I just find these type of items interesting/ amusing now, 120 plus years later, as things have changed so much. Such a thing would NEVER be put in a modern day newspaper, they don't even publish about suicide these days, if it can be avoided. Sometimes it is so well known that it is unavoidable. One of my ggrandmother's brothers hung himself and it was put right on the front page of the paper, in plain English. A few years ago the Reformer had an anniversary during which they published reprints of old front pages and there it was. I had never known about this until I saw it in that paper. Of course this man had no idea that all these years later this is what he will be noted for. Ruth > The Vermont Tribune, Ludlow, Friday, July 26, 1889 > A. MADDEN has had another attack of vomiting, but is better at present > writing. (I'm sure his fellow townspeople were eager to hear this > IMPORTANT news. RHB) -- Ruth Barton mrgjb@sover.net Dummerston, VT