Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — THOSE CHRISTMAS BELLS. [ARTICLE]

THOSE CHRISTMAS BELLS.

Mrs. Plummer, at Wilmington. 0. t committed suicide just as the bells were ringing out Christmas morn. 'Domestic trouble caused her to separate from her husband, bnt tho pair woro rounitod and went to live on a farm at Bloomington, near Wilmington. Saturday night sho went to her room, and, opening her watch, waited till thq/hands came together at midnight and then shot herself In the head. Being asked why sho shot, herself, “Trouble, trouble,” she auswerod, and died with the words on her lips.