The Suicide Mania

John Anderson, a citizen of Doniphan county, Kan., attempted a singular suicide. He took a pocket kuife and eut one sidE o iiis aecjc, whieh not producing death, he eut tlie other sido. Tiiis likewise tañed, and, a streata being near by, he jumped in in Iiis frenzy. The water was too shnllow. He then went home, cut a clothes une from its poste, ascended a hay loft in a stable, fasteued the rope to a beau in the roof and around his neek and jtunped off, securing a fall of about five feet. His neck was not broken. The noise attracted two men passing who ascended the loft. One liited the body by thclegs and the other eut tlie rope. In falüng, Anderson's liead struck tJie córner of a beam on the íloor and eracked his skull, from wliich it is foRred he will die. Henry Longfelder, a Cleveland sídoonkeeper, committed suicide by shooting l'.imselt' twice in tlie mouth with a revolver. He lirst satuiated iliíl'ercnt parte of his rooni with coal oil, the set lire to it, and theu shot himself, expeeting, probably, to burn bis body up in the flamea. The fir men dragged his liody out of the j room before it was burned. August Swapdolíar, of Pittsburgli.was ! bitten by a dog, and one of hisacquiiintanc s told him lie would go ni id. The matter preyed so mueh on liis mind that lie determinen on suicide to escape the terrible íat hifl lrifud predieted for him. He wentiuto a stable and swnllowed the contenta of a vial of sulphate oí inorphia, euougli to kill (iitv men, ahd mèfl instantly. George Shennan, oue of the oldest and most (espectable citizens of Newport, E. I., atteinpted suicide the other day. He ; lelt i noto, stüt.ing tiuit lic was going to ] meet his dear wife, r.nd that his family ! would riud his body in thocistern. WJien found a rope wns tied around the body, but as it iras tied to a wheelbarrow outside of tlie eipteru, it úid not lower him lar enough lo i'ovcr hisluai), and he w:s resenód.