BEDFORD WEEKLY MAIL BEDFORD, INDIANA FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1902 Brownstown, Ind., March 24. – John L. Vinson, committed suicide by swallowing two ounces of carbolic acid at his home here about 5 o'clock Sunday evening. He was night operator at Vallonia, three miles west of here. He went to bed at noon and at 5 o'clock his daughter went to his room to wake him up for supper and found him dead, with a two-ounce vial which had contained carbolic acid lying by his side. A check for $115 was found in his pocket addressed to his daughter, who keeps house for him, his wife having died last August. He was forty-three years old.