The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-05-02
ONE MORE FAILURE
A Broadway Grocery Establishment
Goes to an Assignee.
SUICIDE AND A MYSTERY
An Unknown Man Takes Poison In
the Grand Central Hotel-Prom-
inent NJ. p. Men Doing
Business on the Fly.
Special Dispatch to the Standard

special Dlspatch TO the standard.
Helena, May 1.-Charles II. Henlon, a
groceryman doing business on Broad
way, assigned to-day, naming James l..
McGrew assignee. His assets are said
TO be more than $4,000 and his liabili-
ties amount to $5,450, OF which $500 is
In the preferred class and $3.50 in the
second class.
The Silver Bow Gold g. Precious
Stone Mining company was incorporat-
ed to-day by George f. Miller, Edwin
s. Booth and others of Butte, with a
capital stock of $50 900.
w. b. Willard Of omaha and others
to-day Incorporated the Kennel Mining
company. with a capital stock of $1,000.
The company expects to develop mines
at Virginia City.
An unknown man who arrived from
the west yesterday afternoon commit
ted suicide early this morning in the
Grand Central hotel by taking poison.
He registered as &c. Walker Portland,
ore.." but that is not believed by the
authorities to be his name.' The stran-
ger took extraordinary precautions to
conceal his identity. He went to bed
about 10 o'clock and, IL is surmised,
took morphine. as. in a note left to the
coroner. he said he took the drug and.
as its action was not quick enough. he
afterwards took strychnine. He was
AOhiih dboul H. CDiStlOuSs Dul III
great agony. He admitted taking the
poison, but refused to say who or where
his friends were. Half an hour after
wards and before the antidotes forced
into him could have effect, he died
The suicide left the following letter to
the coroner: Dear Sir-Least any one
else should be suspicioned of having
poisoned me. hereby inform you that
i, by my own hand, have taken IL
grains of morphine. 1t would be use
less to look for my friends or relatives.
j am penniless and alone in the world.
i have lived about half my natural life
allotted to man, and can conscientious
ly state that the only act in my life
that / regret is that ] should be COM
PEELED to make the disposition of my
corpse a burden on the general public
of the city of Helena. For this most
sincerely beg leave to apologize. as well
for the inconvenience l may cause the
Grand Central hotel. Please give my
body TO some dissectionist. IL he wants
II. Respectfully yours,
-. - The Suicide"
The inquest held this afternoon fail
ed to disclose the mans Identity. He
was buried this afternoon in the pot
ter's field.
Helena, May President Brayton
Ives of the Northern Pacific company
and a party of eminent New York at
torneys representing the faction inter-
ested in the road, arrived here this
evening on a special train from Mil
waukee. The purpose of the visit was
TO have Judge Knowles enter an an
cillary decree adopting the DEGREES of
Judge jenkins, foreclosing the mort
cages upon the Northern Pacific rail-
road and property. Judge Knowles
signed the decree and the party left
at midnight for Portland where the at
torneys will bring the same matter be-
fore Judge Gilbert OF the United States
circuit court. II was the intention of
the party to run through to Portland
and stop at Helena on the return trip.
The train passed through this after
noon, but at Garrison President Ives
received a telegram from Judge Gilbert
to get Judge Knowles signature to the
ancillary decree before going further.
Accordingly, the return trip was made
to Helena. The party will return by
way of Boise and get Judge Beatty's 5
signature to a similar decree.