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Show DUE TO DOMESTIC TROUBLES- Sirs. Howard ftot llreaklrut Ready and Tlion Blew Her Head Of. St. Joseph, Mo., July 2. Mrs. Rowcll Howard, who lived six miles south of this city, committed suindo this morning by shooting herself iu the head with a shotgun. Her husband is the owner of one of the finest farms in Buchanan county. This morning they arose from bed at the same time. Mrs. Howard got breakfast ready then awoke their children and, going to an outside door, she called her husband to breakfast. break-fast. After ho had taken his seat at tho table Mrs. Howard walked into an adjoining bedroom and locked tho door. In a moment afterward her husband hus-band heard tho report of a gun. The door to the bedroom was broken in and the wife was found lying on the bed with tho wholo top of ner head blown off. From appearances ,slie had set on the bed and lired the gun by pushing the trigger with a long stick, which was found lying at the side of the bod. Mr. Howard had been previously married, and by his first wife had three children. From what can bo learned tbeso children chil-dren were the cause of frequent quarrels quar-rels between the couple that resulted in Mrs. Howard's suicide today. . , |