Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-10-21
A NOTED SUICIDE.
DR.. Constantine Guzman, Son of Nicaragua
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Philadelphia Times

Dr. Constantine GuZman, Son of Nicaragua'S
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Philadelphia Times.
| News has Just been received from Mica
ragua of the sudden and tragic death of
DR.. Constantine Guzman, one of the most
noted and popular men in the country,
who was we'll known in Philadelphia,
where he studied medicine. He was
son of Gen. Don Fernando Guzman. the
ex-presldent of Nicaragua, and his broth
er, who was a student of the late DR..
Gross, married Miss Ewing, a grand
daughter of one of the first provosts of
OF the University of Pennsylvania. DR..
Guzman was born in 1S47, and in 1865
lett Granada for the United States to be-
GIN his professional education here. He
was prepared at the college at POUCH
keepsle, and from there he entered Har-
ward university, from which he graduated
In 1860. Leaving the United States a
year or two afterwards he went to
France, where he spent some time and
was engaged In the hospitals during the
| Franco-Prussian war. From France he re-
turned to Nicaragua and entered upon
! his professional career, meeting with the
| most brilliant success, and although so
| young a man, soon became known as the
.
In 1875 he made prolonged tour
| through the neighboring states of Guate-
mala and San Salvador, where he left
most distinguished reputation both as a
surgeon and physician. In 1879 he again
returned to the United States, and ex-
tended his travels to Europe, where he
spent some time In Berlin, making a
special study of diseases of the eyes and
ears.
| From Europe he returned to Nicara-
! qua, but he did not remain long, as he
| had met in travelling a young lady from
| Boston, and In 1882 he returned to the
| United States and married her. They
went to Mexico, where DR.. Guzman spent
few years until his health required a
| change of climate, and he removed to Cal
| 1tOrnla, where his widow is now living.
Business matters led him to make a hasty
trip In February last to his native town
OF Granada, In Nicaragua. Great prepar-
at1ons were made to greet him, and upon
his arrival all the bells in town were rung,
fireworks set off, and a feast prepared
for the sick and the poor, who came in
great numbers to welcome him. For
months his Office was filed day and night
with the sick and suffering from all the
nelghbOrlng country, who came seeking
relief. Half of his patients were unable
to pay, but he treated them the same as
the rich. The loss of sleep the overtax-
ing of his brain, and the use of narcotics
must have helped to upset his reason.
Hauing enemies, he began to think they
were pursuing him, and over month
was passed in the greatest anxiety and
suffering. He was daily watching for
secret assassins, and refused food from
the hands of his dearest friends. While
in this state of melancholy, one night
few weeks ago, a shot was heard and he
was found dead in his room, with a re-
| volver by his side and bullet through
his brain. He was the favorite of his
family, and the benefactor of the poor,
who loved him dearly. Over $4,000 has
already been subscribed in small sums
toward the erection of a monument to
his memory.