| Show SUPPOSED BROKER SUICIDES alleged shortage of accounts causes him to seek death in waters of lake erie buffalo N Y may 12 A man believed to have been a new york stock broker named snell jumped from a cleveland buffalo steamer when the vessel was about three hours out from cleveland last evening A traveling man who refused to give bis name tells the following story of the suicide 1 I was sitting in tha buffet about 10 when a short heavy red faced man entered we got into conversation and he told me his name was snell he said among other things that he was financially involved to the extent of through deals in cotton and that he was going to kill himself because of trouble he threatened three times to take his ufa and I 1 urged him not to do anything rash when we left the buffet I 1 called the attention of a couple of deck hands to him A minute or two later I 1 heard one of them cry out that he had gone overboard the captain at once ordered a live boat lowered and the steamer was brought to a stop as quickly as possible snell went to cleveland on the aarne vessel from buffalo wednesday night the body was not recovered new york may 13 nothing known here of an alleged shortage in his accounts of any man named snell nor Is there any broker in the city of that name chicago may 13 james A hanson president of the national car coupler company and one of the roost prominent inventors of car coupling devices in the country Is dead at his homo here mr hanson was 52 years old some of his most important inventions were an emergency knuckle a centering device and a new demonstration of dratt gear rigging seoul korea may p m A junk that has arrived at brings a report that heavy explosions were heard at sea early this morning it Is believed here that these explosions occurred either at port arthur or dalny an american miner who left anju on may 8 has arrived here and reports that a force of 2900 russians recently spent the night at dunsan he says also that targe bodies of russian troops were reported ao be in that vicinity reports of fighting were received here today ant they lack confirmation |
