The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-09-19

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be scaling the stars and communing
with the mighty dead.
Some time in May Albert Noha. a la
borer living i'm West Eighteenth street,
in the Bohemian district. lost his Job I'm
the lumber yards and killed himself in
order that his wife and children might
profit by the life insurance he carried
I'm a benevolent society. He did not
stop to consider the grief he was aus
ing the mother and little ones. While
his rash deed brought them enough 10
lift the mortgage that was consuming
their modest cottage home. il was hard
for them to become reconciled to the
thought that the father by taking his
own life was endangering his happiness
in the next world. Michael Paucek,
another labOrer of that district, COM
mitted suicide in July at his boarding
house. 6l6 West Nineteenth street. be-
cause he owed a board bill of "a years
standing. To his friends he declared
his belief that he would never be able
to settle the board bin. Then he took
a pistol and shot himself in the head.
| Thus the board bill was settled.
one or the strongest cases occurring
I'm June was that of Charles shank,
who. 1T was said. took poison and died
to escape the pangs of remorse conse-
quent upon the taking of a human life.
Shank was "A janitor and lived at 3G5
West Chicago avenue. When a young
man he stabbed a comrade, Frederick
Kinzte. who died of his Wounds. and al
though Shank escaped the gailows the
heavy hand Of conscience wa ever
upon him and his rest was eaten up by
remorse The shadow Of his crime fol-
lowed him relentlessly. Kinz.e had
been his friend up to the trivial quar-
rel that led to the murder. He mar
RED and tried TO live down the mem
DRY OF the past, but without avail. He
became more morose and blacker with
despair as the years passed. At last
he borrowed a dollar from a relative.
bought "A bottle Of carbolic acid and
locked himself I'm a room and drank
the poison at one gulp. He had been
dead for hours when they broke i'm the
door and found him.
There were many other curiosities i'm
the way of suicidal motives i'm Chicago
cases during the first half of this year.
AdoIph Bruins. a florist who lived at 262
Lincoln street, killed himself in July
for the reason that a pronosal of mar
riage made by him had been declined
by the woman of his affections on the
ground that he was not able to support
her I'm the luxurious style TO which she
was accustomed. After this life was
uncomfortable. He shot himself in the
head and died soon after the nbvsician
arrived.
Honoratio Won Primavesi. who claim
ed TO be a member of a celebrated Aus
trlan family of bankers. swallowed four
KINDS or poison, each from a different
wal, and lay down to meet death ON
The prairie at Lincoln and Peterson
avenues, in the latter part of June.
me believing of a frightened COW at
tfacted the police to his body. In the
dead mans pockets were found the four
Elals ana a long letter in German This
Ietlef was devoted to mfsantbropic
musings. The man had been a chemist
ana teacher of languages. and he was
Seeillnsly anxious to probe the myste-
= - the His brain was
pelueathed TO the medical profession
Mrs. Mary J. Gage of 1456 ParL ~
nue. put an end to her life because Of
ntr loneliness as a widow. To escape
rom imaginary enemie during Tho
Iast days of June, Amilia Hoffen Of Ii6
'hioaSo avenue drank carbolic acid
anu polltely requested Police Officer
Hanson To step in and watch her in
the act of dying. He reportad no. 49,
was much less thrilling and dramatic
imam many Of the dying acts he bod
seen on the stage. Convinced that Iifa
held no charm for him. Peter Won
h~arrcElnk called a neighbor to Wit
ness ms death struggles i'm June at 55I7
ie"lla street, in which vicinity he
owned considerable property. He
drank enough carbolic acid In Ism
three men before his astonisbed wiz
ness could interfere n carried his 40,
hrouEh 10 the end with a consummats
arr mat many stage people woul. d.,
Wen TO copy. He had sufficient wa1ltb
Tor a life Of ease. did not baya In
work, and yet he was unhaDpv rhisg,,
because his cook and housekaCpor h,d
deserted him and gone TO live in ,
small town i'm Central Illinois. on lime
. Albert Wolf. ~ years old. dranx IN
ounce or Carbolic acid and died for love
OF Belle Cardinal, Is years old, who
was too young to become his ~,
Young Wolf was n musician of Gpe
accomplishments and had been we'll
educated. but his youthful love affair
unbalanced his mind. There were sey-
eral suicides from the high bri Ice in
Lincoln park, in which the actors made
LOUDLY sure of success by swallowing
poison Just before taking the fatal lean
into the water.
John Geiger, a Lemont photorrapher
early I'm June shot himself because he
hau TWO friends on board the battle
snip Maine when il was blown m and
he a no opportunity of ~ayenging
their death by fighting the Spaniards.
Tie had joined a company of Colonel
hartlgan's regiment and paraded with
the Lemont detachment during Deco
ration day exercises in Chicago. The
disappointment at not being allowed 10
go In the front was too much for him
y soldier named bigger of Battery A
9Th artillery, July %. at Fort CIinch
Fla, committed suiCile by drowning
after telling his comrades that he
would never go home again looking as
bad as he did from a recent spell of
sickness; that he could not stand meet
ing his sweetheart again under such
circumstances.
Julius =. Philipson. proprietor of a
thriving business i'm Newark, N.
shot himself through the head for no
other reason thar that his partner. Al
bert Drummer. had killed himself about
six weeks before. Charles Ohmaun. 4
~2t-year-old resident of Long Islrrl
sought the refuge of death because ne
was tired of the humdrum life of a
farmer.
But imagine a man whose inartisti,
nose is the sole motive for DRIVING linn