SUICIDE! Lena Baum Takes Her Life by Jumping in the Canal. Disappointed Love the Cause. As we pen these lines the last sad rites are being paid to all that remains of a once bright and happy young life, one that had grown up from babyhood to womanhood in our very midst -Lena Baum, a respected and much beloved young lady. Then was it to be wondered at that feeling of horror and sadness pervaded every nook and corner of our quiet little city Monday morning as the word was passed from mouth to mouth that her dead body had been taken from the canal at an early hour. With some it was hard to realize that this was the case, as they had seen her but the day and night before as bright and vivacious as ever, enjoying the events brought about by the dedicatory services of the new and elegant St. Augustine's Church, and they could only be made to believe the terrible reality by visiting her former home and gazing upon her pale face, now silent in death. That Lena had taken her own life was an evident fact, but the cause for such a terrible step was a mystery, until after an investigation was made by Coroner Cloud, which revealed the following facts:

Upon Sabbath evening Lena retired to her room at about the usual bedtime hour, 9 o'clock, her parents recognizing nothing unnatural in her actions, or anything which would lead to a suspicion that she had intentions of taking her life. But the parents knew of a correspondence she had with a young man now living in Cairo. Ohio, but who formerly resided here, and that the unfulfilled promises he had given to her had made her feel badly, in fact so badly that she had shown to her father one or two of his letters, in which he had promised to come and see her, and at many times breaking that promise. She received a letter from her lover last week stating that he would be in Napoleon on the 17th Inst., the day set for the dedication of the new Catholic Church but his promise was not kept. In addition a threat was made that he intended marrying another. This seeming if not intentional neglect from one whom she expected to call husband so worked upon her mind after she had gone to her room that she determined to end her sorrow in a watery grave. With this intention on her mind, she left her room by the window, barefooted and with nothing on her person but a night dress, taking with her an old skirt; she walked to the wooden bridge which crosses the ravine connecting with the canal, not over three hundred feet from her home, tied the skirt to the railing, no doubt as a guide for those loved ones who would naturally seek for her, telling them where they might find her. and deliberately stepped upon the railing, as marks of her bare feet showed, and cast herself into the muddy waters of the canal, thus ending her own troubled life, and with the expectation that her sad death would act as a curse upon her perfidious lover, haunting him to his grave, as it certainly should. The Coroner's verdict was suicide by drowning. It is therefore certain that disappointment in love was the cause of the rash act, and the sad death of Lena Baum should be a forcible warning to her living young friends and associates. The parents and brothers and sister seem heart-broken and are cast down with grief. They have the sympathy of the entire community in their sad bereavement. The funeral took place from the family residence Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock, Rev. J. Zook conducting the services, the remains being followed to the grave by large numbers of friends and sympathizing neighbors.