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Show An Kplilrnilo or Nlllrlde. Lieutenant Commander William V, Bronaugh of the United States navy commlltcd suicide Tuesday ou the battleship bat-tleship Keursarge at the liuvy yurd. says u New York dispatch, by blowing out his brains with u revolver. Friends of Commander Brounugh believe that he was very much worried over the manifold duties of his position as executive ex-ecutive officer, which are conceded lo be more arduous than those of any other ofllcor In the navy. Captain Purnell F. Harrington of the Brooklyn navy yard said: "There is an npidetnlu of suicide in the navy, as surely as thoro was ever un epidemic of fever. Such n thing may occur nnd cannot he explained. The man had probably been thinking of tho other suicides, which nro very snd affairs, nnd then In an unguarded moment the I desire to try it seized him and it wus all over lu u minute." Colored Wnrknirn llrnnilii ul I.rlnnoii. The situation at the plant of the American Iron & Steel company at Lebanon, Pa., Is unchanged. The troops ure still there and the iron workers brought from the south ure helping to run the mills. It is said that President Sternberg will not consent con-sent to forcing the colored men out, Tholr departure depends entirely on themselves, und many buy they will stay us long us troops remain. The strikers have voted lo rejeut tho company's proposition to grant the puddlers an Inciease of wages und refuse re-fuse the slight advance asked by the llulshers. |