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Show A'PJLMrXY 'Or StJlCTfiES. " ; t - . . -. .. ... ' . . V ( ' 1 "Darld Brlggs. a Brooklyn farmer, the nineteenth member of his family to kill himself.. was found drowned today, says the New York World. He threw himself -into a mill pond on "the ' outskirts of Bridgeport Sunday night. The suicides of the family have followed at Intervals of a fe years for nearly half , a. century. Six years ago yesterday-Andrew Brlggs, a rich farmer weighted .'himself with a stone tied to a dog collar f fastened about his neck and walked Into a. pond. Him neighbors found a stick ts tened at the edge of the pond pointing to the place where the body lay. . . . |