Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1901 — News of Saleidea Suppressed. [ARTICLE]

News of Saleidea Suppressed.

An Emporia (Kan.) dispatch says that an epidemic of suicides, which has caused in the towns and county two dozen suicides or attempts in as many months, has led the mayor and board of health to forbid* the publication of details of the crimes in local papers. Their action is taken on the theory that publication spreads the contagion by psychic suggestion. Three attempts at suicide were mads at Emporia Tuesday.