The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-08-20
nEATH or John n. HUnHARD
ny suicide on Monday, In HampshIrs

~ HalNAeN w.
County.
This community was profoundly shock.
ed yesterday afternoon by the telegraphic
announcement that John R. Hubbard
had taken his life the day before in Hamp.
shire county, whittier he had gone q few
DAYS before for recreation. The truth Of
the report was at first questioned, but lat
er kilograms confirmed It. His remains
arrived in this city on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at II o'clock last night,
From a gentleman who accompanied Mr..
from this city, and who was
with him before and alter the suicide, we
learned the following particulars: ave
left this city on last Wednesday TO spend
several days in hunting and fishing, at
Hanging Rock, near Romney In
Hampshire county. We at once IN
our arrival there began our sport. Mr..
Hubbard seemed homesick and steadily
refused to take part In any OF our sports,
and was always wanting to go home, On
Saturday, however, w%eprevailed on him 10
90 on a deer drive. Mr.. Parsons, with
whom we were boarding, exhibited mus
ket and q navy revolver which latter Mr..
Hubbard selected against the will Of Par.
sons, but upon his insisting, Mr.. Parsons
gave It to him. We then posted ourselves
At intervals over the mountain, and direct
~ we heard the report OF the revolver,
which Mr., Hubbard had discharged. Up.
on returning from the "driVe" he explain.
ell that It had been discharged Accidently.
but I ioked him, telling him that he had
the "buck fever" He did not take this
very we'll and l said no more to him. He
put the revolver III the drawer In which
Mr.. Parsons usually kept It, and Mr..
Hubbard expressed some anxiety as to
whether 1t would be safe from the child.
ron. He went fishing once or twice
but 1t had no attraction for him. On Sun.
day he wa unusually cheerful, and did
not want 10 90 home as he had IN other
days. On Monday We arranged for an
other 'drive" and started out before
breakfast intending 10 return by nine
O'Clock in the morning, but were unex-
pectedly detained, and 1t was after eleven
o'clock before We got home. We were
then told that Mr.. Hubbard had left
shortly after we had gone, taking with
him the navy revolver. Mrs. Parsons
said that when she was preparing break
fast she had noticed him walking around
tho porch once, and that he directly came
around again with his cost turned up
around his throat, and that after q few
minutes he went away. She soon after
wards heard the report OF ONE frearm
| I,,k NI,a 1Nst,k u tra uF ma n nH N1a I,,akaHa -
did not take much notice Of 1t. After din
ner the party began a search for
him, but not finding him, they await
ed the arrival Of the stages that had
gone to the railroad station that morning,
thinking perhaps that he had taken one
Of them and gone home, but on inter
rOgating the drivers, they said that they
had not seen him. Another search, there
fore, was al once instituted, and the pools
in the neighborhood were dragged, but
without success. He was not found until
yesterday morning at s o'clock, when one
Of Mr.. Parsons neighbors discovered him
lying on his face in some underbrush
about a hundred and fifty yards from the
house, with a bullet hole through his
temple. He at once gave the alarm. The
coroner OF the county vas summoned, and
the testimony Of the man who found him
taken. The body was as soon as possible
brought to the railroad station at Green
Spring Run, and from thence to this city.
"When found Mr., Hubbard was stretch
ed at full length upon the ground, and
from the appearance OF things he had evi.
IDENTIFY gone to the grove and sat down
upon the stump Of a sapling, and
then had taken of his hat, (which
was lying close by) placed the revolver
to his temple and fred, and then sprang
forward in the throes Of death. The re.
yoIver was tightly clgtched in his right
hand. His face was very much disagur6d,
as the ball was an unusually large one"
Mr.. Hubbard wa a native OF this city,
and was about 81 years OF age at the time
Of his death. He and his brother Henry
have been engaged in the lumber business
for many years, doing business Just south
Of Sixteenth street, on the creek bank.
lie has once or twice been prominently
before the people as a politician, and
in 1878 was the opponent of Hon. Ben,
Wilson IN the Congressional contest oil
that year, and received 9 most tlattering
vote in this city aud county. About siY
months ago Mr. Hubbard began to regard
his business affairs in a gloomy light, and
each day increased this feeling, until he 81
last said to many friends that he and his
family would come to want, although
there really was no basis for such a fear,
To such an extent did this anticipated
trouble prey upon his mind that it assum.
! cd the form OF Mononania, and his strange
actions alarmed his family and friends
and to divert his mind from his iancied
griefs the trip that has resulted so fatally
was projected on Wednesday Of last week
he, in company with Messrs. Wood Glass
and Russell Hubbard, went to Hampshire
county to hunt and fish.
Mr.. Hubbard leaves q wife and seven
children.
On arrival last night, his remains were
removed to the undertaking establishment
Of link &Son, in Centre Wheeling, where
they viii! be properly encased and re-
moved to his residence to-day, when ar.
rangements will be made for HE funeral.