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Show THE WATERS GO DOWN After Irrigating Btany Pennsylvania Towns to the Depth of a Few Feet. Parnell Refuses Liberal Overtures Unless Rome Rule for Ireland Is Guaranteed. John L. Stevens, a Prominent Railroad Rail-road Man, Leaves Life by the - Revolver Route. Accidental or Suicide, Which. Trenton, ) January . 7. John G. Stevens died last evening from tile effects of a pistol wound in the head. It is generally believed that he oommitted suicide, as he had been in depressed spirits some time owing to finan-. oial difficulties. The relatives' .version of the tragedyis that deceased was arranging a trirto Western Virginia to inspect coal and iron lands, that he had . . , ' i. BOUGHT A REVOLVER FOB SELF-PROTECTION, And was examining the weapon when it was accidentally discharged. The shooting occurred oc-curred in the Pennsylvania Railway building build-ing in this city. Mr. Stevens was President of the United ' New Jersey Bailway and Canal Company, and had been attending to official business all day. This afternoon he was talking to Treasurer Leroy H. Anderson, Ander-son, to whom he showed the pistol, requesting request-ing Anderson to procure some oil with which to clean it. Anderson stepped out of the office to procure the oil, when the report of a pistol was heard. Anderson rushed back and found Stevens lying on the floor with a wound over the right temple, from which blood oozed. i : k J.i: ': ... STEVENS NEVER SPOKE AFTER THE1 SHOOTING. Mr. Stevens was 60 years of age. - He leaves a widow and five children. He was a son of James A. Stevens, of Hoboken, and a nephew of Engineer Stevens, the inventor of the Stevens battery. He was President of the Pennsylvania railroad system in New Jersey, Jer-sey, and had been connected with the Erie road. He was one of the few experts in canal engineering in the country. It is said he had attempted suicide several times before. |