this and It is Thought BY
come that this threat IS MADE IL or
der TO make the council Take anuon
vi once IN regard 10 the matter.
Boshes Defeats Herbert.
The regular monthly meeting of the
Methodist Sunday -schpol Association
of Petersburg and vicinity Will be he!c
tomorrow afternoon at a,30 o'clock ir
Rlandford Methodist church An In
terest1ng program viii be rendered OF
this occasion, and an address Will o'
delivered ~ Secretary Walsh, OF tn
local \ ri G. 4.
flashes Defeats uerberfa
Abe f3oshea, the New DIRK wrestler
defeated George Herbert of fsiqh
fnond. in wrestling match at In
academy az music last night Her
bert got the ;1rst fall in sixteen min
utes. and Ioahcs got the second an
third falls in sixteen and O. half an
seventeen minutes Herbert Ia
clever wrestler. but was no match &c
Boshes in weight and strength.
Negro ~ fnsanc,
william Brown. "A negro, who hrok
49, iHtn the mouse If Henry Taylor, re-
nights ago ana dangerously wounde
him with an axe was edjudged insar
nv a lunacy commission today. II
was sent to the Central State hospit'
for treatment. Brown win be cohfint
in the ward for the criminal insane,
The two branches ~ the CONNIE
council met lgst slight. the ohje
being 10 take some official action
regard II the meeting here ne
Tuesday Afternoon IF the United stat
board Of engineers Of rivers aT
narbors The council adopted . rost
luton expressing the interest Of II
council in the Improvement of u
river. and the completion Of the da
as OF vital importance TO the con
nercial welfare Of this city, asld a,
pointing TIVE members of the ooul
ri and one Of the board Of alderme
as a committee 10 attend the NEE
ing The board Of aldermen met au'
xeauently and concurred In the res
fyti0n passed by the council 1T
committee appointed CONSISTS
Councilman Patteson and Bland ar
Alderman Poole.
Rev. ard Ars Robert II. Winfre
~ Midlothian, Chesterfield county, al
ronnce the engagement o. the
daughters, Mixes Emma Cold M