Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1884-08-19

A SENSATIONAL SUIcIDE.-The suicide of
Edward G. Steers on the pier in front OF
Hyde Hall, Otsego Lake, N. T., last
Wednesday, was sensational and dramatic
affair. Young Steers was the son OF Schuy-
Ter B. Steers, one of the wealthiest men in
Louisiana. Three years ago he fell in love
with Theresa White, cousin of ]. Pell
Clarke and Hyde Clarke, two of the lead
ing society men in Central New York, and
the possessors of 10000 acres of fine land
decided by George III to George Clarke.
Hyde Hall is the old family mansion, and
overlooks magnificent bay. Wednesday,
late in the afternoon, young Steers and
Wilson Curtis, son Of Judge Curtis, of
Cooperstown, invited Theresa White and
her two lady companions to row across Os-
tego lake to pleasant grove, there to enjoy
a lunch, and subsequently to visit Hyde
Clarke, at Hyde Hall just opposite. After
the picnic, Steers took Miss White in his
boat and hurried ahead of Curtis and the
other ladies. Arriving at the dock he jump
ed ashore and said to his companion:
''Tese' (his pet name for Theresa,) 81
ask you once more for all, will you marry
me?''
''You know / cannot" she replied.
"Then," said he, "I'll shoot myself"
In an instant he drew revolver and shot
himself just under the right eye, the ball
coming out of the top of the skull. Death
was instantaneous.
Young Steer father sent him abroad two
years ago, thinking he would forget Miss
White, and last winter sent him to India.
He has always had all the money he wished,
and moved in the best society. Wednesday
was his 21st birthday.
A correspondent called TO see Miss White
Thursday at Otsego Lake, but found her
delirious and incoherent: Her mother gave
the above facts, adding that she would not
allow her daughter to marry him because he
was dissipated. No one saw young Steers
shoot himself except Miss White. The body
lay on the dock all the afternoon, covered
with leaves and brush, awaiting the arrival
of the coroner from Cooperstown, eight
miles by boat. Miss White is at present in
dangerous condition from nervous shock
BLAINE AS A MINE OPERAToR.-One of
the many mistakes made by the supporters
of Mr.. Blaine is their stout effort to present
their candidate as the special friend and
champion of labor. In this respect Mr..
Blaine's record will not bear inspection
The coal-producing counties of Pennsyl-
vania, in one or more of which Mr.. Blaine
formerly operated mines, have been heard
from. A correspondent of the New York
Herald, who has investigated this subject
with good degree of thoroughness, says
that those counties are consolidated against
Blaine. He adds:
Republican members of the Knights of
Labor already admit that Blaine has no
strength among any of the organized socie-
ties Of that section. The Irish coal-miners
have learned that Blaine was once engaged
in mining speculation and that he dis
charged all the Hibernians in order to give
employment to Norweglans and Italians, all
aliens, who worked for 65 cents per day
He allowed the Irish to die in the aims
houses, as many of them did. Blaine grew
rich out of this enterprise and the Richmond
and Allegheny road, but it was at the ex.
pense of the deluded laborers. 1t is difficult
to tell which were more miserable-them men
who served or the men who were discharg
ed. The former had to live on rice and rats,
and the latter only had to de-
All this contrasts very strongly with the
loud professions in Mr. Blaine's letter of &C
ceptance, but it is in perfect harmony with
the utter Indifference shown by President
Gar6eld's Secretary of State to the wretch.
ed condition of Irish-Americans who had
been arrested on groundless suspicion and
shut up in British prisons to die by inches.
- Washington Post