Unsuccessful Attempt At Suicide

Some six or eight montlis ago Wm.H. Howard carne to the cit}' and opened rooms in the McMahon l)loek for upholsterlng second-hand f urniture. Stopping at the Cook House he made tlie acquaintance of a table waiter whose affeetions lie won, andmarriagefollowed. After the nuptial ceremonies were performed th( couple took rooms and boarded at the Chandler House. Mrs. 1 [oward, a stranger in lier new location, feit lonely over the absence ot' her husband who, instead of devoting his time and company to his wife and making tlie evening hours pleasant to her, has not lately returned to his room as early asa tauBbandespeeiallyanewly-niarried one, onght. Suspiciona that her husband was devoting thai time belonging toherby marital right to purposes of dissipaüon and bad eompany jjrew into conclusions that he was on the road to min. From thaJ soxi of life pictured to her vivid lmagination, she revolted. The worid looked drearily to her, young ind innocent of its devious ways and innumerable temptations, and instead of quietly sitting down bcsideherhusband ind reasonlng with him as an olderperson would, she secretly meditated suicide. Tliere was no better opportunity o carry into effect her resolve tlian on tfonday when her husband left for Detroit. AVith the dollar he left her before iisdeparturesherepairedtoMr.Mann's Irug store and procured sixty grains of morplii'w. lier marmer excited the iruggistwho followedher to the liotcl md stated liis suspicions. A little daughter of Mr. Chandler went to Mrs, loward's room and learned from Ibe suicide the f act that she had wallowed the entire dose. Dr. Macleao vas promptly summoned and preparations such as pumping and walking the atientwere adopted. During severa! loura there was little prospect of resuscitation, but, by continuous eilort of keeping her f rom slesp she recovered and was able to take her place the following morning at the breakfaat table. Mrs. Howard had prepared sealed letters, one addressed to her husband, the otherto her fatlier a resident of Romeo, which she handed the daughter of Mr. Chandler. Mrs. Howard asserted in the presence of our reporter on Tueaday that " Mr. Howard had never spoken an unkind word to her"' and that " she loved the earth hetrodupon. " ïhecase seemsto be a sort of love affair with much the greater part of that emotion upou her side.