The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-26
DEATHS.


CHICAGO. Jar 2s-Thecdore Be1hara.
a travelling SALESMAN. - years old. was
found dea1 fn MS room a. the Hotel Grace
;S.zv. A rnusnsr was tied around nss
throaf. and he rad leaned forward in suca
a way IS 70 cause straagulasion- Ben
ham lived a. Spokane. Waxa.. and trar-
e.es Cor a xtnneapoiis house T. = under
stooa he had troub.e with his wife
SPOKANE Jan S-The news Of the
suicide Of Theodore Bsnaarn in Chicago
today came as = great surprise 70 MS
sr.eras IN this city, where ne was we4i-
known among s;G-tirne residents HIS Wild
ozr Il Frustrated with gr1es Mr. Belh2rn
came to Spokane in lsS2 and for years
carried on a business as builder and con-
tractor. He LEFT Spokane two weeks ago
with mans TO meet his brother az Men
don. Mich. 20 engage with him as q trav-
cling salesman. He visited relatives in
Minneapolis. and from that city he wrote
a cheerful letter 70 his wife. From there
he weut 70 Chicago 10 buy goods and X
l. thought here that be must have been
taken III and in a moment OF mental
alteration ended his life. Benham was
bern in Naples. y. 7. IN fsS2 In iss1 he
came 70 southern Oregon. where ne en-
gagged in mining and contracting ard
made a great deal Of money. IN 1877 ne
went 10 Nevada and remained there IN
II he came 10 this city.
Mrs Elijah Carson.
CHICAGO. Jan. z.-Ars. Elijah Carson
is dead.
The career OF Mrs. Carson is remarkable
IN that she crossed the Atlantic ocean 80
times. and possessed the record OF never
having missed a trip on the Lucanis since
that vessel was launched. For thirty
years she has been travelling across the
Atlantic until her face has become a fanil-
Of 49, AL
l. said to have been received en- intimate
terms by the Assors and vanderbilts and
other prominent families OF the country,
who had long been accustomed 10 meet her
on her trips across the sea, and Patti, the
.,riIna donna had the strongest liking for
her Mrs. Carson vas the widow Of Sam
uel Carson, of Belfast. Her brother. Will
lam 3. Newell. was a millionaire OF Nash
Vile, Tenn. Shortly after the death OF
her husband In 1854. Mrs. Carson came TO
America 70 visit her brother. This was
The beginning of her infafuation for the
sea Mr. Newell prevailed upon her 10
remain in America. and on his death be-
queathsd to her half million dollars in
cash and property. This allowance per-
mitted her 70 be continually on the water
A. II. Griesbach.
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. pa. H Cries
bach. solicitor for the publishing house
Of Appleton & Co. New York. by whom
he had been employed for over twenty
years, committed suicide at Sunnyside
Sunday by shooting himself in the head.
The family OF Griesbaca Is prominent in
military circles IN Berlin, a brother being
first heurananI In the Fourth regiment OF
Uhlans. and a sister being married 70 an
officer Of high rank in the German army.
When young man Griesbach held COM
mission IN the army and was a man OF
high literary entertainments. In addition
10 the income derived from his work, said
10 have been often 500 a day, he received
at Irregular intervals large sums from
Europe.
John 4. Reid.
NEW YORK. Jan 25.-John c. Reid, who
for four or five years had been in charge
or the Republican state headquarters at
tbs Fifth Avenue hotel. died today Of
heart trouble. Reid was a well known
newspaper man. Al one time he was con-
nected WIKI the mechanical department OF
the Chicago Times, and later for many
years was managing editor of the New
York Times. lie was IS years old.