OBITUARY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 631, 7 October 1909, Page 7

OBITUARY.

NERVOUS BREAKDOWN LEADS TO TWO ' / . DEATHS. (By. Telejraph -Press Aseoclatlon-OopjrlshO London, October 5. Mr. Charles A. Duff t Miller, Agent-General for New Brunswick, while suffering from nervous, breakdown, was killed by a fill from a window, in a Margate boardinghouse. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. ' ■ 1 . < . .

I _ [Mr. Charles A. Dnff Miller, had been Agent--1 General for New Brunswick in London einco JJOBjui Ho at Kingston, Ontario, in 1854,, and educated at the High School. Montreal, and in. ! Switzerland.,-. H© -wns a l'ollow of the Royal Colonial Institute, - and a Oovernor of the Imperial Institute. For services in connection with . tho. Fenian Raid in Canada, in 1565, he received the Fenian Modal (with clasp). 'He was tho author of a book called, .New Brunswick, Post and Present,"] A JOURNALIST'S SUICIDE. ' Vienna, October 5. . Mr. ' Albert Pulitzer (brother of Mr. Joseph Pulitzer, 1 proprietor of the "New. York World") committed suicide by taking poison and shooting himself wita a revolver in the Grand Hotel at -Vienna. Mr. Pulitzer was suffering, from nervous breakdown.

[Mr. Albert Pulitzer was born at Mako, in Hupgary on July 10, 1851. He wont to the United btates _when. 16 years old, and began work as a teacher of German, teaching a class M youngjadiw at tho Leavenworth (Kansas) High, School. Two! years later he took up journalism on an Illinois paper. In 1871 ho ITTt n"\ ? T 1 rk ', " orl{ln s nn tho New York Sun and "Herald" till ISB2, when ho the ' Morning Journal" (afterwards ni ion- i.' Amenc ? n ')•"'which ho conducted till 18!b, when, owing to ill-health, resulting from overwork, he sold the paper and retired to iMirope.J.