Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-12-17
sURCEASE OF SORROW.
The Uncertain Hereafter Preferred
TO Present His.

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TO Present His.
Suicide seems to have become epidemic.
Who knows but it may be a mental plague,
this self-destruction, that has it's run, az
those purely bodily ailments, the small
pox aud cholera? The two latest cases OF
death from the disease Of felo de SO in this
State, not heretofore reported in this
paper, are this one taken from the Turca-
rora Times Of last Saturday:
A few minutes past 7 o'clock this morn
ing, Michael Wagner, ST., committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the head
The particulars Of the affair, as CLEANED
from the members of the family briefly
are as follows: The deceased and wife,
with their grown-up son, Mike. occupy a
dwelling a few rods east of the Grand Prize
mill, where he was employed as night
Waterman. Coming off shift at the usual
hour, as was his custom, he lighted q fire,
fed his team and busted himself doing
chores about the house until he was called
to breakfast, of which he partook with the
rest Of the family, apparently seeming as
cheerful as usual. His son left him at the
table and started toward town upon an
errand, and the wife of the unfortunate
man had temporarily left the room,
when she heard the fatal shot. 1t
appears that the deceased had arisen
from the breakfast table and APP
preached a small cot bed upon which he
was accustomed to sleep during the day,
over which was hanging q large-sized Al
caliber Colts revolver, and had placed
the muzzle Of the weapon into his mouth
and discharged it, dropping the pistol
upon the bed. His death was not instan-
taneous, as he walked from the breakfast
room to the entrance at the rear
OF the house, just outside of which he
fell. The alarm was Immediately given,
which was promptly responded to by en-
gineer Bray and others who found him
lying on his back with his head in q pool
OF blood, the body still warm, but life was
extinct. Deceased was q native of Bava-
ria. emigrated to this country in 1855,
and was 60 years of age at the time of his
death. He has resided in this section for
the last ten or twelve years, always well
liked and finding employment in some Ca
paoity about the mills and hosting works.
He leaves a wife and two sons, one OF
whom is residing at Bodie. No cause is
known for the preparation of the rash
act, except that be occasionally brooded
over his losses Of money through deprecia-
ton in mining stocks, but more particu-
larly over the result Of a lawsuit against
him several months ago, in which he
claimed he was defrauded.
And this one from the Virginia Enter
prise of last Sunday:
About 8 o'clock yesterday afternoon
Rose Barber was found lying dead upon a
lounge in her room at the house of Mrs.
Gilmore out toward the Divide. By her
side wa found an empty bottle labeled
laudanum, and which had probably con
tanned about two ounces OF the drug. De-
ceased was a woman about So or 40 years
of age, and has no relatives on the Com
stock. She came here foul days ago, and
intended to give exhibitions is glass blow
ing. For a day or two past she had been
in search of a suitable room in which to
give her exhibition, and during this time
she complained Of severe pains in her
chest. No reason for her taking her life is
known to anyone here except her illness,
and il may be that her suicide was not in
territorial; she may have taken an overdose
of the drug. 1t is said that this woman,
two or three years ago, lived with 'Sher-
man, the fisherman" at Pyramid lake.
II this be true, she has attempted suicide
once before, having taken a dose of poison
in a Douglsss-alley house at Reno, about a
year ago.