Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1879-10-23
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Special HER.Lp Correspondent.
PRAIRIE DU CHEN, Oct. 2e.-Last
Sunday morning Mr.. H. Siegbert,
who has for many years been known
as the leading merchant of this city,
babe his family good bye and walked
down to his place of business at about
the usual Sabbath hour-say o'clock.
An hour afterward word went from
mouth to mouth that Siegbert had
shot himself.
And it was SO.
The way it all came to pass is sub.
stantially this: Siegoert went to a
drawer in the store aud took there.
from "a Smith 81 Wesson pistol be.
longing to one of the clerks, a young
man named Adder.
Then, when nobody was looking,
(for he was not alone 10 the store) he
slipped quietly into the warehouse,
one door down street.
Here, being alone and unobserved,
he quietly and deliberately made ar.
rangemen.s for the exit.
la mis- left hand he held a common
sized family looking glass.
Into this glass he looked calmly,
unflinchingly.
Then, having satisfied himself az
to the exsct spot, he placed the pis
tol against the right side of his head,
forward of the ear, and fred.
He was unconscious when they
carrieu MIN 70 the mouse, ana many
believed him dead f; but DR.. Hamil.
ton, who was there, assured them
that life was by no means extinct and
wasn't likely to be for some days.
In due time the unfortunate man
was restored to conscious less, cut
he was wildly beside himself and
talked foolishness altogether.
A message was sent to DR.. Mason,
OF Milwaukee, telling him to come a,
once, per special train.
He came, arriving some time dur.
ing the night.
After probing and probing and
probing for the bullet hours and
hoars, the doctor gave it up in de.
spair, having satisfied himself tina,
the lethal lead had gone into the
brain and was quite beyond the reach
of mortal skill.
The bullet went in at the "exac,
spot" but not at right angles, as wat
the intention. The handle of the pis
tol was held too far back, conse.
quently the ball went too far for
ward, 80 far that the right eye was
destroyed and bulged out of place
from behind.
And the condition of the man a
this time of writing-9 p. m, Mon
days that while there is one chance
of his recovery there are ninety.nint
chances the other way.
And the question everybody !,
and has been asking everybody els,
is, What made him do it?
Nothing Trustworthy in regard L
the cause of the black deed has al
yet been made public.
Theories, surmlse coniecturel
there are without number.
Such men as Mr.. Fay and Mr.
Beach and others of that cool head
rational class, think it's owing to tot
much wheat. About six weeks ago
Il know not what the truth may be
But tell it as twas told to mel
Mr.. Siegbert contracted to deliver t.
Chicago, on the 25th of this month,
great many thousand bushels o
wheat at SO cents bushel-so man,
bushels that, with wheat at 81 25 a.
it is now, it could not be delivered
without loss of some $22, 900 to tn,
unfortunate Spectator.
Another set of citizens say IT'S do
mestic trouble; which l do not be
lieve to be the case at all. The fam
lily seems to have been an uncom
monty happy one, dwelling lovingl,
together in unity all the time.
Then again we are told that tn
business of the house has been get
ting in bad way of late, and that
crash of some kind is inevitable.
In word; Mr.. Siegbert's attemp
at suicide is the all-absorbing them
of talk here, and wherever you fin,
two or three gathered together the,
are sure to be telling one another il
the strictest confidence what the
knew about the causes of the dis
tressing aud saddening occurrence
This is the fourth or fifth suicid
sensation this town has had within
year or two.
Maybe it's Sin the air." or perhap
it's owing to the mineral water, which
is said to enable those who drink i
freely to live as long as they want I,
fix them so they'd never die unles
they worked themselves off, "thei
4 1uietus made with a bare bodkYn,
as Hamlet hath it.
These October elections --hov
they do brace up ana tone up th
cause Of the currency apostle
throughout this fair and loyal land
In other days there was a song which
said.
Hans Breitmann had barty.
But we're ish dot barty nolc'
The above is affectionately inscrib
ed to those amiable and misguided
gentlemen of Grant county who, al
to the l4th of this month, actual,
believed themselves the Amounted
Custodians of the balance of powe
between the Democratic party ant
the Republican.
And this reminds me of an old IA
bic which ought to come in her,
about right:
THE FROG AND THE OK.
A frog envious of the proportion
of the Cattle in the Pasture, resolved
that both the old Oxen were hope
lessly Corrupt, and started Green
back party, declaring that he would
Poll Two Million Votes, and hold th
Balance of Power between the exist
ing Herds. On Thursday the I4tl
Day of October, however, the Herd
came to battle over choice Meadow
and in the melee, the Frog was trod
n