New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1885-08-28
cRAZED BY MANY TROUBLES.
.uo,r1Se HIMSELF IN HIS WAREHOUSE.
Mn wEnNER's FAMILY AND BUSINESS 0"i'''
DRIVE HIM TO sELr-DEsTRUcTIoN


Jobn Baptste Edward Wehner proprietor OF , 1ne
syUitnre storage and salesrooms at Nos looI iSo
and IO7 West Thrty-third-sti coinmi,.ou ns who
s a% in his place of business Persons "n 40
{nev him hest said that he had become insane on
account of family and business troubles % Cor
Wehner was sixty years old, and nao nSe 70 this
many When he was young man ne ca' H ~ ,ears
c;tv and married an Irish, girl Untll Jew S;s
600 ne MAS successful in business aud hapry ~ I hi
FAMILY relations. His family. cons.s.InE IInion
VIE unT between One-hundred and sky.
fmrtb and s Ser the
and his CaspaI had rcauen nnd his wife took
youne n ma" mans part The family disagreements
began to attract public attention to shoot his son
story that e Men" Not long after that episode
was SCI os mt in circulation that he had broken
much OF the furniture in us ons1 W caII in the
Inat ILLS hoS for protection In December 1881 MI
WaIneT was accused of throwing man down SUN, hs
in his place of business The man was SEM w leG
Nem.York Hospital. suffering from broken ,oei
He sned Mr. Wehner for damages aiter crli', n"s
complaint had been dlsmsseu, onG while under
he inanence of liquor and the complaint aea'ns'
Mr.. Wehner was dismissed .o,ur .-orb,es
,onI more serions turn. His wife and daughters
wIo lad refused TO speak TO him for some t,ie;;
went into tho country. declaring tnat tnsy he
n nov ndo eli the furniture from his house to his
storage rooms and sold part OF ~. ne nnu sno;v
involved in some business trouoio 'o, and he had
cares aSsnieu j.; Morr,sania i'm his wife's name He
hogan suit to recover possession OF inc pIop'a,sd
Mrs. Webner i'm tnrnhcgan q suit for separation anu
oii5,onv The Court awarded her weekly al fo.
ance pendng q decision Ia the case N1itnIl VI NJ W.
family suits bad been brought 10 uiai WHICH, Aii
Wenner Mr Wsner moved the furniture from his
honse no went to live at the Barrett House when
he learned that his wife mad returned To-
aud had begun proceedings to recover tbe iurhluG'
In decided TO send back what remained unSoiu.
Ue also purchased some new articles 70 repi tbo
those which had been sold. ana sent Ineh 70 'le
b,,So l., Norrsania last week. On Tuesday we
roceiycd letter from his son. statng that Iheso
new articles would be returned 10 nun uhieSs NJ
wrote an acknowledgment that theV were lh,eluo i
g. taIe fbe mace of articles which belonged 10 MS
wife and which had been sold by hlin, re seimon
to be much depressed ~ spirits aitef 'e 5 cte T 70
his book.keeper. +. +. Kenncnberg ana sal '1al
he despaired of ever having peace ID the World me
had always kept bis business closely 10 nllSg,i oue
he admitted that his affairs had come nearly 10
noint whore he would be compelled TO stop.
Mr. Wehner did not 90 TO ms place OF ousiness
nervous and distracted. lie showed to Mr.. kennen-
bcrc long letter which he had written early I'D inc
morning at the Barrett House 1t was addressed
"a his wife and il contained many declarations OF
scf.reproach and of love for her lie wrote lIal ne
had been so much distracted by bnsbess trouples
thar hes had not sane enough to treat DIS fanny
we'll If she would send her lawyer to him he prom
ised TO make any terms of settlement whieh snc
desired for the sake of peacc when ne IeIu over
portions of the letter to Mr.. kennenbeIg ne
inGuircd: ADO yon think sane man could nave
written such letter as thatP
Aftervaru he tore the letter to pieces and burned
mn the fragments. Then lac told Mr.. Kennenberg
fhat he had been to WOO1lawn Cemetery ia the
rorning to see abont buying a burial plot ool,9-
thin may happen to me one of these days he sald,
aani / want TO be prepared for the worst" tie
called John Condor. clerk, and asked MN now
man acted when he was crazy AS kennenberg ana
onestions. he became excited and cried out If
You don't think I'm crazy say you do anyhow
About 3 D. m when Mr.. Wehuer was supposed TO
I, in
clerks heard pistol shot. They found MI Wenher
diving on the floor of the ROOM lie had shot Nun
self through the heart with revolver OF large SIZE
on1 IN a few moments he was dead. Information of
ms death was sent to his family soon afterward,
ami the consent of the Coroner was obtained ior the
removal of his body to an undertaFers shOp.
THE WABASH ROAD AND IT'S EMPLOYEES.
eURTHER INvEsTIG ALTON NECESSARY - DID The
KNIGHTS OF LABOR DEMAND DisCHAkoEsI
The q a members of the Executive Board Of the
Knights OF Labor who came 10 the city Tor the
purpose of settling the trouO les on inc WABASH
Railroad. have completed their labors mere ana
departed for their homes. Early yesterday mornlhe
a Communication was received from General Man
ager Talmage bv Secretary Turner, requesting tbat
some of the committee should car on niin lor tne
Turner and John w. Hays went TO the western
Union Building, where they met Mr. Talmage lie
told them that he had thought carefully over the
snbect matterof the conference of the day before,
bnt was not disposed to give any dehnite answer
until he had investigated the state oil alialrs III the
either on Saturday or Sunday. and he would then
have an opportunity for personal investigation.
Therefore he would request the committee 70
meet MN in st Lonis some day next week which
would be mutually agreeable and the whole matter
could be then settled.
the Western Union Building full meeting OF the
Executive Board was held and MIR. Turner made his
report After some discussion 1t was resolved that
inasmnch as some of the members lived ut n long
distance from the next place OF meeting that the
whole matter be left in the hands OF Master WORK,
man Powderly and Secretary Turner, with full
mower 10 act. This decision was transmitted TO
Mr. Talmage and he promised TO inform Messrs
Fowdery and Turner when he would be ready TO
receive them. Afterward the time was fixed at
Before leaving for Scranton Mr. Powderly said to
TRIBUNE reporter awe have every reason to be
pleased with the result of our work. i think
matters have been smoothed over that about all
the work that will be necessary in St LOUIS next
week will be to make arrangements Tor the men 10
20 to work. We have asked only Justice and am
free to confess that we have been met IN fair and
honorable spirit i am afraid that Mr. Talmage
must have misunderstood us in the matter OF dis
charging the men who have been at work since
June &. We certainly made no such demand, and
am sorry that anything we may have SAID should
have been so construed. We only wish to have our
own men who were locked out re-employed and in
the future no discrimination against men who
Two members of the General Executive Board of
the Knights of Labor; called at the office OF the
Wabash st. Louis and Pacific Railway to explain
that they had not demanded the discharge OF the
men employed by the receivers since the reopening
OF the shops on June 10. lney salu tnat thcy
simply demanded that the members of tie associa
ton who were thrown out of work by the closing
of the shops should be reinstated and that II there
not sufficient work to employ the additional
men, places should be made for them by the dis
chaIge of non-union men hired since June l6. The
:pombers of the board insisted that they had not
tcmansd.ed the discharge of the non union workmen
General Manager Talmage said that he would be
Obliged TO return to st. Louis TO get the required
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the wen employed since June 10.
Mr. Talmage said to TRIBUNE reporter iast
night: @Tbere some confusion In the press
this morning about the results of yesterdays con-
ference between the Knights of Labor representa-
tives and the Wabash officials 1t stated n
some places that another conference would be held
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