Suicide Of James M. Hill

The news which reched our city last Saturday eTening, of the suicide of James M. Hill, who lome four wepk inoO moTcO -nritu his faraily to Tower City, Dakota ïerritory, was a sad surprise to people of tliis vicinity. Mr. Hill grew froin boyhood up In this locality, and was well known. To learn that he had given ifp to melancholy and taken his own life, so soon after taking up hii abode In a new country, carne like a shock. Though now that the deed has been doné, there are many here who remwnber to have heard expression of dlscouragement from him, and who think at times he was notexactly in-his right mind. The deceased ended his life by tho common method of suicides, taking morphine. The drug was taken on Friday, we learn, and he llngered until Sunday before breathing his last. He was about forty years of age, and a man of considerable genius in the line of inyentlon. He leaves a wife- a daughter of O. L. Warner, of Pittsfleld- and three children. Comstock F. Hill, brother of the deceased, and C. C. Warner, Mrs. Hill's brother, both left Sunday eveniuir fn t cuy. The domesitc relations of the deceased were vo' pleasant, and the new home in Dakota was well liked by the whole family, and there seems to have been no real cause for the deed. He had a policy of $3,000 upon his life in the Michigan mutual, of Detroit. At this writing no particulars have been received. Rumora are numerous but not to be credited.