A JOURNALIST'S SUICIDE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 208, 7 October 1909, Page 2

A JOURNALIST'S SUICIDE

JOSEPH vi/LirrzEH. By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright Vienna, October 5. Joseph Pulitzer, brother of Mr. Albert Pulitzer, editor and author, committed suicide by poisoning himself and shooting himself with a revolver at the Grand Hotel. Vienna. He had been suffering from a nervous breakdown.

The lute Mr. Pulitzer had been poprietnr of tlm New York World since 18S3, and was founder and proprietor of thi> St. Louis Post Dispatch. He wits educated by a private tutor and went to the United States in 1864. He served in the United States Cavalry in tli.' Jlvil War, and afterwards went to Ht. Louis, where he was reporter on the Westliehe Post. He eventually became its managing editor and part proprietor. The deceased was a member of tiic Missouri Constitutional Convention In 181)11. lie was elected representative in Congress' from Xew York City from 1885 to 1887, but resigned after a few months. He gave one million dollars to the Columbia University, Xew York, in 1003, to endow a school of journalism. He maintained fifty-two prizo Pulitzer scholarships in various leading American universities for Xew York City school graduates eliosen by annual competitive examinations. The'late M", Pulitzer was 02 years of age.