Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1898 — Chose an Awful Death. [ARTICLE]

Chose an Awful Death.

Cleveland, 0.. June 28,—Miss Anne Forester, of 67 Hamm street, committed suicide Monday morning in a most tragyc manner at Oakdale, a suburb, where she was visiting. She went into a barn and saturating the interior of f the building with coal oil applied n match and knelt down in the midst of the flames, praying that her life might be taken away.. She could not be rescued and died in terrible agony.