SUICIDE BY POISONING AT WIGTON. An inquest was held at Wigton on Monday by MR. JOHN CARRICK, deputy coroner, on the body of a woman named MARY BROWN. It appeared from the evidence that the neighbours, having noticed that the room occupied by deceased was closed during Sunday morning and afternoon, had the door broken open in the evening, when she was found quite dead. An empty bottle which had contained four pennyworth of laudanum obtained from a chemist the previous evening, and a cup from which she had drunk it, were both found empty. The room in which the unfortunate woman lived was destitute of anything in the shape of furniture, the only bed being a dirty ragged cloth. She wore gown, but no underclothing, and there was no food in the house. The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had died from the effects of laudanum administered by herself, but there was no evidence to show in what state of mind she was when she took it, or whether she had taken it to assuage pain or for the purpose of poisoning herself. ____________________ barb, ontario, canada.