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Show Suicide op a Stage-Owner. The Reese River Reveille of Tuesday says : About half-past seven o'clcck this morning, John 8. Burnett, one of the proprietors of the stage line between this place and Battle Mountain, committed com-mitted suicido by shooting himself through the head, in his room at Slusher's hotel, where ho was stopping with his wife. Deceased has been laboring uncLr great depression of spirits lor some weeks past, and was engaged in a shooting shoot-ing scrape with one of his drivers, named Black, on tho 21'.rd ult., for which he and Black were held to bail in the sum of 3.UUU each. The i.lea that his bondsmen were about giv ng hiiu up, aud that he would, therefore, havo to go to jail, appears to have preyed on his mind for the past few days, and was, no doubt, the mo-t immediate cause of the rash act. |