Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1895 — The Suicide Month. [ARTICLE]

The Suicide Month.

It would seem as if there was something in the theory of Paillie, the Freiich philosopher, that June is the month of suicides, judging from tfib number of people who are daily reported as having killed themselves. Phille’s theory is that in the nature of every human being there lies dormant a germ which impels strongly towards death self-in-flicted; that in some people it is small and weak, and in others strong and, active, and that in all of the human family is reaches its greatest development between June 1 and June 20. Whether the theory be true or false, the 1 undoubted fact remains that this month h*n so far witnessed an epidemic of suicides and crimes as unaccountable as it Is saddening,—Philadelphia Inquirer. In a fight between State Constables Pettigrew and Toland and two moonshiners named Fisher and Durham at Spartanburg, S. C., the latter were killed. Pettigrew was shot through the lungs and will probably die. Toland la badly wounded. Earl Lacy, son of Oscar Lacy, was drowned in a vat at Jeffersonville, Ind,.