The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1889-05-23
GEN. ANDEsON's SUICIDE,
A Wide Circle OF Friends Shocked
at the News That Ee Had Killed
Himself i'm Philadelphia.

Himself in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, Special Telegram, May Is.
The guests of the Lafayette hotel were
startled at midnight last night by a pis-
tol shot which echoed through the cor
ridars Of the hostelry. 4 night wath-
man who was on duty at the time also heard
the report and following the direction from
WHICH noise came, assembled to stairs to the
fourth floor and burst open the dour of a
toilet room. On the floor laid fashionably
dressed man, apparently sixty years of
age with bullet wound in his temple. He
was dead. Beside the body lay a revolver of
the bulldog pattern. He had registered an
son of New York. To-day Gen. Mer-
rill and John c. Anderson of New
York identified the dead man as Gen.
Adna Anderson, Henry Wizards right-hand
man in the construction of the Northern Pm
ctic railroad. Young Mr.. Anderson said his
father had left his home in Sing Sing last
Sunday to fill an engagement with Gen
Merrill About year ago the general
contract mountain fever. This troubled him
and finally developed ipto brt lin trouble His
family noticed that the ailment was growing
on him but were helpless to counte.ac its
i1tiuence. Mr.. Anderson assured the
coroner that his fathers domestic re-
lations were pleasant The funeral was in
easy circumstances, had sufficient money to
live comfortably, and the son was not aware
of any business troubles. He said he be-
lieved his father 10 have been insane at
the time of the shooting. Gen.
Merrill stated that he had noticed
indications of mental derahgment in his
friend during the past year. He would OF
times place his hand to his head in an absent
sort of way, and during conversation would
talk about irrelevant matters.
atn1 nNofo
Gen. Anderson's home proper was at Sing
Sing. where with mis- wife and several grown
up children he occupied o handsome
country residence. The family had, fol-
for fifteen years past, stopped at the
Everett house in Union square, when visiting
this city, which happened frequently.
The report that he had been on a spree
surprised his friends WHO had known
| him to be steady drinker but hac
never before heard of his being vsibly
agected by his indulgence. None of them
had eyer heard of his being in difficulties. OF
OF his being engaged in speculations
of any kind, though they acknowledged
that such might have been tbs
case without their knowing anything
! about it. To them the cause OF his suicide
was a mystery. Among his family Is sor
who assisted him in his office in tbs CITY
Another son ts said to be in the railroad bnsi
ness out West. One of his daughter
! Is the wife of son Oi
Gen. John G. Fremont At the Everett house
the report of Gen. Anderson's death wa
shock to all who heard of it, The news wal
conveyed to the family at Sing Sing, und
response was received stating that Mrs
Anderson would start a5 once for Phiiadel
phia.
Gen. Anderson was born in 1927 at Ridgeway
| N. Y. and was therefore sxty-two years of ag
i when stricken by the band OF death He Ell
i tered upon his railway career in SAT chain
a few months was called to the position of as
sstant engineer Of the Connecticut River road
His ability as an engineer soon became appar
ent, and he rose rapidly in his profession. III
became succ ssively engineer for sev
eral important railroads, and during TIL
period OF the war was in the govern
ment service, being successfully assist