Show john sullivan killed himself stood over a stick of powder and waited for it to explode john aged about 33 years and of mr and mis din I 1 sullivan well known erieka people blew himself up with powder at about ten clock this morning he went to the entrance of the cellar in the rear of the family home and after touching off a stick of giant powder deliberately stood ver it until the explosion occur red both legs blown off below the knees and he was also injured al out the deith shortly after noon or about tw hours later sullivan together with his father and a younger arother went to work upon leise in the bullion beck mine this morning john was working bome little distance from his father an 1 with out saying iny thing he left the mine and went home evidently taking a stick of powder with him he could not hav e been home more than a few minutes before the exi lasion took place and several hundred people who attracted to the scene siw the man lying upon the ground with both legs literally blown to pieces he was con at the time ind he waa sorry he di 1 not make a better job of it when fe went to work he was to all appearances in his usual health and feeling good and the family an 1 friends are at loss to know what caused him to take u own life no arrange ments hi e yet been made for the fun eral |