Salt Lake Telegram | 1908-01-29 | Page 7 | Rum Sellers Kill Themselves While Worrying over Law

RUM SELLERS KILL THEMSELVES WHILE I WORRYING OVER LAW I CHICAGO Jan Jati 2 Two T Two saloon keepers keep keep- ers s committed suicide hero here under tinder remarkable remark remark- j I ablo able circumstances and arid the members of or their th families attribute the tho deaths solely to 0 worry l' l n over the closing losing u agitation of or din tho Law and Order league which they feared would ruin tho the saloon business and cause calise the saloon keepers to lo loi lono the tho savings ea In Invested invested In in- vested III in the saloons The Tue suU-ldes suU are Peter Pele Matron who shot himself In III the tue head cJ found dead ead on barroom oom floor ficor and Kaspar- Kaspar who shot hImself In tho head Ills last set act before clo closing ln tim tho saloon was to drink limIt a n. sardonic toast t to the tho L Law w and Order league eague saying rc ruining me all right Six hundred saloons saloon wt were rc closed in Illinois Illi nois on account of the new nw local option voted at t r the last election In fourteen counties tight Eight counties arc ni-c now totally dry dm 11 r while fix 1 ix allow saloons In On only I a it few precincts The Tho counties principally affected arc are In the southern tier Her und and 10 to ct the thc wave waye prohibition that has been sweeping up IP from mom the south The prohibition sentiment was al also o felt relt farther r north In iii tho tim state where ninny many towns voter voted out the tim saloons In Iii addition a n. systematic campaign for Sunday Sunda clos dos dosIng In ing of saloons is Js being prosecuted in cage