Show lECcntJil Trouble Ant our Md April 20 Lieutenant John W DanenhoVer the cio explorer shot and Jdllsd himself at the Naval Academy this msrning He had metal trouble after cow back from the Arctic region He was found lyiKj on his rug in front of his fireplace with a tag tied to his buttonhole button-hole send to my brother at Washington Although he has had mental troubles since he returned from the Arctic Eegion what immediately led to ilia suicide is thought to have been the recent grounding of the Constellation Con-stellation on its srsy to Norfolk which he had charge of for which it is supposed he had fear of being courtmartialed Furthermore Fur-thermore he was Ferry intimate with young Eqbat Gat e ood vho recently committed suicids on the Carolina and ham he saw in death It is supptsed this death suggested the mode to him of his own Eime formerly for-merly Mi = s Slocae of New York is away with her parents lieutenant Dansnhower leaves two e He vms about 35 sold s-old and was an intelligent and policed omcsr Lieutenant Daneaiowsrs career was an eventful one He was born thfty tel years ago in STfncre and entered the naval service in lam He was attached to the Tandalia during her cruise in the Medeterranetn in 1S76 when General Grant withiis family was on board and visited the Holy Lid It was before this Cruise that the Lieutenant through his conduct began toshow 5 of an unbalanced un-balanced mind sad this malady soon assumed a form so violent that in 1S75 after he had been found wandering in a North Carolina Trilderness his friends deemed it expedient to secure proper treatment treat-ment for him by GOnf mTlf him for about two months ra St Elizabeths insane asylum He was among the fiSt of the officers who volunteered to go upon the Jeannette Arcfeo expedition In July 1373 the Jeannette sailed from San Francisco Fran-cisco on her North Polar expedition The last communication from the vessel was dated Cape Ser lien Siberia September i 21379 although see was afterwards seen oS Wrange Land The crushing off of the J Jeannette packedice j the separation in a gale of the theo boats containing the I oSeers and crew the starvation of De hone and his boats crew the loss of Lieutenant I Lieu-tenant Chipps boat and the terrible sni emS e-mS and final rescue of Melville party are matters of history In the final separation of boats DeLonj placed Dannehower under Melvilles command for the reason as the Lieutenant said in his report that he was partially disabled by the condition of his eyes The naval pincers maintain that it was to Danenhowers wise seamanship and skillful handling of the whaleboat notwithstanding not-withstanding his partial blindness that the safe lancing of the crew was due In September 1834 as was assigned to duty at Annapolis as Aunt Commander of Cadets which station he held at the time of his deathf |