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Show POOR ANNIE WAKD. Alone and Deserted, She Seeks Death by Suiciding. In the St. LouU Globe of Sunday, oth inst., we find a sad account of the death of Annio Ward, well known to the theatre-goers of this city, she having hav-ing iil.tyt-d a season here, wliore alio became much of a favorite for her pleiioiiig manners and vivacious acting. act-ing. According to the ''" tliere appears to have been a mioiinder-sLvtHliiiL' mioiinder-sLvtHliiiL' between lier and her hua-liand. hua-liand. Jacob li.iker, -ind on Tuet-day weck, o(3th ult., she wrote the (ol!ow-ing (ol!ow-ing note and sent it to him: Jakf: A"hy did you go aw.iy last nigiit Come home as .-oon iu, you receive this, fur I liavo a lt-tter to slum- ytm. I was wry lonely last nk'ht, and I cannot nt till 1 see you. I will wait till liall-past Un. and ii you are nut here I will go and hunt a situation, and you will be annoyed no more by yutir wife. A SNIP. ?. i The landloixl him just come in nnd inquired for you. I mast leave here, tliai's certain. What can I do? Come. No answer was returned. She waited wait-ed until Thursday, when she went to her sister's, on Linden street, St. Louis, and remained there until Saturday, Sat-urday, 4th iiitt. On that day she spent several hours vainly searching for her husband, and failing to find him, took arsenic, returned to her sifter's house, and died, medical efibi ts to save her life being unavailing. unavail-ing. Siie was twenty-seven years of age. The following, which we take from the St. Louis Republican, relating to an episode in her life, though well known to some in this city, will be new and none the less interesting to many: In 1S07 the unfortunate . Annie Ward, recently cruelly dead by her iwn violent hand, in this city, was thechiet theatrical attraction t the Omaha theatre. She was a sprightly and pleasing hi-tress, not brilliant by any means, but quite a clever sou-brette. sou-brette. Sue possessed a good deal ot what the French call "chic" and Americans designate as "dash," and was a pretty woman with innumerable innumer-able admirers, and, in short, was a t,ood, strong, drawing card for a country theatre. Anunig others who endeavored to force their polite attentions on Miss Ward was Henry (Livingstone) Stanley. Stan-ley. At that time he had not blossomed blos-somed into the notoriety that he afterwards af-terwards achieved, as the discoverer of Dr. Livingstone, but was an impecunious im-pecunious Bohemian, picking up a stray living by corresponding occasionally occa-sionally with the New Vork 1'ribune, telegraphing to the St, Louis Democrat and cooking up the locals for an Omaha paper. He had gone out from St. Jxiuis with Gen. Hancock's command against the Kiowas, and when that expedition disDanded, he drifted to Omaha, as rich a specimen of the wandering Bohemian and as sharp on the look out for something to turn up as Wilkius Mieawber himself. him-self. . Stanley saw AnnieWard, and being of an ardent and susceptible nature, he bowed his head before the shrine of her personal nnd professional attractiveness, at-tractiveness, and straightway fell over head and cars in love with the pretty sou ha; tie. lie was always to lie found in the theatre when she was on the stage; he recklessly wasted his spare ducats for bouquets, anil dollars were spare enough with him then; he wro'c her little notes on delicately tinged note-paper; he haunted her goings-in and comings-out, and was the veriest dangler and shadow of the woman who had enthralled him, as the vainest coquette could have wished to have at her feet. But Annie Ward cared very little for Stanley, or if she did, it was scarcely visible to the naked eye. It certainly certain-ly was not made manifest to Stanley's Stan-ley's bewildered head and his spooney heart. The more he proffered his love, the more Annie Ward didn't seem to care for him. Such is life. The time came when Miss Ward's engagement closed at Omaha, and she leit to play at Salt Lake. Stanley was as near crazy at the separation, as such a mercurial creaiure could be, but all his fuming and fretting failed to elicit from the object of his mid-placed mid-placed affections, anything more than an expression of friendship and so forth. Auuie Ward went to the realm of Brigham Young, and Stanley was left lamenting, dejected and well near desperate. roui the plains Stanley went to the- war in Abyssinia, where he beat the English correspondents, and the London Tt-cj copied his articles from the New" York Ikraldix great triumph tri-umph I He then went to Span for Mr. Bennett, but as there was nothing no-thing in puin worthy pf his steel pen, he was recalled io L'aris. and Bennett sent him to hunt up Livingstone. Living-stone. The result of that search is well known, and Henry Stanley is now somewhere among the steppes of Tart.iry; while poor, unfortunate Annie Ward lies cold in death, in a suicide'' grave. |