Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1908 — EVEN SUICIDES UNCERTAIN. [ARTICLE]

EVEN SUICIDES UNCERTAIN.

Ton can’t always tell what will happen. For instance hero is a story of a man who determined to commit snloide. He went up town and purchased a rope, can of oil* box of matches, dose of arsenic and a revolver. He went down to the river, pushed bis boat from toe shore and paddled down to where a tree hung out over the water. He got up in the bow of the boat and tied one end of the rope to a limb and the other around his neck, his clothing with coal oil and set fire to them, took a dose of arsenic, put the muzzle of the revolver to bis temple and puUed the trigger. But the bullet graced and cut the rope above him and he fell kerwallop into the water and put the fire out; he got strangled ahd coughed the arsenic up and rose up and waded out and declared himself a candidate for office on the Anti-Saloon League ticket. —Ex.