Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-24
ANOTHER vrorrM
: isesident o. Gaaena street s-uoc..n. ].
Too Free Use OF tine Ardart

II ~ q Galena Street saocunbs !
Too Free Use Of tine Ardent. :
Az half.past 8 o'clock yeatardav -
lng, q member of the dsmi.mond. - ~
uaiena street died rom the effects a. me-
.ongeo q steady devotion to alcohol;
~umuiants She had q room in A.,
lafayette House over the American n
: cnange IN that locality where an ;nonss,
was held by Justice Dineevon i =,
absence OF Coroner Amsden latar = -.
forenoon. The testimony developed thu,
su0 came to town last spring and had
s,nce hved In the neiehborhood where she
uaeo. At first she followed the precar;ous
lepnan saloon, and afterward aworked,,
=. sne Toledo, but latterly had led the
m'epnant saioon, but latterly had led the
ne o. careless abandon common to the
- oenisens OF Galena street which she
drunk. anu seaylng
q friend OF hers named Marshall. who
WAS with ner when she first felt unwell on
Erioay, attended her during the day and
evening IN ner room, and testified that she
nad taken no drugs in his presence. He left
ner at Q O'Clock yesterday morning in her
room ahve, and when he returned after 6
O'Clock she was dead.
from the testimony of Annie Grey. an
ntimat OF the deceased, it was learned
the habit OF using opium TO relieve her pain.
ene q not her to remain sober a
week at q time since she knew her. The de-
ceased began to drink heavily when the
circus was here last, and had been contin-
uaily under the influence of LIQUOR ever I
since. She had often spoken oil committine
suicide from disgust at the life she was
A verdict of death from alcoholism was
returned by the Jury.
Among her effects vas a letters appar.
ently rom her husband named Daniel |
Cavenee, at Stanley, Wisconsin, i'm which |
reference was made to q child which the |
father expressed his intention of maintain. |
ing. he was notified OF her death. Ii is |
understood that the deceased came here
from st. Paul, and has relatives il good
circumstances living there. The remains
were decently laid out in her room at the
expense OF the friends she made during her
existence here.
mot DEAD, BUT sLEEPMG.'
ava adOc nour tnlS mOrnlnglb was learned |
that the friends of the deceased doubted
whether she was dead or merely in a
trance. A visit to the room in the Lafay.
cite House, where she slaid out decently
Tor burial in q neat casket. was made by q
The small, clearly apartment
was occupied by two women and some half
dozen men, engaged in eagerly dis
aussing the possibilities of her being
still alive. One felt her pulse at the
wrist and declared he could feel it beat
though feebly. Another thrust his fingers
under her neck and declared the body was
still warm. One OF the women asseverated I
hat on a previous occasion she had been
three days in a trance, had been placed in
coffin as she was 10Y and recovered.
Hen face had certainly none of the pallor |
d death, though it and her hands and
were unnaturally white. The finger
nails WEI natural in color, and her cheeks
we're full and rounded ami when pressed {
With the finger the flesh resumed it's con-
'our naturally. But the lips were blood. !
ess and the skin was cold to the touch. Il
At q late hour, when the reporter left, 4
Ter friends were considering the advisability !
If sending for q doctor to investigate
whether she was really dead or only in a
atalepsy.