A young man about twenty-two years of age named George Barrett committed suicide here Thursday morning by shooting himself through the heart, after having taken a dose of strychnine. He was a clerk in the grocery store of C. R. Richardson. He called this morning on another young man and borrowed his revolver, saying that he wanted it to kill rats. He went to a small barn, tried the weapon, then returned to his room over the store and sent for a Miss Minnie Baldwin to some see him. She refused to do so, whereupon he shot himself and died a few moments after. He is supposed to have done the deed sorrowing over her non-requital of his affection.